Kurlo vs Insomnia
Kurlovs Insomnia.
Insomnia is Kong’s API client, with cloud, local and Git storage, and an account for anything beyond its Scratch Pad. Kurlo needs no account at all, keeps every collection as YAML files you commit, and puts no cap on how many people share them through Git.
Checked 15 October 2026
Side by side.
| Kurlo | Insomnia | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free, every featureNo paid plan to grow into | Free for up to 3 Git Sync usersPro $12, Enterprise $45 per user a month |
| Account | Not needed | Required beyond Scratch Pad |
| Team sharing | Any Git host, no seat limit | Git SyncMore than 3 users needs Pro |
| Where collections live | Your disk, as YAML in your Git repo | Cloud, local or Git |
| Source code | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| Built on | Native Go with the system WebView | Electron |
| Postman scripts | pm.* scripts run as written | Compatibility layer |
| Mock server | Local, no request capWorks offline, no account | 1,000 mock requests a month on free10,000 on Pro, then paid packs |
| MCP | MCP client and MCP serverAgents can run and write your collections | MCP client |
| Browser CORS and CSP checks | Built in | No |
| Sync cookies from your browser | Extension for Chromium and Firefox | No |
Checked against Insomnia pricing and the vendor’s documentation on 15 October 2026. Prices are per user per month on annual billing. If something here is out of date, open an issue.
Download size, measured
Receipts.
Official downloads on 23 October 2026: Kurlo 2.4.1 and Insomnia 13.3.1. 1 MB is 1,048,576 bytes.
Why switch
Why people move.
No. 01
No account, ever
Collections, environments and history work from the first launch, with nothing to sign in to and no organization to create.
No. 02
Git without a user cap
A Kurlo workspace is a folder of YAML files. Commit, pull and push from the app or your terminal, with as many teammates as the repository has.
No. 03
Mocks without a quota
The mock server runs on localhost and serves your saved examples for as many requests as your tests send.
No. 04
Postman scripts as they are
Collections that came from Postman keep their pm.* scripts, and they run unchanged, including chai assertions and pm.sendRequest.
No. 05
An agent that keeps the collection current
kurlo mcp lets Claude Code, Codex or Cursor add the request and its tests for an endpoint it just wrote, in the same commit.
No. 06
See what the browser will do
Send a request the way a page on another origin would, and get the CORS or CSP error before your users do.
Moving from Insomnia
Bring it all.
Kurlo reads Insomnia’s export directly and recognizes the format by itself. Migration guide
- In Insomnia, open Preferences, then Data, and export your data as Insomnia v4 JSON.
- Drop the file on Kurlo’s sidebar, or use the import button next to +.
- Pick an environment and send a request you use often to check it.
What comes across: Each workspace becomes a collection, request groups become folders, and requests keep their URL, method, headers, body and auth. Environments come across, and template tags that are plain variables become {{variables}}.
Free · MIT · No account
Switch it.
Import your Insomnia collection and keep working. No account, nothing to rewrite.
macOS 12+ · Windows 10+ · Ubuntu 22.04+ · x64 and Arm64