--- 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) ![Shaunak P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Shaunak P.") SP Shaunak P. Technical Project Manager Computer Software Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/8/2023 "A great platform to manage APIs" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Stoplight? - 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. What do you dislike about Stoplight? - 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. What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you? - Designing APIs and managing them - Documentation for the APIs - Testing the designed APIs - Helps securing the APIs as it provides features like API key management, OAuth 2.0 support, and rate limiting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Travis G.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Travis G.") TG Travis G. Principal Software Engineer, Developer Experience Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 2/9/2023 "Stoplight provides first class Enterprise API Documentation with an up and coming design experience." 4/5 What do you like best about Stoplight? 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. What do you dislike about Stoplight? 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. What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you? Stoplight provides an organizational API Documentation Portal to centralize awareness and discovery of hundreds of APIs both internally and externally. It is used to integrate with custom external web front-ends to provide a great user experience to those consuming our API documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller 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.) 5/4/2023 "Solid API management tool for teams, with some room for improvement" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Stoplight? 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. What do you dislike about Stoplight? 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. What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you? Stoplight is providing a centralized location for reviewing and updating the documentation of our monolithic API providing for development process and quality assurance validation of intended use cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Evgenii P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Evgenii P.") EP Evgenii P. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 2/7/2023 "Great exprience" 4/5 What do you like best about Stoplight? Stoplight.io has been a fantastic asset for my team in terms of quickly designing APIs. The platform's intuitive interface and full support for specifications made it easy for us to create and manage API specifications, saving us time and effort. What's more, Stoplight.io's real-time collaboration feature was a game-changer for us, as it allowed us to easily work with our client's team and make decisions quickly. Overall, we found Stoplight.io to be a highly helpful and efficient platform for API design and documentation. The visual editor for OpenAPI and JSON Schema is a standout feature, simplifying the process and allowing for a seamless experience. We highly recommend Stoplight.io for anyone looking for a comprehensive and user-friendly solution for API design and documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Stoplight? Some users may find the cost of the premium features to be on the higher side compared to other similar tools. Additionally, some users have reported difficulties with the integration of external tools, which can impact the overall efficiency of the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you? Stoplight.io has been a fantastic asset for my team in terms of quickly designing APIs. The platform's intuitive interface and full support for specifications made it easy for us to create and manage API specifications, saving us time and effort. What's more, Stoplight.io's real-time collaboration feature was a game-changer for us, as it allowed us to easily work with our client's team and make decisions quickly. Overall, we found Stoplight.io to be a highly helpful and efficient platform for API design and documentation. The visual editor for OpenAPI and JSON Schema is a standout feature, simplifying the process and allowing for a seamless experience. We highly recommend Stoplight.io for anyone looking for a comprehensive and user-friendly solution for API design and documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Nir V.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Nir V.") NV Nir V. DevOps Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 5/4/2023 "Great product to design your api" 4/5 What do you like best about Stoplight? When you are using the web saas solution you got everything you need in one place! if its the documentation, the design and even the mocking. The eay to write the style is very easy from the UI Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Stoplight? There is some few stuff i would like to see, tho i know they working on it. For example a new project from my own template. Will be happy to see the desktop application login with SSO. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you? Design the API first, before the software engineers started to code any line. The mocking of the response and the documentation itself. And especially linting all the standards with our rules Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Hank B.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Hank B.") HB Hank B. CTO Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 2/7/2023 "Not bad for the free version - some minor issues" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Stoplight? Stoplight does a really good job of creating a compliant Open API specs. The UI does a good integration with Github and its pretty easy to visualize your API documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Stoplight? The UI can be clunky a bit - especially when you are first learning about the "gotchas". For example, I've created endpoints in the UI, and the underlying spec document will automatically add fields, leave them blank, and then tell you "Hey you have a blank field and that's not allowed". I've had to manually edit the raw doc to clean these up. For the free version for sure its worth it though. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you? Documentation and some design. We are not yet good enough on the team to be updating the docs automatically by the dev, but hopefully we will get there eventually. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite VS Volker S. Subject Matter Expert EAI & API Technologies Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 5/8/2023 "Fairly intuitive tool to manage OAS for both developers and non-developers" 4/5 What do you like best about Stoplight? Easy and intuitive, kind of "wizard driven" way to create new OAS or maintain existing OAS definition files. Especially in combination with the spectral linter and the model repository we took a lot of advantage of it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Stoplight? integrating the tool into the existing enterprise cloud infrastructure was a bit of a pain in the beginning, both from the deployment as well as from the permissioning perspective. but we got that solved after some good sessions with the stoplight support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you? the tool is used during design phase to easily create/maintain OAS files. it is also used in the automized CI/CD procedures as a kind of quality gate (using the spectral rules) . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 2/2/2026 Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Maninder S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Maninder S.") MS Maninder S. Software Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 2/7/2023 "A Balanced, Easy to use & Maintain Documentation Platform - Stoplight" 4/5 What do you like best about Stoplight? It is straightforward to use, maintain, add new APIs, and edit old ones. The old data from any other documentation can also be quite easily migrated. Quite adaptive to use as compared to other platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Stoplight? Sometimes unexpected and ridiculous bugs come up in the platform though they're solved immediately. Also, the price of the paid features is relatively high. If reduced to some extent, they will definitely gain more users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you? Like to share the API details with the client's integration team, we can now directly share the link of the API docs at the stoplight, which provides all the details in one place only, along with customizable examples of requests and responses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Michael L.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Michael L.") ML Michael L. Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/15/2023 "good documentation and instructions" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Stoplight? I was able to get Stoplight working with Studio in minutes. preview was awesome Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Stoplight? The Model (examples) are useless. They don't show up anywhere and don't work Hints to tell you what you did wrong and how to correct it, instead of it's wrong Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you? Centralized documentation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Karthikeyan J.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Karthikeyan J.") KJ Karthikeyan J. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 2/8/2023 "Great to quickly design and document APIs" 4/5 What do you like best about Stoplight? - Easy and intuitive OpenAPI documentation and collaboration - Deep integration with Git - Built for and built by developers (great support for markdowns, mermaid scripts) - Ability to customize developer document layouts Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Stoplight? - The layouts are not the most aesthetic to look compared to other vendors - limited readily available components to build great developer experience - Would feel sluggish at times (esp when updating mermaid diagrams) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you? Stoplight helps us to design and document our APIs. It is the primary platform that our customers use to refer our APIs for integration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ## 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. 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