On March 1, 2026, Postman cut its free plan to a single user. Any shared workspace now starts at $19/user/month on the new Team plan. For a five-person team that's $0 versus $1,140 a year, depending on which tool you pick — and that cut is exactly why Bruno's user numbers exploded this spring.
| Tool | Price | Storage model |
|---|---|---|
| Bruno | $19 one-time (desktop app) | Git-native, offline, files in your repo |
| Insomnia | free (up to 3 users w/ Git Sync) or $5/user/mo | pick local / Git / cloud per project |
| Postman | 1 free user; $19/user/mo for a shared workspace | cloud-first |
This stopped being a feature comparison and became a pricing-and-storage-model one. Bruno is the Git-native, offline-only alternative: your API collections live as plain files in your repository, versioned alongside your code, no account required, $19 once for the desktop app and that's the whole cost forever. Insomnia — now owned by Kong — is the middle path: free for up to three users with Git Sync, $5/user beyond that, and the only one of the three that lets a team choose local, Git or cloud storage per project rather than forcing one.
Postman is still the broadest platform — mock servers, monitors, a huge public API network, the most third-party integrations — but it now charges from the first teammate you add, and for a lot of teams that broad platform is more than they use.
If your team just needs to hit endpoints and share collections, Bruno at $19 once is the obvious answer, and the Git workflow is a genuine upgrade over syncing through a vendor. Insomnia's free three-user tier covers small teams that want cloud sync without paying. Keep Postman only if you're actually using the platform features — the monitors, the mocks, the API network — that justify the per-seat price.