Docs & Databases
GitBook
Create and publish beautiful product and developer documentation.
4.8· 180 reviews· via G2Founded 2014 · Lyon, France
What is GitBook?
GitBook is a documentation platform for technical teams to write, organize, and publish product docs, API references, and knowledge bases. It offers Git-style version control, collaborative editing, custom-branded doc sites, and AI-powered search.
Best known for: publishing developer and product documentation
Key features
- Product and API documentation
- Git-based version control
- AI-powered docs search
- Collaborative editing
- Custom-branded doc sites
- Markdown authoring
Who GitBook is best for
- Public product and developer documentation sites
- Engineering teams that want Git (GitHub/GitLab) sync
- API docs with interactive playgrounds
Ideal team: Developer-facing product and docs teams of any size publishing external documentation sites.
GitBook pricing
Free
$0
- Block editor
- GitHub/GitLab sync
- API playgrounds
Popular
Premium
$65/per site / mo
- Custom domain
- AI search & analytics
- $12 per additional user
Ultimate
$249/per site / mo
- AI Assistant & Agent
- Authenticated access
- Adaptive content
Enterprise
Custom
- SAML SSO
- White-glove migration
- Dedicated support
Costs to watch before you commit
- Dual billing stacks up — a per-site fee plus $12/mo for every collaborator beyond the owner.
- Each additional docs site incurs another base site fee.
- AI Assistant/Agent are locked to the Ultimate ($249/site) tier.
- SSO is only available on Enterprise.
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