--- 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. API first design approach with a useful tool **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alexandros S. | Senior Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 07, 2022 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** The user interface, references to schemas, mock server, GIT integration, free plan to use the service **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** The lack of bulk operations, performance issues while opening docs, response time to tickets relatively slow **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** A central point of reference for API design, speed up the design process, preparation of final documentation based on openapi standards ### 2. Easy tool to manage OpenAPI specification development **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Daniel A. | Main editor, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 04, 2021 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** I like the markdown edition mode. It lets you write your documentation fast, as long as you know Markdown (which is a good investment). It's not a WYSIWYG s system, but you will be guided with multiple form fields. Another good thing is that your documents are not saved into the application, but into one of your repos as standard yaml files. It's so powerful and has two advantages: you are free to take your document anywhere later (no lock in) and you can automate the generation of code (for example, you can extract information from other sources, integrate it in the documents and then put it back to Stoplight) **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** Not many problems so far. Maybe it has the same problems that you can find in similar tools: you can be overwhelmed by the options for every field or every entry. But it's normal, as you have to find the balance between usability and features, more when you have to follow a specification that doesn't depend on you. Also, I missed some way to document webhooks in the same way I can document the API, but again, it's probably more a limitation of OpenAPI than Stoplight itself. **Recommendations to others considering Stoplight:** I chose Spotlight after evaluating other free or cheap options, and I must say Stoplight was the one that gave me the most (even the option to create general documentation) for the price. So far so good. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** I had to document a legacy API, both it's specification and it's "how to" documentation. I was afraid I had to use one system for the general documentation and another one for the API specification. Stoplight lets you put them both together: it's not only an editor for OpenAPI yaml file, but also a documentation platform. Now I can offer my customers the documentation link, and they can even try some API queries without having to program a line. And best of all, you don't have to deal with yaml format yourself! ### 3. Stoplight is the best way to develop API documentation in OAS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tauseef K. | Senior Technical Writer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 03, 2021 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** As everybody else, I got started with swagger tools. But it was writing too much code in YAML. Maintaining it was a big hassle. It was a big project. I had to document at least 100 API endpoints. I thought the project would take at least a couple of months but I could do it in half of the time. I saved a lot of time and billed the client a lot less thanks to Stoplight. The first thing I was impressed with is just how fast stoplight desktop made documenting api in oas. Most of the time I did not have to right a single line of YAML or JSON. The side by side code and preview was a life saver. The UI of the desktop tool was extraordinary and makes documenting apis approachable to anybody not just developers. Creating api support documents was straightforward thanks to complete support for markdown. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** Well Stoplight is a little slow to absorb changes pushed to OAS3. There are a few features unavailable on Stoplight despite being a part of the oas 3 for a long time. I don't remember those. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am documenting a large set of APIs without writing any piece of code with an intuitive UI tool. ### 4. Very helpful for quickly getting started documenting APIs **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Connor W. | Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 03, 2021 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** I like the ability to quickly fill in form fields rather than having to type out the yaml/json structure by hand. It is also very nice to have Spectral baked right in to the tool as this helps us to automate some of the design review process by alleviating hte need to manually review coding standards around desinging the APIs **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** When new features are released, they do not seem to be thoroughly tested and cause problems on occasion. There also appears to be a prioritization of "Getting new features out" above "Improving the ones that exist." The implementation of Spectral is nice, but it is hard to keep 100s of projects maintain a consistent ruleset. **Recommendations to others considering Stoplight:** This is a great tool for getting started covering most of the major aspects of creating OpenAPI specifications. Lots of the time, there are wonderful new features that make things even easier which show up every onw and then. However, there are many "enterprise" level configurations that we are unable to do at this time as this tool seems to be more aimed at smaller organizations. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are solving the problem of lack of knowledge designing an API with an easy-to-use form entry. Many of our users claim they understand REST api structure but when they go to design that we are finding that they do not fully understand the details of implementing it. Having a tool where we can visually walk through the design makes it quicker to discuss each section rather than scrolling through a large text file ### 5. Intuitive interface and a lot of features **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2022 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** It´s really intuitive and even for a non-technical person like me, it was easy to understand and write a documentation **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** Markdown is really limited and limits the possibility to create more creative documentation **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using Stoplight for our technical documentation ### 6. Great for API Docs **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jody W. | Technical Writer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 21, 2021 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** Being able to switch between the UI/YAML. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** The modules can seem a little fragmented. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a technical writer learning to document REST APIs, I have found Stoplight invaluable. It has allowed me to gain confidence defining schemas using both the UI and the raw YAML. I was able to document a 60 endpoint API (my first-ever project) with confidence. ### 7. One of the best looking api docs **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 07, 2022 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** Lots of functionality that is available within stoplight, easy to use and merge changes! **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** Typically they take long to respond to issues that we face. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use stoplight to provide documentation for developers. It's well priced and easy to use. ### 8. The most comprehensive API docs tool I've used **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aaron R. | Sr. Technical Product Marketing Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 03, 2021 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** Stoplight is a very user-friendly docs tool for both generating docs and for developers to consume technical API documentation. I'm also a fan of their granular user permissions which lets us manage permissions around which pages people can see. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** Although not a limitation in the traditional way of documenting API's, I would like more design flexibility around creating business persona pages. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** We chose Stoplight for their UI & design first approach to API documentation. The most useful capability for me when it comes to Stoplight is the ability to manage permissions on different pages and projects for different users. We have a very manual process around API documentation creation and are looking forward to using Stoplights integration with our Git to standardize the way we document our different API's. ### 9. Stoplight's standardized format makes our lives easier **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Will M. | Tech Lead, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 03, 2021 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** I like that Stoplight uses openAPI format to define the APIs. I've been able to pull the config files into other services for easier API testing as well. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** I don't love that GitHub is required to collaborate and share your work. I would prefer a collaboration method that auto-saves my changes and gives my team access to edit. Also, I use Azure DevOps day-to-day, but created a github account for stoplight collaboration because it was free. That took me out of our existing ecosystem. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** I needed to create API docs to share with contract firms and integration partners. I successfully did that, so our project to build a mobile application has begun without needing to give our partners access to our backend code - we just gave them our docs and that was it. **Official Response from Anna Daugherty:** > Thank you for the review, Will! We've heard from a few folks about how they would prefer to stay within the Azure DevOps day-to-day workflow. Feel free to upvote that item in our roadmap. Thanks again! Anna Daugherty Product Marketing Manager anna@stoplight.io ### 10. Nice Sync Api Documentation Tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 16, 2022 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** The UI and the connecction to Github and other repos. The Structure of the folders and project and the screen to edit and add information are pretty simple and easy to use **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** Personally, I think that the possiblity of event driven or async api documentation is lacking **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** centralized api documentation that is interactable and easier to use as API First tool in comparison to swager ### 11. Amazing Prototype and Documentation tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sakshi G. | Data Science Intern, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** The User Interface is friendly. The availability of Automatic mock servers eases the testing process of the design. Easy to collaborate with Git Workflows. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** The only thing that I dislike is the inability to display Web-Service response when the response time is above 10000 ms. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** Currently, I am using Stoplight for documentation purposes as it is super easy to use and content is readily accessible. ### 12. Stoplight made API creation easier with half work automated **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2022 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** The specifications of the API endpoints were easily configured and their types were generated easily using stoplight. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** There can be one option to go back to the previous step which is not currently available in the application and the autosave option and do you want to commit dialog box can be added to avoid people missing to commit the changes they made **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** API specifications Addings headers responses response body Endpoints maintainence ### 13. Great tooling to develop API ecosystems **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dominic K. | Project & Integration Lead Shopware PWA, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 01, 2021 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** The thoughtful palette of products offers tools for every step of your API lifetime. From conception, design through documentation, mocking, high-level governance, it is not only a tool to help you do it right from the start, but also to transition into a more resilient, value-focused ecosystem of APIs. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** It feels like the styling options are a little bit limited, though we haven't spent a whole lot of time since this isn't of major priority. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** Initially, we've opted for Spotlight to create our API reference. Moving forward, we intend to use it as a tool and framework to build out our ecosystem of APIs, guides and tools around it. **Official Response from Anna Daugherty:** > Hi Dominic, Thank you for your thoughtful review. We're glad to hear that Stoplight is helping you create an effective API ecosystem and governance at your organization! You'll be happy to know that we're implementing a series of UX/UI changes and refreshes across the Stoplight Platform in the coming months. Feel free to vote on your most desirable features on our roadmap. https://roadmap.stoplight.io/tabs/7-under-consideration Thanks again, Anna Daugherty Product Marketing Manager anna@stoplight.io ### 14. Customize your API to your Needs **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 13, 2021 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** Gives you the ability to communicate between tech and non tech collaborators. The UI is simple and easy to use, the must have API tool. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** It can be difficult to export, styling is a little limited. A couple of missing options and the difference between free and premium is wide. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** OpenApI adoption, makes the learning curve easier to navigate for other developers. ### 15. Essential tool for API design **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marek B. | developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2021 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** I use stoplight as a service and as a standalone desktop app as well. The cloud service has excellent integration to other services like bitbucket, making it easier to keep your API reference/schema up to date, which is helpful, especially when you build/generate your routes via the spec automatically. What's more, the cloud version allows multiple to work on the exact specification simultaneously and can grant different access rights to various stakeholders. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** There are some missing features, like x-* options in the GUI designer (you can write them to text file though). **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are designing REST API as quickly as possible, thanks to stoplight's GUI, making it easy to navigate the schema. ### 16. One-of-a-kind **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ondřej N. | C++ Vývojář, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 04, 2021 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** WYSIWYG editor, typesetting, easy setup. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** (all I'm missing is already on their roadmap) **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use the platform for designing and documenting our proprietary internal API. There is no comparison in terms of ease of management (edit/publish) of an API; Stoplight is by far the only tool that offers a reasonable WYSIWYG editor. Moreover, it comes packed with a bunch of tools and features that seamlessly aid you to improve your design/development process, even if it's your first time doing so. Documenting API used to be tedious work no one was willing to until we switched to Stoplight. Nowadays, even the most rigid of programmers proactively use it and demand the API to be documented in alignment with their increment. **Official Response from Anna Daugherty:** > Thank you for the kind words Ondřej. We appreciate your feedback and engagement with our roadmap! Anna Daugherty Product Marketing Manager Stoplight.io ### 17. OpenAPI developer's greatest weapon in conquering confusion **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2021 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** The ability to lint and mock OpenAPI endpoints with JSON schema generation. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** Linting rules sometimes don't find the right line #, no integration with stub generators (not a blocker). **Recommendations to others considering Stoplight:** I use Stoplight Studio (desktop) and it is really cool. I have tried editing with VSCode and it is very tedious and frustrating to navigate super large files (or a collection of references). Being able to view it in a GUI, navigating to and moving stuff around has been a lifesaver on an otherwise tedious and frustrating task. I've had a lot of raised eyebrows everytime I demonstrate it to other groups, so it has major traction where I am. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being able to coordinate OpenAPI specifications and models with other teammates. We usually get a heavily evolving spreadsheet with data dictionaries and then we try to name the variables after them. With this, we can effectively line up the spreadsheet, the spec, and our actual code. Then we can share it with other technical people and still have it be readable to non-technical folks. ### 18. Stoplight Review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 16, 2022 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** good user interface to view openapi spec **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** syncing with gitlab was not straightfoward - that should be a simple step because we cannot use stoplight efficiently without proper update hooks **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** Getting the entire organization exposed to the openapi spec through Stoplight. Product has found it easier to search for endpoints. ### 19. The best tool for Api design **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** gurpreet s. | T, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 13, 2021 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** This platform has advantage of desiging collaboration though API. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** The only downside I experienced is lack of full training videos, I discovered so many features working on the platform rather than going through the trainings **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were facing bottlenecks due to lack of visualisation of api in older tools but Stoplight has a great visualisation dashboard with live previews. ### 20. The whole experience is positive, I love using Stoplight for REST API design. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Peter C. | Software Development Team Lead, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2021 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** I like the ease of use and the simplicity of the UI. I also like that we can share it and use it as a team. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** I dislike that I can not merge different documentation files into one (for example if I have two different API endpoints documented in two different json or yaml files and I would like to merge it and send it as one). That would be a great feature in my opinion. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** I avoid possible misunderstandings that happened previously with bad REST API documentations (things like excel and word). These OAS3 docs are unambiguous and we saved a lot of time in client communication. ### 21. It’s a very effective application for designing API **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Architecture & Planning | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 15, 2021 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** I like how smooth and quick the interface. I especially appreciated how easy it is to share and view other people prototypes. It's better than other competitive softwares. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** I don't really like the pricing since it's a bit expensive. Everything works pretty well but paying $99 a month for premium features is kind of expensive.I wish they would offer a discount. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** So I'm currently interning for a company and I use this interface to help me share my designs more easily. I think this have a saved me a lot of time. Definitely! ### 22. A must-have **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gabrielle K. | Customer Service Representative, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 14, 2021 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** I like how easy and enjoyable the developer experience is using Stoplight. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** I don't dislike anything! It's totally user friendly and guides you through effortlessly. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am benefiting from being able to gain feedback from users and non users in regards to my designed API. It helps me develop an API that is perfect. ### 23. Good experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 17, 2022 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** Easy to onboard additional users or viewers, digestible and sleek user interface **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** Inability to shrink the side panel (i.e. Try It Out) for improved visibility, especially during demos **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** API documentation and sharing. Useful for conveying information and sharing it with many parties. ### 24. Great product and easy to set up **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 23, 2021 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** We get a lot out of this product. It was easy to set up and intuitive. The features are helpful with assisting with our customer service. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** They have been helpful in setting up the product but would like more of a managed service option where they can support implementations too. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps us keep track of all our reporting and database reporting. The reporting tool helps us understand our results better to help drive better decision making ### 25. Highly recommended as easy use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 28, 2022 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** the configuration is simple, it's easy for deployer to pick up. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** so far so good, I haven't see anything I dislike. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** My team utilizes Stoplight to deploy the code to lower level environment, the process is simple and easy, can avoid mistakes. ### 26. Stoplight review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Esha V. | Associate Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 03, 2021 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** Basically stoplight is used for designing API's for the web. In other words stoplight is a tool used for building REST API's. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** Although stoplight functionality is good but it is not that much user friendly when compared with other tools as postman , swaggerHub etc. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** The best part about stoplight is that it can be integrated with GITHUB, BITBUCKET etc which makes it more of use. We can share the API's with other teams internally using stoplight. ### 27. User friendly and intuitive **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 15, 2022 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** Easy to use and navigate around the various features **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** Sending invites to the platform sometimes does not work properly **Recommendations to others considering Stoplight:** Highly recommend for sharing documentation **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sharing documentation with external parties ### 28. Good program **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 13, 2021 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** Simple to use and comprehend on all levels of employees for all types of indilustry and business, private and public. Use it on any PC or laptop issued through the employer. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** Sometimes it's difficult to revise what has already entered. Every works properly in the program, but the edit being accepted is a challenge. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** Spotlight allows you to express what the positive aspects are. The benefit allows you to produce revenue while being very productive. ### 29. Stoplight makes API modeling easy **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Goods | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 14, 2021 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** The auto generated of open API specs is very good and the Prism proxy is flawless. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** Some time it is time consuming to go through published documentation to see the API of leading applications and then using to create on Stoplight **Recommendations to others considering Stoplight:** stoplight let's you switch into code view or visual view **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** Stoplight helps me get the syntax valid for each property which is important when you're new to raw coding ### 30. Best Freemium API Design Tools **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nelsen L. | Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2021 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** Developers can test API in the browser without additional tools such as Postman. Great integration with OAuth2 Authorization Product is constantly Updated **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** Stoplight Studio, which is the latest version of Stoplight is not suitable for our needs We are currently still using the previous Generation Stoplight Next We are unable to move forward because the feature is not apple to apple Also we feel like the new Stoplight Studio User Interface is not as good. The *Try Now* section is in a column that is too small. Where previously, the Try Now section occupy a whole Row. **Recommendations to others considering Stoplight:** Best free API Documentation Tools i have known so far. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** Increased API adoption and learning curve flr third party developers. **Official Response from Anna Daugherty:** > Hi Nelsen, Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review. We hope that upcoming updates to Stoplight Platform will help change your mind about migrating from NEXT. In the meantime, feel free to request your most-desired features on our roadmap, or reach out at any time to discuss your needs. Anna Daugherty Product Marketing Manager anna@stoplight.io ### 31. Ideal for large openapi specifications **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jan K. | tech leader of dev team, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 19, 2021 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** We needed a handy editor for OpenApi for our company, which will handle a large project and at the same time remain clear, and which will have a friendly free budget version. All we found were toys for children rather than professional tools. Stoplight perfectly meets everything our development team needs. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** We would appreciate the wider pricing options - the difference between free and starter program is unnecessarily large for our needs. **Recommendations to others considering Stoplight:** Best for massive projects. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** OpenApi specification ### 32. Stoplight makes documentation easy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kyle M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 12, 2020 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** I love that I don't have to worry about finding/building templates for a documentation site - I can just write my docs, and let stoplight host them! It's easy, and mostly painless. I also love how easy it is to set up the stoplight docs as a subdomain of my main site. My company's main site is codelighthouse.io, and docs.codelighthouse.io points at stoplight. It was about as easy as clicking a button. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** The only pain point for me is that my organization has commit signing required, so I'm not able to commit my docs to GitHub directly from stoplight - I have to copy/paste them and commit them manually. This probably isn't an issue for 98% of organizations, and it's not even a really big deal for mine. **Recommendations to others considering Stoplight:** Stoplight is an easy win for hosting your documentation. I couldn't recommend it more! **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** Instead of having to deal with creating a documentation site and mess around with templates, I can just focus on writing the docs. It's been a big time saver, and stoplight also provides lots of great features. ### 33. Stoplight review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2021 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** I love how flexible the tool is. Especially with the ability to create complex docs alongside API tools. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** The editor can be a little confusing at times, with Open API errors appearing even with valid schemas from time to time. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** We required a brand new API documentation tool for our product. Stoplight ticked all the boxes with the try it out tool, as well as being able to create complex docs alongside it ### 34. Stoplight review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Luis S. | Director of Development, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 13, 2021 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** It is very easy to add new endpoints using the open XML specification. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** You have to learn markdown language in order to create the pages. For a non-developer user, this is a bit complicated **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are documenting the APIs that our clients consume. For clients is a great feature, so they have all documentation in one place. And they can test the APIs right there in their browser. ### 35. Stoplight help use to quickly design our API poc. In the past it wasn't has user-friendly **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Demiban D. | Co-Founder & CEO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 13, 2021 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** The visual API designer console and that it directly integrates with GitHub. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** That in doesn't have integrations with backend packages to out generate backend code. It would be great to have auto generators for NestJS, ExpressJS, FastifyJS, etc. This would increase productivity by 10x. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps backend and frontend developers collaborate on the development having an easy and centralized source of truth for the API design ### 36. Mu experience so far was really good! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nicolas F. | Cto, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 03, 2021 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** Customer support was always really good and helpful I really like that **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** Some of the last changes like the pull GitHub button it was not intuitive to find it in the first place and the platform is not that intuitive always. The file organization when you are editing the api is really bad and different that when you share the link **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** Internal team communication through a good api documentation ### 37. bad company and software **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 11, 2021 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** The company is misleading and its better to use alt software **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** I don't have many issues with it, maybe sometimes it can get cluttered with poor user management **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use it to slim down the time we spend on design. And save time testing compared to other apps ### 38. Very Useful **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Prarthana S. | Staff Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 07, 2021 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** I can test my endpoints and also put a lot of details. So it serves for documentation as well as testing. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** I need to update the branch every time I need to test. **Recommendations to others considering Stoplight:** I think its a one stop shop for API testing and documentation. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** A common place to keep all your documentation and its very collaborative. ### 39. Great tool for API documentation **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mario M. | S, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2021 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** The way it gives you the ability to describe endpoints **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** Sometimes there are some highlighted errors that are not easy to remove. **Recommendations to others considering Stoplight:** Great tool for designing API's **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** The principal benefit is that we can share amog the team documentation and the API design before having the implementation, so we can have clear expectations on the endpoints. ### 40. Great experience and amazing support **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Silviu T. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 03, 2021 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** The possibility to work either high level UI-only but also to modify the raw YAML. Also, the error and warning highlights are very good, and the possibility to auto generate responses and requests from JSON is very helpful. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** Schema auto-generation can be I improved. **Recommendations to others considering Stoplight:** It is a great tool and even for the free plan it does a perfect job for a small org. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** Stoplight is used by my company to document all of our endpoints, to expose our API interfaces and to allow ur front end engineers work easier without needing to sync with any back end engineers. ### 41. It really helped me to create the open API specs in a very easy way, just drag and drop! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tarek N. | Head kf Solutions, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 13, 2021 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** The friendly interface, I used to write the open API specs using notepad so Stoplight was a great shift **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** The interface design needs some improvements in terms of colors, categories, descriptions, etc. As well to have import from .yml feature. **Recommendations to others considering Stoplight:** It's good to test such a tool. Writing a swagger file is not an annoying task anymore since you're able to extract it easily. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** The most important part of it is that I was able to translate the API doc from a Word document to a fully working swagger in less than 1 hour. ### 42. Complete and very well integrated to git **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Petrus G. | Co-founder, Product, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 03, 2021 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** Integration with git (gitlab in our case) is great. I can edit and open new branches directly from stoplight. Support for .md files also allow for more complete and organized docs than using only a single openapi file. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** We could not find a way to customize the openapi file using variables, to support dev and prod environments, for example. We have to use openapi v2 (because of a google cloud limitation). Maybe this would be possible for v3. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Stoplight for internal API documentation. But we intend to use it for external docs also in the future. ### 43. good online api management tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Games | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2021 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** 1. try API online feature 2. connect with github 3. permission management **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** the way to add a new endpoint is not very convinient **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** share api accross the dev team and qa team allow qa team to invoke some API for testing ### 44. An easy to use API tool to design and test APIs **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 12, 2021 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** It is an easy-to-use and powerful API tool. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** I have had difficulty integrating github. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** connecting git repositories and designing APIs easily ### 45. An awesome API builder & mockup generator **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 03, 2021 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** Great API builder thatmakes the task of writing an API a breeze. Can build the API from scratch in matter of minutes and best of all it generates a live mockup server with a click of a button. Oh, and did I mention it's free?! **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** Well there isnt much not to like about stoplight, it has a very intuitive gui and it works flawlessly. My only concern is the fact that it's a saas solution and for security sake I wish there was an option to use it offline or install on a ocal server **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** Saved me from waiting for the complete development of the API before I can hand it to my front end developer ### 46. Ingenious API Design Tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christian W. | S, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 13, 2021 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** The ease of use and spec best practices. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** After using it daily for almost 2 months, I have found nothing to dislike so far. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** API Design ### 47. Great tool to design and maintain quality API specs **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Daniel B. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 03, 2021 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** Open API linter / style guides Git integration **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** More flexible access permissions can be nice (public access with password etc) **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** API design, consistent style guides, maintaining and collaboration ### 48. Great Start **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dan G. | Software Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 13, 2021 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** Integrated Editing of API docs; Everything is in Github; seamless transition between viewing and editing **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** Configuration can be confusing and error-prone. Also, I don't particularly appreciate having disparate accounts for the Stoplight site and the support site. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm using Stoplight to build the API contract and documentation for a new product. It makes it easy to work with my teammates. ### 49. Need to be on the latest version **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 13, 2021 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** The UI for Stoplight Studio is overall very intuitive and attractive. **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** While migrating from their legacy services to Studio, we've had many difficulties with their legacy applications. **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's wonderful not to have to host our documentation. We don't have to think about the how we're going to make the documentation work - just what we want to say. ### 50. Using stoplight at work **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food & Beverages | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 04, 2021 **What do you like best about Stoplight?** The way we can have the software documentation and API documentation in the same place **What do you dislike about Stoplight?** Needs more plugins like having a way to add Confluence pages inside frames. **Recommendations to others considering Stoplight:** Go for it! Best tool on the market! **What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?** Having the sofwtare documentation and API easily available for the customers. 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