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How is Archbee comparing with Gitbook?

Archbee and Gitbook are both great documentation platforms, but which one is right for you?
We’ll compare the two and give you the info you need to decide.

Feature Comparison

Archbee

Gitbook

Write and Publish documentation

Internal + External Knowledge Base

Github integration

Full customization with Custom CSS or JavaScript

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Reusable Content

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Contextual documentation widget

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Remove the Power by logo

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Powerful Code Editor block with multiple tabs, drag & drop

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Create diagrams without third party tools

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Export all content to Markdown

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Standalone app for Mac, Windows and Linux

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A support team that's here for you.

No technical headaches, no waiting for support, just a beautiful all-in-one documentation platform you can rely on to run your business.

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Documention under one roof.

Archbee lets you setup internal and customer facing docs. Start your employee handbook, add your SMEs to verify documents and more.

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Import feature to add Gitbook files.

Need help moving your docs to Archbee? We provide an import feature or Github integration to migrate your documentation.

Write. Publish. Sell More.

We are picking up the baton and make writing and publishing documentation faster so that you don't have to worry about your clients not having access to the doc site.

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The fast and scaleable way to onboard new team members

COVID-19 has taught us that chat and video are a productivity bottleneck. And a happiness drain.

Archbee helps your team communicate asynchronously. This makes you effective and remote-ready.

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.

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.

Integrate with platforms & tools your team is already using

We pack a punch, but we also integrate with 25+ other popular software

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"Like many, we originally built our own documentation portal in house. But as our team grew, it became a huge headache. With Archbee, everyone (even non-technicals) can create, update and share documentation with users or developers. It's like Notion — but purpose built for technical docs."

Greg Soltys, docuflow Product Manager at

"Archbee makes building our docs enjoyable and I'm a developer at core, so you know that's saying something. We use Archbee to create and share private documentation with a multitude of our clients in the DTC world."

Scott Wickberg, Owner & Creative Director

"Once we started scaling our team, documentation became very important. Our markdown-based solution in GitHub couldn't be handled by newer non-technical team members so we were looking for a modern solution for knowledge documentation. We found Archbee and we're super happy with its development."

Alex Circei, Founder & CEO

"The interface is clean and very easy to use. It has everything we would expect from a modern documentation platform built for teams that build software. We can build any type of documentation, from user guides to developer API references and sharing it couldn't be easier. Just hit publish!"

Delphine Marceau, Head of Customer Care

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

Great question! We think we’re pretty great, but here’s an honest answer:

Both platforms allow you to write and publish documentation. Both give you landing pages, hosting, and helpful features like visitor authentication, versioning, and Github integration.

Compared to Gitbook, Archbee is more accessabile with the starting paid plans. When you hit the 5 users, additional members are $4 for Archbee; with Gitbook, every user after your first 5 is charged an additional $8 per month/user.

One thing to consider is that the content exported from Gitbook cannot be imported back to Gitbook (they mention this in the export option). You might want to consider this in the long run. We actually created a Gitbook import option for users that wanted to migrate to Archbee.

The alternative to get to content from Gitbook is to leverage Github. Once the content is in a repository, you can import it back in Archbee when you create a collection.

Archbee received the best usability award from G2 in the Wiki Software category, and our customers' testimonials back this up.

Editing experience. More than 20 custom blocks are available with Archbee editor. This gives you the flexibility to add various content types, including Embedding from apps like Loom, Airtable, Figma, Github Gist, Numeracy, Codepen, Trello, Typeform, Miro, Google Docs/Sheets/Slides, Mode Analytics, Lucidchart.

Authentication options. If you want to authorize visitor sessions using a JWT token, this option is available only in the Enterprise plans with Gitbook which requires custom pricing. With Archbee it starts at $400, which includes access to upcoming features like API Access, Content Reuse and Language Localisation.

Support. While a features are important, support is critical. Archbee has email and in-app support chat with a median response time around 50 minutes and we strive to answer any queries in 1 business day.

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