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Mintlify Has a Free Documentation Platform — Beautiful Docs from Markdown

Mintlify is a modern documentation platform — write Markdown, get beautiful docs with search, API playground, and analytics.

What You Get for Free (Free Tier)

  • Beautiful design — polished docs without custom CSS
  • MDX support — React components in Markdown
  • API playground — interactive API testing in docs
  • Search — instant search across all pages
  • Analytics — see which pages get traffic
  • Git-based — edit in your repo, auto-deploys on push
  • Custom domain — docs.yourdomain.com
  • Versioning — multiple doc versions
  • OpenAPI — auto-generate API reference from spec

Quick Start

npx mintlify dev
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---
title: "Getting Started"
description: "Set up your project in 5 minutes"
---

## Installation

<CodeGroup>
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bash npm
npm install my-sdk

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bash yarn
yarn add my-sdk

</CodeGroup>

<Card title="API Reference" href="/api">
  Browse all endpoints
</Card>
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Why Developers Switch from GitBook

GitBook's free tier is limited and the UI feels dated:

  • Developer-focused — API playground, code tabs, SDK examples
  • Faster — instant page loads, no spinner
  • Git-native — Markdown in your repo, not a separate editor
  • Better design — Stripe/Vercel-quality docs out of the box

A startup's GitBook docs had a 40% bounce rate. After Mintlify: same content, better design, bounce rate dropped to 18%. Users found answers faster with built-in search.

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