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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?

It has a clean UI with a intuitive builder Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

We use swagger with YAML and stoplight lacks support for it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Faster development of API due to visual representation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

I have used for doing the prototype. Its good for prototype, looks it has lot of features but require more learning curve Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Need more understanding to use the tool, will be good if more videos are there to explain more briefly, after this survey only I came to know that this tool has many features which i even not know to use!! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

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

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Everything. It is a collaboration tool for several teams, a documentation with history, releases, convenient fields validation input. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

The only thing is that I cannot release a specific Service, but all in a project. Sometimes I have a change in one Service, and I cannot release a new version only for that Service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Good product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Contract specifications and review. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

I like how we can use the api to change endpoints when we change them. Illuminating manual work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

That in Next, you cannot have nested menu's. I also dis-like how it's linked to Github, but you can't open a PR against any page. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Stoplight:

Stick with classic until Next has more features. It is missing simple things like nested menu's and allowing some endpoints to be private. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Developer integrations and documentation. It stands out against other API docs which are built in house. However it would be great if we had more freedom over certain area's of design. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

The workspaces and the hosted docs and reloads Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

exporting OAS and having to pull out all the stoplight specific code Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Stoplight:

Ease of use, rapid API development, good looking docs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

API development. It is helpful for me to start the development architecture through the APIs at first. Very rapid API prototyping, less tooling (dont use postman at all now) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

The automatic contract testing is a great feature, git integration is really good as well. Any issues that we have flag the Stoplight team are very quick to respond, fix or provide us with a solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

no junit test output, but this could have changed since i used it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We were having an issue with are API testing, when every we changed our API and not our tests. our pipeline went red and no one would care. With Stoplight when the pipeline goes red it stops and we know exactly which test need to be changed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Stoplight allowed us to publish our API documentation in a very fast and reliable manner. Clean and understandable UI has all needed options to build API specification. It is easy to test queries straight from the browser without any external tools.

Ability to separate environments is helpful to distinct between sandbox and production.

Desktop application is a major add-on that lets to focus on tasks pipeline. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Up until now there is nothing to dislike. We really hope that in future there won’t be anything that will upset us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Beautiful and clean API documentation that serves our customers to build their very own clients for our platform. Before Stoplight we have tried a lot of tools but most of them had different limitations that did not allow us to fully serve our clients’ needs. With Stoplight we did it very fast and every side here definitely benefits. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

API Specification designer and the mock server Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Some validations on de API designer aren't working properly. I have to refresh the page to recover the validation checks. Also when referencing to a model, a green check icon looks like a button. Almost everytime I click it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Developing/Delivering faster due to the agreements in the API contract. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Ultimately the time required for developers to put together specifications, testing, and documentation has been decreased dramatically since starting to use Stoplight. Developers never like dealing with this necessary part of collaborating, but the Stoplight's UI allows us to create great OpenAPI specs make that process more standardized and consistent across the team which ultimately led to greater developer velocity as a whole. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

It's Next product is still very early on so there are still some bugs being worked out; luckily the support has been great so any issues that do pop up can usually be resolved in short order. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The attractive interactive documentation generated from OAS files have been the most helpful so far. It's allowed us to communicate to users and other developers what a service will provide, and to be able to develop in parallel against a common interface. Taking lots of service specs and merging them into a single document has been tricky in the past, Stoplight makes that easy.

The spec building process has always been a nightmare with OAS / swagger, and the UI that stoplight provides to build them is fantastic. We no longer need to go look at the OAS definition to figure out what is wrong about our spec file.

Our CI/CD pipeline has also benefitted, by adding contract testing against those specs to the process. There are a ton of tools out there that let you test your service, but Stoplight goes a step above and merges the spec and testing together to ensure that the service is responding the way that you describe it (and give feedback to the developer if that isn't true). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

I think it is the better api design app I ever tried. It is very intuitive, however the old version was way easier than "next" version. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

I think after the "next" version was released, it gets more confusing to operate the app. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

API designing. It is great for put things more visual. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.