Stoplight
stoplight.ioBuild Difficulty: 5/5
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Features
57 features across 11 categories
API Design(8)
Ability to edit API definitions using code-based approach
Create and manage reusable component libraries
Validate API designs against standards and best practices
Synchronize API designs with Git repositories
Support multiple Git branches for API definitions
Export API definitions in OpenAPI format
Visual editor for designing APIs using OpenAPI and JSON Schema standards
Reuse models and components across API definitions
API Mocking(7)
Automatically generate mock servers from API definitions
Configure different response codes in mock servers
Generate dynamic responses for mock servers
Instantly create mock servers for API testing and development
Run mock servers locally for development
Validate API requests against schema definitions
Define static responses for mock servers
Access Control(7)
Restrict access to users with approved email domains
Create internal-only projects
Configure user access on a per-project basis
Create private projects with restricted access
Create publicly accessible projects
User management with role-based access control
Organize users into workspace groups
Analytics(1)
Integrate with Google Analytics and other analytics platforms
Billing(2)
Custom payment terms for enterprise customers
Invoicing for annual plans
Collaboration(2)
Discuss and collaborate on API designs
Organize teams within workspace
Documentation(11)
Interactive console to test API endpoints
Automatic SSL certificate management for documentation
Generate client code from API definitions
Host documentation on custom domains
Edit and create API documentation
Generate interactive documentation for APIs
Remove Stoplight branding from documentation
Create rich documentation using markdown
Customize the appearance of documentation
No limits on viewing API documentation
Version control for API documentation
Governance(12)
Track activity and changes in the platform
Create and enforce API style guides
Automatically generate changelogs for API versions
Automatically analyze Git repositories for API definitions
Create shared style guides for teams
Visualize dependencies between API components
Enable and use shared style guides across workspace
Use built-in Stoplight style guide
Mask sensitive data in API models
Search and filter API assets
Star favorite API assets
Create technical knowledge bases for APIs
Integration(4)
API access to catalog of API definitions
Integration with cloud Git providers
Integration with self-hosted Git providers
Command-line interface for Stoplight
Security(1)
Enterprise single sign-on with LDAP and SAML
Support(2)
24/7 access to Stoplight community support
Priority support with faster response times
Pricing
Free
- ✓1 project maximum
- ✓OpenAPI/JSON schema visual designer
- ✓Interactive docs
- ✓Instant mock servers
- ✓24x7 access to knowledge base
- ✓24x7 access to community
- ✓Public projects
- ✓Search and filter
Basic
- ✓First 3 users free, $11-$14 per additional user
- ✓Unlimited projects
- ✓OpenAPI/JSON schema visual designer
- ✓Code-based editing
- ✓Schema reuse
- ✓Design validation
- ✓Git sync
- ✓Interactive API docs
- ✓API console
- ✓Rich markdown articles
- ✓Code generation
- ✓Automatic SSL
- ✓Unlimited documentation views
- ✓Versioning
- ✓Theming
- ✓Custom domains with Stoplight branding
- ✓API style guides
- ✓Enable Stoplight style guide
- ✓Technical knowledge base
- ✓Automatic Git repo analysis
- ✓Search and filter
- ✓Automatic changelogs
- ✓User management and RBAC
- ✓Per-project user access
- ✓Public projects
- ✓Internal projects
- ✓Private projects
- ✓Credit card payment
- ✓Self-service portal
- ✓14-day free trial
Startup
- ✓First 8 users free, $11-$14 per additional user
- ✓Unlimited projects
- ✓All Basic features plus:
- ✓Multi-branch support
- ✓Custom domains, theming and favicon
- ✓Google Analytics integration
- ✓Approved email domains
- ✓Workspace teams
- ✓Cloud Git providers
- ✓14-day free trial
Pro Team
Popular- ✓First 15 users free, $22-$27 per additional user
- ✓Unlimited projects
- ✓Up to 20 teams
- ✓All Startup features plus:
- ✓Shared style guides
- ✓Create shared style guide projects
- ✓Enable shared style guides
- ✓Discussions
- ✓Component libraries (beta)
- ✓Model masking
- ✓Dependency graph
- ✓Remove Stoplight branding
- ✓Self-hosted Git providers
- ✓Activity logs
- ✓LDAP & SAML SSO
- ✓Catalog API access
- ✓Workspace groups
- ✓Invoicing (annual plans only)
- ✓14-day free trial
Enterprise
- ✓Custom pricing
- ✓Unlimited projects and teams
- ✓Custom payment terms
- ✓Invoicing
- ✓Priority support
- ✓All Pro Team features
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Buying Stoplight saves ~$35,280 over 3 years vs building.
Estimates based on 57 features and a BuildScore of 5/5. Actual costs vary.
Integrations
7 known integrations