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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?

The support team is amazing! They are quick to reply and super helpful. If you have an issue they will work with you to resolve it. Did I am mention they are very kind and patient?

I love that it's really simple to get started by using markdown. Our customers love the new default styles and it just works out of the box. The best part is that it supports OAS for API documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

I wish there was a to review my changes before publishing them from the web app.

One great feature is git but it feels difficult to access and use.

The mock serve is another useful feature but there is no way to disable it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Stoplight solves the API documentation problem. It is easy to use and accessible. We love that it integrates with GitHub allowing us to make documentation a part of our process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Quick to get going with. Having Mock servers available immediately are very useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Difficult to change specifications from one version of openapi to another. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Helping us get a quick way to write and share api-specs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Independent documentation from the code repository; clear transformation of OpenAPI standard to intuitive forms; possibility to collaborate on the projects and work with many persons at the same time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Sometimes working at the same time in many persons causes issues with YAML file edition. It happened that we accidentally removed the whole content and freaked out a little bit, but fortunately, it was possible to restore the historical version. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We don't need to perform a release every time we want to update documentation. We are using this tool also for the analysis phase where we design API contracts in the first place in Stoplight and then it goes to implementation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

I have had amazing user experience with Stoplight. I began using this tool because I needed the way to design frontend API without developing a real API to work in a team.

It's been really easy to create endpoint and to derails this endpoint. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

A lot of warning/errors that not always correct 💯. Hence leads to slow API documentation generation.

The tech and support team been fabulous and dedicated 24/7. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I am able to create a model and name the model in any End-point like a body response. I like how the documentation created visualy appealing and easy to read for all users of API. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

We are easy to maintain and reuse the API throughout while project which helps in designing the API quickly and efficiently. We can integrate with any of the front Applications or code base. even if you have created 500 APIs the application never gets slowed down. The Support staff is very responsive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

There are fewer users so if you are a beginner then you might face issues as there is very less community buildup. Even the documentation provide by the doc prep team is quite less. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We need to document allour public API for clients, Testing teams, 3rd party users etc. Now all these teams are very happy with the responsiveness of the application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Great to design and test APIs, also to share with friends. Very easy to use. Our team like to use. UI is polished and easy to use too. Support many formats, incoming and outgoing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

It's a great tool, if not one of the best ones. Don't have anything that would share as dislike. Just keep the tool as it's. Simple is always the best path forward. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Stoplight allows you to design, test, and share APIs. It's beyond that, it's a suite of tools to do everything needed to work with APIs. What it try to fix? Well, work with APIs and it's easy to know the answer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

You can implement it easily with postman, GitLab, and in general, the UI it's friendly and easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

That if you are working in the editor's user, you can't see how the nonuser's going to see the projects Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The main problem that we solved it's that now our customers can interact directly with the API's directly in the documentation that we provide in stoplight. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

We can collaborate with Stoplight as a team while working on large API programs. It's easy to track API changes, manage dependencies and share them as well. You get a personalized view while performing every role with granted specified permissions so that working as a team has few tussles on tasks. Stoplight has several API design tools to produce outstanding API designs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

I have very little to say on this subject. I'd probably highlight the bugs in the software resulting in inconveniencing downtimes. I've always had a hard time splitting OpenAPI documents into multiple files and the in-software documentation recommendations have been of little help. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Stoplight:

If you are handling multiple APIs in your workstation, then Stoplight would be a suitable solution to manage both your internal and external APIs from a central effective repository. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It's resourceful to have around a robust API program so that we on the other hand can deliver agile cyber security services to our clients in the long run. Stoplight has also helped us overcome the challenge of managing assigned services with APIs count on the rise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Stoplight has the only GUI for editing OpenAPI docs that I am aware of. This feature alone makes Stoplight invaluable. Stoplight fills our need for designing APIs and creating API documentation quickly and efficiently. Their GUI is very well designed and user-friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Unfortunately, as of this writing, Git integration isn't available for all repository hosts. But this isn't a dealbreaker. (Branches/versions are still available even w/o integrating into an existing repo.) Stoplight isn't an all-in-one API development tool (there aren't any I'm aware of); you'll still want a manual testing tool (Postman, Insomnia, etc.). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Our company is creating a new app with a new set of many APIs. We've been able to quickly create documentation for these using Stoplight. Writing the documentation manually would be tedious and painstaking to say the least. Stoplight allows us to write OpenAPI compliant docs w/o having to know the technical specifications of the standard. The ability to have multiple versions via Git is brilliant as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

My favorite part of the Stoplight platform is the visual form-based OAS spec editor. This takes a lot of the pain out of authoring these immense JSON/YAML structured text files. The ability to reference models with a couple clicks of a mouse is quite valuable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

The stoplight platform itself used to be more feature-rich than it currently is now... Not quite sure what happened but they have basically built the platform from scratch three times now. The pricing is unsettlingly disconnected from the value provided relative to other SaaS tools, especially for view-only users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Stoplight:

Reach out to the sales team for a hands-on demonstration, they will assist you in determining the best fit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We use stoplight to agree on an API interface design prior to beginning implementation in software this means that each endpoint or request is basically it's own requirement artifact and can be coded to. This has reduced the amount of miscommunication/mismatch between expectation and reality when endpoints get implemented. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Anna Daugherty of Stoplight

Thank you for taking the time to review Stoplight Platform! We're happy to that our tools are able to help alleviate some of your top pain points when designing API specs.

You may be glad to hear about feature updates that are right around the corner. Feel free to upvote any of our roadmap items that you'd like to see, or reach out at any time to discuss your needs.

Thanks again!

Anna Daugherty

Product Marketing Manager

anna@stoplight.io

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