Pricing on your terms

Yes. Starter is free forever for up to five editors. It includes hosting, search, a custom domain, Git sync, the web editor, authentication, an MCP server, and the API playground. Mintlify runs the site infrastructure while your team focuses on the content. You can keep using Starter after the Pro trial ends; a paid subscription is only needed when you want features beyond Starter.

Mintlify is a great place to start for a small team: Starter is free for up to five editors and includes hosting, search, a custom domain, and a web editor. You get a polished documentation experience without assembling and maintaining a site generator, hosting, and search yourself. Your docs stay in Git as Markdown or MDX, so you own the content and can take it to another platform later. Start with the managed experience now and keep your options open as your project grows. Built-in version and language navigation supports multiple releases and translated pages you maintain in Git. Publishing your own translations is separate from paid AI translation.

Teams like Anaconda and Replit moved to Mintlify to spend less time maintaining documentation infrastructure. Hosting, search, Markdown page URLs, llms.txt, and an MCP server are built in, so your team can focus on content while keeping it backed by Git. Custom components, CSS, and JavaScript are included on every plan; React components support interactive content with state and event handlers.

Stay on free Starter while its included features meet your needs. Up to five editors can work on a hosted documentation site with search, a custom domain, Git sync, a web editor, and an API playground. That covers the core documentation needs of many small teams. Upgrade when you need unlimited editor seats, preview deployments, analytics, the assistant, the writing agent, or Autopilot. Pro is $450 per month billed annually or $540 per month billed monthly, with 10,000 credits per month. Publishing polished docs does not require Pro.

Yes. You own your documentation. Mintlify stores your pages as Markdown or MDX in Git, and you can connect your own repository or move from a Mintlify-managed repository to your own. If you leave Mintlify, you keep those files and their Git history to use with another documentation platform. You do not need an Enterprise export to keep the source in your own repository. A new site may need adjustments to navigation or custom components, but your written content stays yours. Starting with Mintlify does not commit you to hosting your docs here forever.

Mintlify supports migrations from 21 sources, including Docusaurus, ReadMe, GitBook, Fern, Document360, Confluence, MkDocs, and PDFs. Run mint migrate to have a coding agent like Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor move your docs. On Enterprise, the Mintlify team runs the migration with you.

Every new account gets Mintlify Pro free for 14 days, with no credit card required. That includes the AI assistant, the writing agent, analytics, preview deployments, and 5,000 credits for AI features. The trial ends after 14 days or when the 5,000 credits run out, whichever comes first. Then you can upgrade to Pro or keep your docs live on the free Starter plan.

AI features are billed in credits, and every action has a flat price. An Assistant answer is 25 credits and an Autopilot or automation run that updates your docs is 250 credits. If the Assistant can't answer or a run finds nothing to update, you pay nothing. The writing agent, in the editor and in Slack, is included with Pro and Enterprise at no charge. Each plan includes a set amount of credits per month, overages are billed at $0.01/credit, and tiered credit packs are available at discounted rates if you need more. You can set a hard spending limit or turn off overages entirely from your dashboard. For exactly what counts as an answer or an update, see the credits documentation.

Yes, if you qualify. Non-commercial open source projects get Pro free forever through the OSS Program. They need a recognized open source license, can't be venture-backed or revenue-funded, and can't be owned or primarily maintained by a for-profit company. Venture-backed startups founded in the past 2 years that have raised less than $2M and never paid for Mintlify get 50% off Pro for 12 months through the Startup Program, as do YC alumni. The current YC batch gets 12 months free. Both programs require an application.