Best CLI Alternative to Popular API Clients Like Postman for AI APIs?

I’ve been working with Hugging Face Inference Endpoints and other AI APIs recently, and while Postman is great for exploring endpoints, it started feeling less practical once our API tests became part of our development workflow.

We wanted a command-line tool that could:

We’ve experimented with several options, including curl

, HTTPie

, Newman

, and Apidog CLI.

What I like about Apidog CLI is that I can execute the same API test scenarios locally while developing and then reuse those tests in our CI pipeline without maintaining separate GUI-based workflows.

For AI applications where APIs evolve frequently, having repeatable terminal-based testing has made it much easier to catch issues before deployment.

For those building applications with Hugging Face models or Inference Endpoints, what command-line alternative to Postman are you using? Has moving API testing into the terminal improved your workflow?