Insomnia vs Postman
Postman’s mandatory cloud storage may not align with customers’ data policies. Additionally, the ability to expose private workspaces and collections to the outside world can allow for hackers to more easily steal API credentials.
Read on to learn how Insomnia can help safeguard your APIs while reducing TCO by up to 50%.
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Why Insomnia?
You will not be required to host your data in the Cloud. Choose the storage location that is most compliant for your organization: Local Vault, Git Sync, or Cloud Sync.
Don't let Postman’s complex UI hinder your productivity. Insomnia’s lightweight and intuitive solution makes collaborating on API development a more streamlined and enjoyable process.
Reduce licensing costs by up to 50% per user*. Access the same core functionality as Postman while addressing any edge use cases with Insomnia’s rich ecosystem of plugins.
A Head-to-Head Comparison
Capabilities | Insomnia | Postman |
|---|
Enterprise SSO | Federate user authentication through third-party identity providers for access management. Automatically de-provision users who are no longer working in the organization | SSO support is available for Google Workspace, Microsoft AD FS, and more |
Enterprise RBAC | Administer Role-Based Access Control, providing the ability to scope user access to Design Documents and Request Collections on an as-needed basis | Define user permissions within a team and the user's level of access to a Postman element |
Invite Control | Allow or deny the emails domains that can collaborate on projects, collections, and design specs. Control the level of access every member has with RBAC rules | Invite collaborators, remove existing team members, and update user roles |
Storage Flexibility | Store your data where you want to – 100% locally, via Git or in the Cloud. All data is encrypted by default, no matter the location | No support for local storage. Postman automatically hosts all user data in the Cloud, without explicit action |
Storage Control | Mandate a specific storage location as the single source of truth for every developer in the organization | No ability to mandate storage control in the organization. Even if Git is the preferred source of truth, admins still have to maintain a separate Postman user management platform |
Collection Governance | Collections are never publicly available and only users who have been explicitly granted access to the organization can access them | Any collection links created by a user on non-personal collections will continue to work after the user leaves the organization |
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