--- 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: '2026-07-17' parent_category: name: Development url: https://www.g2.com/categories/development --- # Stoplight Reviews **Vendor:** SmartBear **Category:** [API Documentation Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/api-documentation-management) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 343 ## About Stoplight 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. ## Stoplight Pros & Cons **What users dislike:** - Users find the **app crashes** of Stoplight problematic, highlighting the need for better stability and support. (1 reviews) - Users find significant **compatibility issues** with Stoplight, affecting stability and usability in production workflows. (1 reviews) - Users find the **performance issues** of Stoplight hinder its usability and stability in production workflows. (1 reviews) - Users find the **customer support lacking** , hindering their ability to effectively utilize Stoplight in workflows. (1 reviews) ## Stoplight Reviews ### 1. It's one of the best tools for documenting APIs. Very easy to use. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 01, 2022 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** The warnings list to complete the OpenAPI schema. There are a lot of great features: reusable objects, automatic example completion based on the models' definition, the mock server, etc... But the warning system is one of the best things. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** There are some bugs: sometimes you create or edit Models and the changes are not reflected until you reload the page. Besides that, it's a good service. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** We're using Stoplight to generate our OpenAPI schemas and export them to different tools. It's easier for us to use the schema in other places, but creating them... It's just better to use Stoplight. ### 2. Great UI for configuring open API **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 01, 2022 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** The UI is very easy to use for API configuration. Error reporting is intuitive and well-designed. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** I'd like an option to convert open API 3.0 to 3.1 etc... If that option exists I haven't been able to find it. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have a custom display for our documentation for users, so I don't use that bit from stoplight, but the open API JSON spec is a bit intimidating (lots available to config) and I love being able to jump back and forth between the form UI and JSON editor. It's helped me connect the dots between configurable options and the JSON spec ### 3. Awesome API Administration **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Meenu A. | QA Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 09, 2022 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** With the help of Stoplight, we can create APIs directly in a quick manner by just entering Endpoint, Authorisation, Input and External Parameters. With the help of this we can prevent the bugs in a very early stage. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** Except for higher pricing, there are not many things that anyone can dislike. Still if you face any issue the customer care team is very responsive to fix the issue. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are able to design API quickly. Client support is very good.We are able to provide documentation to diffrent teams in very easy way.We can control the User access of the API according to there User Roles. ### 4. Great easy to read tool for API users **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Samuel B. | Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 22, 2022 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** I like it because its easy o use and friendly, it has a lot of great features and I love the ease of use and relaibility. But what I like the most is that we can test an debug our APIs internally with other teams and its great for testing. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** This product is very good and there are no errors at the moment there is nothing to say. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** For now it is used and works quite well which is a great advantage we can develop APIs and work on different projects and the rest works fine. ### 5. Very good tool with friendly features for API documents **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** James M. | Fullstack Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2022 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** I liked Stopligth because it is an elegant product for complete API lifecycle management, I liked the document creation and ability to broadcast to external members, it is easy to use and generates OpenAPI definitions and new ones can be copied and pasted code specifications, it is really excellent. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** It is a good tool but it would be useful to add new updates for some bugs that you get in the simulation. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** This tool is good enough for us, we have seen a huge impact on our development team, and it has been great for full API lifecycle management. ### 6. Finally one tool to do it all! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Toby B. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 07, 2023 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** I really like the fact I can work on all aspects of the API design and governance within one application. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** It has been a bit buggy recently but they are always happy to help and roll out fixes pretty fast! **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** Enforcing standards and unifying our design first approach ### 7. Ticks all the boxes **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sameer K. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 07, 2023 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** It covers all the features which will be needed from an API documentation tool. That led us to decide on using Stoplight **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** Pricing Flexibility could be enhanced, if possible **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** Clear view of all the published APIs and can be used by internal as well as external users ### 8. Stoplight Assessment **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** ÁLVARO M. | Junior Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 01, 2022 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** I have tried both Stoplight and Swagger, and I really like the way Stoplight shows the errors you have in the API specification. I will continue using this tool. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** It doesn't have advantages, so to speak, but for example, I like the interface of the Swagger tool more. This interface does indeed have more utilities, but it is not as simple. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was working on the API specification of a backend created in Spring. I have realized that it has benefits such as notifying you of the errors in the specification. ### 9. Simple and easy to know app **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vsevolod F. | System Analyst, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 19, 2022 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** Stoplight is a very simple app for decribing API. The best thing is that many people can work on one project and the amount of projects can be more that 1. When you're developing API it's good to see form API and code because it helps you avoid mistakes **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** Sometimes I have promlems with publishing? especially when there are some works with developing Stoplight **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** You can easily and fast develop an API for your product without any experience. Also schemas help you edit your API very fast, especially when product requirements changing ### 10. Good site for API documentation and collaborating with team **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rakesh M. | lead engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 02, 2022 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** I like its very nice UI interface to document the API specification and possibility to export swagger file **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** It would be nice if the pricing plan has a bit more flexibility on the cost side. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** Documenting our APIs is one we solved, and it benefits us to share the API contracts easily ### 11. Stoplight is a good tool for creating API documentation **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Traci P. | Developer Documentation Specialist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 23, 2022 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** I like that Stoplight is integrated with GitHub. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** I had an issue trying to change my user name in Stoplight. It was a long process because I couldn't connect using the email address I wanted. It seems everything I tried to get rid of the old email address did not work. My team and I finally figured it out but we had to resolve the issue ourselves. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** Stoplight allows us to gate or control who sees our documentation. This is a great feature for Beta documentation. ### 12. Beautiful and easy to use interface **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brett R. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 09, 2023 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** Stoplight has a great user interface that is easy to use to build out API's and displays in a beautiful, minimally branded manner. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** The UI for API grouping and versioning could be improved. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sharing API specs with clients ### 13. The fastest APIs building platform in the universe **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Julie W. | Software Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 10, 2022 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** Working with Stoplight as a developer has been one of the most stimulating experience in my career. My team has developed powerful and suitable models that have upgraded the state of applications in the organization. Creation of interactive dashboards and effective report creation tools has been productive. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** The main set goals have been achieved effectively. The recorded ROI has been positive since we deployed this platform. I have no regret from any performance outcomes since we have attained great results. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** Designing suitable and high performing APIs was great challenge before we deployed this software. I have innovated many productive data models that have integrated effectively with the rest of applications. Documentation system has improved and team collaboration is ever productive. Stoplight has powerful upgrading systems that enhances compliance. ### 14. Awesome tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 13, 2021 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** The Interface is very user-friendly for a technical and non-technical person. The component and tutorials are very helpful. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** The user access control through the projects it's not scalable for big platforms requiring manual action. The APIs not accepted automation of the process what dificult everything. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** We can provide better visibility about existing and future APIs. We are saving a lot of time and money with training sessions because the platform allows us to document all the topics covered in the sessions. ### 15. Easy to use application to manage the API without any problem **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Miran A. | Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2022 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** I like Stoplight because it is an application to easily manage the documentation of our API and it is amazing, I also liked the user interface, it makes it very easy to use because it became familiar to us. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** I have no problem with this tool. It is very good everything has worked very well. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** A stoplight is software that allows us to quickly create documentation and then add it, it is the only source of information for our API documentation. ### 16. Good, but needs improvement **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 18, 2022 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** -Can render specs from github (can link to github account). Changes with github can be in sync. -Interface is easy to use (can learn without a manual). -Has request runner for testing API endpoints when specs are live on a website. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** -Can't choose the URL for the webpages that are rendered. Would like control over URL so can make them human readable. -Caching issues. Must delete Stoplight cache occasionally so changes can be pulled from github. -The webhook (to pull changes from github) must be manually triggered sometimes. You must do this when changes from github aren't showing up when you expect them to. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** Needed to document API specs for the PUBLIC. Needed a content management system. ### 17. Comprehensive tool for APIs design ,testing and documentation. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rodger C. | Information Security specialist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 18, 2022 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** Stoplight is an excellent tool that enables us to creat Rest APIs and their documentation.Intergration with GitHub was a great milestone. I like the visual way to create , update and delete our APIs and able to test them using stoplight application. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** Stoplight has been running very well since installation. We are able to creat and test our APIs very well. It's have enables us to speed the development of our applications. No dislike at the moment. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** Stoplight has enables us to have different workplace for our teams and aslo able to give read only access. It's have a very clean user interface that is easy to use. I like also the well built dashboards. ### 18. Fantastic platform. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 26, 2022 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** Awesome API design features, learn while you design your APIs, great markdown features, style guides customization, and great integrations such as github e localize. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** Minor bugs such as localize integration not working properly (sometimes we must reload a page to make it work) and the search bar could have customizable rulesets. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** We need to document and design APIs. Stoplight provides a plug-and-play documentation portal that can also be consumed in as elements in a customized front-end project. ### 19. Nice application, simple to learn and understand with zero flaws. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cynthia C. | IT Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 19, 2022 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** Nice options like visual customization and very useful. Clean user interface and the visual editor makes it easy to set up the docs. Great and best support team, they will always find a solution for each and every single problem occurs. It is perfect and convenient for creating and sharing APIs. By just sharing a simple url, APIs can be created directly on the web. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** Unfortunately or fortunately, i does not have any flaws. Stoplight is complete, advanced and very helpful. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** Spotlight was extremely easy to understand and write a documentation. Has a very intuitive interface and offers a lot of features. Easy and fast to deploy. Robust and helpful support team. ### 20. Stoplight Studio is good, the web experience needs more development **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 01, 2022 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** I find it really useful to be able to get feedback on the REST API as I am putting together a definition. I am not familiar with the DSL of Open API to the point where I could write correct OpenAPI from the start so I require linting tools. That is why I have used stoplight. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** The most difficult thing for me to do on web was to bulk edit documents and then save them. I almost stopped using spotlight because it was not clear to me that the preferred tool is spotlight studio. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows me to draft OpenAPI documents and preview them. That's all I need in an open API tool. ### 21. Build simple and customizable application interface **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Austin S. | Customer Service Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 22, 2022 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** Stoplight has provided best tools for programming and designing reliable user interface. The IT team has developed effective customer engagement AI that has attracted potential clients to the business. The secure platform has enhanced compliance from all workflow processes. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** All the tools have effectively integrated with current applications. I have no complain from the performance since it has been operating excellently. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have been able to built modern and complete API designs that fit the company demands. It gives new customers visiting our websites guidelines on how to get information quickly. The time taken for designing new tools is less with more powerful designs as compared to other tools. ### 22. Stoplight **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Market Research | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 18, 2022 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** The support team is amazing! They are quick to reply and super helpful. If you have an issue they will work with you to resolve it. Did I am mention they are very kind and patient? I love that it's really simple to get started by using markdown. Our customers love the new default styles and it just works out of the box. The best part is that it supports OAS for API documentation. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** I wish there was a to review my changes before publishing them from the web app. One great feature is git but it feels difficult to access and use. The mock serve is another useful feature but there is no way to disable it. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** Stoplight solves the API documentation problem. It is easy to use and accessible. We love that it integrates with GitHub allowing us to make documentation a part of our process. ### 23. Stoplight review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mike K. | Senior Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2022 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** Quick to get going with. Having Mock servers available immediately are very useful. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** Difficult to change specifications from one version of openapi to another. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helping us get a quick way to write and share api-specs ### 24. A great way to maintain API docs! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2022 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** Independent documentation from the code repository; clear transformation of OpenAPI standard to intuitive forms; possibility to collaborate on the projects and work with many persons at the same time **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** Sometimes working at the same time in many persons causes issues with YAML file edition. It happened that we accidentally removed the whole content and freaked out a little bit, but fortunately, it was possible to restore the historical version. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** We don't need to perform a release every time we want to update documentation. We are using this tool also for the analysis phase where we design API contracts in the first place in Stoplight and then it goes to implementation. ### 25. Design and Manage API Documentation Efficiently. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ankita P. | Senior Application Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 24, 2022 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** I have had amazing user experience with Stoplight. I began using this tool because I needed the way to design frontend API without developing a real API to work in a team. It's been really easy to create endpoint and to derails this endpoint. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** A lot of warning/errors that not always correct 💯. Hence leads to slow API documentation generation. The tech and support team been fabulous and dedicated 24/7. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am able to create a model and name the model in any End-point like a body response. I like how the documentation created visualy appealing and easy to read for all users of API. ### 26. Awesome API Design and Documentation Platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 04, 2022 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** We are easy to maintain and reuse the API throughout while project which helps in designing the API quickly and efficiently. We can integrate with any of the front Applications or code base. even if you have created 500 APIs the application never gets slowed down. The Support staff is very responsive. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** There are fewer users so if you are a beginner then you might face issues as there is very less community buildup. Even the documentation provide by the doc prep team is quite less. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** We need to document allour public API for clients, Testing teams, 3rd party users etc. Now all these teams are very happy with the responsiveness of the application. ### 27. Great tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2022 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** Great to design and test APIs, also to share with friends. Very easy to use. Our team like to use. UI is polished and easy to use too. Support many formats, incoming and outgoing. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** It's a great tool, if not one of the best ones. Don't have anything that would share as dislike. Just keep the tool as it's. Simple is always the best path forward. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** Stoplight allows you to design, test, and share APIs. It's beyond that, it's a suite of tools to do everything needed to work with APIs. What it try to fix? Well, work with APIs and it's easy to know the answer. ### 28. Sotplight used for documentation purposes for Verifik S.A.S **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nicolas H. | QA Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 01, 2022 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** You can implement it easily with postman, GitLab, and in general, the UI it's friendly and easy to use. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** That if you are working in the editor's user, you can't see how the nonuser's going to see the projects **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** The main problem that we solved it's that now our customers can interact directly with the API's directly in the documentation that we provide in stoplight. ### 29. Suitable for Complete API designs. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Olivia S. | Network Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2022 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** We can collaborate with Stoplight as a team while working on large API programs. It's easy to track API changes, manage dependencies and share them as well. You get a personalized view while performing every role with granted specified permissions so that working as a team has few tussles on tasks. Stoplight has several API design tools to produce outstanding API designs. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** I have very little to say on this subject. I'd probably highlight the bugs in the software resulting in inconveniencing downtimes. I've always had a hard time splitting OpenAPI documents into multiple files and the in-software documentation recommendations have been of little help. **Recommendations to others considering Stoplight:** If you are handling multiple APIs in your workstation, then Stoplight would be a suitable solution to manage both your internal and external APIs from a central effective repository. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's resourceful to have around a robust API program so that we on the other hand can deliver agile cyber security services to our clients in the long run. Stoplight has also helped us overcome the challenge of managing assigned services with APIs count on the rise. ### 30. The Best API Doc Tool by Far **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Doug W. | PHP Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 01, 2022 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** Stoplight has the only GUI for editing OpenAPI docs that I am aware of. This feature alone makes Stoplight invaluable. Stoplight fills our need for designing APIs and creating API documentation quickly and efficiently. Their GUI is very well designed and user-friendly. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** Unfortunately, as of this writing, Git integration isn't available for all repository hosts. But this isn't a dealbreaker. (Branches/versions are still available even w/o integrating into an existing repo.) Stoplight isn't an all-in-one API development tool (there aren't any I'm aware of); you'll still want a manual testing tool (Postman, Insomnia, etc.). **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our company is creating a new app with a new set of many APIs. We've been able to quickly create documentation for these using Stoplight. Writing the documentation manually would be tedious and painstaking to say the least. Stoplight allows us to write OpenAPI compliant docs w/o having to know the technical specifications of the standard. The ability to have multiple versions via Git is brilliant as well. ### 31. Best API Design-First Toolset for Teams & Collaboration **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Electronics | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 13, 2021 **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. **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. **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. **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. **Official Response from Anna Daugherty:** > 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 ### 32. Unlock hidden business potentials with Stoplight **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mark R. | Marketing Executive, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 17, 2022 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** Stoplight has reliable open source of truth for identifying productive business processes. It enables all business partners to collaborate and work with a common goal. It has enabled the IT team to build simple API that can be accessed by customers who visit our websites. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** It is cost-effective and highly functional across all business departments. I have not come across any drawback from its operations **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** Customers who interact with our websites can effectively access our services easily. It is faster and many projects have been completed since we secured it. The instant mock servers enables the IT team to test designs and their suitabilities. ### 33. Great API Governance **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ron G. | Director of Product Management, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 08, 2022 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** The only wysiwyg interface for creating API schemas with versioning! **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** Didn't find a real dislike yet. The software is comprehensive and answers all my needs. When I needed something extra or found a bug the request was dealt with rather quickly. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** One source of truth for our API schema which is then used for code, documentation, validation, and everybody at the company can use it -- none technical people as well. ### 34. Stoplight review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Apparel & Fashion | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 02, 2022 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** The interactive JSON editor is handy and saves us a lot of time. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** No way to preview changes before publishing. I honestly don't understand why it's not there because one of the USPs is "collaborative design". Now, there is no simple way to see changes before publishing them unless you use Git. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** We get to use a design-first approach for our API, which is really useful. ### 35. The Spotlight API Design is a great API for designing simple, yet effective, APIs. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Sports | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 13, 2022 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** There are many upsides to using Stoplight. Perhaps the most helpful aspect is that it allows users to create and document APIs in a very user-friendly way. Stoplight also has several other features that make it an excellent choice for API design, including the ability to generate code and tests, as well as providing several built-in integrations. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** The least helpful aspect of Stoplight is that it can be difficult to use for more complex designs. Additionally, the software does not always generate the most accurate results, which can be frustrating for users. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** Some of the problems that Stoplight is solving include helping developers design and document APIs faster and more efficiently, as well as providing a platform for collaboration and feedback on API design. This is beneficial to developers because it can help them save time and money when designing and documenting APIs. ### 36. Modern document collaboration tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bethany O. | Supply Chain Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 09, 2022 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** This product has promoted the communication and document sharing infrastructure in the company positively. The API platform tracks workflows across all the applications. The supply chain architecture has been productive with timely reporting and easy monitoring of orders. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** There is no operational challenges experienced from my side. We have highly benefited from the performance of Stoplight since we deployed this product. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** The product has helped us in development of reliable API that enhances effective operations on all supply chain activities. It is easy to monitor workflows from user interface and create performance reports. It updates our systems to ensure they are compliant and up to date. ### 37. My review of stoplight **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** SAHIL GIRISH Y. | Backend engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2022 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** Stoplight is very extensive and flexible in its design. Almost any sort of api documentation can be made on this platform. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** The free plans on stoplight is very restricting. It should be expanded to more people so that the initial customers can explore it more. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** Stoplight is solving the problem of api documentation and serves as a one stop place for all documentation needs. ### 38. Stoplight is very easy and Stable Platform. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Scolar M. | Product Manager, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 04, 2022 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** Spotlight functions simplicity on manipulation and the easy on the first implementation is what made me love the solution. Its data management features and the ability to create clean and valuable data reports and real time analytics is incredible. Spotlight access control management is very nice, stable to manage complex projects documents is also very excellent and very reliable feedback gathering software. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** The spotlight functuons are simple and the implementation of the entire platform is very easy to all users. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** Great access permission management. Real time analysis preparation. Multiple project data management. Feedback obtaining is very smooth via this solution. Reports are clear and easy to understand. ### 39. Excellent platform to manage the APIs and share across the team. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Elizabeth B. | Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 18, 2022 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** The tool proves to be the greatest application to create API with ease. Responsive and fast UI that makes creating API very easy. We can aslo be able to test an API through the dashboard very effectively. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** Since installation all we have got from this application is excellent services. Downtimes are very minimal and technical team is on standby in case we have an issue. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** Stoplight has very responsive and fast user interface. Easy to create and manage API . It's affordable application with reasonable pricing model. Technical support is one of the best we have experienced so far. ### 40. stoplight developer review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ramprasad R. | developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2022 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** cli&code generator for different programming languages **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** there is no option to give csv data input in POST API request body **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** Just API documentation ### 41. Incredible Tool For API Creation and Management **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arpita S. | Technical Lead, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2022 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** * It is very easy to use and secure tool for API development. * Easy to create reports and perform analysis. * It speedup and boostup the API productivity. * Performance is incredible as compared to another tool also it is very cheap then others tool. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** I don't have any issue with stoplight. It works well for me. It helps alot in API development. It boost up productivity and reliability. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** Now I can manage, test and create API very easily using this wonderful tool. Really It speedup and boostup productivity. It saves our lots of time and money. ### 42. Easy-to-use OpenAPI editing and documentation hosting platform **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Toby U. | Co-founder, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 15, 2022 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** While there are a few competitors on the market that provide documentation hosting based on OpenAPI specifications (some of which look slightly nicer), we have yet to find a platform that does as well with the initial editing and spec'ing out of new endpoints. We're an API company, and so having a visual editor to allow product managers to come up with drafts for new API endpoints, and then commit these back into git repositories to collaborate on them with complete version control is the most helpful feature. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** As much as we like the editing feature conceptually, there are still a lot of usability and reliability issues. The most notable one is that frequently changes in git to an OpenAPI document don't sync back to the browser correctly, leading to merge conflicts that can't be resolved from within Stoplight, which often results in wasted time. Another thing that has improved recently but is still a bit of an issue is the reliability of the documentation site hosting. These are an essential part of our product, and we've often noticed downtime and failures before the Stoplight team did, which made it look like they didn't have the same monitoring and alerting set up for their own services that we had for this third-party service. I've noticed this has improved a lot over the past months though and there were very few and short instances of this happening. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** Fundamentally, Stoplight allows us to build great APIs and not worry about building API documentation generators. Our customers' engineers generally review our docs very favorably, and I believe this is in large parts because Stoplight is a great experience for them. ### 43. Documentation and Effective Coordination Platform. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Diana D. | Project Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 10, 2022 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** -Stoplight provides unique documentation capabilities. -Data mining and production acceleration platform. -Stoplight data integration connectivity is stable. -Real time analysis production and easy to create progress reports. -Project workflow management with Spotlight is excellent. -The Spotlight features performance is cost effective. -Incredible contacts and file sharing functionalities. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** -No problem found with Stoplight functionalities and the features allows easy adjustment of their capabilities. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** -Useful document categorization and files arrangement software. -Production enhancement and services quality improvement. -Planning and easy data modeling system. -Powerful features for quick creation of accurate and real time data results. -Collaboration across multiple project members. ### 44. Leading API design empowering product **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Valerie B. | Frontend Developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2022 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** There is increased promotion of designing strategies across the company. It enables teams to work in harmony and come up with suitable solutions. It has empowered the IT team with effective tools for building suitable interfaces across all the applications. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** The arcitecture developed by this product has not been faced by major failures. The system incurs minimal failures as compared to the overall performance. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** It monitors the nature and performance of AI. The system has upgraded the current API to meet the set standards. Documentation and protection of organization database has created effective working environment. ### 45. Powerful API design tool. Great for collaboration **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 18, 2022 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** I like it so powerful yet to simple to design not only one API, but a whole set of API, with predefiend models and mock server, we can quickly create a mock API for proof of concept and share with team. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** It is very easy to use and we have been using it for a while for a couple of projects. Honestly, I have not found anything that annoys me yet. It is also a fun tool to use. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** If you want to develop API and do not have enough resources to implement the actual working API, or you just want to have a demo of what the API you are thinking of, this would be a great tool to have. Especially for team of frontend and backend engineers to colleborate. ### 46. Best way to document and test an API yet. Stoplight has a holistic perspective on API documentation. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Felix S. | Director Of Engineering, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 28, 2019 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** Stoplight provides a clean user interface and enables an engineering team to develop a compliant API with minimal difficulty. Other tools don't provide the same details, guard rails, and error validation that Stoplight provides. I can feel that Stoplight is made by API developers for API developers as opposed to either an experienced PM fresh out of college, or a hyper-detailed API wonk for whom working in the flat file itself would be more ideal. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** Some of their open-source products, such as Elements, had bumps when we adopted them. However, they offer a product unlike anything available by other competitors on the market. **Recommendations to others considering Stoplight:** Don't use Postman! If not Stoplight, try Redoc. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Stoplight for API Documentation creation and hosting. Before this, all our API documentation was handwritten on a wiki platform. Stoplight allowed us to adopt a clear JSON Schema, as well as conforming to the Open API Standard. Standardized documentation has significantly reduced the number of requests from customers, allowing the API team to focus on improving the platform. Stoplight also in some ways is a sales platform. When customers see that our API is clean and well documented it reduces barriers to closing a sale. ### 47. Good tool to visualize and mock APIs but poor user experience **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Erik P J. | Technical Lead Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2022 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** The Mock server Ability to add examples Thats it **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 **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 ### 48. I am quite happy with Stoplight , it supports all features that I needed - **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 23, 2022 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** The fact that it supports not only API design but also JSON schema models helps a lot with designing event-driven architecture. Easy to share models between the team members and with partnering team. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** Experience with examples could be slightly improved, for Mock API for instance it is not easy to understand where exactly the response comes from **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** Basically,really great tool for API design process, just not sure why custom git repo integration goes with the Pro version, Swagger Hub, for instance, offers this feature even in the free tier ### 49. Stopligth very good tool to develop easy to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nilson T. | Data Quality Analyst, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 10, 2022 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** I like its main features and the design is good for API documents, it is easy to use and the documentation is very complete and shows all the instructions to use it well, I liked the intuitiveness of the visual design platform, and it is excellent. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** Some improvements are still missing, especially in the performance of the application, which tends to be slow on rare occasions. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** This tool met all of our needs overall and was easy to work with the API documentation feature which is great and the positive impact has been noticed. ### 50. Stable tool for designing and building APIs. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Donald K. | Information Security specialist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 18, 2022 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** Excellent tool in developing and maintaining OpenAPI specifications. It's user interface is very intuitive and easy to navigate. I like how friendly their customer service team is and are very helpful. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** Stoplight has been performing very well when it comes to APIs creation and managing. We have no negative issue concerning this application. It's work well for us. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** Stoplight provided us with an effectient way to design and manage our APIs through the development process very well. It's has been stable and reliable since Implementation. 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