Does Dokly have the same MDX features as Mintlify?

For the 80% most teams actually use — yes. MDX pages, React components, tabs, accordions, callouts, code blocks with syntax highlighting, API Playground, custom branding. Mintlify has more advanced git-native workflows and some AI agent features that we don't match 1:1; Dokly ships a visual editor and llms.txt that they don't.

Can I actually migrate from Mintlify to Dokly?

Yes. Your MDX files transfer cleanly since both platforms speak MDX. Our Mintlify importer is in beta now — email support@dokly.co and we'll migrate your site for you, including mint.json/docs.json config, navigation, and images.

Is Dokly really cheaper long-term?

Yes — $49/mo vs $250/mo is $2,412 saved per year on the Pro tier alone. Add in the AI message overages ($0.25 each after 250/mo on Mintlify) and the gap grows. If you don't need SSO/SOC 2 yet, Dokly is roughly 5x cheaper.

What about the Git-as-source workflow?

Dokly is editor-first, with in-app version history. GitHub sync (push to your repo, Dokly auto-deploys) is in beta now — email support@dokly.co if you want early access and a docs-as-code workflow today.

Does Dokly have SSO / SOC 2 for enterprise?

SSO is in beta and SOC 2 is in progress. Email support@dokly.co if you need either — we're onboarding early enterprise customers now.

Does Dokly have AI features?

Yes — AI writing assistant in the editor (draft, rewrite, translate) and AI-powered search for readers on Pro. And every site auto-generates llms.txt so AI agents can cite your docs.

A modern Mintlify alternative

The Mintlify
alternative for
builders on a budget.

Beautiful MDX docs with a Git-first workflow. 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.

Start free Compare feature-by-feature

7-day trial · Cancel anytime · Ship in 5 minutes

$19/mo

Starting price

$49/mo

Pro plan

Git required

Built-in

llms.txt

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 Mintlify alternative — Dokly Pro is $49/month vs Mintlify's $250.

Teams switching from Mintlify 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

Mintlify is genuinely great. The design is tight, the AI features are real, and teams at Anthropic, Cursor, and Resend ship docs with it.

But Pro is $250/month and everything serious lives behind it — custom domain in the editor, the writing agent, preview deployments, password protection. If that's not your budget — hi.

Why switch

Why teams pick Dokly over Mintlify

$49 instead of $250

Mintlify Pro is $250/month. Dokly Pro is $49/month — that's $2,412 less per year for a very similar MDX-docs feature set.

No git workflow required

Mintlify deploys when you push to a repo. Dokly has a visual editor — PMs, designers, and support leads can ship a page without opening a terminal.

llms.txt is the default

Every Dokly site auto-generates llms.txt so LLMs and AI agents can parse your docs. Mintlify recently added agent optimizations too — but ours is automatic, not a setting.

14-day Pro trial, no setup sprint

Every Dokly plan ships with a 14-day Pro trial — full features, cancel before day 14 for $0. Mintlify's hobby tier is free but locked out of MDX components, custom domain, and the AI agent.

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 Mintlify

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

Feature	Dokly	Mintlify
Free option	14-day Pro trial	Hobby (free)
Pro plan	$49/mo	$250/mo
Visual editor	WYSIWYG MDX	Web editor + git
Git workflow required	No (optional)	Yes
MDX + React components
API Playground	Pro	Yes
AI writing in editor	Built-in on all tiers	Pro-only (writing agent)
AI agent creditsMintlify AI overage charges	Included	250/mo, then $0.25 each
AI search for readers	Pro	Included
llms.txt for AI agents	Auto-generated	Agent optimizations
Custom domain	Pro ($49)	Hobby tier
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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 Mintlify

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

01

Copy your MDX

Your Mintlify content is already MDX. Grab the files from your docs repo — no conversion needed.

02

Paste into Dokly

Create a project, paste each page into the Dokly editor. Frontmatter, callouts, code blocks, and React components carry over cleanly.

03

Point your domain

Upgrade to Pro, add a CNAME for docs.yoursite.com, and flip the switch. SSL auto-provisions in minutes.

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

Pricing

Real numbers. No footnotes.

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

Dokly Pro

$49

/month · flat

vs

Mintlify Pro

$250

/month

Average savings per year

$2,412

($250 − $49) × 12
Excludes AI message overages on Mintlify ($0.25 each beyond 250/mo).

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

MintlifySource ↗

Hobby

Personal / small open-source