Insomnia falls short for API development teams due to limited support for evolving APIs, requiring constant rewriting of requests and scripts. Additionally, its separation of API specifications and collections can lead to discrepancies and confusion, preventing a unified source of truth for API data.
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Insomnia
The separation between API specifications and requests, potentially leading to inconsistencies in definition.
Requiring users to be well-versed in OAS and scripting. Insomnia scripts are not compatible with Postman scripts
The tool lacks robust collaboration features, making it challenging to work in teams. Scripts often need rewriting whenever API updates.
The user interface is often critiqued for its less intuitive design and disorganized functionality, which may hinder productivity.
Apidog
Reflect changes in API specs immediately across requests to ensure tests stay current, reducing manual updates and minimizing errors.
Allow teams to visually create and manage updates seamlessly, benefiting iterative development.
Auto generates requests and mock responses from API specs, simulating API behavior before the backend is complete.
Apidog can automatically generate API documentation from specifications, supporting custom domains and styles.
Apidog implements API Design-first, where API specifications and modifications can be automatically
synchronized across every stage of the API lifecycle.
| HTTP | ||
| WebSocket | ||
| SOAP | ||
| GraphQL | ||
| gRPC | ||
| SSE |
| Design APIs visually | ||
| Import/export OAS | ||
| Define and reuse schemas | ||
| Generate API specification from request | ||
| Generate example automatically | ||
| Branches |
| Pre/Post-request Scripts | ||
| Response validation | ||
| Connect to databases | ||
| Multiple services | ||
| Reference other programming languages |
| Visual Orchestration with no code | ||
| Visual assertions | ||
| CI/CD | ||
| Run collections | ||
| Scheduled task | ||
| Performance test | ||
| Online test reports | ||
| Self-hosted runner |
| Custom domain | ||
| Custom documentation layout | ||
| Markdown pages | ||
| Versioning |
| Fixed response mocking | ||
| Smart mock engine | ||
| Cloud mock server | ||
| Customized mocking scripts | ||
| Self-hosted mock server |
| IDEA plugin | IDEA |
Apidog implements API Design-first, facilitating the effortless synchronization of API,specifications and modifications across the entire API lifecycle.
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