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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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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.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
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"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?

GUI helps me help in the API design and management process without knowing how to write JSON/YAML. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

It can be a litttle buggy, but only in unimportant ways. I've found the team to be responsive and eager to help. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Makes it easier to get developer feedback on our api before we launch application changes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

It's OpenAPI first and standards compliant. Don't need to install locally. Great for developing and prototyping APIs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Integration with GitLab is a bit confusing. It's not clear when it's saving locally and when committing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Quickly design and prototype API and use the spec in FastAPI Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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It was easy to set up and get started. The Try it Now is a great option Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Had issues with CORS configuration, but finally got it working Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Easy to use and powerful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

API documentation to share with many teams Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Versatility (support for both REST API documentation and articles for other types) and nice design. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

No versioning support. Slow web editor for larger files. Uploaded pictures don't show up unless you connect your project to GitHub repository. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Writing documentation for different kinds of APIs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

They keep up to date on the latest API trends (e.g., OpenAPI 3.1) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Sometimes buggy, but the development team has been helpful and responsive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Stoplight helps pull non-technical people into the design and documentation stages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Ease of designing Swagger. Very good for API first approach implementations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Minor technical glitches in source code synchronization.

Few usability concerns. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

API first approach implementation. We are enabling business users to define the API specification easily. Discussion over the Spec becomes easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Just focus on writing content and dont bother about page management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

No support for css and JS customization for pages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Writing developer docs and API references for our customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Studio is great. Layout is extremely easy to master. It feels like you are using Studio Desktop. Linting is great. The usage of Spectral is awesome. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

It seems that a lot of functionality that should be in the product is not. Look at the roadmap they provide.

Only a subset of OpenAPI 3.1 is supported with most likely no plans to support the entire spec. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Quicker development. Ease of maintaining API documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

This tool is super easy to use and the interface of the tool is simple. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

I would like that API docs are more customizable, so we can use it as a first tool for documenting our public API Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Stoplight:

If you are looking for an easy tool, choose Stoplight. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

With Stoplight, we are able to allow users using our demo API. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

The seamless UI of stoplight and the flow with which we can operate the same Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

One thing I hate the most is sometimes the changes that we make somehow disappear automatically Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Decent platform, simple UI for a complicated task of API documentation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Major problem of documentation of APIs and storing them in a single location Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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