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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.
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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?

Stoplight has reliable open source of truth for identifying productive business processes. It enables all business partners to collaborate and work with a common goal. It has enabled the IT team to build simple API that can be accessed by customers who visit our websites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

It is cost-effective and highly functional across all business departments. I have not come across any drawback from its operations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Customers who interact with our websites can effectively access our services easily. It is faster and many projects have been completed since we secured it. The instant mock servers enables the IT team to test designs and their suitabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

The only wysiwyg interface for creating API schemas with versioning! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Didn't find a real dislike yet. The software is comprehensive and answers all my needs. When I needed something extra or found a bug the request was dealt with rather quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

One source of truth for our API schema which is then used for code, documentation, validation, and everybody at the company can use it -- none technical people as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

The interactive JSON editor is handy and saves us a lot of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

No way to preview changes before publishing. I honestly don't understand why it's not there because one of the USPs is "collaborative design". Now, there is no simple way to see changes before publishing them unless you use Git. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We get to use a design-first approach for our API, which is really useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

There are many upsides to using Stoplight. Perhaps the most helpful aspect is that it allows users to create and document APIs in a very user-friendly way. Stoplight also has several other features that make it an excellent choice for API design, including the ability to generate code and tests, as well as providing several built-in integrations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

The least helpful aspect of Stoplight is that it can be difficult to use for more complex designs. Additionally, the software does not always generate the most accurate results, which can be frustrating for users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Some of the problems that Stoplight is solving include helping developers design and document APIs faster and more efficiently, as well as providing a platform for collaboration and feedback on API design. This is beneficial to developers because it can help them save time and money when designing and documenting APIs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bethany O.
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What do you like best about Stoplight?

This product has promoted the communication and document sharing infrastructure in the company positively. The API platform tracks workflows across all the applications. The supply chain architecture has been productive with timely reporting and easy monitoring of orders. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

There is no operational challenges experienced from my side. We have highly benefited from the performance of Stoplight since we deployed this product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The product has helped us in development of reliable API that enhances effective operations on all supply chain activities. It is easy to monitor workflows from user interface and create performance reports. It updates our systems to ensure they are compliant and up to date. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Stoplight is very extensive and flexible in its design. Almost any sort of api documentation can be made on this platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

The free plans on stoplight is very restricting. It should be expanded to more people so that the initial customers can explore it more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Stoplight is solving the problem of api documentation and serves as a one stop place for all documentation needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Scolar  M.
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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Spotlight functions simplicity on manipulation and the easy on the first implementation is what made me love the solution.

Its data management features and the ability to create clean and valuable data reports and real time analytics is incredible.

Spotlight access control management is very nice, stable to manage complex projects documents is also very excellent and very reliable feedback gathering software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

The spotlight functuons are simple and the implementation of the entire platform is very easy to all users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Great access permission management.

Real time analysis preparation.

Multiple project data management.

Feedback obtaining is very smooth via this solution.

Reports are clear and easy to understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

The tool proves to be the greatest application to create API with ease. Responsive and fast UI that makes creating API very easy. We can aslo be able to test an API through the dashboard very effectively. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Since installation all we have got from this application is excellent services. Downtimes are very minimal and technical team is on standby in case we have an issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Stoplight has very responsive and fast user interface. Easy to create and manage API . It's affordable application with reasonable pricing model. Technical support is one of the best we have experienced so far. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

cli&code generator for different programming languages Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

there is no option to give csv data input in POST API request body Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Just API documentation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Arpita S.
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What do you like best about Stoplight?

* It is very easy to use and secure tool for API development.

* Easy to create reports and perform analysis.

* It speedup and boostup the API productivity.

* Performance is incredible as compared to another tool also it is very cheap then others tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

I don't have any issue with stoplight. It works well for me. It helps alot in API development. It boost up productivity and reliability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Now I can manage, test and create API very easily using this wonderful tool. Really It speedup and boostup productivity. It saves our lots of time and money. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.