Cortex vs Insomnia

Side-by-side comparison of AI visibility scores, market position, and capabilities

Cortex leads in AI visibility (66 vs 31)

Cortex

ChallengerDeveloper Tools & Platforms

Internal Developer Portals

Internal developer portal for service catalog and engineering ops. Founded 2019, SF (ex-Uber). $112M raised at $470M valuation. Y Combinator grad. Private.

AI VisibilityBeta
Overall Score
B66
Category Rank
#1 of 1
AI Consensus
60%
Trend
up
Per Platform
ChatGPT
64
Perplexity
58
Gemini
76

About

Cortex is an internal developer portal founded in 2019 by Anish Dhar (CEO, ex-Uber), Ganesh Datta, Nikhil Unni, and Aditya Subramanian, headquartered in San Francisco. Raised $112 million including a $60M growth round (August 2025) led by Scale Venture Partners at $470M valuation. YC graduate; investors include IVP, Sequoia, Tiger Global.

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Insomnia

EmergingDeveloper Tools & Platforms

General

Kong-acquired (2019) open-source API testing and development platform with 1M+ users; Insomnia 10 added AI Runner, competing with Postman for the API client developer tooling market.

AI VisibilityBeta
Overall Score
D31
Category Rank
#232 of 1158
AI Consensus
79%
Trend
up
Per Platform
ChatGPT
32
Perplexity
32
Gemini
25

About

Insomnia is an open-source API development and testing platform that provides developers with a powerful client for designing, debugging, and testing REST, GraphQL, SOAP, and WebSocket APIs — offering an intuitive interface for crafting API requests, inspecting responses, organizing API collections, and writing automated tests without the complexity of commercial alternatives. Founded in 2014 by Gregory Schier in Victoria, Canada, Insomnia was acquired by Kong (the leading API management company) in October 2019 and has grown to over 1 million users as of September 2024.

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AI Visibility Head-to-Head

66
Overall Score
31
#1
Category Rank
#232
60
AI Consensus
79
up
Trend
up
64
ChatGPT
32
58
Perplexity
32
76
Gemini
25
69
Claude
27
67
Grok
32

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