Kong Insomnia Reviews & Product Details

Kong Insomnia stands out for its clean, lightweight interface and fast performance. It makes testing REST and GraphQL APIs simple, while environment management, request organization, and Git integration help streamline development and team collaboration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While Insomnia is easy to use, some advanced collaboration and enterprise features are more limited than competing platforms. Managing large API projects can also become less convenient as complexity grows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that Kong Insomnia is easy to install and get started with. Being a part of the Kong family of products, it's particularly suitable when working on the Kong API Gateway, which makes many features easily available, like MCP and connectivity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Right now, it does not have any AI capabilities. API capabilities are there, but if you want to have a natural language conversation interface for your API testing, similar to Postman, those features are not there in Kong Insomnia. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It’s an easy tool for testing APIs, organizing requests, switching between environments, and helping developers debug issues faster in their day-to-day work. Also provides direct integration with Github. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

collaboration features are confusing, and some advanced options feel overwhelming compared to Postman Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Insomnia is great for multiple reasons. Most of them are open source, security and flawless functionality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some UI elements and components can not be collapsed, which limits user navigation on smaller screens. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the ease of use and collaboration in Kong Insomnia. I find it very agile and it has shortcuts that make it efficient for testing internal APIs or when I'm doing an integration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The price is a bit high for what they offer, which is just sharing; there are no open-source options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One of the best platforms to do testing of APIs and check the error logs against request Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

UI is a bit different from the other platforms so new users are having difficulties Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not anything in particular comes to mind Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Way too limited org options

- Continously logged out and forced to reenable various crap

- Error messages are terrible and clearly not thought of - e.g. json parse errors in requests

- Bad UI

- Bad and cumbersome git integrations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Simple to use for the Fresher and learn about Rest APIs

Some times Postman is confusing while using for Pre Test and Tests No extra steps or confusion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We cannot create Automation suite or write tests like we can do it on Postman.

Websocket support is not available.

Mocking is also not allowed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I am using insomnia in my current project so have my workflow i.e kong deployment. I have created collection and multiple test cases in insomnia and then connect it with git to pass all the test cases and it work smoothly I really like this functionality of insomnia. We can easily implement multiple test cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

kong insomnia is not very much scalable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is open source and it is well documented. Has good coverage of different authentication modes, and environment variables. One of the best things is the code generation for the calls. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

To unlock some features, like team collaboration, you need to have a paid plan. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.