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Stoplight Overview

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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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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...
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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
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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?

Useful and nice options like visual customization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

White label must be a basic thing in this case. I do not understand why I have to pay 2-300$ to have a white label system.

Also, several times when we try to update content, it doesn't work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Really nice for team and external contractor collaboration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Ease of use.

Dashboard

Studio is awesome Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Mobile device support.

Better support for managing order of APIs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

API Documentation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

the ui and design management is very well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

support is not enough, can't get help in time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

my be a feedback system for issues，which can help user to connect developer and support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Easy to use, clear interface, fast, multi platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

When I want to change the order of fields, the interface is clunky Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Helping our business be API first and design contracts up front Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Great design our of the gate, easy to deploy (sometimes was a little slow with the updates), simple conversions from Markdown. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

With ease of use comes loss of control. We loved how fast we could get something up, but felt it lacking when we got in the weeds a bit, and had to find workarounds. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Single source of truth for documentation internally and externally. We liked how the docs were close to the code in the repo. And the result looked professional. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Ease of use when building out different documentation for APIs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Sometimes the editing of the JSON or YAML document is hard to debug if there are any errors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Internal documentation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Our team of technical writers uses Stoplight for API documentation and interacting with developers and their code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Consulting fees could be on the higher side. Also, integrating with our existing platforms was quite a headache. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Stoplight:

Try the freemium model (for upto 10 users) before getting into business. You can check if it works for your organizational needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Collaboration with developers is a breeze.

We can see real time development on any project and contribute remotely. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

This tool removed my need for manually editing a swagger file. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

I'm not a huge fan of all the cloud features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Helps maintain swagger files between developers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Fairly easy API design editor with integrated API requests and the ability to build very quickly some mock servers.

Good way to mix business (markdown, images) and technical documentation (API specs, example requests, mocks) into a great support portal for our clients/users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Not all OpenAPI v3 flexibility is implemented yet, but one can still go into the "raw" code to modify it.

Cumbersome to use the tool for external documentation platform, the notion of company login (that existed in Next for us to send 1 login to our client) does not exist anymore. Every user needs to request access and us to approve it as a guest which is not really scalable.

With migration from next to studio, we lost the possibility to inject environment variables linked to a login/organisation which restricted our possibilities and makes the portal less "custom-made" for our clients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Stoplight:

Tool with great potential Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

* Quick API design / brainstorm

* Client support portal mixing business and technical content

* Easy mock servers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

- Stoptlight Studio -> Can work offline

- Mockserver -> Easy for working with frontend

- Git integrated -> Everyone can collaborate without confliction

- Well documentations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

The UI is quite confusing with too much information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

- Thanks to Stoplight, we have a unified api document to lean on. It stops us from many async meetings to help improve the team's productivity.

- It's flexible to change/update the document. It's also provides history for tracking. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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