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 $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.
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.
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 | |
| Dark mode |
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.
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 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 ProPremium base ($65) + 5 users ($12 each) = $125/mo. Ultimate comparison is $3,120/yr more.
DoklyFlat ratePrices verified Apr 24, 2026 from www.gitbook.com/pricing.
FAQ
Questions we actually get
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