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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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 $29/month. Built as a simpler GitBook alternative — Dokly Team is $99/month vs GitBook Premium (5 sites, 1 user) at $337/month.
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 $29/mo · Team $99/mo · Business $199/mo · Enterprise custom — no per-seat fees. Built with Next.js 15 and Supabase, with sub-100ms page loads via static generation and on-demand revalidation. Most teams ship their first docs site in under 10 minutes.
GitBook is polished and great for large orgs with many editors. The collaboration story is solid and the two-way GitHub sync works.
Premium is $65/site + $12/user (annual prices, as of October 2026). GitBook Assistant, the reader-facing AI, AI Insights, Channels, and adaptive content all require Ultimate at $249/site + $12/user, and the Assistant has a 500-answer soft limit. SAML SSO is Enterprise-only.
Why teams pick Dokly over GitBook
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 and a read-only MCP endpoint, so ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Cursor can parse and cite your docs. No config, no plugin.
Your AI agent writes, you approve
On every plan, connect Claude Code, Cursor, or any MCP client. New pages arrive as drafts, edits to live pages wait for your approval, and each one comes with a git-style diff. Approve in the dashboard or the terminal.
More coming
Semantic linking between pages, AI-drafted changelogs from git diffs, automated translation, and an /llms-full.txt endpoint.
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 site, unlimited pages) | 1 user per site |
| Entry paid plan | $29/mo (Starter, flat) | $65/site + $12/user (Premium) |
| 5 docs sitesGitBook prices each site separately (annual prices, as of October 2026). | $99/mo (Team) | 5 × $65 + users (Premium) |
| Reader-facing AI AssistantGitBook wins here | Not yet | Ultimate only (500-answer soft limit) |
| AI writing (authoring) | 1,500 credits/mo (Team) | Premium and up |
| Your AI agent writes over MCP | Drafts + diff review (every plan) | Change requests (agent can't merge) |
| AI Insights / analytics | Basic analytics | Ultimate ($249+) only |
| Custom domain | Starter ($29) | Premium ($65 + users) |
| MDX + React components | Full MDX | Block-based (~17 blocks) |
| Visual editor | ||
| API Playground | Team | Free (included) |
| GitHub / GitLab syncGitBook wins here | GitHub, one way (Git to Dokly) | Two-way |
| Auto-translationsGitBook has the most accessible translation pricing in the field | $25 first 50K words + $0.20/1K (Premium) | |
| llms.txt / LLM optimizations | Auto-generated | Available |
| SAML SSOGitBook wins here — but SAML isn't on Premium or Ultimate | Enterprise only | |
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The six features you'll use every day
Moving from GitBook
Honest take: there's no magic importer. It's a copy-paste job today. For most sites it takes an afternoon.
Export from GitBook
GitBook exports spaces as Markdown via the UI or API. Grab the archive for the space you want to move.
Paste into Dokly
Create a project, paste each Markdown file page-by-page into the editor. Images and code blocks transfer cleanly.
Customize + launch
Set your brand color, add a logo, point a custom domain if you're on Starter or above. You're live.
Moving a large site? Email support@dokly.co — we'll help you move it.
Real numbers. No footnotes.
Pricing pulled from GitBook's own pricing page on Oct 2, 2026.
Dokly Team5 sites at $65/site plus one $12 user, GitBook's annual prices as of October 2026; each extra user adds $12. Dokly Team includes 5 sites at $99 flat. For a single site, Dokly Starter ($29/mo, custom domain, no analytics) costs less than GitBook Premium with one user ($77/mo).
DoklyFlat ratePrices verified Oct 2, 2026 from www.gitbook.com/pricing.
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