What Stoplight does
Stoplight is an API design and documentation platform, now part of SmartBear. It is aimed at developers who build APIs, program leaders managing API teams and technology executives shaping API strategy. The platform supports a design first workflow on the OpenAPI Specification, with a visual OpenAPI and JSON schema designer, interactive docs, instant mock servers, reusable components and shared style guides. Stoplight also maintains the open source projects Spectral, Prism and Elements. A Free plan covers one user and one project. Paid plans include Basic from $44 a month, Startup from $113 a month and Pro Team from $362 a month billed annually, with Enterprise priced by quote.
How Stoplight compares with its closest alternatives
All 5 closest alternatives have a free plan, as Stoplight does. Among the 5 that list a starting price, the cheapest is Postman at $14 a month and the median is $29. Stoplight starts at $99 a month, above that median. 4 of the 5 offer an API, as Stoplight does. Stoplight offers a web app. Of the alternatives, all 5 offer a web app. Stoplight was founded in 2015; the alternatives were founded between 2013 and 2022, 2 of them earlier. The alternatives with a known headquarters are in India, the United States and Israel.