New Self-Serve Trials for Bruno Ultimate

Larger teams and organizations told us the same thing in different ways:

“We’re pretty sure we need Ultimate...but we need to try it in our real workflow before we commit.”

Of course! API tooling only reveals its sharp edges when you put it under load: real collections, real environments, real secrets, actual CI runs, and the messy “who changed what?” reality of team collaboration.

While you could always contact us and we'd manually enable a trial for you, this was too much added friction and effort to just try a tool. 

So we shipped a self-serve 14-day trial for Bruno Ultimate. It’s meant to be simple: flip it on and evaluate the Ultimate feature set end-to-end!

What the trial is (and what it isn’t)

The trial is for Bruno Ultimate features—things that typically show up once you’re running Bruno as part of a team workflow: Git changes across multiple contributors, secret handling through corporate toolsets, and test suites that need reuse and reporting.

It’s not a timer on the product. Bruno remains open-source and local-first, and you can keep using it the way you always have.

The trial is specifically about making it easy to evaluate Ultimate in a realistic window without sales friction.

What you can evaluate in Bruno Ultimate during the trial

Below is the Ultimate feature set included in the 14-day trial, and the practical problems each one is meant to solve.

1) Git UI: keep collections in Git, keep your brain in one place

Bruno users are often Git-native: collections live in repos, reviews happen in PRs, changes need attribution and rollback.

But the “Git-native” story usually breaks down in the day-to-day. You end up juggling:

• an API client window
• a terminal
• a diff view somewhere else
• and a PR review later that’s harder than it should be

The Git UI is about making the common Git workflow inside Bruno feel effortless:

• see diffs clearly
• stage and commit changes without leaving the tool
• reduce “who changed this request?” confusion
• keep collections reviewable, not mysterious

If your collections are shared (even across 2–3 people), this becomes one of those features you miss immediately when it’s gone.

2) Secret manager integrations: leverage your team's existing tooling

Secure and local work is one of our key tenets, and there are multiple ways to mask/obscure secrets when sharing collections or pushing them to Git. 

Bruno Ultimate’s secret manager integrations are designed to align with corporate policies when it's the defacto way of credential management. 

Currently we offer integrations with:

• AWS Secret Manager
• Azure Key Vault
• Hashicorp Vault 

The desired outcome: anyone with vault access can easily, quickly, and safely pull secrets down when running collections. 

3) Reusable JavaScript functions: one place for shared logic

As collections grow, teams end up duplicating logic in dozens of places:

• auth helpers
• signing logic
• common headers shaping
• response parsing utilities
• “assert this object shape” helpers
• test setup/teardown

Most tools force you into copy/paste rituals, which creates two unavoidable issues:

1. bugs replicate everywhere
2. refactors become painful

Bruno Ultimate adds the ability to create a shared JS file for reusable functions, so your collection can call common logic from one place.

This enables:

• consistent behavior across requests and tests
• smaller diffs (one file changes instead of 25 requests)
• easier onboarding (there’s a “standard way” to do things)

If you’ve ever fixed the same test assertion in multiple requests, you’ll feel the value of this quickly.

4) History: troubleshoot with facts instead of memory

A lot of API debugging starts with arguments like:

• “it worked yesterday”
• “I didn’t change anything”
• “maybe the environment is off?”
• “are you sure you’re on the same branch?”

The fastest way to kill these debates is history.

Bruno Ultimate’s history gives you a reliable trail so you can answer:

• what ran
• with what inputs
• what changed between runs
• what the response looked like

For teams, this matters because debugging is rarely a solo activity. History reduces the back-and-forth and gets you to root cause faster.

5) Data-driven testing: scale coverage without duplicating requests

Once you start taking API testing seriously, you want the same request suite run against:

• a dataset of test cases
• edge cases and regressions
• multiple users/roles
• different environments

Copying requests to do that is a trap. It bloats collections and makes maintenance miserable.

Bruno Ultimate supports data-driven testing via a CSV or JSON file, so you can run the same request/test logic across a dataset without turning your collection into a junk drawer.

The win here isn’t just “more tests.” It’s maintainable tests.

6) Test reporting: turn runs into shareable artifacts

When tests run locally or in CI, teams need output that’s useful outside the person who clicked “run”:

• a clean pass/fail summary
• which tests ran and what failed
• something you can attach to a PR, release, or incident

Bruno Ultimate includes test reporting so results don’t live as screenshots, vague Slack messages, or walls of logs.

This is one of those features that becomes essential the moment testing is part of your release workflow.

A simple way to evaluate Ultimate in 30 minutes

If you want a structured way to decide quickly, here’s a practical evaluation path:

1. Open a collection from Git
2. Make a small change and use the Git UI to review/stage/commit it
3. Point one request at a secret via your secret manager integration
4. Move any repeated auth/test logic into the shared JS functions file
5. Run a small data-driven suite (even 5–10 cases is enough)
6. Generate a test report and share it with a teammate
7. Use history to compare runs after you tweak an environment value

By the end, you’ll know if Ultimate fits your workflow or not—without guessing.

Why 14 days

We chose 14 days because it’s long enough to evaluate in real conditions:

• you can run it through your normal weekly cadence
• you can try it in CI
• you can involve a teammate or two
• you can hit the “real” pain points (secrets, diffs, flaky responses, regression cases)

Start the 14-day trial

If you’re evaluating Bruno for team workflows...Git, secrets, testing, reporting - this trial is the simplest way to answer the question quickly.

How can you get the trial? Easy!  All you need is your email - nothing else. 

Either click the button below:

Or enable it directly in-app: