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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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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
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Tonnie K.
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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?

The possibility to create API documentation with AOS and markdown. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Its a little bit expensive if you need just a documentation tools like it´s in my case. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Just try it using the trial time. Every tools match some needs. You should evaluate this by yourself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

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

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

It is very helpful to handle multiple API version as separate project and update them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

The organization of the element once published is not the best. For instance if you want to and some description and a data model in the same view you simply can't. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

documentation of my API Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

I like the phases in the publishing process: so be able to edit, save, but not publish if it is not finished.

I like the extensive options in the editor - I still haven't found a use case that is not supported. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

I don't like it that it seems a little bit too strict - so I don't know how to define freestyle web-socket communication. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We have documented an API for a SAS solution, and our clients can access it directly and have it always up-to-date Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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User experience is just the best thing, they managed to make it very simple Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Tough time with in-build http request service, either i didn't configure it right or straight it wont work for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Api management is way easier with Stoplight, everything is right there , documented. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

The presentation is very clear, easy to setup and the final design is great to provide confidence and great understanding of our funtions and services Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

The fact that we have to import by hand all code from our Symfony API Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Go and Try! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Looking pro to our partners and customers = better understanding of all the functions described in our documentation for our services = better connexion to our API = faster development for our partners and clients = cost controled Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Provides options to define API Specifications. Provides an option to define and run automated tests. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

The user interface is a bit clunky and keeps crashing when we switch between tabs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Leveraging a tool for defining API specifications for building APIs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

The ability for us to quickly build out our internal API documentation for developer consumption. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Sometimes the UI can be slightly buggy (especially when adding nested pages). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We now have an efficient and reliable method of distributing API documentation throughout our development team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Creating beautiful API documentation can take an enormous amount of time and StopLight made the entire process incredibly easy. Simple to use and great support from their team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Nothing to dislike. I only used their 'Hosted Docs' Platform'. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We were looking for a few tools that allowed us to build and host our API documentation. I had heard amazing things about StopLight and it did not disappoint. The vast-array of features have allowed us to create a delightful experience for our users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Allows you to stub out a API. Share APIs with coworkers and customers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Text section could be more wiki like and easier to use. It difficult to make product level external docs with it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Sharing an API spec Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

The search option provided in order to filter ressources' results Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

The desktop App is not easy to find

A simplified way to include new swagger files / project could benefit the user friendliness of the tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Just try it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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