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Stoplight Elements
Stranded on Stoplight Elements since the SmartBear acquisition? Here's a maintained, multi-spec home that embeds the same way.
If you're on Stoplight Elements and worried about its future, Apiboost Spec Renderer is the closest like-for-like move - React-embeddable, actively maintained, and multi-spec.
Feature
Spec types
Try-It console
Theming
React-native
Maintained
Pricing
Apiboost Spec Renderer
5 — OpenAPI + AsyncAPI free; GraphQL, SOAP, gRPC in Pro
Yes — free, with CORS proxy
70+ design tokens; full white-label in Pro
70+ design tokens; full white-label in Pro
Yes — commercially supported
Free core + Pro
Stoplight Elements
OpenAPI only
Yes
Limited
Yes
Uncertain - folding into SmartBear API Hub
Free (open source)
What they do well
Stoplight Elements is a genuinely capable open-source renderer - React and web components, a Try-It console, and built-in mocking, with a polished design many teams adopted. It helped pioneer embeddable, component-based API docs.
Where Apiboost Spec Renderer wins
Actively maintained and commercially supported, where Elements' future is uncertain post-SmartBear | Multi-spec - AsyncAPI free, plus GraphQL/SOAP/gRPC in Pro | Same React embed model, so migration is low-friction
How to switch
Add paragraph text. Click “Edit Text” to update the font, size and more. To change and reuse text themes, go to Site Styles.
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