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.
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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 Mintlify alternative — Dokly Team is $99/month vs Mintlify Pro (annual) at $450/month.
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 $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.
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 Mintlify Pro is $450/month on annual billing, or $540/month billed monthly (as of October 2026), and its AI Assistant is metered: 10,000 credits a month, then $0.01 per credit. If you'd rather have your own AI agent write the docs and review each change as a diff, with no Git repo and no Dokly meter on the agent, hi.
Why teams pick Dokly over Mintlify
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 Mintlify
We call the wins honestly — and the places Mintlify is still stronger.
| Feature |  Dokly | Mintlify |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Forever (1 site, unlimited pages) | Starter (free) |
| Entry paid plan | $29/mo (Starter) | $450/mo (Pro, annual) |
| Visual editor | WYSIWYG MDX | Web editor + git |
| Git workflow required | No (optional) | Yes |
| MDX + React components | ||
| API Playground | Team | Included |
| Your AI agent writes over MCP | Drafts + diff review, no Git (every plan) | Admin MCP, saves open a PR |
| AI writing in editor | 1,500 credits/mo (Team) | Writing agent, unlimited on Pro |
| AI credit meteringMintlify's Assistant uses 25 credits per answer, so 10,000 credits is about 400 answers (as of October 2026). | Editor AI only; agent writes over MCP unmetered | 10K/mo on Pro, then $0.01/credit |
| Reader-facing AI AssistantMintlify wins here — see FAQ | Not yet | Pro (25 credits per answer) |
| llms.txt for AI agents | Auto-generated | Included |
| Custom domain | Starter ($29) | Starter (free tier) |
| 5 projects on one plan | Team | Project-scoped pricing |
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The six features you'll use every day
Moving from Mintlify
Honest take: there's no magic importer. It's a copy-paste job today. For most sites it takes an afternoon.
Copy your MDX
Your Mintlify content is already MDX. Grab the files from your docs repo — no conversion needed.
Paste into Dokly
Create a project, paste each page into the Dokly editor. Frontmatter, callouts, code blocks, and React components carry over cleanly.
Point your domain
Upgrade to Starter ($29) or Team ($99), 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.
Real numbers. No footnotes.
Pricing pulled from Mintlify's own pricing page on Oct 27, 2026.
Dokly TeamBase subscription only, Mintlify Pro at its annual-billing price as of October 2026. Mintlify also meters its Assistant at 10K credits/mo, then $0.01/credit. Dokly Team is $99 flat: editor AI includes 1,500 credits/mo, and your own agent writing over MCP isn't metered by Dokly.
DoklyFlat ratePrices verified Oct 27, 2026 from mintlify.com/pricing.
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