The ReadMe
alternative for
builders on a budget.
API-first documentation with interactive playgrounds. 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 ReadMe alternative — Dokly Team is $99/month vs ReadMe Pro at $250/month.
Teams switching from ReadMe 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.
ReadMe is the grown-up tool for API docs. Metrics, developer portals, API key management — the whole enterprise dev-portal story is real.
Pro is $250/month billed annually ($3,000/yr). Enterprise jumps to $3,000+/month. For an indie hacker or seed-stage startup shipping a v1 API, it's overkill.
Why teams pick Dokly over ReadMe
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 ReadMe
We call the wins honestly — and the places ReadMe is still stronger.
| Feature |  Dokly | ReadMe |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | Forever | Starter (free) |
| Entry paid plan | $29/mo (Starter) | $250/mo (Pro, annual) |
| Enterprise floor | Custom | $3,000+/mo |
| Additional adminDokly doesn't have multi-user workspaces yet. | No per-seat pricing | +$20/admin (Pro) |
| Custom domain | Starter ($29) | Starter (free tier) |
| API Playground | Team | Included |
| OpenAPI / Swagger import | ||
| MDX + React | Full | Custom MDX components (Pro) |
| Reader-facing AI chatReadMe wins here | Not yet | Ask AI add-on $150/mo |
| Your AI agent writes over MCP | Drafts + diff review (every plan) | API key; edits on a branch + preview link |
| llms.txt | Auto-generated | Included |
| Branching & reviewsReadMe wins here | Pro | |
| API Metrics / usage dataReadMe wins here | ||
| SSO / OAuth | Enterprise |
The six features you'll use every day
Moving from ReadMe
Honest take: there's no magic importer. It's a copy-paste job today. For most sites it takes an afternoon.
Export your pages
Pull your guides out of ReadMe as Markdown. Keep your OpenAPI spec handy — Dokly will re-import it for the Playground.
Import to Dokly
Paste guides into the Dokly editor. Upload your OpenAPI spec to auto-generate the interactive API Playground.
Brand + domain
Add your logo, brand color, and custom domain on Starter and up. SSL ships automatically. Flip DNS, you're live.
Moving a large site? Email support@dokly.co — we'll help you move it.
Real numbers. No footnotes.
Pricing pulled from ReadMe's own pricing page on Oct 2, 2026.
Dokly TeamReadMe Pro is $250/mo billed annually plus $20/extra admin (as of October 2026). The Ask AI reader-facing chat is another $150/mo add-on. Dokly Team is $99 flat with 1,500 editor AI credits a month; it has no reader-facing AI chat.
DoklyFlat ratePrices verified Oct 2, 2026 from readme.com/pricing.
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