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API Umbrella vs Insomnia REST Client: What are the differences?
Developers describe API Umbrella as "Open source API management platform used by api.data.gov". API Umbrella is a proxy that sits in front of your APIs It can seamlessly add common functionality like api keys, rate limiting, and analytics to any API.. On the other hand, Insomnia REST Client is detailed 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.
API Umbrella and Insomnia REST Client can be categorized as "API" tools.
API Umbrella 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 API Umbrella with 1.32K GitHub stars and 244 GitHub forks.
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 API Umbrella
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
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Cons of API Umbrella
Cons of Insomnia REST Client
- Do not have team sharing options4
- Do not store credentials in HTTP2
