Why is Dokly cheaper than GitBook?

GitBook bills per-user on top of the site fee. A 5-editor team on Premium is $125/mo ($65 + 5×$12); on Ultimate it's $309/mo ($249 + 5×$12). Dokly Pro is $49 flat regardless of editor count. At 5 editors vs Premium that's $912/yr saved; vs Ultimate it's $3,120/yr.

Can I import my GitBook content?

Yes, manually. Export your GitBook space as Markdown, then paste pages into the Dokly editor. No one-click importer today — ping us if you're moving a large site and we'll help.

Does Dokly have GitHub sync?

Not today. Dokly is editor-first — you author in the browser, not in a repo. If GitHub sync is a hard requirement, GitBook or Mintlify will serve you better.

Can non-technical teammates use Dokly?

That's kind of the point. The editor is Notion-like — no Markdown syntax memorization, no YAML, no builds. Anyone who can use Google Docs can ship a doc page.

Is Dokly good for internal wikis?

It works, but Dokly is optimized for public product/API documentation. If you need heavy permissioning, private spaces, and SSO for internal wikis, GitBook's feature set is deeper there.

A modern GitBook alternative

The GitBook
alternative for
builders on a budget.

Collaborative docs with per-user pricing. Dokly is a visual MDX editor with AI that generates whole doc sites, custom domains, auto-generated llms.txt, and flat pricing starting at $0.

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No per-user

Flat pricing

$49/mo

Pro plan

Yes

MDX + React

5 minutes

Setup

What is Dokly?

Dokly is a documentation platform for shipping beautiful MDX docs without git. Visual editor, AI writing, auto-generated llms.txt, and custom domains from $19/month. Built as a simpler, cheaper GitBook alternative — Dokly Pro is $49/month vs GitBook's $125.

Teams switching from GitBook to Dokly typically migrate in an afternoon. Pages are written in a WYSIWYG editor with slash commands and AI inline edits, with full MDX components — callouts, tabs, steps, code groups, accordions. Every published site is server-side rendered, ships with a machine-readable llms.txt manifest, and is indexed by ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, and Perplexity. Pricing is flat: Free $0, Starter $19, Pro $49, Scale $99 — no per-seat surprises. Built with Next.js 15 and Supabase, deployed on Vercel, with sub-100ms page loads via static generation and on-demand revalidation. Most teams ship their first docs site in under 10 minutes.

An honest take

GitBook is polished and great for large orgs with many editors. The collaboration story is solid and the GitHub sync works.

Premium is $65/site + $12/user/month. A 5-editor team on Premium is $125/mo before you touch Ultimate ($249 + $12/user). Per-user docs pricing is a tax on growth.

Why switch

Why teams pick Dokly over GitBook

No per-editor billing

GitBook charges per user on paid plans. Dokly is a flat subscription — add editors without multiplying your monthly invoice.

Real MDX, not just Markdown

Dokly supports full MDX with React components. GitBook pages are more constrained — fine for wikis, less fine for product docs with custom UI.

Built for AI agents

Dokly auto-generates llms.txt for every site. Your docs become parseable by ChatGPT, Claude, and Cursor out of the box.

Faster pages

Dokly is statically generated with ISR. Pages load in under 100ms on most connections. No spinner, no hydration wait.

AI, done right

Docs that write themselves.
Docs AI agents can actually read.

Start with a paragraph describing your product. Dokly AI scaffolds the whole site. Every page ships with llms.txt so ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Cursor can cite you.

Generate a whole doc site from a brief

Describe your product in a paragraph. Dokly drafts the full site structure — quickstart, guides, API reference — as real MDX pages you can edit.

Generate individual pages on demand

Need a new page? Hit 'Generate with AI' in the editor, describe what it should cover, and get a draft in seconds. Edit in place — it's just MDX.

Improve writing in place

Rewrite for clarity, tighten prose, fix tone. Highlight a paragraph and the AI edits exactly that — not the whole page.

llms.txt, auto-generated

Every Dokly site exposes an llms.txt so ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Cursor can parse and cite your docs. No config, no plugin.

AI-powered search for readers

Pro tier gives readers an AI answer box on top of fuzzy search. Ask a question, get a cited answer pulled from your pages.

Shipping soon

More coming

Semantic linking between pages, AI-drafted changelogs from git diffs, automated translation, and an /llms-full.txt endpoint. Shipping through Q2.

Side-by-side

Dokly vs GitBook

We call the wins honestly — and the places GitBook is still stronger.

Feature	Dokly	GitBook
Pricing model	Flat per-plan	$X/site + $12/user/mo
Free tier	Forever	1 user per site
Entry paid plan	$49/mo (Pro, flat)	$65/mo + $12/user (Premium)
5-editor team, paid tierGitBook Premium $65 + 5×$12. Ultimate $249 + 5×$12.	$49/mo	$125/mo (Premium) or $309/mo (Ultimate)
Custom domain	Pro ($49)	Premium ($65+)
MDX + React components	Full MDX	Block-based + custom blocks
Visual editor
API Playground	Pro	Free (included)
GitHub / GitLab syncGitBook wins here
AI writing assistant	Built-in on all tiers	Ultimate ($249+) — 200/mo, then paid add-on
llms.txt / LLM optimizations	Auto-generated	Available
SSOGitBook wins here		Enterprise
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What we ship

The six features you'll use every day

Visual MDX editor

Write in a Notion-style WYSIWYG that outputs clean MDX under the hood. No YAML frontmatter required, no build step, no Git dance.

Instant fuzzy search

Fuse.js-powered client-side search that works offline and runs in under 100ms. No external search index bill to worry about.

Custom domain, zero DNS pain

Add docs.yoursite.com on Pro. SSL provisions automatically. Wildcard subdomain routing means your docs ship on day one.

Built-in analytics

See which pages get read, which search queries return nothing, and where readers drop off. No third-party tracker to wire up.

Themes + custom CSS

Pick a preset, set your brand color, or go deep with custom CSS on Pro. Your docs look like your product, not a template.

API Playground

Drop in an OpenAPI / Swagger spec and get an interactive 'Try it' panel per endpoint — request bodies, auth, response preview, all of it.

Migrating

Moving from GitBook

Honest take: there's no magic importer. It's a copy-paste job today. For most sites it takes an afternoon.

01

Export from GitBook

GitBook exports spaces as Markdown via the UI or API. Grab the archive for the space you want to move.

02

Paste into Dokly

Create a project, paste each Markdown file page-by-page into the editor. Images and code blocks transfer cleanly.

03

Customize + launch

Set your brand color, add a logo, point a custom domain if you're on Pro. You're live.

Moving a large site? Email support@dokly.co — we'll help you move it.

Pricing

Real numbers. No footnotes.

Pricing pulled from GitBook's own pricing page on Apr 24, 2026.

Dokly Pro

$49

/month · flat

vs

GitBook Premium (5-editor team)

$125

/month

Average savings per year

$912

($125 − $49) × 12
Premium base ($65) + 5 users ($12 each) = $125/mo. Ultimate comparison is $3,120/yr more.

DoklyFlat rate

Free

1 project · 5 pages · Visual MDX editor

$0forever

Starter

3 projects · 25 pages / project · 500 MB storage

$19/month

ProPopular

10 projects · Unlimited pages · 2 GB storage

$49/month

Scale

25 projects · Everything in Pro · 10 GB storage

$99/month

GitBookSource ↗

Free

1 user per site

Premium

Team collaboration

$65/site + $12/user

Ultimate

Full-featured

$249/site + $12/user

Enterprise

SAML SSO, audit

Custom

Prices verified Apr 24, 2026 from www.gitbook.com/pricing.

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