What is Stoplight?
Stoplight is a web-based platform created to support the complete API lifecycle, focusing on a design-first philosophy for building, documenting, and managing APIs at scale. Designed with modern development workflows in mind, it offers a visual editor, instant mock servers, interactive documentation, and comprehensive governance tools to facilitate collaboration across development teams. Organizations can efficiently create, validate, and maintain APIs while ensuring adherence to OpenAPI standards and leveraging reusable components for maximum productivity.
The platform features robust integrations with popular Git providers, customizable documentation, analytics, and role-based access controls. Flexible pricing plans accommodate individual developers to large enterprises. Stoplight enhances API program visibility and quality, making it an ideal solution for businesses aiming to accelerate API development cycles and deliver reliable, high-quality digital experiences to customers.
Features
- Visual API Designer: Intuitive OpenAPI/JSON schema visual editing for rapid API design.
- Instant Mock Servers: Generate automatic and local mock servers for testing.
- Interactive Documentation: Publish user-friendly, interactive API documentation.
- Version Control & Git Sync: Full Git integration for collaborative workflow.
- Shared Style Guides: Enforce API style and governance across teams.
- API Analytics: Integrated analytics for API usage tracking.
- Role-Based Access & Management: Secure workspace with granular permissions.
- Code Generation: Export code and OpenAPI specs.
- Enterprise Integrations: LDAP, SSO, and self-hosted Git provider support.
- Custom Branding & Domains: Personalize documentation with branding and custom domains.
Use Cases
- Designing and documenting RESTful APIs for software projects.
- Rapid prototyping and testing APIs with instant mock servers.
- Managing complex API portfolios across multiple teams or departments.
- Publishing interactive API documentation for developer onboarding.
- Enhancing API governance and enforcing organization-wide standards.
- Collaborative API design and development in distributed teams.
- Automating changelogs and version control for evolving API projects.
- Integrating API design with source control systems such as GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket.
FAQs
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Which users count towards per-user pricing?
All users who can log in to your Stoplight workspace are counted toward per-user pricing, including Admins, Owners, Makers, Viewers, and Guests. Anonymous users accessing public documentation are not counted. -
What is a project in Stoplight?
A project in Stoplight represents a Git repository and can contain multiple API descriptions, schemas, documentation, and related source code. -
Which Git providers does Stoplight support?
Stoplight integrates with GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, and Bitbucket for seamless workflow integration. -
What happens when adding users mid-billing cycle?
A one-time, prorated charge is applied for new user accounts for the remainder of the current billing period, and future billing is adjusted based on updated user counts. -
How secure is the Stoplight Platform?
Stoplight's platform is monitored 24/7, utilizes Google Kubernetes Engine with recommended best practices, and ensures all stored data is encrypted and regularly patched.
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