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What is Stoplight?

Let Stoplight be your platform for building high-quality APIs for any scale - with best-in-class editing, documentation, and governance featuring built-in mocking, linting, style guides, component libraries, and more. Coding APIs before designing them wastes time and money and creates unnecessary risk. Build successful API programs at any scale that drive business outcomes with a design-first approach. Stoplight is the only design-focused API solution. With integrated documentation and governance, the Stoplight platform enables consistency, reusability, and quality for an enjoyable developer experience. The platform enables successful API programs driven by digital transformation, platform development, and API-as-a-product - for new or established teams.

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Product Description

Stoplight leverages your OpenAPI (Swagger) specifications to drive the entire API development process.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Stoplight enables a strategic, proactive API development process that starts with design. With design-first, companies minimize risk and cost, speed time-to-market, and yield faster return on investment.

Stoplight has the only visual (form-based) API editing tool that makes it simple to leverage OpenAPI standards and schemas to design and document APIs. This enables Stoplight users to get their APIs in the hands of developers quickly for rapid adoption - driving business results.

- Quickly ideate API design in Stoplight Studio
- Easily share designs and collaborate with stakeholders in a Stoplight Workspace
- Design an OpenAPI spec in ~1 minute in Stoplight Studio
- Automatically generate and update top-notch Documentation
- Quickly test your API design with mock servers
- Consistently match your organization’s API rulesets with Stoplight Style Guides
- Choose a git-less or Git-integrated workflows


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There is no field or industry today that is moving as fast as technology. It’s changed how we live, work, and connect with others – it’s also changed the pressure on software teams. SmartBear provides a portfolio of trusted tools that give software development teams around the world visibility into end-to-end quality through test management and automation, API development lifecycle, and application stability, ensuring each software release is better than the last. Award-winning and industry favorite tools including SwaggerHub, TestComplete, Bugsnag, ReadyAPI, Zephyr, and Pactflow, among others. Trusted by over 16 million developers, testers, and software engineers at 3
,000+ organizations – including world-renowned innovators like Adobe, JetBlue, FedEx, and Microsoft. With an active peer-to-peer community, we meet customers where they are to help make our technology-driven world a better place. SmartBear is committed to ethical corporate practices and social responsibility, promoting good in all the communities we serve.


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Michael L.
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Michael L.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"The best API design and documentation platform available"
Stoplight provides an excellent API design and documentation platform, unlike anything else available in the market. It is useful to: 1. Develope...
Michael L.
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Michael L.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
3.5 out of 5
"good documentation and instructions"
I was able to get Stoplight working with Studio in minutes. preview was awesome
Tonnie K.
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Tonnie K.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Incredible powerfull API design solution"
Stoplight makes API design really easy. The graphical interface is very intuitive to use. It can easily switch to the code view and back. Even it i...
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What do you like best about Stoplight?

One of the standout features of Stoplight.io is its user-friendly interface, which makes it accessible to both seasoned developers and newcomers. The platform's well-designed layout allows users to effortlessly navigate through various sections, including designing APIs, defining data models, and generating comprehensive documentation.

Moreover, Stoplight.io offers a variety of tools to enhance API development. The "Design" feature facilitates the creation of API endpoints, making it convenient to model and visualize data structures using the OpenAPI Specification. Additionally, the ability to perform live API testing is a major advantage, ensuring that developers can identify and rectify issues promptly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Although Stoplight.io has an array of impressive features, there are some limitations that need to be addressed. Firstly, the platform's performance could be improved, especially when handling large API projects. While it performs admirably with small to medium-sized projects Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?

One of the main issues that Stoplight is addressing is the complexity associated with API management across different projects. Prior to using this platform, we faced challenges in organizing and documenting all our APIs, which often led to development delays, confusion among team members, and integration problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Stoplight makes API design really easy. The graphical interface is very intuitive to use. It can easily switch to the code view and back. Even it is a web interface it works realtime when having other instances open. The git integration is well done and style guide validation is helping in avoiding mistakes and keep uniformity across all API design.

The perfect example of how software should be. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

I've not come across real items I dislike. The only thing that could be really benefitial would be the option to have a so called API developer portal. A way to catalogue available API of the business and to mock them for users that don't count in the 'user' count. Another thing is the enormous price gap for the pro version. I could see this also as a pro because it means the most important features are available for a reasonable price, but rather would see the ability to select seperate features from the pro version without the need to completely move to the pro and paying the pro price. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps us to design our API's in an easy way. In an API first world this is very important. After that we import those in our API gateway to get them ready doing their job. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Structuring and documenting all the features of your API are very easy with Spotlight! It helps you create a scalable and easy to export OpenAPI specs which is very useful and structured! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

It lacks bulk editing tools, which can make things slightly manual, but if you're familiar with json/yaml then you can be more efficient! The publish feature can be slightly better with more context into what all is changing within the API docs for better visibility! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps us maintain public API documentation as well as API designing. The API documentation created by us on Stoplight are very easy to use and update! The level of granularity and ease of use by users are some strong selling points! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

First of all it looks like modern tools about the UX - it's really user-friendly and you can do everything without reading tons of documentation. You just open the page and start creating your API models and endpoints.

About possibilities it offers - you can create an endpoint with all needed parameters which some of them can be linked schemas created aside in the same UI. Entities can have its own children also linked from other schemas. There is also an export straight to YAML/JSON for external use. I like the versioning and email notifications with recent changes after publishing. I hope Stoplight will be continuosly growing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

I don't see any significant cons of the product. Maybe it could be less expensive or free for internal projects (special license), but the cost it's not something horrible. Maybe it could have some more generated/automated things based on AI for an instance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?

We needed to have an API modelling and documentation creation tool which is easy and offer what we need. You cannot create good API maintained for years just from code. It should be modelled and documented first. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shaunak P.
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What do you like best about Stoplight?

- Create visual APIs using Stoplight Studio

- Allows to generate documentation in many formats

- Provides mock API URL using which we can test the APIs

- Provides features like API gateway

- Connects with Github so we can manage API design using CI/CD. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

- Costing is the major concern. Its professional plan that our company is using is costing us roughly $500 every month.

- It has limited integration with existing tools and services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?

- Designing APIs and managing them

- Documentation for the APIs

- Testing the designed APIs

- Helps securing the APIs as it provides features like API key management, OAuth 2.0 support, and rate limiting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

A step above other API platforms, Stoplight has rich collaboration integrated with task management systems, Slack, etc., that lets us contextually leave comments for each other and discuss the API surface Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

If I had to pick something, it took a bit of time getting used to how to use it - switching between the code view and the textual view. But not a showstopper at all. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?

We can share the API surface with each other and clients and communicate with the team about it. That means we're more productive. Also when we want to find discussions we've had about a particular method or endpoint, it's there with that method and endpoint, we don't have to search some other third party repository of info where it's hard to find the discussion that we had. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Harivel K.
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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Its integration with GitHub and its out of the box style guides. Developers and Designers, even non techie people were able to quickly pick up API prototyping using Stoplight. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

The cost of viewers licenses itself is too expensive. Its almost similar with maker license cost where it should have been under half of the maker license cost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?

Source coding of the API design docs like YAML, OAS Specs etc in Github resolves the versioning issue which was troubling us from very long time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

I like many of the features that the build API usually provides, the visual editor, and that you can work with the test server, and it's easy to build APIs with specs. I also liked the mock server because it's easy to understand and very useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

I like most of its features and don't see any drawbacks or at least something that affects its performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?

The problem it solved was that we could provide a platform and develop API documentation, and we used the source code to verify the APIs. It makes all the work more accessible because it helps us a lot. After all, we can track and sort to be in control in one easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Stoplight provides a project-based experience for collecting both Open API Specifications and Markdown documentation and arranging them to create a compelling yet simple API documentation experience. All projects can be organized into permission groups for all levels of access including, private, internal, partner/guest, and public. It enables centralized search across all assets and projects from the root, enabling a very compelling enterprise experience that provides awareness and discovery for different members of the organization to search broadly against dozens or hundreds of Open API specifications and documentation. On top of that Stoplight provides high-fidelity web components to integrate certain projects or the entire portal experience customized inside your own web application. The addition of integrated and self-published open source projects like spectral and prism into their platform add layers of style guide governance that are now the industry standard which they pretty much invented. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

While Stoplight has many compelling features around API Documentation and Discovery, it struggles mostly with API Design workflow. A local Studio and Web-based Studio provide great Open API editing experience but lack capabilities around the lifecycle, versioning, and promotion of those assets. Given the young age of Stoplight, I expect these lifecycle maturities will be available over time but can pose large concerns for organizations that require this level of complexity. Additional advanced usages of Open API design at the enterprise include reusable models and schemas, which are not provided in Stoplight today. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?

Stoplight provides an organizational API Documentation Portal to centralize awareness and discovery of hundreds of APIs both internally and externally. It is used to integrate with custom external web front-ends to provide a great user experience to those consuming our API documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Stoplight is probably the prettiest and most well-rounded/polished OpenAPI-centric API development tool that is available. Other tools feel a bit more like "tools" rather than software, and miss on the translation between WYSIWYG design and validation of the resulting OpenAPI spec. Stoplight does a good job translating between the two and has good UI/UX. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Some things are not quite polished. The proposal feature can be confusing/cumbersome to use. Also, Stoplight does not go beyond the OpenAPI spec, which I can understand, but there is opportunity for improvement in that respect. For example, Stoplight does not support the HTTP QUERY method, which is not officially in the OpenAPI spec yet, but other tools like Postman do support it anyway. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?

Stoplight is providing a centralized location for reviewing and updating the documentation of our monolithic API providing for development process and quality assurance validation of intended use cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.