Doctave
A Markdown- and OpenAPI-based documentation platform with a built-in live-preview editor and native CI/CD integration, letting technical writers and developers collaborate on docs the same way developers already collaborate on code.
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Description
Technical documentation often falls into an awkward gap between engineering (which lives in Git and CI/CD) and writing tools that don't fit that workflow, leading to docs that either get neglected or require someone to manually copy content between systems. Doctave closes that gap by making documentation a first-class citizen of the Git workflow, the same pipeline your code already goes through.
Doctave turns Markdown content and OpenAPI specs into interactive documentation portals through a Git-friendly workflow, with Doctave Studio providing a built-in editor and real-time preview, plus native CI/CD integration so docs build and deploy alongside code changes. It's positioned as a modern standard for technical writing tooling, aimed at teams that want agile, collaborative documentation rather than a static wiki someone updates occasionally. Pricing runs Startup at $99/month (1 domain, 5 users), Growth at $399/month (5 domains, 10 users), and Scale from $1,000/month (unlimited domains, 25+ users), with additional content migration services from $500/project and a free tier available until production.
💬 Our review
The short version: if your technical docs currently live disconnected from your Git/CI-CD pipeline and require manual syncing, Doctave's native CI/CD integration and Git-based workflow directly fix that — but at $99/month minimum for just 5 users, it's priced for teams with a genuine documentation operation, not a side project.
The free tier 'until production' is a sensible way to fully evaluate the editor and workflow before paying, which matters given the price jump to Growth ($399/month) if you need more than 5 domains or users. Doctave's specific niche — combining Markdown content docs with OpenAPI-based API references in one Git-integrated tool — sits between general docs platforms (GitBook, Mintlify) and pure API-doc tools (Scalar, Redocly); if you only need API reference docs, a specialized tool may be cheaper, but if you need both product docs and API docs in one Git-synced place, Doctave's combined scope is the differentiator worth the price.
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Startup 99$/mois (1 domaine, 5 utilisateurs) ; Growth 399$/mois (5 domaines, 10 utilisateurs) ; Scale dès 1 000$/mois (domaines illimités, 25+ utilisateurs). Migration de contenu dès 500$/projet. Accès gratuit jusqu'à la mise en production.
Pros
Workflow Git-friendly natif, intégration CI/CD
Éditeur intégré (Doctave Studio) avec aperçu temps réel
Combine documentation produit (Markdown) et référence API (OpenAPI) dans un seul outil
Accès gratuit jusqu'à la production pour évaluer avant de payer
Cons
99$/mois minimum pour seulement 5 utilisateurs
Saut de prix vers Growth (399$/mois) si besoin de plus de domaines/utilisateurs
Moins spécialisé qu'un outil API-only pour de la pure référence API