How it compares

Postman, Thunder Client and Insomnia are all good tools. Dragonfly focuses on one job and does it well: it reads your codebase and builds your requests for you, right inside the editor. Here is where it is different, and where it overlaps.

Feature	Dragonfly	Postman	Thunder Client	Insomnia
Runs inside VS Code	Yes	Separate app	Yes	Standalone app
Builds requests by scanning your code (Express and Next.js)	Yes	No	No	No
Collections foldered to match your codebase	Yes	No	No	No
Auth secrets kept in VS Code secure storage	Yes	No	No	No
Import Postman, OpenAPI and cURL	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Environments with `{{variables}}`	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Copy any request as code	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Request history built in	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Works with no account	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Everything stays on your machine	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Free, no paid tier	Yes	No	No	No

This comparison reflects the free, out-of-the-box experience of each tool.

Where Dragonfly stops

Dragonfly does not try to replace Postman or Insomnia for team workspaces, mock servers or scripted test suites. Knowing where it stops is part of the pitch. If your day-to-day is testing the endpoint you are working on right now, it is built for exactly that. On the roadmap: team sync for collections and environments, more frameworks for route discovery, and deeper OpenAPI and GraphQL support. What ships next is driven by what people ask for.

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