Ambassador vs Insomnia REST Client

Overview

Insomnia REST Client

Stacks799

Followers652

Votes44

Ambassador

Stacks76

Followers188

Votes4

Ambassador vs Insomnia REST Client: What are the differences?

Ambassador: Open source, Kubernetes-native API Gateway for Microservices built on Envoy. Map services to arbitrary URLs in a single, declarative YAML file. Configure routes with CORS support, circuit breakers, timeouts, and more. Replace your Kubernetes ingress controller. Route gRPC, WebSockets, or HTTP; Insomnia REST Client: 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.

Ambassador and Insomnia REST Client can be primarily classified as "API" tools.

Ambassador and Insomnia REST Client are both open source tools. It seems that Insomnia REST Client with 10.2K GitHub stars and 590 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Ambassador with 2.03K GitHub stars and 288 GitHub forks.

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Advice on Insomnia REST Client, Ambassador

Stephen

Artificial Intelligence Fellow

Feb 4, 2020

Decided

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.

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Detailed Comparison

Insomnia REST Client	Ambassador
Insomnia is a powerful REST API Client with cookie management, environment variables, code generation, and authentication for Mac, Window, and Linux.	Map services to arbitrary URLs in a single, declarative YAML file. Configure routes with CORS support, circuit breakers, timeouts, and more. Replace your Kubernetes ingress controller. Route gRPC, WebSockets, or HTTP.
Mac, Windows and Linux;Data import/export;SSL client certificates;Response history;JSONPath and XPath;Preview rendered HTML;Multipart form;Query parameter editor;Configurable proxy;Cloud sync and sharing;Nunjucks templating;Filter requests;Toggle SSL validation;Keyboard shortcuts;Configurable timeout;HAR import;Usable at almost all sizes;Drag-n-drop organization;Responsive interface;Import from curl;	-
Statistics
Stacks 799	Stacks 76
Followers 652	Followers 188
Votes 44	Votes 4
Pros & Cons
Pros 16 Easy to work with 11 Great user interface 6 Works with GraphQL 4 Cross platform, available for Mac, Windows, and Linux 3 Opensource Cons 4 Do not have team sharing options 2 Do not store credentials in HTTP	Pros 3 Edge-proxy 1 Kubernetes friendly configuration
Integrations
No integrations available	Kubernetes Envoy Docker gRPC Istio

What are some alternatives to Insomnia REST Client, Ambassador?

Postman

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Paw

Paw is a full-featured and beautifully designed Mac app that makes interaction with REST services delightful. Either you are an API maker or consumer, Paw helps you build HTTP requests, inspect the server's response and even generate client code.

Kong

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Karate DSL

Combines API test-automation, mocks and performance-testing into a single, unified framework. The BDD syntax popularized by Cucumber is language-neutral, and easy for even non-programmers. Besides powerful JSON & XML assertions, you can run tests in parallel for speed - which is critical for HTTP API testing.

Appwrite

Appwrite's open-source platform lets you add Auth, DBs, Functions and Storage to your product and build any application at any scale, own your data, and use your preferred coding languages and tools.

Runscope

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Amazon API Gateway

Amazon API Gateway handles all the tasks involved in accepting and processing up to hundreds of thousands of concurrent API calls, including traffic management, authorization and access control, monitoring, and API version management.

RAML

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Tyk Cloud

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Apigee

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