For a long time, our team relied on GUI API clients like Postman for almost everything testing endpoints, debugging requests, and sharing collections.

As our projects grew, however, we found that more of our work was moving into scripts and CI/CD pipelines. Running API tests manually was becoming the bottleneck.

That led us to ask a simple question:

Is there a better CLI alternative to traditional API clients like Postman?

While researching the available options, this comparison was a useful starting point: