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.
Free forever · No credit card · Ship in 5 minutes
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 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.
Free forever tier
Dokly gives you a real Free plan (1 project, 5 pages, live subdomain) — not a limited trial. Ship a landing doc site for $0.
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 Mintlify
We call the wins honestly — and the places Mintlify is still stronger.
| Feature |  Dokly | Mintlify |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | Free forever | 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 |
| 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 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 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 ProExcludes AI message overages on Mintlify ($0.25 each beyond 250/mo).
DoklyFlat ratePrices verified Apr 24, 2026 from mintlify.com/pricing.
FAQ
Questions we actually get
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