Slite vs You Need A Wiki

Slite

• Teams that want an internal knowledge base with owned, verified docs
• Companies that want cited AI answers drawn from their own documentation
• Remote teams documenting handbooks, processes and runbooks

You Need A Wiki

• Teams that already keep their documentation in Google Docs
• Small companies that want a wiki without migrating content to a new tool
• Publishing a public knowledge base straight from a Drive folder

Slite

• There is no free plan: after the 14-day trial, a paid subscription is needed to keep using the workspace.
• The pricing page shows yearly-billed prices only; a monthly plan exists, but its price is not published there.
• The Slite Agent, search across connected tools, OpenID SSO and custom domains for public docs need Pro at $20 per user / month.
• Basic limits each member to 30 AI questions and 30 AI edits a month, 5 GB of storage and 200 MB file uploads.

You Need A Wiki

• It depends on Google Drive and Google Docs: all content lives there and editing happens in the Docs editor.
• The wiki folder has to be shared with a You Need A Wiki service account so its server can act on the files.
• Only 1 user is free; the next tier is $19 a month for up to 10 users, and teams above 75 users must email for a price.
• The site shows monthly prices only, with no annual billing option or free trial of the paid tiers listed.

Slite

Collaborative editor

A real-time editor with comments, mentions, custom templates, recurring scheduled docs and doc history. Docs can be exported as PDF, Markdown or HTML.

Doc verification and ownership

Each doc can have an owner and a verification status, and the Knowledge Management Panel lets admins review and act on many docs at once.

Ask: AI search and answers

Answers questions with cited sources. Basic searches Slite docs with 30 questions per member a month; Pro and Enterprise search connected tools with 100 per member.

Slite Agent

On Pro and Enterprise, an agent watches connected tools, drafts updates to out-of-date docs and routes them to a person for approval. It draws on pooled credits, 50 per seat a month.

MCP and public API

Every plan includes a public API and an MCP server, so assistants such as Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor can search, read and edit docs under the user's permissions.

Public docs

Docs can be shared publicly on every plan, with AI answers for readers. Search-engine indexing, custom branding and a custom domain for public docs start on Pro.

You Need A Wiki

Wiki from existing Drive folders

Existing Google Drive folders and files are imported into a wiki with a nested tree menu. Changes made in Docs or Drive show up in the wiki, and everything is saved to Drive.

Google Docs as the editor

Pages are edited in Google Docs, so live collaboration, suggestions and formatting come from Docs. The wiki shows who last edited a page.

Search across document content

Search covers the text inside documents. To speed it up, document content is cached for up to a month, which can be turned off in settings.

Team, contact and public sharing

A wiki can be shared with a team or individual contacts or made publicly accessible. Read-only users are unlimited, and a read-only mode guards against accidental edits.

Custom domain and embedding

The plans list a custom domain alias, a custom sidebar color and the option to embed a wiki in another page as an iframe.

Slite

• Basic$10

  per user / month, billed yearly

  Unlimited docs, doc verification, the Knowledge Management Panel, Ask within Slite docs (30 questions per member a month), and MCP and API access.

• Pro$20

  per user / month, billed yearly

  Adds the Slite Agent with 50 monthly credits per seat, search across connected tools, doc fact-checking, OpenID SSO and a custom domain for public docs.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Adds reader-only seats, SCIM provisioning, audit logs, a service level agreement, a dedicated account manager and migration support.

You Need A Wiki

• 1 user$0

  A single user, with wikis set up from existing Google Docs and Drive folders.

• Up to 10 users$19

  per month for the whole team, not per user

  Up to 10 users, with unlimited wikis, unlimited read-only users, document search and a custom domain alias.

• Up to 25 users$49

  per month for the whole team, not per user

  The same feature set for a team of up to 25 users.

• Up to 75 users$99

  per month for the whole team, not per user

  The same feature set for a team of up to 75 users.

• More than 75 usersCustom

  Priced by email. Private instances and enterprise pricing are also offered on request.

Slite

• Nonprofit

  Non-profit discount on the Basic plan

  Slite's pricing FAQ says eligible non-profit organizations get a discount on the Basic plan, arranged by contacting support. No percentage is stated.

• Education

  Academic discount on the Basic plan

  The same FAQ extends the Basic plan discount to eligible academic organizations, also arranged through support and with no percentage stated.

You Need A Wiki

• Nonprofit

  50% off for registered non-profits

  The site's FAQ offers registered non-profit organizations a 50% discount after they email a copy of their 501(c)(3) or their country's equivalent.