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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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Sebastian C.
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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Easy configuration, useful integrations and traceable changes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Nothing in particular; maybe pricing is relatively high. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Stoplight is our API documentation source of truth. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

I love that it is easy to use and the interface is very smooth, we can customize the look and feel and documentation as we like. I like that it also supports different languages like Java, Python and JavaScript to generate the server files. It offers extensive reliability and polymorphism features while working with our user introspection and secure file models. It also includes key expressions that help in runtime evaluation and identify the URL to use for our callback request. The Automation API documentation for all services is very helpful for customers and developers to use to understand and get things done quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Requires an immense amount of work if any changes need to be made with the existing workflow. It is capable of generating the documents, but a new feature to convert those documents to wiki pages may add more value to this product. Each code return for the definition structure must follow a strict syntax, otherwise, it is difficult to trace errors. They need to add more features to compete with other API verification software tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Provide a list of the APIs we use in the source code on a single page so we can check the API accordingly. The API documentation makes it easy to verify all scenarios of the functionality. Help when subordinates have any problem with your project, it's very easy to track. Sort by version number if we work with existing API and its imported definitions are overwritten for files of the same version number. It is very useful to be able to design a standardized API with industry-standard guidelines and also with flexible developer options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tsahi B.
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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Simplicity - working with markdown files, automatically generating code snippets/examples for APIs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Handling of dynamic links, lack of functionality to create perma-links.

Structure (hierarchy) between projects, folders, files, groups, etc. is not clear Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Exposing clear and concise technical documentation for customers and internal stakeholders, with multiple conde-snippets, and additional documentation that makes it easier for our customers to consume and use our APIs and customer installable products/modules Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

How easy is the reusability of it. We love to fast create designs, share, validate and change in scale Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

It's difficult at the beginning, a more complex interface and we could have use some Get Started guides and clearer documentation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

- Prepare the dev team to better prepare the APIs

- Share documentation with customers

- Understand our overview strategy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Margaret W.
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What do you like best about Stoplight?

It is an open-source software platform that any person or company can use for free. I like that it has a very easy way to share API-related documents without any manual intervention, just do the coding and the document will be fetched automatically. Provides secure API by supporting token-based authentication, so it is not exposed to the outside world. It helps with automatic API documentation and is quite pluggable while testing the rest APIs. I love that it makes it easy to share or use together for collaborative projects for the team and within the group. Similar parts of the API are handled entirely by the back-end team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

When updating or creating new API entries, it is not very easy to maintain the indentation and it took more time than expected. I have seen that some of the API documentation also contains garbage characters. Creating API documentation from scratch is not very beginner friendly. Testing of the API endpoints is also missing. It should allow you to set environment variable settings so that when there is a change in the deployment server details, it just changes the variable details. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

This tool supports great functions to run the API through the UI directly, we can also see the API schema and structure. Now it's easier to keep documents in the public domain, and along with that, we can execute the request as well. It allows you to design the documents required for the created APIs so that other developers can easily consume them. All your developers can work in one place to collaborate and share APIs. Creating documentation for API endpoints for the collaborative team helps me focus on API development instead of sharing API details with a new person each time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Simple to use, share and gives a great overview of your services Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

I would like to see the pull request feature improved significantly, so that I can reason better with my coworkers about a change. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Stop has simplified our documentation process by creating a beautiful UI through which we can easily add, edit or delete resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

I love having my requests organized by project. It's pretty feature-rich with environments and variables, which makes it pretty easy to test and see how the APIs behave. Also, the user interface of the tool is quite good. We can also create a collection of APIs and we can easily download them in our system. The ability to write test scripts is a very rewarding feature. I also like that the best feature of Postman is to create an online workplace and share it with your team. I like how it saves your previous requests to the top bar as an internet browser does. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

I think it would be nice to see more color coding because it makes it easier to detect variables, inputs, input values. There is nothing I dislike about the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It is one of the best API solution platforms that allows you to monitor and test REST API endpoints. It has a very rich and friendly UI/UX, which allows users to get more features and is easy to understand for beginners. It also helps me test all my APIs and provides all errors and displays all data in different types of formats. It is an API testing tool for professionals that can be used in almost any case. It has made my life very easy and has helped me a lot and has also saved me a lot of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Stoplight makes it easy to design APIs with its easy to understand user interface, integration with various version control platforms, and support for shared libraries and team development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Using Stoplight as the public documentation portal is not fully there yet. Its not as mature in this regard as other platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Designing APIs easily and quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Stoplight is a hosted service, so I don't need to worry about hosting my API documentation.

The API Definition and documentation sync with Github, so we can maintain history and track changes across our internal tools.

Overall, the price we pay per month is way less than it'd cost us to build and maintain the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

The web UI they offer is kind of limited. While I prefer not going the whole way and developing a React app with their toolkit, I still want to control customization.

They sometimes have downtimes and rendering errors (which means the documentation pages aren't static, which they should be).

Even for paying customers, support answers within a few hours to a workday (US worktimes I think). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Stoplight:

Move the entire workflow around your API to Stoplight, don't manually sync data back and forth. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We host our public API docs on Stoplight, allowing our users to test our APIs before implementing code changes. In this scenario, the "Try Out" based on the API specs is very helpful.

When we change our API specs, we can use the convenient Web UI to make sure we don't forget anything in the YAML, model out enums and other limitations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

I like that it is user friendly and allows us to work with our clients alongside testing api calls. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

I would like it to allow for more customization and also to provide more tutorials for selfe serve Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It provides a documentation to our clients on how to best implement our api on their software Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.