Octri vs Stoplight

Both publish API docs from an OpenAPI file. Octri writes the reference for you, generates SDKs in ten languages, hosts an MCP server that calls your API, and watches it after every release.

Written by Octri · Checked 23 October 2026

Summary

Octri ahead
19
Level
7
Stoplight ahead
3
docs, SDK, agent and monitoring features, Octri against Stoplight. Every row is in the table below.

$0

for docs on your own domain with AI chat, analytics and an MCP server on Octri’s Free plan. Stoplight starts custom domains on Startup, at $147 a month.

4 in 1

Docs, SDKs, an MCP server and monitoring on one subscription, at no extra cost.

Octri writes your reference from the spec: every field explained, every error documented with its cause and fix, the call through your own SDK on every page, and a changelog your readers can see that updates itself. A custom domain, MDX guides, password protection, AI chat, analytics and PDF export are on every plan.

The same plan generates SDKs in TypeScript, Python, Go, Java, Kotlin, Ruby, PHP, Rust, Swift and Dart and publishes every release, hosts an MCP server whose tools call your API, and keeps watching after release with error reporting inside every SDK, uptime checks, a status page, and logs and traces.

Docs, SDKs and monitoring, head to head

Octri against Stoplight, 29 rows from each product’s own pages on 23 October 2026. Octri is ahead on 19, level on 7, and Stoplight is ahead on 3.

FeatureOctriStoplight
Docs
Endpoint referenceAll plans+ written for you, with errors by statusAll plans
Interactive playgroundAll plansAll plans
Request examples in several languagesAll plansAll plans
Error guide per status codeAll plansNot available
API changelog for readersAll plans+ written from every spec changeIn the workspace, for signed-in members
Markdown guidesAll plansAll plans
Custom domainAll plansStartup and up
Versioned docsGrowthStartup and up
Private docsAll plansWorkspace members, each billed as a user
Docs analyticsAll plans+ built inGoogle Analytics, Startup and up
PDF exportAll plansNot available
SDKs
SDK languages10Not available
Built and published for youAll plans+ a pull request per regenerationNot available
Shaping the SDKAll plans+ in SDK Studio, with a live code previewNot available
Webhook helpersAll plansNot available
AI and agents
MCP serverAll plans+ a callable tool per endpointNot available
AI chat for readersAll plansNot available
llms.txt and markdown pages for agentsAll plansNot available
Tool exportAll plans+ MCP, OpenAI and Anthropic formatsNot available
After release
Scheduled checks on your APIAll plansNot available
Error reporting inside the SDKAll plansNot available
Status page for your usersAll plans+ with a docs bannerNot available
Logs and traces for your APIAll plansNot available
Design and tooling
Visual OpenAPI designerNot availableAll plans
Mock serversAll plans+ in every SDK repositoryAll plans, hosted
Linting and style guidesAll plansAll plans
Two-way Git syncAll plansAll plans
Open-source docs, mocking and linting toolsNot availableAll plans
Dashboard single sign-onEnterprisePro Team and up

Only on Octri

9 features you will not find in Stoplight’s site or docs.

  • SDKs in ten languages

    Generated, regenerated on every spec change and published for you, from TypeScript to Swift and Dart.

  • An MCP server that calls your API

    Tools to read your docs and one callable tool per endpoint, hosted for you or run on a developer’s machine.

  • Error reporting inside every SDK

    A failure in your users’ apps reaches you with the SDK version, language and method, tagged to the release.

  • A status page for your users

    Incidents from your uptime checks publish to a status page on your own domain and a banner across your docs.

  • Logs and traces for your API

    Follow one failing call from a user’s app into your handler, with latency targets per route.

  • A changelog your readers can see

    Every spec change becomes a dated entry in your docs, endpoints added, removed and changed, with breaking changes flagged.

  • An error guide for every status code

    Each endpoint lists the errors it can return, with what causes each one and how to fix it.

  • SDKs shaped in a studio

    Client shape, method names and file layout per endpoint, with the generated code redrawn beside each change.

  • PDF export

    Any page of your docs, saved as a clean PDF for readers who need it offline or in a review.

A reference that arrives already written

Stoplight publishes the reference your team designs and describes. Octri writes it from the spec, then keeps it current as the spec changes.

Every endpoint gets a page with a description, every request and response field explained, and each error documented by status code with its cause and fix. Each page shows the call through your own SDK in every language you publish, with a playground beside it, and every spec change becomes a dated changelog entry your readers can see, with breaking changes flagged.

Guides are MDX in a visual editor on the published page, with Git sync, a custom domain, password protection, full-text search, an ask-the-docs chat, llms.txt and a markdown copy of every page for coding agents, built-in docs analytics, PDF export and redirects for pages you retire, all on every plan, Free included.

Ten SDKs, built and published

Stoplight’s docs show request examples in several languages. Octri generates, regenerates and publishes SDKs in ten.

Octri generates TypeScript, Python, Go, Java, Kotlin, Ruby, PHP, Rust, Swift and Dart. Every client comes with typed models and typed errors, auth from your security schemes, retries with backoff, pagination, idempotency, server-sent events, multipart uploads and webhook signature checks, and lands in its repository as a pull request on every merged spec change, ready to publish to its registry.

Every SDK repository also carries a mock server built from your spec, with request checks and a contract test suite, which your team and your users start with one command. The Free plan includes one language, Starter 2, Growth 4 and Business all ten, and the docs show each endpoint’s call through them.

An MCP server that calls your API

Octri hosts an MCP server for your API on every plan, with an ask-the-docs chat on the site itself.

Octri’s MCP server has seven tools for reading your docs (search, one endpoint in full, the endpoint list, guides, the changelog, your SDKs and the call in your own SDK) and one callable tool per endpoint, which makes the real request. Endpoints you excluded from your SDK get no tool, so the SDK settings double as the agent’s permission list.

It runs locally over stdio with credentials kept on the developer’s machine, or as a shared SSE server for a team, and the tool list exports in MCP, OpenAI and Anthropic formats. Every page also publishes as markdown, listed in llms.txt, for coding agents that read docs directly.

Monitoring from inside the SDK

Stoplight’s plans cover design and docs. Octri’s also watch the API, and the clients calling it, after every release.

Every Octri SDK carries an error reporter. It ships switched off, and the developer who installs your SDK turns it on with one option. From then on a failure in their application reaches your project with the SDK version, the language, the method and the status, grouped into issues and tagged to the release that introduced it. Credentials and personal identifiers are redacted inside the SDK before anything is sent.

Uptime checks are generated from the endpoints in your spec, an incident publishes to a status page on your own domain and to a banner across your docs, and backend packages in ten languages add logs, traces and latency targets per route, on every plan.

  • Alerts for new issues, regressions and thresholds, to Slack or any webhook
  • No third-party observability vendor in the path; data stored in the United Kingdom
  • Monitoring ingest is never cut off at the allowance, so a bad day’s errors still arrive

Docs and SDKs, one price

Stoplight’s plans include a set number of users and bill each one past it. Octri’s plans include docs, SDKs, the MCP server and monitoring, with every price on the page. Monthly prices as published on 23 October 2026.

Stoplight Startup

$147

a month, or $113 billed yearly

  • Docs on your own domain, eight users included
  • Versioning, theming and Google Analytics
  • Visual designer, hosted mocks, style guides
  • No SDKs, AI chat, MCP or monitoring

Octri Starter

$49

a month, or $41.65 billed yearly

  • SDKs in 2 languages, 100 endpoints
  • Docs site with guides, AI chat and analytics
  • Hosted MCP server with docs and endpoint tools
  • SDK errors, uptime checks, status page

Octri Business

$249

a month, or $211.65 billed yearly

  • Everything in Starter
  • SDKs in all ten languages
  • Custom components, CSS and white-label docs
  • 600 endpoints, SDKs on a CDN

Plan by plan

Octri’s yearly billing takes 15% off the base price. Stoplight’s prices here are billed monthly; its yearly prices are lower.

PlanOctriStoplight
Free$0. Docs on your domain, one SDK language, 50 endpoints, MCP, monitoring, AI chat$0. One user, one project, public and internal docs on a Stoplight address
First paidStarter, $49 a month. Two SDK languages, 100 endpointsBasic, $56 a month. Three users, private projects, multiple branches
MiddleGrowth, $79 a month. Four languages, 300 endpoints, versioning, custom codeStartup, $147 a month. Eight users, custom domain, versioning, theming, Google Analytics
UpperBusiness, $249 a month. All ten languages, 600 endpoints, white-labelPro Team, $453 a month. Fifteen users, SSO, shared style guides, branding removed
UsageReaders are never metered; monitoring past the plan’s allowance is $0.50 per GBEach user past the plan’s count is $14 a month, $27 on Pro Team; public readers are not counted

What three common setups cost a month

Stoplight’s column is the plan with its included users; Octri’s is the whole plan, monitoring included.

SetupOctriStoplight
Docs on your own domainFree, $0Startup, $147
Docs with AI chat, analytics and an MCP serverFree, $0Not offered: Google Analytics from Startup; no AI chat or MCP server
Docs plus TypeScript and Python SDKs, published for youStarter, $49Not offered: request examples in the docs, no SDK generation
Every Octri plan, row by row →

Moving from Stoplight

A Stoplight project is a Git repository, so the move starts from what is already in it: the OpenAPI file and your Markdown articles.

How the move works

  1. Stage 1

    Bring the spec

    You

    Connect the Git repository your Stoplight project syncs with, or upload the OpenAPI file Stoplight exports.

    Octri

    Writes a reference page for every endpoint, with the playground, search and chat switched on.

  2. Stage 2

    Bring the guides

    You

    Paste your Markdown articles into the editor, swapping Stoplight’s callout and tab annotations for Octri components as you go.

    Octri

    Generates an SDK in each language you pick and shows the call through it on every endpoint page.

  3. Stage 3

    Go live

    You

    Publish, then point your custom domain at Octri.

    Octri

    Regenerates docs, SDKs and MCP tools on every merged spec change, and starts the uptime checks.

Which should you choose?

Choose Stoplight

Choose Stoplight if your team designs APIs in a visual editor before writing code and wants the docs to live in the same tool.

Choose Octri

Choose Octri if you want docs your readers can rely on from day one. Octri writes the reference from your spec, documents every error with its cause and fix, shows the call through your own SDK on every page, and keeps a changelog your readers can see, with AI chat, analytics and a custom domain on every plan, Free included.

Then comes the rest of the subscription. SDKs in ten languages built and published for you, a hosted MCP server whose tools call your API, error reporting inside every SDK, uptime checks with a status page and a docs banner, and logs and traces for your API, all at no extra cost.

Questions

Stoplight’s docs show request examples in languages such as cURL, Python, Ruby and Java, and its plans list no SDK generation. Octri generates SDKs in ten languages, regenerates them on every spec change and opens a pull request in each repository.

Other comparisons

Written by Octri, from each vendor's public pages and our own testing, checked 23 October 2026. Products change often, so confirm anything that matters to you on the vendor's own site. Product names are the trademarks of their owners, used here only to identify their products. Octri is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of them.

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