Alternatives to Hurl

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Bruno

78/100open sourceexplicit relation

Open-source API client for testing REST, GraphQL, and gRPC APIs as a lightweight, privacy-focused alternative to Postman. Stores API collections as plain files in your Git repository for easy version control and team collaboration. Features environment variables, scripting, collection runner, and a declarative syntax called Bru. Offline-first with no cloud account required. Available on macOS, Windows, and Linux. 44K+ GitHub stars and growing rapidly among developers leaving Postman.

Open-source and offline-first Git-friendly API client with an MIT-licensed core ($0 free forever) for unlimited local REST, GraphQL, and gRPC testing. Commercial editions support sustainable development: Pro tier is $6/user/month billed annually ($72/year; legacy Golden Edition $19 lifetime grandfathered) with deep Git tooling and visual assertion builders; Ultimate tier is $11/user/month billed annually ($132/year) with SAML SSO, centralized licensing, and priority enterprise support.Review →

Insomnia

open sourcefreemiumexplicit relation

Open-source API client by Kong for designing, debugging, and testing REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and WebSocket APIs. Features a clean interface with environment variables, authentication helpers, code generation, cookie management, and response timeline. Supports OpenAPI and Swagger specs for design-first workflows. Git Sync for version-controlled API collections. Available on macOS, Windows, and Linux. A popular alternative to Postman with stronger focus on privacy and local-first usage.

Open-source multi-protocol API design and testing platform by Kong (Apache-2.0). Community edition is 100% free with local offline vault, multi-protocol testing (REST, GraphQL, gRPC, WebSocket), OpenAPI linting, Inso CLI, and Git Sync. Cloud Free offers $0/mo for 1 user and 1 collection. Individual plan is $5/mo with unlimited cloud projects. Team plan is $12/user/mo with real-time team collaboration and Kong Konnect integration; Enterprise provides SSO/SAML, SCIM, and enterprise SLAs.

k6

open sourcefreemiumexplicit relation

k6 is an open-source load testing and performance testing tool developed by Grafana Labs. Developers write performance tests in JavaScript and execute them on a high-performance Go runtime capable of generating thousands of virtual users per machine. Features a CLI-first workflow, cloud-based test execution, and integrations with Grafana dashboards — making performance testing as accessible as writing unit tests.

Open source core (AGPL-3.0) is 100% free for self-hosted CLI and Kubernetes runs. Grafana Cloud k6 offers a Free tier (500 VUH/month, 50 max VUs), Pro tier starting at $89/month for scalable cloud-managed load tests, and custom Enterprise plans.

Checkly

84/100freemiumexplicit relation

Checkly is an active reliability platform for developers and agents that combines Playwright browser checks, API checks, synthetic monitoring, monitoring-as-code, traces, status pages, alerts, and Rocky AI analysis. It helps teams run code-defined production checks from global and private locations instead of relying only on pre-deploy tests.

Freemium synthetic monitoring & Monitoring as Code platform. Hobby plan is $0/mo with 10k API checks and 500 browser checks. Team plan ($80–$160/mo) includes 100k API checks, 5k browser checks, Private Locations, and PagerDuty alerts. Enterprise tier offers custom check volume, SAML SSO, and custom SLAs.Review →

Open-source Hurl alternatives

Bruno, Insomnia, k6 — see all open-source developer tools.

Free Hurl alternatives

Insomnia, k6, Checkly offer a free plan or free tier.

More Testing & QA tools

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MCP InspectorMCP Inspector is the official interactive developer tool from the Model Context Protocol team for testing, debugging, and validating MCP servers. It provides a visual interface to inspect available tools, test transport configurations, export configs for different clients, and verify protocol compliance during MCP server development.PlaywrightCross-browser E2E testing framework by Microsoft supporting Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit with one API. Features auto-waiting, tracing with timeline/screenshots/DOM snapshots, codegen for recording tests, and parallel execution. Component testing for React, Vue, Svelte. Built-in API testing, network mocking, and mobile emulation. Known for reliability and speed vs Selenium/Cypress. 70K+ GitHub stars, rapidly becoming the E2E standard.DeepEvalDeepEval is an Apache-2.0 Python framework for evaluating LLM apps, RAG systems, agents, MCP workflows, and safety behavior with repeatable test cases. It works locally and in CI/CD, then connects to Confident AI for hosted reports, observability, red teaming, and governance when teams need shared evidence instead of ad-hoc prompt reviews and manual QA.reviewdogreviewdog is an open-source automated code review tool that integrates any linter or static analysis tool with GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Gitea pull requests. Parses output in errorformat, Checkstyle XML, SARIF, and JSON formats to post inline review comments on changed lines only. Works with GitHub Actions, Travis CI, CircleCI, GitLab CI, and Jenkins. Supports 40+ languages through universal linter adapter architecture.LangfuseLangfuse is an open-source LLM engineering platform with 29K+ GitHub stars for tracing, evaluating, and monitoring AI applications. Acquired by ClickHouse, it provides detailed traces of LLM calls, prompt management with versioning, dataset-based evaluation, user feedback collection, and cost tracking. Framework-agnostic with native integrations for LangChain, LlamaIndex, OpenAI SDK, and Vercel AI SDK. Offers both self-hosted deployment and a managed cloud service.StablyStably enables developers to create QA tests in plain English using a no-code editor, with AI ensuring tests remain valid as the application evolves through self-healing locators and assertions. It lowers the barrier to high-quality QA for startups by eliminating the need for scripting knowledge, automatically adapting test steps when UI elements change position or structure.CUA (Computer-Use Agent)Open-source computer-use infrastructure for agents that need to drive desktop environments in the background. CUA includes Cua Driver, Sandbox, Run, Bench, and Verified Data across Linux, Windows, macOS, and Android, with MCP and CLI surfaces for screenshots, accessibility trees, keyboard/mouse actions, shell commands, task evaluation, and fleet execution.ChromaticChromatic is a Storybook-first visual testing and UI review platform for design systems and frontend teams. It publishes Storybook, captures component snapshots, reviews pull-request diffs, and supports interaction tests, accessibility checks, TurboSnap, SteadySnap, Playwright/Cypress workflows, and Storybook MCP context.MomenticMomentic is an AI-native testing platform that lets teams write end-to-end tests in plain English. It features auto-healing test selectors that adapt to UI changes, instant mobile device emulators, built-in visual regression testing, and AI-powered flaky test handling. Backed by $15M Series A from Standard Capital, it eliminates brittle test maintenance through intelligent element identification and self-repairing test flows.

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FAQ

Which Hurl alternative is listed first?

Bruno is first in the editor-selected list of 4 Hurl alternatives and carries an editorial review score of 78/100. The stored order is editorial; review scores do not determine membership or position.

Are there open-source Hurl alternatives?

Yes — Bruno, Insomnia, k6 are open source.

Are there free Hurl alternatives?

Yes — Insomnia, k6, Checkly offer a free plan or free tier.