API Management · pricing
Stoplight pricing
Stoplight publishes 3 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Freemium
- Tiers
- 3
- Free tier
- Yes
Stoplight plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
| Pro | $75/monthly | 3 | +$75/monthly, 3 more features |
| Enterprise | On request | 3 | Priced on request |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Free
FreeThe entry tier. It covers api design, documentation, community support.
Pro
$75/monthlyOver Free, this tier adds:
- Governance
- Advanced testing
- Team collaboration
Enterprise
On requestOver Pro, this tier adds:
- Custom deployment
- SLA
- Priority support
Where Stoplight stops being free
Free, Free
- API design
- Documentation
- Community support
Pro, $75/monthly
The first thing you pay for:
- Governance
- Advanced testing
- Team collaboration
What the product covers
The full Stoplight feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Core
- API Design
- API Documentation
- Governance
Integrations
- GitHub
- GitLab
- Jenkins
- Azure DevOps
Platform
- Web support
- Cloud support
People bring Stoplight in for designing and documenting openapi specifications visually, serving interactive api docs and instant mock servers from a spec. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Stoplight are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in API Management
Too few api management tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stoplight (this page) | Free | freemium | - | |
| Backendless | Free, then $15/month | - | - | vs Stoplight |
| Asyncapi | Free | open-source | - | vs Stoplight |
| Akana | $2500/monthly | subscription | - | vs Stoplight |
| Boomi API Management | $1500/monthly | subscription | - | vs Stoplight |
| AWS API Gateway | Free | usage-based | - | vs Stoplight |
| Appwrite | Free, then $15/month | - | - | vs Stoplight |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Stoplight badges page.
Before you pay for Stoplight
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 3 tiers between Free and On request, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Stoplight runs on web, cloud, and is published by Stoplight of Austin, Texas, USA. The full record is on the Stoplight review, and the rest of the category is under best api management tools.
Stoplight pricing questions
- How much does Stoplight cost?
- Stoplight publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Free up to On request for Enterprise. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Stoplight have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers api design, documentation, community support. Paying starts at $75/monthly for Pro.
- What is the difference between Free and Pro on Stoplight?
- Pro costs $75/monthly against Free, and adds governance, advanced testing, team collaboration.
- Is the Enterprise plan on Stoplight worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is custom deployment, sla, priority support. It costs On request against $75/monthly for Pro. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- Which api management tools can I use without paying?
- 5 of the 8 api management tools listed alongside Stoplight have a free tier: Backendless, Asyncapi, AWS API Gateway, Appwrite, Microsoft Azure API Management.
- What am I actually paying for with Stoplight?
- The record lists 9 features across 3 areas: core, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for designing and documenting openapi specifications visually, serving interactive api docs and instant mock servers from a spec.
- Does Stoplight charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Stoplight prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Stoplight against before paying?
- The closest api management tools in this directory are Backendless, Asyncapi, Akana, Boomi API Management. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Stoplight covering price, platforms and features.