Hudu vs Wiki.js

Hudu

• Managed service providers documenting many client environments
• Internal IT teams keeping credentials, assets and how-tos in one system
• Organizations that need to host their IT documentation on their own servers

Wiki.js

• Developer teams that prefer writing documentation in Markdown
• Organizations that want a free wiki on their own infrastructure
• Wikis whose content should be mirrored to a Git repository

Hudu

• There is no free plan: after the 14-day trial each user who can log in costs $27 a month billed annually, or $30 monthly.
• It is built for IT documentation, so the feature set centers on assets, credentials, networks and client companies.
• Automatic network discovery is the separate Hudu Radar add-on, from $44 a month billed annually for 5 collectors.
• The mobile app does not cover every web feature; Hudu's release notes say the rest are still being added.

Wiki.js

• The site offers two ways to run it, self-hosting or a DigitalOcean Marketplace image, and lists no managed hosting plan or paid support.
• It requires a dedicated domain or sub-domain and cannot be mapped to a subfolder of another site.
• MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server and SQLite will not be supported in the next major version, which keeps only PostgreSQL.
• Version 3.0 is still in beta, and several listed modules, such as the WikiText and tabular editors, are marked as coming soon.

Hudu

Structured documentation

Knowledge base articles, checklists and SOPs follow consistent layouts and templates, with version histories, flags and reviews, and links between related records.

Password vault

Company and personal credential vaults store passwords and one-time passcodes, with role-based access, group permissions and a full audit history.

Assets, IP addresses and racks

Devices, vendors and systems are tracked through structured forms, alongside IP address management, rack layouts and a photo gallery.

Expirations and monitoring

Domains, SSL certificates, warranties and contract renewals are tracked with alerts before they lapse, and the plan includes website and SSL monitoring.

Client portal

Clients get limited access to their own documentation through a portal. Read-only portal users are unlimited and do not count toward the license total.

Hudu AI and MCP server

Plain-English questions are answered from assets, articles and client data with source links, and an MCP server connects Hudu to Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot. Included in the plan.

Wiki.js

Three editors

Pages can be written in Markdown with a live preview, in a visual WYSIWYG editor meant for non-technical people, or directly in HTML.

Version tracking

All content changes are tracked. Two versions of a page can be compared visually, and a page can be reverted to an earlier state or recovered after deletion.

Authentication modules

Sign-in can use local accounts, services such as Google, GitHub and Slack, or LDAP, SAML, Okta and Azure AD, with two-factor authentication on supported modules.

Git and cloud storage sync

Content can be synchronized or backed up to Git services such as GitHub and GitLab, or to storage such as AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage and Google Cloud Storage.

Groups, permissions and page rules

Users are placed in groups with granular permissions, and page rules limit a group's access by exact path, by how a path starts or ends, or by regular expression.

GraphQL API

A GraphQL endpoint on each wiki reads and modifies all of its resources, using API tokens with permission scopes that are generated in the administration area.

Hudu

• Hudu$27

  per user / month, billed annually ($30 billed monthly)

  One plan, cloud-hosted or self-hosted: documentation, password vault, assets, IPAM, client portal with unlimited free portal users, AI assistant, API and SSO.

• Hudu Radar Starter$44

  per month, billed annually at $529 ($49 billed monthly)

  Optional network discovery add-on with 5 collectors. One collector is one Radar install in a client environment.

• Hudu Radar Growth$89

  per month, billed annually at $1,068 ($99 billed monthly)

  The Radar network discovery add-on with 25 collectors.

• Hudu Radar Scale$269

  per month, billed annually at $3,229 ($299 billed monthly)

  The Radar network discovery add-on with 150 collectors.

• Hudu Radar Enterprise$449

  per month, billed annually at $5,389 ($499 billed monthly)

  The Radar network discovery add-on with 500 collectors. Larger deployments are quoted on request.

Wiki.js

• Wiki.js$0

  The full application, hosted on your own servers or launched from the DigitalOcean Marketplace image, with community help through the project's support channels.

Hudu

• Annual discount

  Save 10% with annual billing

  The pricing page marks annual billing as saving 10%: $27 per user a month instead of $30 billed monthly, with no minimums or contracts.

Wiki.js

No public discounts listed.