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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?

The specifications of the API endpoints were easily configured and their types were generated easily using stoplight. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

There can be one option to go back to the previous step which is not currently available in the application and the autosave option and do you want to commit dialog box can be added to avoid people missing to commit the changes they made Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

API specifications

Addings headers responses response body

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

The thoughtful palette of products offers tools for every step of your API lifetime. From conception, design through documentation, mocking, high-level governance, it is not only a tool to help you do it right from the start, but also to transition into a more resilient, value-focused ecosystem of APIs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

It feels like the styling options are a little bit limited, though we haven't spent a whole lot of time since this isn't of major priority. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Initially, we've opted for Spotlight to create our API reference. Moving forward, we intend to use it as a tool and framework to build out our ecosystem of APIs, guides and tools around it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Anna Daugherty of Stoplight

Hi Dominic,

Thank you for your thoughtful review. We're glad to hear that Stoplight is helping you create an effective API ecosystem and governance at your organization!

You'll be happy to know that we're implementing a series of UX/UI changes and refreshes across the Stoplight Platform in the coming months. Feel free to vote on your most desirable features on our roadmap.

https://roadmap.stoplight.io/tabs/7-under-consideration

Thanks again,

Anna Daugherty

Product Marketing Manager

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Gives you the ability to communicate between tech and non tech collaborators. The UI is simple and easy to use, the must have API tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

It can be difficult to export, styling is a little limited. A couple of missing options and the difference between free and premium is wide. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

OpenApI adoption, makes the learning curve easier to navigate for other developers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

I use stoplight as a service and as a standalone desktop app as well. The cloud service has excellent integration to other services like bitbucket, making it easier to keep your API reference/schema up to date, which is helpful, especially when you build/generate your routes via the spec automatically. What's more, the cloud version allows multiple to work on the exact specification simultaneously and can grant different access rights to various stakeholders. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

There are some missing features, like x-* options in the GUI designer (you can write them to text file though). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are designing REST API as quickly as possible, thanks to stoplight's GUI, making it easy to navigate the schema. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ondřej N.
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What do you like best about Stoplight?

WYSIWYG editor, typesetting, easy setup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

(all I'm missing is already on their roadmap) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We use the platform for designing and documenting our proprietary internal API.

There is no comparison in terms of ease of management (edit/publish) of an API; Stoplight is by far the only tool that offers a reasonable WYSIWYG editor. Moreover, it comes packed with a bunch of tools and features that seamlessly aid you to improve your design/development process, even if it's your first time doing so.

Documenting API used to be tedious work no one was willing to until we switched to Stoplight. Nowadays, even the most rigid of programmers proactively use it and demand the API to be documented in alignment with their increment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Anna Daugherty of Stoplight

Thank you for the kind words Ondřej. We appreciate your feedback and engagement with our roadmap!

Anna Daugherty

Product Marketing Manager

Stoplight.io

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

The ability to lint and mock OpenAPI endpoints with JSON schema generation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Linting rules sometimes don't find the right line #, no integration with stub generators (not a blocker). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Stoplight:

I use Stoplight Studio (desktop) and it is really cool. I have tried editing with VSCode and it is very tedious and frustrating to navigate super large files (or a collection of references). Being able to view it in a GUI, navigating to and moving stuff around has been a lifesaver on an otherwise tedious and frustrating task. I've had a lot of raised eyebrows everytime I demonstrate it to other groups, so it has major traction where I am. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Being able to coordinate OpenAPI specifications and models with other teammates. We usually get a heavily evolving spreadsheet with data dictionaries and then we try to name the variables after them. With this, we can effectively line up the spreadsheet, the spec, and our actual code. Then we can share it with other technical people and still have it be readable to non-technical folks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

good user interface to view openapi spec Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

syncing with gitlab was not straightfoward - that should be a simple step because we cannot use stoplight efficiently without proper update hooks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Getting the entire organization exposed to the openapi spec through Stoplight. Product has found it easier to search for endpoints. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

This platform has advantage of desiging collaboration though API. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

The only downside I experienced is lack of full training videos, I discovered so many features working on the platform rather than going through the trainings Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We were facing bottlenecks due to lack of visualisation of api in older tools but Stoplight has a great visualisation dashboard with live previews. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

I like the ease of use and the simplicity of the UI. I also like that we can share it and use it as a team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

I dislike that I can not merge different documentation files into one (for example if I have two different API endpoints documented in two different json or yaml files and I would like to merge it and send it as one). That would be a great feature in my opinion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I avoid possible misunderstandings that happened previously with bad REST API documentations (things like excel and word). These OAS3 docs are unambiguous and we saved a lot of time in client communication. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

I like how smooth and quick the interface. I especially appreciated how easy it is to share and view other people prototypes. It's better than other competitive softwares. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

I don't really like the pricing since it's a bit expensive. Everything works pretty well but paying $99 a month for premium features is kind of expensive.I wish they would offer a discount. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

So I'm currently interning for a company and I use this interface to help me share my designs more easily. I think this have a saved me a lot of time. Definitely! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.