--- title: Stoplight Reviews meta\_title: 'Stoplight Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 343 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Stoplight works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.4 review\_count: 343 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Development url: https://www.g2.com/categories/development --- ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![MuleSoft Anypoint Platform](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "MuleSoft Anypoint Platform") MuleSoft Anypoint Platform 4.5/5(775) ](https://www.g2.com/products/mulesoft-anypoint-platform/reviews) [ ![Postman](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Postman") Postman 4.6/5(1,800) ](https://www.g2.com/products/postman/reviews) [ ![Kong Konnect](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Kong Konnect") Kong Konnect 4.4/5(327) ](https://www.g2.com/products/kong-inc-kong-konnect/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/stoplight/competitors/alternatives) # Stoplight Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by Stoplight but has limited features. Are you part of the Stoplight team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! 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. * * * Seller [SmartBear](https://www.g2.com/sellers/smartbear) Discussions [Stoplight Community](https://www.g2.com/products/stoplight/discuss) Languages Supported English Solution Type Best-of-Breed Overview by Ann Boyd Show More ## Typical Contract Price Pricing provided by BetterCloud and others. $$k - $$k Per Year [Log in to unlock pricing](/auth/linkedin?return_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.g2.com%2Fproducts%2Fstoplight%2Freviews%3Ffilters%255Bnps_score%255D%255B%255D%3D2) ## User Insights Average based on 343 real user reviews. Implementation Time 2 months Perceived Cost $$$$$ Typical contract price $0k - $0k [Sign in to view](/login) Per Year [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Amelia B.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Amelia B.") AB Amelia B. Software Engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/16/2022 "Stoplight is difficult to use, buggy" 1.5/5 What do you like best about Stoplight? Not much, it gets the job done (kind of) but it should be a much better product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Stoplight? - unclear relationship between yml and form (sometimes these do not match up, variables that are in the yml are not in the form) - editing the yml is really hard to do correctly - the recently redesign is very poorly received by customers, we get lots of complaints about this by people using our product - the front end code of stoplight is not efficient enough to support most API calls in the try it out block - version history/version control should be more obvious/easier Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you? We use stoplight to host our API docs. I wish we used something else that was based on our code or didn't involve so much manual work to maintain, and one that was easier to use and our customers liked better than stoplight. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Hospital & Health Care](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Hospital & Health Care") UH Verified User in Hospital & Health Care Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/28/2019 "Experimental vs Robust" 1.5/5 What do you like best about Stoplight? Design and mock APIs at ease. There are many features of this product ranging from design, testing, documenting, and publishing that makes it appealing to many API designers who need to communicate all aspects of evolving an API product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Stoplight? Design view can be presented better. I like the Read-only view but sometimes when toggling from Read to Design mode, the API endpoints are not grouped in the same way as the Read view so it makes it harder to find the correct endpoint to edit, especially when you have more than 40 endpoints in the view. There are 3 versions of Stoplight as they have gone through several iterations of the product. For production quality usage, please use Stoplight Next as it is more stable. Stoplight Studio is their beta product and it lacks a lot of functionality that Stoplight Next has. The latest 3rd version they are currently promoting is Stoplight Platform, which I believe it is the next thing going forward. I haven't used it yet so I'm unable to give any review/recommendation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Stoplight: Recommended for users who care about sharing their API design blueprints with publishing features. Stoplight is best if teams believe in designing API first before implementation. Some engineers prefer to annotate their API documentation within source code as a quick way of "skipping" the design aspect or interfacing with non-developers. While this approach is convenient, it is tightly coupled to source code and cannot be portable when a different language is chosen in the foreseeable future or if APIs are implemented in different languages (hybrid microservices architecture). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you? Ability to turn initial concepts of an API design into actual implementation is key. Saving valuable time on the implementation because by the time the design is finalized and tested against mocked data, the actual implementation is very close to what it was designed. Plus, you get documentation from designing it in Stoplight almost naturally! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Response from Anna Daugherty of Stoplight [Editedit](https://www.g2.com/survey_responses/stoplight-review-1660157/official_response/edit) Thank you for taking the time to leave this thoughtful review. You'll be happy to know that in the past year we've implemented a series of improvements and features across the Stoplight Platform. We'd love if you have a few moments to check them out to see if they've changed your mind! Or feel free to vote on your most desirable features on our roadmap. Thanks again, Anna Daugherty Product Marketing Manager anna@stoplight.io [See how Stoplight improved](https://roadmap.stoplight.io/tabs/7-under-consideration) 6/27/2020 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") II Verified User in Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/28/2019 "Great result, but not very intuitive authoring experience" 2/5 What do you like best about Stoplight? I love how the end product looks and the try it out functionality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Stoplight? It's a shame that we aren't hosting the docs ourselves, so we're missing out on any SEO data we could be gathering. This is also one of the most difficult tools I've ever used in terms of authoring experience in my 10+ years as a technical writer. If I have to change something that resides in an existing module, I have no way of knowing where it's being reused throughout the docs, so I have to click through every page to make sure that the change I just made isn't providing incorrect information on a different page. It takes a LOT of trial and error for a new user to figure out where the page components live (like where to change the title, etc.) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Stoplight: Do some research to figure out HOW your developers are using your docs before making a decision. We thought that the "try it out" functionality was the bees knees, when in reality, it's difficult for the developers to find, and they weren't really using it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you? I think our end users really like the look and feel of our API docs that we've created using stoplight. Doing our own research though, we've come to realize that our developers struggle to find the Try it out functionality and that 9/10 they're more likely to just copy/paste the code and run it on their own. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Response from Anna Daugherty of Stoplight [Editedit](https://www.g2.com/survey_responses/stoplight-review-1659917/official_response/edit) Thank you for the excellent feedback. It's been a little while, so I wanted to update you about an exciting new open source documentation tool called Elements. Embed OpenAPI documentation wherever you want using web components. Elements is currently in beta, but you're more than welcome to try it out now and see if it helps with some of your docs needs and pain points. https://github.com/stoplightio/elements If you have any questions or feedback, feel free to leave it on our roadmap! Thanks again, Anna Daugherty Product Marketing Manager anna@stoplight.io [See how Stoplight improved](https://roadmap.stoplight.io/tabs/7-under-consideration) Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in Education Management](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Education Management") UE Verified User in Education Management Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/29/2019 "NWEA Using Stoplight" 2/5 What do you like best about Stoplight? The Ui makes it east to edit API's. Previously we were editing API specs via yaml files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Stoplight? Poor integration with source control. Keeping the spec up to date is a manual process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you? Managing API contracts Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in E-Learning](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in E-Learning") UE Verified User in E-Learning Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/28/2019 "Meh" 1.5/5 What do you like best about Stoplight? I like the ability to create draft API before they become the real thing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Stoplight? I dislike the lack of "pull requests" before draft API becoming real APIs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you? A central location for API documentation. It greatly supports multi-team collaboration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ## Questions about Stoplight? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. [ Ask about Stoplight ](https://www.g2.com/products/stoplight/discussions/new) ![Olivia S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Olivia S.") OS Olivia Sarr Mathews • Last activity about 4 years ago Which is the best method of splitting OpenAPIs ? 1 Upvote 1 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-is-the-best-method-of-splitting-openapis) GU Guest User What is Stoplight used for? 0 Upvotes 0 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-stoplight-used-for) [ View all Discussions ](https://www.g2.com/products/stoplight/discuss) ## Pricing Insights Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 2 months ### Return on Investment 14 months ### Average Discount 10% ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/stoplight/pricing) ## How much does Stoplight cost? Data powered by [BetterCloud](https://www.bettercloud.com). Estimated Price ### $$k - $$k Per Year Based on data from 4 purchases. 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