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Stoplight

API design, documentation, and governance platform

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

The honest half

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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