Open-source alternatives to Postman

Postman in the Developer tools category. These are the open alternatives we recommend looking at.

Insomnia

API client for REST, GraphQL, WebSockets and gRPC, with local, Git or cloud storage.

Apache-2.0Permissive

SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes

GitHub stars
40k
Deployment
Desktop

Yaak

Desktop API client for REST, GraphQL, WebSockets and gRPC.

MITPermissive

SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes

GitHub stars
19.3k
Deployment
Desktop

Requestly

API client and tool for intercepting and modifying HTTP traffic, an alternative to Postman.

AGPL-3.0Network copyleft (AGPL)Open core

SaaS: Yes, with conditionsClosed product: No

GitHub stars
6.8k
Deployment
Desktop

Hoppscotch

API client for testing REST, GraphQL and WebSocket on the web, desktop or command line.

MITPermissive

SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes

GitHub stars
80.6k
Deployment
Docker
Login/SSO
OIDC, SAML

Bruno

Desktop API client that stores requests as files in your Git repo.

MITPermissive

SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes

GitHub stars
47.3k
Deployment
Desktop

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