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 $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.
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 $250/month, and the AI on top is metered — 10K credits included, then $0.01 per credit. Busy sites report $100–$500/month in AI overage. If flat pricing with AI included matters, 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 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.
Dokly vs Mintlify
We call the wins honestly — and the places Mintlify is still stronger.
| Feature |  Dokly | Mintlify |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Forever (1 project) | Starter (free) |
| Entry paid plan | $99/mo (Team) | $250/mo (Pro) |
| Visual editor | WYSIWYG MDX | Web editor + git |
| Git workflow required | No (optional) | Yes |
| MDX + React components | ||
| API Playground | Team | Included |
| AI writing in editor | Included, no meter | Metered credits |
| AI credit metering~11,500 credits ≈ 500 Assistant answers. Busy sites report $100–$500/mo AI overage. | None | 10K/mo, then $0.01/credit |
| Reader-facing AI AssistantMintlify wins here — see FAQ | Not yet | Included (Pro) |
| llms.txt for AI agents | Auto-generated | Included |
| Custom domain | Team ($99) | 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 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 Aug 13, 2026.
Dokly TeamBase subscription only. Mintlify Pro also meters AI at 10K credits/mo, $0.01/credit overage — busy sites report $100–$500/mo extra. Dokly Team is $99 flat with AI included.
DoklyFlat ratePrices verified Aug 13, 2026 from mintlify.com/pricing.
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