What is Docmost?
Team wiki and knowledge base you can host yourself, with spaces, permissions and live editing.
Who is Docmost best for?
Docmost is best for IT and operations teams that need a self-hosted company wiki for compliance or closed networks.
Regulated teams
Docmost runs on your own servers, so wiki content stays inside your network for GDPR, ITAR or similar rules.
Moving off Confluence or Notion
It imports Notion, HTML and Markdown content, and the Business edition adds a Confluence importer.
Diagram-heavy documentation
Draw.io, Excalidraw and Mermaid diagrams live inside pages, so architecture notes stay next to the text.
AI answers from your wiki
On Business, AI search and chat answer from your pages with citations, using Ollama, vLLM or a cloud model you choose.
How much does Docmost cost?
Docmost's Community edition is free to self-host under AGPL-3.0; the Business edition costs $6 per seat per month, billed yearly, with a 10-seat minimum.
- AGPL-3.0 core: pages, spaces, groups, comments
- Real-time editing, page history, full-text search
- Draw.io, Excalidraw and Mermaid diagrams
- Minimum of 10 seats
- SSO, MFA, page-level permissions, AI and MCP
- Bases, Kanban and the Confluence importer
- SCIM, audit logs and SIEM
- Page verification and review workflow
- Priority support
Every Docmost edition runs on your own servers; the pricing page lists no hosted cloud plan. Business and Enterprise come with a free trial licence, and Docmost offers special pricing for non-profits and education. Full pricing on docmost.com. We checked these prices on .
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Is Docmost open source?
Yes. Docmost's code is public under the AGPL 3.0 licence, so you can run it on your own server.
On GitHub
22,320stars
+362 (+1.6%) in the last 30 days
- Last commit
- 12 Nov
- Repository age
- 3 years
- Latest release
- 25 Oct
- Licence
- AGPL 3.0
- Self-hosted
- Yes
- Repository
- docmost/docmost
What are the best Docmost alternatives?
Docmost is an open source alternative to GitBook, Slite and Coda. AppFlowy, DocsMint and Colanode do the same job and are open source too.
GitBookFreeTeam knowledge as AI-ready documentation.
SliteFreemiumA team knowledge base for notes and docs.
CodaFreeDocs that work like apps, now part of Superhuman.
AppFlowyOpen SourceOpen-source workspace for docs, wikis and databases you can self-host.
DocsMintOpen SourceCreate, organise and search company documents in one place.
ColanodeOpen SourceLocal-first workspace with team chat, Notion-style pages, databases and shared file storage.
Questions about Docmost
What is Docmost?
Team wiki and knowledge base you can host yourself, with spaces, permissions and live editing.
Who is Docmost for?
Docmost is best for IT and operations teams that need a self-hosted company wiki for compliance or closed networks.
Is Docmost free?
Yes. Docmost has a free Community plan: AGPL-3.0 core: pages, spaces, groups, comments.
How much does Docmost cost?
Docmost's paid plans are Business at $6 per seat per month, billed yearly.
Which Docmost features are open source?
The Community edition is the AGPL-3.0 core: pages, spaces, groups, comments, page history, diagrams and search. SSO, AI, Bases, page-level permissions and the Confluence importer sit in the ee folders under the Docmost Enterprise license and need a paid licence.
What are the best Docmost alternatives?
The closest alternatives on Recaply are GitBook, Slite, Coda, AppFlowy, DocsMint and Colanode.
Where can I try Docmost?
On its official website, docmost.com.
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