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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?

It satisfies my requirement for interactive documentation based on Markdown and OpenApi documents.

The client snippet generation, the API linter, and the mock server features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

The billing plan does not allow to scale to an unlimited number of Studio guest users nor to a significant number of Studio writers without significant costs. I wish to use Stoplight for both my public and internal APIs and with unlimited guest users.

The absence of support for gRPC and AsyncAPI specifications.

The absence of support for external authentication and authorisation providers; for instance, I use auth0. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Stoplight:

Good product that supports interactive, Markdown-based and OpenAPI based REST API documentation, API linting, Client code snippet generation, Mock servers, and API design process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

To expose interactive documentation (try it out) for my public REST API to my clients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Everson T.
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Easy GUI, mock option, multi-user, export to Postman Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

- Pricing for startups

- Licensing for companies that use a lot of freelancers (not active developers all the time) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Centralization of all documentation

Easy to have contributors

Easy to implement API model

Easy to test and API (Mock) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Stoplight has worked great for us for several years. It makes it easy to manage multiple versions of the OpenAPI spec and add additional explanatory content. Code generation is excellent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Stoplight shut off the SaaS service we had been using with no notice. It was just suddenly offline. It took several days for them to restore our project, help me migrate it to the new service, and redirect the old URL. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Stoplight:

Definitely worth checking out if you're looking for a tool to generate documentation from OpenAPI specifications. If the free tier meets all your requirements, it's hard to beat. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It's a great tool for tech writers who need to generate OpenAPI documentation. The developers don't use it so we have no experience with the other features such as collaboration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Anna Daugherty of Stoplight

Thank you for taking the time to give us feedback. This is definitely frustrating.

We tried our best to reach everyone about the shutdown of legacy Classic, NEXT, and V1 versions over the past year. According to our records, your account was canceled in September of 2021; that may explain why the communications were missed in the app. We are working to address your request, and have an open ticket to ensure we’re able to provide your documentation to you as soon as possible.

Thank you again, and I will update this reply as soon as more information is available for your support ticket.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

The templated for API documentation are quite convenient to use, and the interface is easy to understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

The creation of enums and arrays is limited. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It makes the creation of API documents easier and more structured and requires less time than it usually takes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Roberto M.
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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Version control, speed in updating information Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Some functions are a little complicated to use at first, such as changing the order of titles in the left side menu. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I managed to put all my API documentation as well as tips for using my application Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Spotlight has a tremendous work culture, they follow their ethics which include Customer satisfaction, services, and support. The work culture is amazing, providing employee strength, work, and discipline. they follow their sore values which result best in all ways. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

everything is well, there is no negative feedback Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Spotlight listens to issues first and they do best to support the issue. they are quick and supportive, hassle-free support which includes all benefits timely support and co-ordination with employees, they serve customer and employee survey at priority. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Git based version control, and can be automated through CI/CD pipeline Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Customized Styles, so many hidden files out there in my .git directory Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

API Design and Documentation, can be easier for none tech people to collabrately workin on the design. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aleksandr Y.
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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Ease of use and good amounts of required features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Pretty much nothing. Sometimes it's desired to work a bit differently, but it's not a problem overall. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Creation of requested API Reference and descriptive parts of requested documentation for clients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Chetan B.
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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Stoplight feels great for generating, writing, and testing OpenAPI spec files. It is also well made for linting and previewing API docs in a more modern layout. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Stoplight competitors provide a better experience for publishing a customer's API reference documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The Swagger online editor and its preview section feels old and obsolete. Stoplight has built a more modern experience for working with OpenAPI spec files. We use Stoplight for all our spec editing needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

It's really easy to model APIs with Stoplight. From model definitions to Responses to documentation, it makes it extremely convenient for a team to coordinate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Some of the features (such as map view) are only available on the higher tiers. Some minor bugs on the markdown interface for documentation here and there; nothing major. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Stoplight:

It's definitely a great product and would recommend it any given time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We needed to have a collaborative platform to model our APIs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.