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Stoplight pricing
Stoplight publishes 5 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
As of 30 August 2026, Stoplight pricing is free, then $44/year across 5 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free, then $44/year
- Model
- Subscription
- Tiers
- 5
- 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 |
| Basic | $56/month | 7 | +$56/month, 7 more features |
| Startup | $147/month | 7 | +$91/month, 7 more features |
| Pro Team | $453/month | 8 | +$306/month, 8 more features |
| Enterprise | On request | 5 | 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 1 project, 1 user, basic api design and documentation features.
Basic
$56/monthOver Free, this tier adds:
- Annual: $44/user/year
- 3 included users; $14 per additional user (monthly)
- Unlimited projects
- Visual designer
- Interactive docs
- Instant mock servers
- Design an API as an individual
Startup
$147/monthOver Basic, this tier adds:
- Annual: $113/user/year
- 8 included users; $14 per additional user (monthly)
- Private projects
- Multi-branch support
- Custom domains
- Analytics
- Build an API program for small teams
Pro Team
$453/monthOver Startup, this tier adds:
- Annual: $362/user/year
- 15 included users; $27 per additional user (monthly)
- Up to 20 teams
- Shared style guides
- SSO (Single Sign-On)
- Component libraries
- Activity logs
- Govern APIs across your organization
Enterprise
On requestOver Pro Team, this tier adds:
- Custom pricing
- Unlimited projects and teams
- Invoicing
- Custom payment terms
- Priority support
Where Stoplight stops being free
Free, Free
- 1 project
- 1 user
- Basic API design and documentation features
Basic, $56/month
The first thing you pay for:
- Annual: $44/user/year
- 3 included users; $14 per additional user (monthly)
- Unlimited projects
- Visual designer
- Interactive docs
- Instant mock servers
- Design an API as an individual
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.
Other
- API Design
- API Documentation
- Governance
Integrations
- GitHub
- GitLab
- Jenkins
- Azure DevOps
Platform
- Web support
- Cloud support
People bring Stoplight in for api design and documentation, api governance and standards, team collaboration on api development, api mocking and testing. 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 APIs
Too few apis 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, then $44/year | subscription | - | |
| Mambu | On request | quote | - | vs Stoplight |
| Fintech Farm | On request | quote | - | vs Stoplight |
| Flybits | On request | quote | - | vs Stoplight |
| Neonomics | On request | quote | - | vs Stoplight |
| Brite Payments | On request | quote | - | vs Stoplight |
| Meniga | On request | quote | - | 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: 5 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 apis tools.
Stoplight pricing questions
- How much does Stoplight cost?
- Stoplight publishes 5 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 1 project, 1 user, basic api design and documentation features. Paying starts at $56/month for Basic.
- What is the difference between Free and Basic on Stoplight?
- Basic costs $56/month against Free, and adds annual: $44/user/year, 3 included users; $14 per additional user (monthly), unlimited projects, visual designer.
- 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 pricing, unlimited projects and teams, invoicing, custom payment terms. It costs On request against $56/month for Basic. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- What am I actually paying for with Stoplight?
- The record lists 9 features across 3 areas: other, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for api design and documentation, api governance and standards, team collaboration on api development.
- Does Stoplight charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 5 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 apis tools in this directory are Mambu, Fintech Farm, Flybits, Neonomics. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Stoplight covering price, platforms and features.