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Mintlify pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives

Mintlify (mintlify.com) is a developer docs platform. Flat monthly plans: a free Starter tier capped at 5 editor seats, and Pro at a flat monthly fee with unlimited editors and AI credits; Enterprise is quote-only.. Free plan: Starter: $0 with custom domain, web editor, Git sync, API playground and up to 5 editor seats; no AI features..

What Mintlify costs

  • 3 editors: free (Starter $0: custom domain and 5 editor seats are listed (3 needed), with a web editor and an API playground. The pricing page names no OpenAPI reference support and no page, view or commercial-use limits for Starter, so $0 assumes none of them block the scenario; if the reference is excluded, the point is Pro at $540.)
  • 10 editors: $540/mo (Pro $540/mo on monthly billing ($450/mo billed annually is the headline, not used). Starter's 5-seat cap is too few for 10 editors, and Pro has unlimited editor seats, so there is no seat arithmetic. No page, endpoint or view caps are published for Pro.)

Plan compared: Starter (free) plan, 3 of its 5 editor seats. Prices are USD per month on monthly billing (annual-only plans divided by 12) for one public docs site on your own domain with guides and an API reference generated from an OpenAPI file, edited by 3 or 10 people, including any per-site, per-seat and add-on fees. Free plans count when they allow commercial use and cover the whole scenario; a 'Powered by' badge is allowed.

What Mintlify does

Core: Public help center & docs, OpenAPI API reference, Interactive API playground, Git-based content, AI answers for customers.

Important: Visual web editor, Previews and review workflow, Docs versioning, Multi-language docs, AI writing and upkeep, LLM-ready docs and MCP, Private and gated docs, Docs content analytics, SSO and compliance (partly).

Also has: GraphQL, AsyncAPI and gRPC docs (partly), SDK generation (partly), Personalized developer portal (partly), API design and linting (partly), API change tracking (partly), Open source and self-hosting (partly).

Mintlify price hikes

Alternatives to Mintlify

Mintlify is the cheapest developer docs platform we track at a docs site with 3 editors. The others:

Mintlify alternatives: 2 developer docs platforms compared, at every size.

Every change we logged

  • Jul 6, 2026 · Free tier cut: The free Starter plan lost the Assistant, Writing agent and Automations, which moved to Pro. Starter keeps its custom domain, web editor, MCP server and up to 5 editor seats.
  • Jul 6, 2026 · Price increase: A new Pro plan at $450 a month replaced the $250 plan retired on 2026-06-09, 80% more, and its credits doubled to 10,000 a month, now recurring. The current page shows $540 a month on monthly billing and $450 billed annually; PricingSaaS recorded $450 for either billing option.
  • Jun 9, 2026 · Repriced: The $250 a month Pro plan was discontinued, cutting three tiers to two: free Starter and quote-only Enterprise. Assistant, Writing agent and Workflows moved into the free tier, and the monthly/yearly switch was dropped.
  • Nov 2025 · Price increase: Pro rose from $150 to $250 a month (+66.7%), and the $550 Growth plan was retired. The change first appears on the 2025-11-08 snapshot, so its start date falls between the 2025-04-21 and 2025-11-08 snapshots.

Sources

Pricing page: mintlify.com/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Prices from mintlify.com/pricing (checked 2026-10-17) and PricingSaaS history; the Pro $150 to $250 change is dated by its 2025-11-08 snapshot. Neither source names OpenAPI reference support or page, view or commercial-use limits for Starter, so the $0 small point rests on the listed features.