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Postman 11.0 vs. Insomnia 10.0: REST API Test Suite Runtime for 1000+ Endpoint Suites

DEV Community·ANKUSH CHOUDHARY JOHAL·6 months ago
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When your REST API test suite hits 1,000 endpoints, a 10% runtime difference costs 4+ hours of CI pipeline time per week—we benchmarked Postman 11.0 and Insomnia 10.0 to find which one doesn’t waste your team’s time.

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Key Insights

Postman 11.0 runs 1000 sequential test endpoints in 18m 42s on 8-core CI runners, 22% faster than Insomnia 10.0’s 24m 11s baseline.

Insomnia 10.0 uses 40% less RAM (1.2GB vs Postman’s 2.1GB) for 1000+ endpoint suites, critical for memory-constrained runners.

Postman 11.0’s paid team tier ($15/seat/month) includes parallel test execution, cutting runtime to 6m 12s for 1000 endpoints.

Insomnia 10.0 will add native parallel execution in Q3 2024, per its public roadmap at…

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