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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?

I love that I don't have to worry about finding/building templates for a documentation site - I can just write my docs, and let stoplight host them! It's easy, and mostly painless. I also love how easy it is to set up the stoplight docs as a subdomain of my main site. My company's main site is codelighthouse.io, and docs.codelighthouse.io points at stoplight. It was about as easy as clicking a button. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

The only pain point for me is that my organization has commit signing required, so I'm not able to commit my docs to GitHub directly from stoplight - I have to copy/paste them and commit them manually. This probably isn't an issue for 98% of organizations, and it's not even a really big deal for mine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Stoplight is an easy win for hosting your documentation. I couldn't recommend it more! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Instead of having to deal with creating a documentation site and mess around with templates, I can just focus on writing the docs. It's been a big time saver, and stoplight also provides lots of great features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

I love how flexible the tool is. Especially with the ability to create complex docs alongside API tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

The editor can be a little confusing at times, with Open API errors appearing even with valid schemas from time to time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We required a brand new API documentation tool for our product. Stoplight ticked all the boxes with the try it out tool, as well as being able to create complex docs alongside it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

It is very easy to add new endpoints using the open XML specification. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

You have to learn markdown language in order to create the pages. For a non-developer user, this is a bit complicated Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are documenting the APIs that our clients consume. For clients is a great feature, so they have all documentation in one place. And they can test the APIs right there in their browser. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

The visual API designer console and that it directly integrates with GitHub. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

That in doesn't have integrations with backend packages to out generate backend code. It would be great to have auto generators for NestJS, ExpressJS, FastifyJS, etc. This would increase productivity by 10x. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It helps backend and frontend developers collaborate on the development having an easy and centralized source of truth for the API design Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Customer support was always really good and helpful I really like that Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Some of the last changes like the pull GitHub button it was not intuitive to find it in the first place and the platform is not that intuitive always.

The file organization when you are editing the api is really bad and different that when you share the link Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Internal team communication through a good api documentation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

The company is misleading and its better to use alt software Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

I don't have many issues with it, maybe sometimes it can get cluttered with poor user management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We use it to slim down the time we spend on design. And save time testing compared to other apps Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Prarthana S.
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What do you like best about Stoplight?

I can test my endpoints and also put a lot of details. So it serves for documentation as well as testing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

I need to update the branch every time I need to test. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Stoplight:

I think its a one stop shop for API testing and documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

A common place to keep all your documentation and its very collaborative. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

The way it gives you the ability to describe endpoints Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Sometimes there are some highlighted errors that are not easy to remove. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Great tool for designing API's Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The principal benefit is that we can share amog the team documentation and the API design before having the implementation, so we can have clear expectations on the endpoints. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Silviu T.
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What do you like best about Stoplight?

The possibility to work either high level UI-only but also to modify the raw YAML. Also, the error and warning highlights are very good, and the possibility to auto generate responses and requests from JSON is very helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Schema auto-generation can be I improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Stoplight:

It is a great tool and even for the free plan it does a perfect job for a small org. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Stoplight is used by my company to document all of our endpoints, to expose our API interfaces and to allow ur front end engineers work easier without needing to sync with any back end engineers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

The friendly interface, I used to write the open API specs using notepad so Stoplight was a great shift Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

The interface design needs some improvements in terms of colors, categories, descriptions, etc. As well to have import from

.yml feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Stoplight:

It's good to test such a tool. Writing a swagger file is not an annoying task anymore since you're able to extract it easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The most important part of it is that I was able to translate the API doc from a Word document to a fully working swagger in less than 1 hour. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.