G2 Vendor Directory

Kong Insomnia vs. Postman

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricKong Insomnia

by Kong Inc

Postman

by Postman

Overall rating4.34.6
Review count201,795
Ease of use8.79.3
Ease of setup7.89.4
Quality of support8.28.9
Meets requirements8.79.4
NPS6580.76484
Small Business36.8%35.0%
Mid-Market21.1%36.3%
Enterprise42.1%28.7%
Total page views2095,558
Total LLM citations1,47730,168

Kong Insomnia

Build APIs that work. Deliver high quality APIs through standards and collaboration with the Insomnia API development platform. Open Source API Client There is a reason developers love Insomnia. With our streamlined API client, you can quickly and easily send HTTP, REST, gRPC, GraphQL, Websockets, SOAP, and SSE requests directly within Insomnia. Native API design and mocking Build consistently reliable APIs with Insomnia. Validate OpenAPI specs through real-time linting and simulate functionality using secure mock servers — locally or in the cloud.

Pros

  • API Testing
  • Ease of Use

Postman

Postman is the world’s leading API platform, used by more than 40 million developers and 500,000 organizations to build, test, and manage APIs at scale. With Postman, teams collaborate efficiently across the entire API lifecycle, including design, development, testing, security, documentation, and governance. The platform helps ensure consistency, quality, and enterprise-grade control. Postman also offers Agent Mode (beta), built on AWS Bedrock and trained with AWS SageMaker.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • API Testing
  • API Management
  • Testing
  • Testing Efficiency
  • Functionality