The 38k-Star Open-Source Postman You Can Self-Host

Postman wants a login and their cloud just to hit localhost. Insomnia — Kong's ~38k-star, Apache-licensed API client — keeps your collections as plain files in your own Git repo and runs entirely on your machine. Here's how you'd actually use it.

A hands-on walkthrough: the daily loop (environments, variables, and a local secrets vault), importing your existing Postman collection / OpenAPI / cURL in one click, versioning API requests in a Git pull request, designing OpenAPI-first and running it in CI with the Inso CLI, and self-hosted mock servers. Plus the honest stuff — the 2023 account controversy and walk-back, why Bruno exists, and the per-seat cost math vs $0.

TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Intro
0:16 - What Insomnia Is
0:42 - Environments, Variables & Secrets
1:14 - Migrate From Postman in a Click
1:33 - Collections as Code (Git)
1:57 - Design-First + Inso CLI in CI
2:29 - Self-Hosted Mocks
2:50 - The 2023 Scar + Bruno
3:18 - Postman vs $0
3:40 - Verdict

LINKS & RESOURCES
- Insomnia (Kong) — https://github.com/Kong/insomnia
- Insomnia license (Apache-2.0) — https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/blob/develop/LICENSE
- Environments & variables — https://developer.konghq.com/insomnia/environments/
- Import / export (Postman, OpenAPI, HAR, cURL) — https://developer.konghq.com/insomnia/import-export/
- Design-first (OpenAPI) — https://developer.konghq.com/insomnia/design/
- Storage modes (Local / Git / Cloud) — https://developer.konghq.com/insomnia/storage/
- Inso CLI — https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/blob/develop/packages/insomnia-inso/README.md
- Self-hosted mocks — https://developer.konghq.com/insomnia/self-hosted-mocks/
- The 2023 account controversy (issue #6577) — https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/issues/6577
- The walk-back (Insomnia 8.3) — https://konghq.com/blog/product-releases/insomnia-8-3
- Bruno — https://github.com/usebruno/bruno
- Postman pricing — https://www.postman.com/pricing/

TAGS
#Insomnia #Postman #OpenSource #ApiClient #SelfHosted

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