Stoplight Pros and Cons

One of the standout features of Stoplight.io is its user-friendly interface, which makes it accessible to both seasoned developers and newcomers. The platform's well-designed layout allows users to effortlessly navigate through various sections, including designing APIs, defining data models, and generating comprehensive documentation.

Moreover, Stoplight.io offers a variety of tools to enhance API development. The "Design" feature facilitates the creation of API endpoints, making it convenient to model and visualize data structures using the OpenAPI Specification. Additionally, the ability to perform live API testing is a major advantage, ensuring that developers can identify and rectify issues promptly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Although Stoplight.io has an array of impressive features, there are some limitations that need to be addressed. Firstly, the platform's performance could be improved, especially when handling large API projects. While it performs admirably with small to medium-sized projects Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 is a web interface it works realtime when having other instances open. The git integration is well done and style guide validation is helping in avoiding mistakes and keep uniformity across all API design.

The perfect example of how software should be. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I've not come across real items I dislike. The only thing that could be really benefitial would be the option to have a so called API developer portal. A way to catalogue available API of the business and to mock them for users that don't count in the 'user' count. Another thing is the enormous price gap for the pro version. I could see this also as a pro because it means the most important features are available for a reasonable price, but rather would see the ability to select seperate features from the pro version without the need to completely move to the pro and paying the pro price. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Structuring and documenting all the features of your API are very easy with Spotlight! It helps you create a scalable and easy to export OpenAPI specs which is very useful and structured! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It lacks bulk editing tools, which can make things slightly manual, but if you're familiar with json/yaml then you can be more efficient! The publish feature can be slightly better with more context into what all is changing within the API docs for better visibility! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

First of all it looks like modern tools about the UX - it's really user-friendly and you can do everything without reading tons of documentation. You just open the page and start creating your API models and endpoints.

About possibilities it offers - you can create an endpoint with all needed parameters which some of them can be linked schemas created aside in the same UI. Entities can have its own children also linked from other schemas. There is also an export straight to YAML/JSON for external use. I like the versioning and email notifications with recent changes after publishing. I hope Stoplight will be continuosly growing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't see any significant cons of the product. Maybe it could be less expensive or free for internal projects (special license), but the cost it's not something horrible. Maybe it could have some more generated/automated things based on AI for an instance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Create visual APIs using Stoplight Studio

- Allows to generate documentation in many formats

- Provides mock API URL using which we can test the APIs

- Provides features like API gateway

- Connects with Github so we can manage API design using CI/CD. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Costing is the major concern. Its professional plan that our company is using is costing us roughly $500 every month.

- It has limited integration with existing tools and services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

A step above other API platforms, Stoplight has rich collaboration integrated with task management systems, Slack, etc., that lets us contextually leave comments for each other and discuss the API surface Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

If I had to pick something, it took a bit of time getting used to how to use it - switching between the code view and the textual view. But not a showstopper at all. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its integration with GitHub and its out of the box style guides. Developers and Designers, even non techie people were able to quickly pick up API prototyping using Stoplight. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The cost of viewers licenses itself is too expensive. Its almost similar with maker license cost where it should have been under half of the maker license cost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like many of the features that the build API usually provides, the visual editor, and that you can work with the test server, and it's easy to build APIs with specs. I also liked the mock server because it's easy to understand and very useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like most of its features and don't see any drawbacks or at least something that affects its performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Stoplight provides a project-based experience for collecting both Open API Specifications and Markdown documentation and arranging them to create a compelling yet simple API documentation experience. All projects can be organized into permission groups for all levels of access including, private, internal, partner/guest, and public. It enables centralized search across all assets and projects from the root, enabling a very compelling enterprise experience that provides awareness and discovery for different members of the organization to search broadly against dozens or hundreds of Open API specifications and documentation. On top of that Stoplight provides high-fidelity web components to integrate certain projects or the entire portal experience customized inside your own web application. The addition of integrated and self-published open source projects like spectral and prism into their platform add layers of style guide governance that are now the industry standard which they pretty much invented. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While Stoplight has many compelling features around API Documentation and Discovery, it struggles mostly with API Design workflow. A local Studio and Web-based Studio provide great Open API editing experience but lack capabilities around the lifecycle, versioning, and promotion of those assets. Given the young age of Stoplight, I expect these lifecycle maturities will be available over time but can pose large concerns for organizations that require this level of complexity. Additional advanced usages of Open API design at the enterprise include reusable models and schemas, which are not provided in Stoplight today. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Stoplight is probably the prettiest and most well-rounded/polished OpenAPI-centric API development tool that is available. Other tools feel a bit more like "tools" rather than software, and miss on the translation between WYSIWYG design and validation of the resulting OpenAPI spec. Stoplight does a good job translating between the two and has good UI/UX. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some things are not quite polished. The proposal feature can be confusing/cumbersome to use. Also, Stoplight does not go beyond the OpenAPI spec, which I can understand, but there is opportunity for improvement in that respect. For example, Stoplight does not support the HTTP QUERY method, which is not officially in the OpenAPI spec yet, but other tools like Postman do support it anyway. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.