Dev tools · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to Insomnia CLI

Speed up API CI/CD pipeline development

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Insomnia CLI launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1
Insomnia REST Client now open-source▲218
Leading Open Source API Development Platform for HTTP, REST, GraphQL, gRPC, SOAP, and WebSockets
2017 · insomnia.rest · its alternatives →
2
Insomnia Designer – Open-source collaborative editor for API design▲317
Leading Open Source API Development Platform for HTTP, REST, GraphQL, gRPC, SOAP, and WebSockets
2020 · insomnia.rest · its alternatives →
3
Insomnia REST API Client▲112
Build, manage, and run templated REST API requests
2015 · insomnia.rest · its alternatives →
4
Cicada▲109
Build CI/CD pipelines in TypeScript & run them anywhere
2023 · its alternatives →
5
Semaphore 2.0▲97
Fastest CI/CD platform for world’s best engineering teams
2018 · semaphore.io · its alternatives →
6
Pond5 Lullab.AI▲68
Your instant sleep assistant is reporting for dozing duty
2023 · pond5.com · its alternatives →
7
Insomnia Designer▲16
Collaborative API Design Platform / Editor
2020 · insomnia.rest · its alternatives →
8
Insomnia-like client for SQLite▲70
Finally, a home for all your SQL queries.
2021 · rosefinchapp.com · its alternatives →
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Tiny CLI to save AWS costs in dev environments when you're sleeping▲119
2020 · npmjs.com · its alternatives →
10
TeamCity Pipelines (beta)▲305
Fall in love with CI/CD again
2024 · jetbrains.com · its alternatives →
11
InstaAPI▲104
Low-code API builder
2023 · its alternatives →
12
Cosine CLI▲334
AI pair programming directly in your terminal
2025 · cosine.sh · its alternatives →
13
Yaak – An open source, Git-friendly desktop API client▲153
Hi HN! I'm Greg and I've been working on Yaak for just over a year. I usually describe it as a Postman alternative since most developers are familiar with that, but it's targeted more toward users that just want an API client (no mocking, testing, spec design, etc). Having also created Insomnia for a similar purpose, I never thought I'd build another API client again. But, after selling Insomnia in 2019 and watching it expand into the broader feature set of Postman, I was left wanting a simpler tool again. Yaak was my answer to that. It's hard to describe how it's better than the 100 other…
2025 · yaak.app · its alternatives →
14
Instalog▲98
Because your logs deserve better than firebase
2025 · instalog.dev · its alternatives →
15
Buddy▲209
One-click delivery automation for developers
2016 · buddy.works · its alternatives →
16
CI Demon▲66
Continuous integration builds in your desktop.
2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
17
MergeQueue▲113
Automate Github’s CI/CD in under 3 mins
2021 · mergequeue.com · its alternatives →
18
Postman and Insomnia Alternatives▲26
List of awesome API clients. Postman and Insomnia alternatives - stepci/awesome-api-clients
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Sleepio - how I cured my insomnia, turned into software.▲94
2012 · sleepio.com · its alternatives →
20
Semaphore Open Source CI/CD▲117
The open source CI/CD platform
2025 · semaphore.io · its alternatives →
21
Insomnia for Teams▲18
Share API workspaces, stay in sync
2017 · insomnia.rest · its alternatives →
22
Cimon by Cycode▲73
Runtime security solution for CI/CD pipelines
2023 · cycode.com · its alternatives →
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Cicada – Write CI/CD Pipelines in TypeScript▲18
2023 · cicada.build · its alternatives →
24
R2Devops▲92
Automate painful tasks of software development in 1 click
2022 · getplumber.io · its alternatives →

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