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Publish multiple projects and build developer portals, API references, or user guides and tutorials.
Archbee is a product documentation platform that is evolving fast.

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How is Archbee comparing with Readme?

Stop paying more for features you shouldn't. Focus on writing great product documentation
and grow your business at a price that's sustainable.

Feature Comparison

Archbee

Readme

Write and Publish documentation

Full customization with Custom CSS or JavaScript

Enhanced Search and Search Analytics

Reusable Content

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Publish multiple knowledge bases without aditional cost

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Staging Environment on all plans

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Unlimited documentation versions

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Direct Github integration

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Modern editor with markdown shortcuts and 30+ custom blocks

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Dynamic Links between knowledge base articles

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Code Editor block with multiple tabs, drag & drop

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Standalon app for Mac, Windows and Linux

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Archbee vs. Readme: What's right for me?

Great question! We think we’re pretty great, but here’s an honest answer from Joe Pettersson - CTO @ Banked.com

We've moved to Archbee from ReadMe recently due to constraints in ReadMe's product and the challenges of scaling it commercially in our model. The big challenges were inherent to how usage scales in their platform.

For example, they see a 'project' as one single set of cohesive documentation and build a UX/UI to facilitate that. It means you need multiple projects for multiple documentation projects. In simple terms, everything in a project is intended to be 'one thing.'

Projects are so distinct and separated that they are hard to maintain at scale (lots of repetition, no setting, or customization sharing). And, if you need the full customization options, you must pay $400 a month for each project.

This is unique to our model, but it's why we've left. Archbee has some (not all) of the same limitations, but they don't charge us $400 a month for each project!

Write the docs, set your domain and hit PUBLISH

Once your content is ready, all you do is hit publish. We make it easy to setup branded docs on your domain — with all the bells and whistles.

No more fiddling with markdown, git workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and servers for user-friendly and great-looking docs!

See live portals powered by Archbee

Selling to developers? Probably not the way you think.

Developers don't "jump" on demos or sales calls. Let them educate themselves on product and they'll sell the product for you internally.

We provide you with the tools to onboard and activate them in your product with no human interaction.

Our incredibly featured editor will make it easy to create the content

Block-based speedy editor with over 30+ custom blocks and 25 embeds and integrations available.
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Not only that, but it's incredibly easy for your entire team to collaborate on creating the content.

Effortless content editing + collaboration

Information is more than just plain text.

Archbee's document editor allows you to create and structure your content effortlessly with the flexibility of custom blocks and the simplicity of Markdown syntax.

Utilize a any of the 30+ custom blocks, such as lists, checklists, tables, callouts, minitasks, files, images, videos, maps, multilanguage code editors, diagrams, Mermaid.js, API endpoints, Swagger/Open API, GraphQL, changelogs, HTML iframes, to enhance your team's ability to communicate effectively.

Easy document collaboration with inline comments.

This is knowledge management on steroids to help your team learn to communicate asynchronously.

This is how you build an efficient, resilient & remote-ready team.

We went far beyond the basic editing experience.

Archbee is a complete documentation workspace for your team!

Link docs, mention people to keep knowledge up to date and close by.

Each keystroke is a sub 15 millisecond process time.

One of the easiest as well, no training required. It's the fastest way build up your company's knowledge.

Use markdown shortcuts or just point and click to format for great readability.

Say goodbye to the slow & clunky

Organize your documents in Spaces. These can be your departments, projects or groups of people.

Each Space is a tree structure with infinite opportunities to capture and store your knowledge.

Keep information at your fingertips with Archbee's custom algorithm for search.

Complete visibility on every search query and feedback analytics for each document.

Learn how often a query is searched for and how many documents appear in the search results.

Documents have a huge lifetime, and many people contribute.

With Archbee you get to see its history all the way back, highlight the changes and revert if the need arises.

Keep the knowledge base private or make it public on your domain, but that's not all.

A plethora of access control settings can be set, for either your team or your customers.

Knowledge management is hard, but it doesn't have to be.

Keep information linked so people can quickly read through all your workspace.

Great for onboarding, great for building a great team.