Stoplight Reviews in January 2025: User Ratings, Pros & Cons

Stoplight makes it easy to create api docs

What do you like best? - Simple to use - Can create tables, pictures to explain the api better to the client -> Visual OpenAPI Designer was added - Can test api with moc server What do you dislike? - No easy way to transfer a word documentation into stoplight - Not sure how we can check if the api doc is stoplight is in sync with the api - Not many tutorials on youtube - I wish there would be a better way to save the api doc as a microsoft word document (.doc - I ...

Great spec-first enablement

What do you like best? Designing an API is extremely intuitive and simple. Mock testing is easy to configure. We are enabling concurrent front-end and back-end development to an agreed upon contract defined in Stoplight. What do you dislike? Management of common models and responses across projects. In a microservices world we are defining many stoplight projects, however, there are common elements that we would like to share between those projects. Making this more seamless would be a ...

Have been very pleased with stoplight and it's ease of use and features

What do you like best? The workspaces and the hosted docs and reloads What do you dislike? exporting OAS and having to pull out all the stoplight specific code Recommendations to others considering the product: Ease of use, rapid API development, good looking docs What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? API development. It is helpful for me to start the development architecture through the APIs at first. Very rapid API prototyping, less ...

Stoplight makes it easy to create api docs

What do you like best? - Simple to use - Can create tables, pictures to explain the api better to the client -> Visual OpenAPI Designer was added - Can test api with moc server What do you dislike? - No easy way to transfer a word documentation into stoplight - Not sure how we can check if the api doc is stoplight is in sync with the api - Not many tutorials on youtube - I wish there would be a better way to save the api doc as a microsoft word document (.doc) ...

Great spec-first enablement

What do you like best? Designing an API is extremely intuitive and simple. Mock testing is easy to configure. We are enabling concurrent front-end and back-end development to an agreed upon contract defined in Stoplight. What do you dislike? Management of common models and responses across projects. In a microservices world we are defining many stoplight projects, however, there are common elements that we would like to share between those projects. Making this more seamless would ...

Overall good with some small frustrations

What do you like best? I love how accessible Stoplight is to everyone in our organization. It has become an essential tool for planning and organizing our API - a tool that even non-technical people understand and grasp. I also love the hosted documentation - it fast and stable. What do you dislike? I come into Stoplight really used to the OpenAPI (swagger) spec. Sometimes it is really difficult to figure out how to do something with Stoplight that I already know how to do in ...

Great tool for DevOps teams working with Low-Code platforms

What do you like best? API Specification designer and the mock server What do you dislike? Some validations on de API designer aren't working properly. I have to refresh the page to recover the validation checks. Also when referencing to a model, a green check icon looks like a button. Almost everytime I click it. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Developing/Delivering faster due to the agreements in the API contract.

Overall good with some small frustrations

What do you like best? I love how accessible Stoplight is to everyone in our organization. It has become an essential tool for planning and organizing our API - a tool that even non-technical people understand and grasp. I also love the hosted documentation - it fast and stable. What do you dislike? I come into Stoplight really used to the OpenAPI (swagger spec. Sometimes it is really difficult to figure out how to do something with Stoplight that I already know how to do in the ...

A powerful tool in general but still quite a few things to improve

What do you like best? The flexibility of defining API docs, tests and all relevant API stuffs in one single container, which makes it a powerful tool to use and it greatly addresses our e2e needs for API development. The designer mode is also my favorite, from which non-technical staffs could easily gain information. What do you dislike? Stoplight being a new tool and start-up company, many times I find the documentation is lagging behind and we would have to approach product ...

API Collaboration

What do you like best? Ability to manage the API documentation and collaborate on the documents helps a lot with Stoplight Next. What do you dislike? Need some more feature enhancements such as better options in exporting swagger output. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Easy to manage and collaborate on the API design among distributed teams.