What Docsbook includes, and what costs money
Prices change, and a price copied into a documentation page goes stale silently. Read the current ones at docsbook.io/pricing — that page is generated from the live billing constants on every request. This page describes the capabilities and the metering, and quotes no prices.
Capabilities#
| Capability | What it gives you | Guide |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub sync | Your markdown publishes as a site; a push updates it | Manage your docs |
| Branding and themes | Your colours, logo, light/dark, navigation | Branding |
| SEO / GEO / AEO | Meta tags, sitemap, OpenGraph, JSON-LD, canonical URLs, one indexed page set per language | SEO |
| Full-text search | Keyword search over every published page | Search |
| Live auto translations | 15 languages, re-translated when you edit a page | Translations |
| Custom domain | docs.yourcompany.com with an automatic SSL certificate |
Custom domain |
| AI support assistant | An assistant that answers readers from your indexed pages | AI chat |
| Assistant configuration | Custom system prompt, chat hooks, chat analysis | Chat hooks |
| Analytics | Views, visitors, top pages, referrers, search queries, goals and funnels | Analytics |
| Privacy and access control | Switch a workspace to private behind a password or your own OIDC identity provider | Private docs |
| Semantic search | Every section embedded, so the assistant finds a passage by meaning | AI chat |
| Hosted API reference | Renders your OpenAPI spec as an interactive page | Content widgets |
| Bring your own AI key | Your provider bills you for usage directly; Docsbook bills you nothing for it | AI chat |
| Webhooks and feed notifiers | Discord and webhook notifications on documentation events | Webhooks |
Migration onto Docsbook, full branding setup, agent configuration and Slack or pull-request integrations can be done for you rather than by you. Those are done-for-you services rather than capabilities you switch on; the pricing page says which are included.
What any of this costs#
Only work that calls an AI model costs money: answers the reader-facing assistant writes, pages translated into another language, work you ask the admin assistant or the on-page editor to do, and building the semantic index. Every capability in the table above is available to every project; none of them is withheld until you pay.
Everything else in that table — hosting, the custom domain and its SSL certificate, GitHub sync, keyword search, branding, navigation, widgets, feedback and analytics — costs nothing from the balance, however much traffic the site gets.
Two pages carry the detail, and this one deliberately repeats neither:
- Docsbook pricing — what a project balance is, the free credit a new project starts with, and how top-ups work.
- How Docsbook charges for AI usage — how a single call is priced, how to cap one source of spend, and how billing and cancellation work.
Current prices are published at docsbook.io/pricing, regenerated on every request. A price written into a documentation page is a copy that goes stale silently, so none appears here.
Next steps#
- Set up a custom domain — serve the docs from
docs.yourcompany.com. - Enable AI translations — the capability that draws on the balance fastest.
- Restrict who can read your docs — password or your own identity provider.
- How Docsbook charges for AI usage — the metering in detail.