Mintlify vs Sourcegraph Cody vs Fern vs Documentation.AI

Which one fits you in 2026? Traffic, pricing, input → output, tasks and community side by side.

Your tool
Mintlify
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Competitor 1
Sourcegraph Cody
Competitor 2
Fern
Competitor 3
Documentation.AI
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Mintlify
mintlify.com
Documentation that writes itself from your code
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Competitor Sourcegraph Cody
sourcegraph.com
AI that knows your codebase
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Competitor Fern
buildwithfern.com
Fern is a developer platform that produces documentation websites, client libraries and a command-line interface for an API from one definition.
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Competitor Documentation.AI
documentation.ai
Product teams ship docs that fall out of date the moment code changes
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
387.9Kvisits/mo
185.6Kvisits/mo
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22.4Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▲ 4.0%
▼ 10.6%
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▲ 39.6%
6-month growth
-37.3%
-40.6%
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+31.1%
Global rank web
#114,864
#204,583
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#1,237,358
Avg. last 3 months
367.8K
209.7K
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15.2K
Bounce rate lower is better
47%
42%
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39%
Pages / visit
3.5
2.9
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4.2
Visit duration
1m 51s
1m 39s
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2m 02s
Traffic sources
● Direct 74% · ● Referral 25%
● Direct 91% · ● Referral 7%
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● Direct 97% · ● Referral 3%
MintlifySourcegraph CodyFernDocumentation.AI
0348.9K697.7K1M1.4MMintlify · 373.1KMintlify · 331.3KMintlify · 338.6KMintlify · 353.9KMintlify · 618.3KMintlify · 1.4MMintlify · 718.1KMintlify · 342.3KMintlify · 373.1KMintlify · 387.9KSourcegraph Cody · 396.9KSourcegraph Cody · 383.2KSourcegraph Cody · 377.2KSourcegraph Cody · 305.8KSourcegraph Cody · 312.4KSourcegraph Cody · 254.6KSourcegraph Cody · 244.5KSourcegraph Cody · 235.9KSourcegraph Cody · 207.6KSourcegraph Cody · 185.6KDocumentation.AI · 24.8KDocumentation.AI · 17.1KDocumentation.AI · 92.5KDocumentation.AI · 17.1KDocumentation.AI · 10.1KDocumentation.AI · 10.7KDocumentation.AI · 7.2KDocumentation.AI · 16KDocumentation.AI · 22.4K1K10K100K1M10MMintlify · 373.1KMintlify · 331.3KMintlify · 338.6KMintlify · 353.9KMintlify · 618.3KMintlify · 1.4MMintlify · 718.1KMintlify · 342.3KMintlify · 373.1KMintlify · 387.9KSourcegraph Cody · 396.9KSourcegraph Cody · 383.2KSourcegraph Cody · 377.2KSourcegraph Cody · 305.8KSourcegraph Cody · 312.4KSourcegraph Cody · 254.6KSourcegraph Cody · 244.5KSourcegraph Cody · 235.9KSourcegraph Cody · 207.6KSourcegraph Cody · 185.6KDocumentation.AI · 24.8KDocumentation.AI · 17.1KDocumentation.AI · 92.5KDocumentation.AI · 17.1KDocumentation.AI · 10.1KDocumentation.AI · 10.7KDocumentation.AI · 7.2KDocumentation.AI · 16KDocumentation.AI · 22.4KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
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Freemium
Starting price
$450per month · free tier available
$16,000per month
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$29per month · free tier available
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Plans
Starter FreePro $450/moEnterprise Custom
Enterprise $16,000/yr
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Starter FreeStandard $29/moProfessional $79/moEnterprise Custom
Capabilities input → output
Input
CodeText
CodeText
Code
CodeText
Output
Documents
Code
AppsCode
Documents
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Intermediate
Categories
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI Developer ToolsAI Documents Generator
Development & CodeAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI Developer Tools
Education & LearningProductivity & OfficeAI Documents GeneratorAI Knowledge Management
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Coding
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Writing documentation
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APIs
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Code analysis
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Debugging
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Development
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Documents
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MCP
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Prompt management
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