Restorm or Insomnia?

Insomnia built itself on a clean interface and good GraphQL support. Restorm aims at a broader scope.

In brief

	Restorm	Insomnia
Executable protocols	15	HTTP, GraphQL, gRPC, WebSocket, SSE
Project storage	A local file, version-controllable	Local or synchronised depending on the plan
Sharing	git	Hosted sync or file export
Chaining	Visual scenarios	Value chaining between requests
Scripting languages	7	JavaScript
Mock servers	6 protocols, locally	Hosted mock servers
Import	24 formats	Postman, OpenAPI, cURL, HAR
Network firewall	✔	—
AI driving	Built-in MCP server	—
Running in CI	restorm --run --headless	Inso CLI

What Insomnia does well

• Ergonomics. The interface is understated and quick to pick up.
• GraphQL. Schema exploration and autocompletion are well polished.
• Value chaining between requests, simple and direct for the common cases.
• Plugins, and an established ecosystem.

What Restorm adds

• Protocol coverage — Kafka, AMQP, MQTT, Redis, STOMP, SOAP, OData, tRPC, JSON-RPC. See the catalogue.
• Scenarios: where Insomnia’s chaining links one value to another, a scenario carries branches, loops, retries, assertions and long-lived connections.
• Local mock servers, which work offline and whose reply is the request itself.
• The firewall.
• The built-in git, with conflict resolution in the genuine editors.
• MCP driving.
• A capability-based licensing model, with no quotas — see Plans and capabilities.

How to choose

Your situation	Our view
REST and GraphQL, simplicity first	Insomnia
A multi-transport system	Restorm
API tests in CI with real chaining	Restorm
A need to mock services locally	Restorm
Collections in the repository, reviewed by pull request	Restorm

Migrating

Export from Insomnia (format 4 or above) and import. See Importing an Insomnia export.