Slite
Summary
Knowledge bases don't go stale on launch day — they rot over six months of merged PRs, shifted roadmaps, and HR policy rewrites that nobody remembered to document. Slite is built around the premise that keeping docs accurate is an agent's job, not a team ritual.
The core loop: Slite's Agent watches connected tools — Slack, GitHub, Linear, your codebase — detects when reality has drifted from what the docs say, drafts a correction, and routes it to the person who owns that document for a quick review and approval. You stay in the loop; the agent does the detection and drafting. AI search ranks verified docs first and attaches a trust signal to every citation, so support agents and onboarding teammates aren't pulling from outdated guides. The MCP layer exposes that same verified knowledge to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any other agent your team already runs. Where it breaks: teams needing deep project management, complex nested databases, or a canvas that doubles as a product roadmap will hit the ceiling fast.
Bottom line: Pick Slite when your 20-person remote team is drowning in stale onboarding docs and Slack threads that contradict the wiki — plan a different stack when your workflow depends on relational databases, Gantt charts, or the kind of structured data modeling Notion handles natively.
Pricing Plans
SubscriptionLast verified 2 days ago- Price
- $10-$20 per user/month
- Free Tier
- 14-day free trial, no credit card required. Access to Basic and Pro plan features during trial.
Basic
Everything you need to write, organize, and verify docs.
- Unlimited docs
- Ask (AI search & answers)
- Doc verification workflow
- Knowledge Management Panel
- MCP and API access
- Real-time collaborative editor
- Comments, mentions & notifications
- Custom templates
- Schedule recurring docs
- Doc history
- File upload up to 200MB
- 5GB storage per user
- PDF, Markdown, HTML exports
- Doc verification
- Doc ownership
- Knowledge Management Panel
- Doc insights
- AI search & answers within Slite docs
- 30 monthly questions per seat
- 30 AI edits/month/user
- Chrome extension
- Public API
- Embeds & link previews
- Slack integration
- Public sharing
- Doc permissions
- Protect doc editing
- Reader access on docs
- Workspace analytics
- Automatic data backups
- OpenID SSO
- Priority support
Pro
An agent-powered knowledge base that stays in sync with your tools.
- Everything in Basic, plus:
- The Slite Agent
- Search across connected tools
- Doc fact-checking with suggested fixes
- Agent workflows
- 50 monthly credits per seat
- OpenID SSO
- Custom domain for public docs
- 10GB storage per user
- Unlimited file upload
- AI search & answers across connected tools
- AI writing assistant
- Unlimited AI edits/month/user
- AI answers insights
- Doc fact-checking with suggested fixes
- Custom Assistants
- Automated digests
- Bulk mode
- AI answers in Slack from Slite docs and across connected tools
- Authenticated embeds
- MCP access
- AI answers on public docs
- SEO indexing for public docs
- Custom branding & domain for public docs
- Guest collaborators
- User groups
- Reader-only seats
- Control who can invite
- Control public sharing
- Control who can create channels
- Control who can manage user groups
- SCIM provisioning
- Audit log
- SOC 2 Type II compliance
Enterprise
Advanced security, controls, and support for larger teams.
- Everything in Pro, plus:
- Advanced security and controls
- Audit logs
- Service Level Agreement
- Dedicated account manager
- Custom data sources, built with you
- Migration and onboarding support
- SCIM
- Reader-only seats
- HIPAA compliance
- Custom data sources
- Personalized onboarding & migration
- Service Level Agreement
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Pros
Sign in to edit- The Agent autonomously detects when a merged PR, policy change, or Slack discussion has made a doc inaccurate and drafts a correction, so your knowledge base doesn't require a weekly 'docs hygiene' ritual that nobody actually does.
- AI search ranks verified documents above unverified ones and attaches a trust signal to every citation, so a support rep pulling a troubleshooting answer isn't accidentally reading the version from eight months ago.
- MCP integration exposes the verified knowledge index to external agents — Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor — which means those agents answer from your approved docs rather than hallucinating from training data.
- The approval workflow keeps a human in the loop before any agent-drafted change goes live, so automated doc updates don't silently introduce errors into your single source of truth.
- Permission-aware search, even for third-party agents, means a query from an external tool only surfaces docs the requesting user is allowed to see — so you don't accidentally expose HR policies through a customer-facing agent.
Cons
Sign in to edit- Slite's document model is flat — there are no relational databases, formula fields, or linked property views. Teams that need to track product specs with structured metadata, or run a CRM-style table inside their knowledge base, hit this wall immediately and end up maintaining a second tool alongside Slite.
- The free tier caps at 50 documents, which a team burns through during initial migration. Once that ceiling is hit, the choice is to pay or to start culling docs — a painful early friction point that pushes budget-constrained startups toward Notion's free tier instead.
- There is no self-hosted deployment path. Teams in regulated industries with data-residency mandates or air-gapped network requirements cannot use Slite at all, and they move to Confluence or a self-hosted wiki the moment compliance review starts.
- The Agent's drift detection depends on the quality and breadth of integrations connected — a team that doesn't use Slack, GitHub, or Linear gets little proactive maintenance value and is essentially paying for a knowledge base with AI search, a feature set competitors match at comparable price points.
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About
- Platforms
- Web app, Windows, Mac, Android, iOS
- API Available
- Yes
- Self-Hosted
- No
- Last Updated
- 2026-06-09T17:42:59.398Z
Best For
Who it's for
- Small to mid-sized teams, particularly startups and remote-first companies in the 5-to-50-person range needing the structure of a real knowledge base but lacking IT resources to manage heavyweight solutions like Confluence
- Small to medium-sized teams prioritizing simplicity over extensive integration ecosystems, with pricing structure of $8-$20 per user monthly positioned squarely in the SMB market
- Remote teams, customer support organizations, and fast-moving startups that have outgrown Google Docs but do not need Notion's Swiss Army knife approach
What it does well
- Team onboarding, meeting notes, centralized knowledge bases, and asynchronous remote collaboration
- Planning, onboarding, and managing projects while integrating seamlessly with popular tools like Google Drive, Slack, and Notion
- IT & Operations, Product & Engineering, Human Resources, and Customer Support sectors
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Frequently Asked Questions
- Is Slite free?
- Slite is a paid tool ($10-$20 per user/month). A 14-day free trial is available.
- Is Slite open source?
- No — Slite is a closed-source tool. Source code is not publicly available.
- Does Slite have an API?
- Yes. Slite exposes a developer API. See the official documentation at https://slite.com for details.
- When was Slite released?
- Slite was first released in 2017.
- What platforms does Slite support?
- Slite is available on: Web app, Windows, Mac, Android, iOS.
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Most teams treat documentation accuracy as a discipline problem — someone should have updated the sprint doc after the API discussion. Slite reframes it as a signal-detection problem. The platform captures team knowledge in a structured knowledge base, then runs an AI agent that monitors integrated tools (Slack, Linear, GitHub, codebases) for signals that a document no longer matches reality: a merged PR, a closed deal, a spike in support tickets. When drift is detected, the agent drafts a fix and routes it to the right expert for a review that the vendor describes as taking seconds. The human reviews and approves; nothing ships without that sign-off.
The differentiating feature is what Slite calls verified knowledge. Documents carry explicit trust signals — verified docs surface first in AI search results, unverified or stale sources rank lower, and every search response cites exact sources so the reader knows why an answer was returned. The vendor describes this as ‘like Perplexity for your team knowledge.’ That trust-ranking layer is what makes the knowledge base usable as a source of truth for third-party agents: via an MCP interface, the same verified index becomes the context layer for Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and any other agent the team connects.
Slite fits small-to-mid-sized teams — the vendor’s customer signals point to the 5-to-50-person range — that have outgrown shared Google Docs but don’t need a Swiss Army knife. The self-hosted option does not exist, so teams with data-residency requirements or air-gapped environments are blocked immediately. Teams that have outgrown flat document structures and need relational data, formula fields, or timeline views will find Slite’s document model too constrained and migrate to Notion or Confluence.
On the integration side, the Agent pulls signals from Slack, GitHub, Linear, and codebases, with the vendor citing specific department workflows: CI changes trigger engineering doc updates, roadmap shifts sync product specs, ticket trends surface support gaps, and closed deals update sales playbooks. An API is available for teams building on top of the knowledge layer programmatically.