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Stoplight Overview

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.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?

I like integrating Stoplight with GitLab and GitHub; also, I can easily manage and control my APIs project and share them faster than before. Documenting and building APIs are so good . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

It's long time we're working with this amazing platform and all is good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It helps us to share APIs and documentation with our customers more quickly than before and save a lot of money on our projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

I like the ease of sharing and viewing the different parameters for an API Endpoint. I like also being able to Share request bodies. Comparing this to Swagger, I have a hard time opting for a manual option that I have to keep updating to document my APIs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

I wish there were source control of versions, so once you publish you can go back to previous versions. I don't like having to manually update things in multiple place. I would like to be able to use sharable sub-objects. So if one object uses same properties of another (but not ALL the properties are the same) i want to be able to reference a sharable sub-object. I also would appreciate better documentation on how to utilize "examples". Also would like a way to configure bearer auth so I can send requests from stoplight application itself to my endpoints. I also would like better editing abilities for the "Description" side of stoplight - - line breaks do not format well and everything appears on one line. I don't like that you have to "overwrite" the entire schema for a request/response body -- this wipes out any description or lengths I have manually put in, and adding every new field one by one is tedious when I am adding multiple at a time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Spotlight is helping bridge the contract gap between the UI team and API teams within our organization. I do think it takes away productivity having to spend so much time manually updating the spec. I would love to be able to import my postman tests to have it auto-document endpoints. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Stoplight's support for multiple branches and the ability to make them "listed" or "unlisted" so we can review them internally is top notch and was a major deciding factor. This improves our code review process by making the fully rendered result easy to access for all team members on unlisted branches that are in development.

Stoplight support has been excellent at helping us learn and better use the system.

Feature requests can be reported, advocated for and monitored on the public roadmap. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Most of our challenges are with limitations of the OpenAPI spec itself so it would be nice to see some support for additional "x-" tags to provide more control over how docs are rendered such as controlling which Schemas are listed in the sidebar, an intro section for tags and a table of contents for each tag.

While Stoplight Studio was a major factor in our decision to try Stoplight we don't use the Stoplight Studio much because at the time of writing it doesn't support a WSL2 environment or '$ref' in the 'paths' values. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Stoplight's collaboration features are a major improvement to our workflow over just using a local renderer for review or having to build our own review apps system.

The presentation of Stoplight docs is excellent and allows us to make our documentation public without having to code or maintain another system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Not much, it gets the job done (kind of) but it should be a much better product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

- unclear relationship between yml and form (sometimes these do not match up, variables that are in the yml are not in the form)

- editing the yml is really hard to do correctly

- the recently redesign is very poorly received by customers, we get lots of complaints about this by people using our product

- the front end code of stoplight is not efficient enough to support most API calls in the try it out block

- version history/version control should be more obvious/easier Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We use stoplight to host our API docs. I wish we used something else that was based on our code or didn't involve so much manual work to maintain, and one that was easier to use and our customers liked better than stoplight. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Very intuitive, super easy to edit and change. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

I wish there would be an easier way to ask for a feature (I sent a request to their product once, and didn't get any update about it) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

- edit our API endpoints

- manage our API endpoints documentations for our clients

- Documentation around integration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verónica M.
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What do you like best about Stoplight?

I like their webinars a lot. Great Product team! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Paying per viewers increasing monthly bill. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Making our API private. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Stoplight is quite configurable and flexible. It has support for styleguides and linting, and both of these can also be easily customized. It can be used for a host of stuff like API design, API development, API mocking, API documentation, and even general documentation & guides. It comes with a built-in API runner so that you or your customers can run and test the APIs right in the browser without a need for tools like Postman. The team is responsive too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

The team is quite new and there are rough edges around the product, which I feel are only a matter of time before they can be polished. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I am using Stoplight for API design, collaborative API development, and public documentation+API runner. This has helped me become more productive and also learn new stuff. This has also enabled the organization (which is an early-stage startup) to build our core API product without the need to worry about decent documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rylan H.
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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Stoplight is focused on really improving our API design motions. APIs are often 1-way doors and Stoplight gets this. Impressive feature set. Love the designer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Still seeing some issues in the git sync. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Stoplight helps us build and review APIs amongst the team before publishing them to our partners. Love the git integration and docs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vinay S.
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What do you like best about Stoplight?

I like because it is straightforward and easy to use tool with full of security and reliability. It boostup out productivity and reliability. It makes our tasks easy to perform and saves lots of time while api designing, development and managing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

At this time we don't have any issue with tool. we are fully satisfied with this tool and play a vital role in our organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Easy to maintain API documentation with full of security tool. Easy to share api with proper docs to team members for further testing and development. It helps alot in business productivity and reliability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

The warnings list to complete the OpenAPI schema. There are a lot of great features: reusable objects, automatic example completion based on the models' definition, the mock server, etc... But the warning system is one of the best things. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

There are some bugs: sometimes you create or edit Models and the changes are not reflected until you reload the page. Besides that, it's a good service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We're using Stoplight to generate our OpenAPI schemas and export them to different tools. It's easier for us to use the schema in other places, but creating them... It's just better to use Stoplight. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.