Open-source Backend as a Service with REST API and SDKs
Overview
What Stoplight does
Stoplight is a complete API design and governance platform that helps teams design, document, test, and govern APIs with visual tools and collaborative workflows.
What people use it for
- Designing and documenting OpenAPI specifications visually
- Serving interactive API docs and instant mock servers from a spec
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Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Stoplight.
- The free plan allows one project and one user
- Private projects, multi branch support and custom domains start at the Startup plan, $113 a month billed annually
- SSO and shared style guides are Pro Team only, at $362 a month billed annually
- Seats beyond each plan's allowance are $11 to $27 each per month depending on tier and billing period
Pricing
What Stoplight costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Free
Free
- API design
- Documentation
- Community support
Pro
$75 /mo
- Governance
- Advanced testing
- Team collaboration
Enterprise
On request
- Custom deployment
- SLA
- Priority support
Capabilities
Features
API Design
API Design capability
API Documentation
API Documentation capability
Governance
Governance capability
GitHub
Integration with GitHub
GitLab
Integration with GitLab
Jenkins
Integration with Jenkins
Azure DevOps
Integration with Azure DevOps
Web support
Available on Web
Cloud support
Available on Cloud
Behind it
Who makes Stoplight
- Company
- Stoplight
- Based in
- Austin, Texas, USA
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