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toran vs Insomnia
Insomnia is a lightweight manual API client focused on sending handcrafted HTTP requests and inspecting responses. Developers often use it to test endpoints, explore APIs, and reproduce specific request scenarios.
What Insomnia is good at
- ✓Manually constructing and sending API requests
- ✓Quickly testing endpoints with controlled inputs
- ✓Exploring unfamiliar APIs with a focused, minimal UI
- ✓Reproducing issues in isolation
Where it falls short
- △Does not show what your application or agent actually sent on the wire
- △Manual requests can diverge significantly from real production requests
- △Limited visibility into timing, retries, and execution paths
How toran is different
- →toran observes real outbound API requests without requiring code changes
- →Shows the exact requests and responses generated by your app or agent
- →Captures practical timing breakdowns (upstream TTFB, transfers, and toran overhead)
- →Read-only by design: no mutation, retries, or request shaping
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Quick decision rule
Use Insomnia to manually test or reproduce API behavior. Use toran to understand what your application or agent actually did during real execution.
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