API management · RankedStoplight
Stoplight is an OpenAPI design and documentation management tool for developers, used for API design and lifecycle management · stoplight.io ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Kong Gateway is first at 27%.
Kong Gateway is first at 47%.
Apigee is first at 46%.
Why models recommend it
“Postman and Stoplight are excellent choices for API lifecycle and developer portal needs”Mistral Small · Paraphrase question · first choice
“Offers a free plan and starts at $99/user/month. It's best for API design, documentation, and governance, rather than runtime gateway needs.”Mistral Small · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Strong (design-first, linting, mocking) | Very good (built-in portals, style guides) | Yes – if design/governance is priority”Grok 4.20 · Paraphrase question · alternative
“Choose Stoplight + ReadMe instead if you need a more specialized setup”Perplexity Sonar · Paraphrase question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Stoplight, over the 26 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 10 | View → | |
| 19 | 2 | View → | |
| 18 | 7 | View → | |
| 18 | 0 | View → | |
| 13 | 0 | View → | |
| 10 | 0 | View → | |
| 8 | 1 | View → | |
| 7 | 6 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 3 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Stoplight's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- Developers
- Price stated
- Basic: $44 / month, $56 / month; Startup: $113 / month, $147 / month; Pro Team: $362 / month, $453 / month; Enterprise: Please contact sales to get a quote on pricing.
- Starting price
- 44
- Free plan or trial
- Get Started for Free
- Integrations
- 5
- Customers named
- Calendly, Schneider Electric, wefox, Transact, Fiserv, Arkea, Highmark Health, PagerDuty
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 21 of the 26 answers that named Stoplight and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Sixty-nine of the sixty-nine domain citations in answers naming Stoplight came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 348 | 1 | 2026-08-14 | API gateways | |
| Case study | 10 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 8 | 0 | 2023-04-28 | API gateways | |
| Report or ebook | 4 | 0 | 2022-07-27 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 2 | 0 | 2021-02-08 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 2 | 0 | 2022-11-11 | API management | |
| Template or tool | 1 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 1 | 0 | 2023-03-23 |
Most recent
- 2026-08-14An update on spectral from smartbear blog
- 2025-04-24Introducting spectral or function blog
- 2024-09-26Spectral governance for arazzo and api workflows blog
- 2024-03-22Spectral owasp api 2023 security ruleset blog
- 2024-03-04Api transformation in healthcare blog
- 2024-02-27Navigating sdks in api development blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page stoplight.io exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.