Stoplight Pros and Cons

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.