--- 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) ![Cesar M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Cesar M.") CM Cesar M. Solutions Architect Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/4/2025 "has been disappointing." 2.5/5 What do you like best about Stoplight? I encountered several technical issues, including bugs in the interface, inconsistencies in the visual editor, and performance problems. These made even basic tasks unreliable. More importantly, the support experience was poor. Responses were slow or unhelpful, and it felt like user feedback wasn’t being taken seriously. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Stoplight? The idea behind Stoplight is great, but the platform needs significant improvements in stability, usability, and customer support to be viable in a production workflow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you? API design and documentation tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Thiranjith W.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Thiranjith W.") TW Thiranjith W. Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 2/14/2023 "a good open api management tool" 3/5 What do you like best about Stoplight? one of the better wysiwyg tools out there for managing Open API specs across multiple team members. Good git integration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Stoplight? UI keeps breaking often (every few weeks). Some issues around synching with Git branches, and some must have team management capabilities are now hidden in the higher paid tiers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you? - collaboration between frontend and backend engineers at the time we design APIs to reduce rework - ability to mock APIs to unblock frotnend development in paralell with backend work - good documentation to help engineers understand APIs and with onboarding Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Consumer Electronics](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Consumer Electronics") UC Verified User in Consumer Electronics Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 5/13/2021 "Best API Design-First Toolset for Teams & Collaboration" 3/5 What do you like best about Stoplight? My favorite part of the Stoplight platform is the visual form-based OAS spec editor. This takes a lot of the pain out of authoring these immense JSON/YAML structured text files. The ability to reference models with a couple clicks of a mouse is quite valuable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Stoplight? The stoplight platform itself used to be more feature-rich than it currently is now... Not quite sure what happened but they have basically built the platform from scratch three times now. The pricing is unsettlingly disconnected from the value provided relative to other SaaS tools, especially for view-only users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Stoplight: Reach out to the sales team for a hands-on demonstration, they will assist you in determining the best fit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you? We use stoplight to agree on an API interface design prior to beginning implementation in software this means that each endpoint or request is basically it's own requirement artifact and can be coded to. This has reduced the amount of miscommunication/mismatch between expectation and reality when endpoints get implemented. 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-4738997/official_response/edit) Thank you for taking the time to review Stoplight Platform! We're happy to that our tools are able to help alleviate some of your top pain points when designing API specs. You may be glad to hear about feature updates that are right around the corner. Feel free to upvote any of our roadmap items that you'd like to see, or reach out at any time to discuss your needs. Thanks again! Anna Daugherty Product Marketing Manager anna@stoplight.io [See how Stoplight improved](https://roadmap.stoplight.io/tabs/8-planned) 5/16/2022 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Erik P J.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Erik P J.") EJ Erik P J. Technical Lead Manager Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/16/2022 "Good tool to visualize and mock APIs but poor user experience" 3/5 What do you like best about Stoplight? The Mock server Ability to add examples Thats it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Stoplight? Zero endpoint or model organization Unclear usages of different features (models vs requests vs responses) Description box has no formatting Searching is bad Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you? We are building our platform with an api-first mentality and having an application that lets us visualize and mock those APIs is very helpful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Internet](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Internet") TI Verified User in Internet Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/27/2022 "Stoplight is alright" 2.5/5 What do you like best about Stoplight? Best at easily documenting apis by simply importing a swagger file. Shows you where errors occur in your file. Syncs with GitHu files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Stoplight? Caching issues. Must delete Stoplight cache occasionally for things to pull from GitHub. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you? Rendering API specs on a live website Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") UC Verified User in Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/12/2021 "An easy to use API tool to design and test APIs" 3/5 What do you like best about Stoplight? It is an easy-to-use and powerful API tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Stoplight? I have had difficulty integrating github. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you? connecting git repositories and designing APIs easily Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Internet](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Internet") UI Verified User in Internet Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 5/14/2021 "I'm happy to treat swagger without using yaml or json file." 3/5 What do you like best about Stoplight? I like the best to treat swagger without using YAML or JSON file. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Stoplight? It isn't easy to fix problems that stoplight raises. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you? I solved the problems of the difficulty of hosting a page where API schemas are written. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in Financial Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Financial Services") AF Verified User in Financial Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/29/2019 "Not bad but either not great " 3/5 What do you like best about Stoplight? It is very helpful to handle multiple API version as separate project and update them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Stoplight? The organization of the element once published is not the best. For instance if you want to and some description and a data model in the same view you simply can't. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you? documentation of my API Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 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.) 1/31/2019 "stoplight review" 2.5/5 What do you like best about Stoplight? it seems to work alright. we use it as a source of truth for API definitions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Stoplight? sometimes I get lost in the draft API defs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you? cross-team API contracts. stoplight is our source of truth. 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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