Octri vs Mintlify

Mintlify renders the descriptions already in your spec. A thin spec gives a thin reference, and filling it in is a writing job, done by hand or by Mintlify’s writing agent on Pro, which draws on the same monthly credits as its assistant.

Octri writes the reference for you. Every endpoint gets a description, every request and response field is explained, and each error is documented by status code with its cause and fix. You edit on the published page, and edits are stored per page, so when the spec changes only the endpoints that moved are rewritten and your edits stay.

The spec gets better as you go. A quality score names the endpoints that are weakest, a fix made inside the docs is committed back to your repository, and every spec change becomes a dated changelog entry, with a written summary from Starter up.

Mintlify’s assistant is on Pro and above. Octri’s chat is on every plan, Free included, and answers your readers from your published pages and your spec, so a question about an endpoint gets the real parameters and the call in your own SDK.

Mintlify’s hosted MCP server has three tools: search, a read-only view of the docs files, and a way to report an outdated page. Octri’s has seven for reading the docs (search, one endpoint in full, the endpoint list, guides, the changelog, your SDKs and the call in your own SDK) and one callable tool per endpoint, which makes the real request. Endpoints you excluded from your SDK get no tool, so the SDK settings double as the agent’s permission list.

Octri’s server runs locally over stdio with credentials kept on the developer’s machine, or as a shared SSE server for a team, and the tool list exports in MCP, OpenAI and Anthropic formats.

Every Octri plan includes roles with granular permissions and an activity log. Mintlify’s roles and audit logs are Enterprise.

Octri password-protects a docs site on every plan and puts docs behind your SAML single sign-on on Enterprise. Mintlify’s password protection needs Pro.

Octri’s analytics are on every plan: page views and their trend, the most-read endpoints, chat sessions and the questions readers ask, helpful and unhelpful votes per page, and SDK downloads by language. Mintlify’s analytics need Pro.

Octri’s design settings need no code: a choice of page layouts, your accent colour, separate light and dark code themes, text size per region, tabs in the top bar, badges and icons in the sidebar, call-to-action buttons in the navigation, social links for 21 platforms, and any page as the home page.

When you do want code, custom components (built visually or in MDX, with props) and custom CSS arrive on Growth at $79 a month, and white-label on Business. Mintlify has custom React components and CSS on every plan; its custom components render in the browser after the page loads and cannot import npm packages, and white labeling is Enterprise.

Mintlify does not generate SDKs. Its SDK examples guide offers two routes: write samples into the spec with x-codeSamples, or connect Speakeasy so its snippets show in the playground. The client library then comes from another vendor, on its own bill and its own release schedule.

When Stainless stopped taking new projects in May 2026, the teams that paired it with a docs platform kept their docs and had to find a new generator for the code inside them.

Octri generates TypeScript, Python, Go, Java, Kotlin, Ruby, PHP, Rust, Swift and Dart from the same document as the reference. Each endpoint page shows the call through your SDK, with your package name and your method names, so the sample a reader copies is the code they run after installing. SDK Studio shapes them: client shape, method names and file layout, for the whole project, one language or a single endpoint, with the generated code redrawn beside each change.

Every Octri SDK carries an error reporter. It ships switched off, and the developer who installs your SDK turns it on with one option. From then on a failure in their application reaches your project with the SDK version, the language, the method and the status, grouped into issues and tagged to the release that introduced it. Credentials and personal identifiers are redacted inside the SDK before anything is sent.

Your API is watched too. Uptime checks are generated from the endpoints in your spec, an incident publishes to a status page on your own domain and to a banner across your docs, and backend packages add logs, traces and latency targets per route. Mintlify does not list any of these.