Open source alternatives to Slite

By GitHub stars it is Docmost, with 22,333 stars and a commit on 13 Nov. Choose Docmost when your team wiki has to run on your own servers, even on an air-gapped network, instead of a vendor cloud. Next come La Suite Docs (16,989 stars) and XWiki (1,333 stars).

Yes. The code of all 5 is public under AGPL 3.0, MIT, LGPL 2.1 or Apache 2.0, so you can use them with no licence fee. Running one yourself costs the server and your time to look after it, and some makers also sell a hosted plan.

Start from the job you use Slite for. Choose DocsMint when you want to self-host your company documents and their search, with a free plan before paid tiers. Choose La Suite Docs when a public body or company needs a team knowledge base under the MIT licence that anyone can audit.

3 of the 5: Docmost, La Suite Docs and XWiki. Each tool's page says what it needs to run.

4 of the 5 we track had a commit in the last 30 days, among them Docmost, La Suite Docs, XWiki and DocsMint. The quietest is Orgnise, last changed on 25 Jul 2025. A recent commit shows the project is kept up, not that it will stay that way.

AGPL 3.0 (2), MIT (1), LGPL 2.1 (1), Apache 2.0 (1). MIT, BSD and Apache let you change and reuse the code freely. GPL and AGPL ask you to share your changes under the same licence when you give the software to others, and AGPL also counts letting people use it over a network.

The hosting. Slite's maker runs the servers for you; with an open source tool the updates, backups, security fixes and support are yours, unless you take the maker's hosted plan. Features differ too, so check what each one imports and exports before you move your data.