Archbee

Hosted documentation platform for product and developer docs with a block editor and AI answers

As of 31 August 2026, Archbee's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. A hosted docs product aimed at software companies that need public product documentation, private customer docs and internal knowledge in one place. Softwr lists it under Documentation. Archbee is available on Web.

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Overview

What Archbee does

Archbee is a hosted documentation platform built for software companies. It publishes public documentation sites on your own domain, private spaces restricted to named customer accounts, and internal knowledge for the team, all from the same workspace. The editor is block-based, with specialised blocks for OpenAPI and GraphQL references, code samples with tabs per language, diagrams, changelogs and embedded content. Search includes an AI answering mode that responds from your published documentation rather than sending readers to a list of pages. The distinguishing choice is that Archbee is a product, not a pipeline. Writers work in a browser editor with reviews, verification dates and permissions rather than in markdown files that move through pull requests. For a company where product managers, support engineers and technical writers all contribute, that removes the git barrier that quietly stops most non-engineers from updating documentation at all. The commercial consequence is that documentation stops depending on engineering capacity to publish. The buyers are small and mid-sized software companies with a public docs site, an API to document and no dedicated docs infrastructure team. The trade-off is that the content lives in the vendor's system. There is markdown export and an API, but the block structures, permissions model and site configuration do not travel, so a migration away is a rebuild rather than a copy. Archbee is also a small company, which is worth weighing when the documentation for your product depends on its continued operation.

What people use it for

Publishing product documentation, API reference and a changelog from one workspace
Giving each enterprise customer private documentation without building an access system
Letting support and product staff edit documentation without learning git
Consolidating internal handbooks and external docs so the same content is not maintained twice

Where it falls short

Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Archbee.

Content is stored in a proprietary block format, and although markdown export exists, the structure, permissions and site configuration do not migrate, so leaving means rebuilding.
There is no genuine docs-as-code workflow, so teams that want documentation reviewed in the same pull request as the code change will find the review model does not match.
Editor seats are capped per tier rather than sold individually, so an organisation with many occasional contributors is pushed up a whole tier for a handful of people.
It is a small vendor, and buyers whose public documentation is a customer-facing dependency should weigh continuity risk more heavily than the feature comparison suggests.
Theming is limited compared with a static site generator, so a documentation site that must match a designed brand exactly will hit the limits of the customisation options.

Cross-shopped

What people choose instead of Archbee

Each pairing was judged by two reviewers asking whether a buyer would genuinely weigh the two against each other. The ones that failed were deleted rather than published.

Archbeevs
GitBook
GitBook: A similar hosted model with a larger customer base and stronger git synchronisation
Archbeevs
Docusaurus
Docusaurus: Free, self-hosted and fully themeable when your contributors are comfortable with git
Archbeevs
ReadMe
ReadMe: When the API reference is the product and you need an interactive explorer with usage metrics

Pricing

What Archbee costs

Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.

Archbee

On request

Tiered plans with a capped number of editor seats
Custom domain and public documentation sites
Private spaces with reader accounts
SAML single sign-on on higher tiers
AI search answers
Free trial before purchase

Capabilities

Features

Block editor
Structured blocks for code, tabs, callouts, diagrams and embedded content rather than raw markdown
API reference blocks
OpenAPI and GraphQL specifications rendered as browsable reference inside a documentation page
Public and private spaces
Public sites on a custom domain alongside private documentation gated to named reader accounts
AI search answers
Reader questions answered from your published content instead of returning a page list
Document verification
Owners and review dates that flag pages as stale, which is how large sites stay accurate
SSO and permissions
SAML single sign-on with per-space access control for internal and customer-facing content

Answered, with sources

Questions people ask

Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.

Can documentation live next to the code?

Not really. There is an API and importers, but the working model is a browser editor, and pull-request-driven documentation is better served by a static site generator.

Is there a free plan?

No. There is a trial, then paid tiers. The free option in this category is a self-hosted static site generator.

How does it handle versioned documentation?

Versions are managed inside the workspace and published side by side, which suits products with a handful of supported releases rather than one version per git branch.

Who edits the documentation in practice?

Product, support and technical writing staff, which is the point. If your only contributors are engineers who already live in git, the advantage largely disappears.