G2 Vendor Directory

Kong Insomnia vs. Stoplight

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

MetricKong Insomnia

by Kong Inc

Stoplight

by SmartBear

Overall rating4.34.4
Review count20341
Ease of use8.78.7
Ease of setup7.89.0
Quality of support8.28.7
Meets requirements8.78.8
NPS6559.516616
Small Business36.8%49.0%
Mid-Market21.1%37.8%
Enterprise42.1%13.2%
Total page views209233
Total LLM citations1,4772,130

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

Stoplight

Let Stoplight be your platform for building high-quality APIs for any scale - with best-in-class editing, documentation, and governance featuring built-in mocking, linting, style guides, component libraries, and more. Coding APIs before designing them wastes time and money and creates unnecessary risk. Build successful API programs at any scale that drive business outcomes with a design-first approach. Stoplight is the only design-focused API solution.

Pros