How Should an API Client Look in 2026? A Comparison of the Field (opens in new tab)

API tooling is having a rough year, and that's actually the interesting part. Postman killed free teams in March. Insomnia forced cloud sync in v8 and is still rebuilding trust. Bruno is absorbing most of the migration wave. And a handful of smaller tools are betting the whole category has been building the wrong abstraction since day one. I spent the last few weeks actually using seven of these tools on the same real workflow: REST and GraphQL requests, env vars across staging and prod, auth...