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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?

Web interface, easy to set API standards, excellent for API first model documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Once the project is on the way and not many API changes are necessary, the monthly fees start adding up quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are working on a multi-vendor project, and the API in SToplight is the bible every partner is bound to.

The web-based system allowed all parties to work concurrently and agree on the design, all while saving time in the process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Easy and intuitive, kind of "wizard driven" way to create new OAS or maintain existing OAS definition files. Especially in combination with the spectral linter and the model repository we took a lot of advantage of it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

integrating the tool into the existing enterprise cloud infrastructure was a bit of a pain in the beginning, both from the deployment as well as from the permissioning perspective. but we got that solved after some good sessions with the stoplight support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

the tool is used during design phase to easily create/maintain OAS files. it is also used in the automized CI/CD procedures as a kind of quality gate (using the spectral rules) . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

I like this platform for its designs and easy-to-use interface that speeds up integrations and can collaboration with internal teams. I also liked the documentation; its power for creating APIs and filtering documents is very efficient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

It is a platform that is usually slow at times, but it does not detract from a good product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It's a workflow management solution that shares an easily accessible API and that we can build API for front-end design and easy to use and solve our problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Stan R.
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UX with for designing fast in studio like interface. Able to Import/Export to common standard formats. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Where is async API? . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Knowledge management in pleasure way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

I like the helpful interface that makes it easy to manage the API and integrates well with other tools like Github. The collaboration features are also great, so I can work with my team members in real-time and make changes without conflicts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

The customisation options are limited, and I want to improve the learning curve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It is a solution that benefits us by solving problems related to API documentation and design; it also monitors tests and response times to failures and identifies authentication and security problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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I like that it is an excellent tool with good documentation, and it is convenient for our team that we can work and get good ideas; besides that, the user interface is very flexible, and I liked the form edition. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Everything is going perfectly; the only thing that would be good is if the licenses were cheaper. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It is a good tool for API with documentation. Thanks to this tool, we can communicate in real time with the team during development and increase productivity by significantly improving the workflow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Stoplight is a popular API design and development platform that is known for its user-friendly interface, powerful collaboration features, and efficient workflow management. Many users appreciate its ability to streamline the development process and improve collaboration among team members. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Stoplight is a widely used platform and is overall well-received by its users. Some users have reported that the platform slow at times, but I have never faced this problem. However, these are relatively minor issues, and overall, Stoplight is considered a reliable and effective platform for API design and development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Stoplight is a platform used for API design and development. It provides various tools and features to help developers create, manage, and document APIs efficiently and effectively. There is some purposes for using Stoplight.

API Design: It provides a visual interface for designing APIs, allowing developers to create and test API endpoints, responses, and requests.

API Documentation: this makes it easy to create and manage API documentation, with features such as live API preview, interactive examples, and automatic generation of API reference documentation.

Workflow Management: Stoplight streamlines the API development process by providing a centralized platform for managing the entire API development workflow, from design to documentation.

API Testing: Stoplight includes features for testing and validating APIs, helping developers ensure their APIs' quality and functionality.

Overall, Stoplight helps developers to save time and improve their workflow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

It is straightforward to use, maintain, add new APIs, and edit old ones. The old data from any other documentation can also be quite easily migrated. Quite adaptive to use as compared to other platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Sometimes unexpected and ridiculous bugs come up in the platform though they're solved immediately. Also, the price of the paid features is relatively high. If reduced to some extent, they will definitely gain more users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Like to share the API details with the client's integration team, we can now directly share the link of the API docs at the stoplight, which provides all the details in one place only, along with customizable examples of requests and responses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ritesh M.
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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Stoplight has a very flexible product design which allows it to integrate seamlessly with other products like GitHub and Gitlab. This integration with the already existing workflows ensures that you do not change your working infrastructure after implementing Stoplight in your organization. More to creating powerful APIs, Stoplight gives one the control power over the created APIs such that you can easily share them, track any changes in them, manage their dependencies, create style guides and more with ease. It is loaded with loads of tutorials, samplee codes and detailed documentation to assist one in not just designing but designing, documenting and building very powerful APIs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

There is absolutely nothing in Stoplight that i can say is least helpful or difficult to use. Its intuitive user interface makes it effortless for one to use it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Stoplight offers us. a reliable, easy to access and use and very productive platform for designing, documenting and building APIs. With instant mock servers, it allows us to evaluate the quality of our APIs before building and releasing them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

I like that it's friendly, easy to use, and you can code without OpenAPI knowledge. I like the user interface because it's tremendous and makes collaboration much easier. Also, the various branches of the API are great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Stoplight does not need improvements because it is a solution that solves real problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It solves our problems in API management for design and front-end, and we share documentation. It also provides a quality and easy-to-use platform with which we create APIs efficiently and without problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.