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Insomnia REST Client vs OpenAPI: What are the differences?
Developers describe Insomnia REST Client as "The most intuitive cross-platform REST API Client 😴". Insomnia is a powerful REST API Client with cookie management, environment variables, code generation, and authentication for Mac, Window, and Linux. On the other hand, OpenAPI is detailed as "Allows the owner of a network-accessible service to give universal access". It is a publicly available application programming interface that provides developers with programmatic access to a proprietary software application or web service.
Insomnia REST Client and OpenAPI belong to "API Tools" category of the tech stack.
Insomnia REST Client and OpenAPI are both open source tools. It seems that OpenAPI with 15.4K GitHub stars and 5.46K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Insomnia REST Client with 10.9K GitHub stars and 634 GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, Insomnia REST Client has a broader approval, being mentioned in 50 company stacks & 143 developers stacks; compared to OpenAPI, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.
Postman supports automation and organization in a way that Insomnia just doesn't. Admittedly, Insomnia makes it slightly easy to query the data that you get back (in a very MongoDB-esque query language) but Postman sets you up to develop the code that you would use in development/testing right in the editor.
Pros of Insomnia REST Client
- Easy to work with16
- Great user interface11
- Works with GraphQL6
- Cross platform, available for Mac, Windows, and Linux4
- Opensource3
- Vim and Emacs key map2
- Preserves request templates2
- Does not have history feature0
Pros of OpenAPI
- Easy to read the template generated1
- The most popular api spec1
- Easy to learn1
- Supports versioning1
- Supports authentication1
- Supports caching1
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Cons of Insomnia REST Client
- Do not have team sharing options4
- Do not store credentials in HTTP2
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