Send API requests, inspect responses and organise request collections.
Free and open source (MIT licence per GitHub). Web, desktop and CLI clients, with cloud, offline and self-hosted routes.
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Free and open source (BSD-3-Clause licence per GitHub).
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Free extension · local request files · no request quota
httpYacRun API requests, assertions and scripts from local HTTP files.
Free CLI and VS Code extension · own API/provider costs
BrunoKeep API request collections locally and run them without cloud sync.
Free open-source edition · 2 workspaces · local collections.