Mintlify
Docs-as-code hosting with an AI Assistant, writing agent and MCP server
Overview
Mintlify is a documentation platform that publishes developer docs from Markdown or MDX in Git or a web editor, with interactive API references, an MCP server and llms.txt for AI agents. Paid plans add a reader-facing AI Assistant, a writing agent and automations, metered in AI credits. Starter is free; Pro is $450 a month billed annually or $540 monthly.
Pricing
Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 14 Oct 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete. This is not financial or purchasing advice — always confirm the current price on the provider’s official website before making any decision.
- Full platform, custom domain and web editor
- Authentication, MCP server and API playground
- Git sync and search
- Unlimited editor seats and 10,000 AI credits a month
- Assistant, writing agent and automations
- Preview deployments, analytics, webhooks and developer API
- SSO, SCIM and RBAC, with audit logs
- Performance SLA; self-hosting and EU hosting available
- Migration services and dedicated customer success
Use cases
What you can produce with Mintlify
- A hosted docs site published from Markdown or MDX in Git or a web editor, deployed on every merge
- Interactive API reference pages and a playground generated from an OpenAPI spec
- An MCP server and llms.txt so AI agents can read your docs
- A reader-facing AI Assistant that answers from your docs (Pro, 25 credits an answer)
- A writing agent that drafts and updates pages in the editor or Slack (Pro)
- Automations that update docs when code changes (Pro, 250 credits an update)
- Preview deployments, analytics and AI translations (Pro)
Mintlify gets a team from a Git repository to a polished, fast docs site with an interactive API reference quickly, and it has leaned hard into AI agents: every site gets an MCP server, and Pro adds an Assistant for readers, a writing agent and automations that update docs when code changes. The free Starter plan is a real product, not a trial.
The cost is a steep jump to Pro at $450 a month billed annually, with AI use metered in credits beyond 10,000 a month. Read the November 2025 security write-up before hosting docs on the same domain as an authenticated app. A strong pick for API-first companies; GitBook, ReadMe or a self-built Docusaurus site may suit tighter budgets.
What we found
Mintlify is a documentation platform run by Mintlify, Inc. in San Francisco. Han Wang and Hahnbee Lee started it in 2022 and went through Y Combinator's Winter 2022 batch; an early product, Mintlify Writer, generated code documentation inside the editor before the company moved to hosting documentation sites. Teams write in Markdown or MDX in a Git repository or a web editor, every merge publishes, and an OpenAPI file becomes an interactive API reference. Its customer stories include Anthropic, Coinbase, HubSpot and AT&T.
The current pitch is documentation for AI agents. Published sites come with an MCP server, llms.txt files and agent analytics, and on paid plans an Assistant answers readers' questions from the docs while a writing agent drafts and updates pages, including from Slack. Automations can update docs when code changes. Mintlify raised a $45 million Series B in April 2026 at a $500 million valuation, led by Andreessen Horowitz and Salesforce Ventures, taking total funding to $67 million, and says more than 20,000 companies use it.
Pricing changed again in 2026. Starter is free with five editor seats, a custom domain, authentication and the MCP server. Pro costs $450 a month billed annually or $540 monthly, with unlimited seats and 10,000 AI credits a month; an Assistant answer costs 25 credits, an automation update 250, overages $0.01 a credit, and nothing is charged when the Assistant cannot answer. Enterprise adds SSO, SCIM, self-hosting and EU hosting. Since October 2026 current YC companies get Pro free for a year.
Security is the caveat worth knowing. In November 2025 researchers found a flaw that let files uploaded by one customer run as scripts on another customer's docs domain, followed by server-side code execution and a dashboard data leak. Mintlify says each was fixed within hours, paid about $10,000 in bounties and found no evidence of exploitation. Separately, CLI releases installed between 21 and 24 November 2025 pulled in dependencies compromised in a supply-chain attack. On G2, Mintlify scored 4.6 from 19 reviews (read 14 October 2026).
Compiled by RECATOOLS from public sources: vendor documentation and pricing, code repositories and published reporting.
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