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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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Ruslan K.
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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Very easy, intuitive UI. 95% of the features that openAPI has can be edited via stoplight, and integration with GIT is also very handy. Also, a big advantage is the possibility of editing it with your colleagues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

It has sudden downtimes, and it is very frightening, especially if you host your openAPi not on git but in Stoplight. Sometimes it gets lost connection with git, and you need to reconnect it... So it for sure needs more stability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Create API structure and docs and share it with others. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Stoplight gives a powerful interface for creating customer-facing API docs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Some interface features are not intuitive and take several minutes of fiddling to understand fully. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We use Stoplight to document our REST API and publicly share professional-looking documentation with our customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

1. Clear focus on product

2. Adherence to OpenAPI standards, making it easy to port

3. Feature-rich try it out section Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

1. Data import from other products is not straightforward Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Solving the problem of client-facing API design and documentation. Benefits immensely. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Andrew M.
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What do you like best about Stoplight?

The site looks fantastic, and having the options of switching to a GUI/Form instead of a JSON hash is so nice. It makes simple tasks simpler.

The feel of Stoplight is exactly what we wanted for our documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

The worst part is trying to get support. The support system feels like you're needlessly jumping through hoops. You have to generate a separate login to the support site. Feels very bad, especially if you don't keep the login information around. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It has Github integration so we can check in our API specs and use it to validate requests. It also hosts all the documentation in a nice UI saving us the trouble of reading our specs and making our own website to show documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

The validations when design is in process. It's great to have an additional tool to identify how to acomplish best practices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

The number of users per license. I think could improve the number of credentials. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Helps to improve Quality in design Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nicklas J.
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What do you like best about Stoplight?

I personally like the mock server capabilities most, while a colleague of mine appreciated the UI as a way to write Open API documents without knowing the YAML or JSON syntax. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

I would love to be able to configure mock server responses based on query parameters. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I'm primarily using the mock server capabilities to separate the development of client (mobile) applications from the development of the backend application. This has increased my productivity, and by extension the productivity of my team, tremendously. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

No learning curve, easy to create openapi specs.

Their prism testserver is really good to work with so it's easy to get up and running with a mock API very fast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

The UI is still a conflated.

It might be nice to integrate with openapitools so clients and servers can be part of an integral experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Working with multiple people of different skill levels on an API spec without needing additional tooling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shrikrishna P.
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What do you like best about Stoplight?

It helped me and my team in the creation of the API. The visual editor is the best feature of this application. It simplified my process in API management and creation. It helps in the creation of API documentation as well Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

I personally feel that the pricing of this software is a bit high compared to other software and sometimes validating JSON can be difficult on this platform. Also UI could have been better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It helped me in managing my APIs and by helping me in the creation of detailed documentation on them as well. it could have been a bit less costly so that organizations like us could use it in our initial stages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

You don't need to install something, it just works out of the box as a web app - and you don't need to keep the API file in your primary repository.

I'm happy with grouping the entities by tags - a feature that other tools can't offer - usually, endpoints are grouped by path segments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

If you have many endpoints, as I do, and the app is in design (edit) mode - it's not easy to find the endpoint because you have no access to tags. They are simply grouped by the path. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I store our API documentation in OpenAPI format in Stoplight.

You can also generate an API definition from the JSON file you have - very useful when creating documentation for existing endpoints. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

I like the user interface the documentation that is very complete. Stoplight has been a very useful and easy-to-understand tool and is OpenAPI compliant. I like the different development branches and the API and its Yaml filter. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Only small bugs. But nothing serious so far. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It's great that this tool helps us a lot among our team, and the workflow has been improving for collaborative API development and design, allowing us to stay organised. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.