Stoplight vs. Swagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Stoplight
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
Stoplight is an API Design, Development, and Documentation platform that aims to enable consistency, reusability, and quality, all with an easy, enjoyable developer experience. Presented as a solution to help utilize and integrate design-first workflows to scale up standardized, collaborative, and well-governed API programs.
$0
Up to 3 Users
Swagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear
Score 9.4 out of 10
N/A
Supported by SmartBear, Swagger is a set of tools used by developers to design, document, build, and test APIs in the OpenAPI Specification.N/A
Pricing
StoplightSwagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear
Editions & Modules
Free
$0
Up to 3 Users
Starter
$99
Up to 10 Users
Pro
$399
Unlimited Projects
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Offerings
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StoplightSwagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
StoplightSwagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear
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Features
StoplightSwagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear
API Management
Comparison of API Management features of Product A and Product B
Stoplight
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Ratings
Swagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear
7.4
1 Ratings
10% below category average
API access control00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Rate limits and usage policies00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
API usage data00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
API user onboarding00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
API versioning00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Usage billing and payments00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
API monitoring and logging00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
StoplightSwagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(2 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
StoplightSwagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear
Likelihood to Recommend
Stoplight
API mocking, testing, and sharing are all built in functions for StopLight that work quite well. They even have functionality for generating OAI and RAML code as well, which is a huge plus. AS for as areas where StopLight is not appropriate, if you're doing anything other than API testing, StopLight may not be appropriate for use.
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SmartBear
To my opinion Swagger Open Source is a very good tool to quickly produce an api documentation, that how I use it.Swagger can also produce an open api file to generate an api for our application server (Inersystems Iris) but we don't use this functionality for now. We plan to use more Swagger features in the future.
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Pros
Stoplight
  • OpenAPI support
  • Markdown supports
  • Git integration
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SmartBear
  • Produce documentation
  • user interface to create api definition
  • reusability of data description
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Cons
Stoplight
  • Simplicity of set up. Although it's not difficult, there are tools out there that are easier to set up for testing endpoints.
  • Again, it's perfectly functional, but some competitors I think have a more user friendly UI to them.
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SmartBear
  • for me the UI can be more simple
  • too many functionnalities when just want to produce doc, can be a separate app
  • A french documentation will be apreciated
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Alternatives Considered
Stoplight
I'd like to also throw Runscope and Fiddler into the mix. Between StopLight and all these competitors, we've chosen StopLight primarily for the support, ease of use, and reliability. Most tools out there today are top-notch, so it really comes down to personal preference and different use-cases. Having used other API testing frameworks, StopLight definitely stacks up against the competition.
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SmartBear
We use swagger only to generate the API documentation, for testing the APIs, we use Postman. We don't find an other tools for producing API documentation in web pages and also in pdf files. Postman is a good complement for testing APIs on InterSystems IRIS (a powerful application server and DB manager) which implements these APIs.
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Return on Investment
Stoplight
  • Increased efficiency
  • Improved comminication between backeend and frontend
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SmartBear
  • Less time to produce our documentation
  • Documentation can be accessed online, this is a plus for our customers and partners
  • Great tools to communicate with other project actors
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