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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.

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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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