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Best Stoplight alternatives (2026)
7 alternatives to Stoplight in api management, ranked by entry price. Stoplight starts at $0/mo. Every figure links to the public page it was captured from — the vendor's own wherever the vendor publishes the number, otherwise the named public source — with the date we captured it.
Key takeaways
- Free alternatives: Apigee (Google Cloud), Kong Konnect, Postman, Tyk, Zuplo.
- Closest by price: Apigee (Google Cloud) ($0/mo), Kong Konnect ($0/mo), Postman ($0/mo).
Stoplight alternatives compared
| # | Alternative | Entry price | Free | HIPAA | Best for | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apigee (Google Cloud) | $0/mo | No | Yes | Enterprise Google Cloud workloads | cloud.google.com |
| 2 | Kong Konnect | $0/mo | Yes | — | API gateway management | konghq.com |
| 3 | Postman | $0/mo | Yes | — | API development teams | postman.com |
| 4 | Tyk STALE · 2026-09-02 | $0/mo | Yes | — | Teams wanting open-source first with optional cloud | tyk.io |
| 5 | Zuplo | $0/mo | Yes | — | Edge API gateway | zuplo.com |
| 6 | Treblle STALE · 2026-09-02 | $233/mo | No | — | API observability and monitoring | treblle.com |
| 7 | Gravitee | $1250/mo | — | — | Event-driven API architectures | gravitee.io |
Data current through 2026-10-12. STALE marks a row whose price we have not re-checked at its source in over 30 days; a vendor with no published price is marked when any of its plans is. 2 of 7 rows above are marked. Compare any two directly on the API Management index.