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The New GitBook
✓ verifiedFreemium
Documentation platform for publishing accurate, AI-ready docs sites, with Git sync and an MCP server for AI tools.
653K visits/mo2.9K saves
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Eraser AI
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI co-pilot for technical diagrams and design docs, with diagram-as-code and integrations for engineering teams.
873K visits/mo41K saves
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Mintlify
✓ verifiedFreemium
Documentation and knowledge platform that keeps developer docs self-updating and queryable by AI agents.
718K visits/mo
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Dagster
✓ verifiedFreemium
Open-source asset-based data orchestrator, with Dagster+ cloud, for building, observing and delivering reliable data and AI pipelines.
152K visits/mo
Pricing
No public pricing
Free trial available
Free: $0 (3 files, 3 AI diagrams)
Starter: $15/user/mo billed annually (40 AI diagrams)
Business: $45/user/mo billed annually (250 AI diagrams, SSO)
Starter: $0/mo (individuals and small teams)
Free trial available
Solo: $10/mo + $0.040/credit (1 user)
Starter: $100/mo + $0.035/credit (up to 3 users)
Free trial available
Core features
- ✦Publish structured documentation sites
- ✦Git sync for docs-as-code workflows
- ✦AI setup agent to build and import docs
- ✦GitBook MCP server for AI access
- ✦Enterprise controls
- ✦Free tier to start
- ✦AI-generated diagrams from prompts
- ✦Diagram-as-code editing
- ✦Markdown design docs
- ✦Eraserbot auto-updating codebase diagrams
- ✦Integrations: GitHub, Notion, Confluence, VS Code
- ✦Export to PNG/SVG/PDF/MD and MCP server
- ✦Self-updating documentation
- ✦Web-based documentation editor
- ✦Custom domain hosting
- ✦Built-in search and API playground
- ✦MCP server for agent access
- ✦Authentication and access controls
- ✦Asset-based pipeline orchestration
- ✦Built-in lineage and data-quality checks
- ✦Data catalog with asset metadata
- ✦Native dbt, Snowflake and Fivetran integrations
- ✦Branch deployments and hybrid deployment
- ✦Open-source core plus managed Dagster+ cloud
Use cases
- →Publish product and API documentation
- →Maintain docs-as-code with Git sync
- →Make docs consumable by AI assistants
- →Import existing docs into a hosted site
- →Create architecture and cloud diagrams fast
- →Write and maintain design docs
- →Keep codebase diagrams up to date
- →Embed live diagrams in Notion/Confluence
- →Publish and maintain developer documentation
- →Expose docs to AI agents via MCP
- →Host a branded docs site on a custom domain
- →Give teams a collaborative doc editor
- →Orchestrate ETL/ELT and dbt pipelines
- →Monitor data health and lineage
- →Build AI/ML data pipelines
- →Run reliable, observable data platforms
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