About
GitBook is a documentation platform for publishing product docs, help centers, and knowledge bases. It provides a block-based web editor with Markdown support, GitHub and GitLab sync, preview deployments, built-in SEO, full-text search, page analytics, and an API playground for interactive documentation.
The free plan includes 1 free user, unlimited page views, preview deployments, LLM optimizations, Git Sync with GitHub or GitLab, interactive API playgrounds, and change requests. It is aimed at individuals or small teams that need a published docs site without a paid subscription, while paid plans add collaboration, custom domains, AI search, AI Assistant, and other advanced publishing and access-control features.
- 1 free user included
- Unlimited page views
- GitHub or GitLab sync
- Preview deployments
- LLM optimization exports
- Interactive API playgrounds
- Change requests and version history
Free Tier Value
This free tier is genuinely usable for individual docs work and includes the core publishing and editing stack, so it is worth a meaningful share of the cheapest paid plan. The cheapest paid option starts at $65 per site/month, and the free plan keeps most of the day-to-day capabilities while limiting collaboration to one user and capping the AI agent at 10 messages per week, so a fair estimate is about $65/month. A 14-day trial exists on paid plans, and a credit card is not called out as required for the free plan.
What's included in the free tier
- Access to 1 free user for individual use.
- Unlimited page views for published documentation.
- Block-based visual editor with custom blocks.
- GitHub or GitLab sync for documentation content.
- Interactive API playgrounds for testing endpoints in docs.
- Preview deployments for unlimited full-site previews.
- LLM optimizations via llms.txt, llms-full.txt, and .md versions.
- GitBook Agent with a 10-message-per-week limit.
- Page view analytics for tracking site traffic.
- Full text search across documentation.
- API playground blocks for interactive endpoint testing.
- User contribution via Git Sync.
- Block-based editor with Markdown support.
- Git Sync two-way synchronization with GitHub or GitLab.
- Change requests for branching, review, and merging workflows.
- Version history for viewing, sharing, and rolling back changes.
- Commenting on content blocks with @mentions and threads.
- Integrations, including verified integrations and API-built custom integrations.
- Importing from Markdown, Google Docs, Confluence, Notion, and MS Word.
- Basic roles: admin, creator, editor, and reader.
- ISO 27001 and SOC 2 certified platform security.
- Google/email domain SSO for allowed email domains.
- Email support via support tickets.
See GitBook pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Premium
- site
- 1 site included
- user
- $12 per user/month
- billing
- annual billing, paid yearly
- Invite your team to collaborate
- AI search
- Custom domain
- Advanced branding options
- Analytics & user feedback
- Site redirects
Ultimate
- site
- 1 site included
- user
- $12 per user/month
- billing
- annual billing, paid yearly
- AI Assistant
- AI insights
- GitBook Agent
- Adaptive content
- Authenticated access
- Consolidate content with sections & groups
- Channels integrations
Enterprise
- pricing
- custom
- adaptive content
- unlimited
- billing
- custom contract
- SAML SSO
- White-glove migration service
- Custom integrations
- 1:1 dedicated support
- User training
- Custom contract & invoicing
- Legal & security reviews
- Unlimited adaptive content
Pricing extracted from GitBook's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
