On March 1, 2026, Postman dropped free team collaboration. The Free plan now supports only a single user - any second teammate accessing a shared workspace breaks the plan. That change sent developers searching for alternatives, and Bruno's GitHub stars jumped from 30,000 to over 41,000 in about three months. If you have 200 saved requests to migrate and need a straight answer, this article is for you.
Two Schools of API Clients
The API client market split into two camps around 2023, and that divide has only grown wider.
Cloud-first tools like Postman and Insomnia (cloud sync mode) store your collections on their servers. Collaboration is built in, but your API tests live outside your codebase in a separate system with its own permissions model.
File-first tools like Bruno and Thunder Client store everything locally as plain files. Your request collections live alongside your code in Git, get reviewed in pull requests, and travel with the repo. The tradeoff is that real-time collaboration requires extra setup.
