thunder-client-support

📈 Free Plan Update

• Free Plan limit increased from 3 to 10 collections.
• Free Plan collection run limit increased from 30 to 50 runs.

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• Compare plans and find the right fit for your team on our pricing page.

🎉 Improved MCP Server v2

The Thunder Client MCP Server has been rebuilt with a full set of tools, so AI assistants can create, manage, and run your API requests and collections directly in Thunder Client.

Works with Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, and any MCP-compatible AI tool. Now supported on the Free Plan.

🛠️ New Tools

Explore

• debugInfo - Shows setup info: CLI version, data path, collections, and environments
• listCollections - Lists all collections, folders, and requests with a summary table
• getDetails - Shows full details of a collection, folder, or request
• listEnvironments - Lists environments and shows which one is active

Create & Update

• createCollection - Creates a collection, optionally with a folder
• createFolder - Creates a folder or subfolder in a collection
• createRequest - Creates a request from a cURL command
• updateRequest - Updates a request's URL, method, headers, params, body, auth, tests, or name
• updateCollectionSettings - Sets base URL, shared auth, default headers, and run options for a collection or folder, or renames it

Run

• runRequest - Runs a request using the active environment and returns the response
• runCollection - Runs a collection or folder and returns the test report with a summary

Delete

• deleteRequest - Deletes a request

Documentation

For setup instructions, see the Thunder Client MCP documentation.

📈 Free Plan Update

• Thunder Client CLI is now available in the Free Plan. Run requests and collections from the terminal - Docs
• CI/CD Integration is now available in the Free Plan. Run collections on build servers and save reports in XML, HTML, JSON, and CSV formats - Docs
• Free Plan limit increased from 30 to 50 requests per collection.

🎉 Introducing an Improved Free Plan

We're excited to introduce a more powerful and flexible Free Plan for Thunder Client!

Our goal has always been to make API testing simple, fast, and accessible to developers. Based on community feedback, we've expanded our Free Plan to include more features, greater flexibility, and support for additional development environments.

✨ What's New in the Free Plan?

Expanded Editor Support

• Available for both VS Code and JetBrains IDEs.
• Supports VS Code-based editors, including Cursor, VSCodium, Kiro, and Antigravity.

More API Testing Features

• WebSocket, Server-Sent Events (SSE), and gRPC
• OAuth 2.0 authentication
• File uploads with form-data
• Request documentation
• Unlimited environments
• Create up to 3 collections.
• Add up to 30 requests per collection.
• Import from cURL, Postman, and Insomnia

🚀 Getting Started

A free Thunder Client account is now required to use the Free Plan, No credit card required.

1. Create a free account at thunderclient.com.
2. Open Thunder Client in VS Code or your supported IDE.
3. Sign in to your account from the Thunder Client extension.

Thank you for being part of the Thunder Client journey! ❤️

Bug Fixes

• Client certificates (mTLS) not reliably sent when using the Axios library #1744
• Certificates from user settings are now used when the workspace has none configured #1744
• Errors reading the certificates setting are now logged to Show Logs #1770