Octri vs Redocly
Both turn an OpenAPI file into a docs site. Octri writes the reference for you, generates SDKs in ten languages, hosts an MCP server that calls your API, and watches it after every release.
Written by Octri · Checked 16 October 2026
Summary
- Octri ahead
- 19
- Level
- 9
- Redocly ahead
- 3
$0
for docs with AI chat, analytics and an MCP server on Octri’s Free plan. Redocly keeps all three to Enterprise, at $66 per seat a month.
4 in 1
Docs, SDKs, an MCP server and monitoring on one subscription, at no extra cost.
Octri writes your reference from the spec: every field explained, every error documented with its cause and fix, the call through your own SDK on every page, and a changelog that updates itself. A custom domain, MDX guides, password protection, AI chat, analytics and PDF export are on every plan.
The same plan generates SDKs in TypeScript, Python, Go, Java, Kotlin, Ruby, PHP, Rust, Swift and Dart and publishes every release, hosts an MCP server whose tools call your API, and keeps watching after release with error reporting inside every SDK, uptime checks, a status page, and logs and traces.
Docs, SDKs and monitoring, head to head
Octri against Redocly, 31 rows from each product’s own pages on 16 October 2026. Octri is ahead on 19, level on 9, and Redocly is ahead on 3.
| Feature | Octri | Redocly |
|---|---|---|
| Docs | ||
| Endpoint reference | Written for you: every endpoint, every field, errors by status | Rendered from your OpenAPI descriptions |
| Interactive playground | Every plan | A try-it console |
| Calls through your own SDK | Every endpoint, in each SDK language you publish | Samples you add with x-codeSamples |
| Error guide per status code | Every endpoint, with cause and fix | Not listed |
| API changelog | Written from every spec change, breaking changes flagged | Not listed |
| Guides | MDX in a visual editor, every plan | Markdown and Markdoc, with the Revel add-on |
| Pages included | Plans count endpoints only: 50 on Free, up to 600 on Business | 100 on Pro, each API operation a page, then $0.12 a page a month |
| Custom domain | Every plan, Free included | Pro and up |
| Versioned docs | Growth | Yes |
| Private docs | Password protection on every plan | RBAC and guest SSO on Enterprise |
| Docs analytics | Every plan | Enterprise |
| PDF export | Every plan, any page | Not listed |
| Redirect rules | Every plan: send a retired page to another, and keep old links working on rename | In redocly.yaml |
| Interface languages | One language per site | Localization with the Revel add-on |
| Deep customization | Custom components, CSS and JavaScript on Growth | React pages and component ejection |
| SDKs | ||
| SDK languages | TypeScript, Python, Go, Java, Kotlin, Ruby, PHP, Rust, Swift and Dart | TypeScript only, as an experimental CLI command |
| Built and published for you | Every plan: a pull request per regeneration, then npm, PyPI, Maven Central and the rest | A file the CLI writes; publishing is yours |
| Shaping the SDK | SDK Studio, per endpoint, with a live code preview | CLI flags and configuration |
| Retries, pagination and server-sent events | Every language, every plan | In the TypeScript client |
| Webhook helpers | Every plan: Standard Webhooks signature checks and typed events, in all ten languages | Not listed |
| AI and agents | ||
| MCP server | Every plan: 7 docs tools and a callable tool per endpoint | A Docs MCP server for search and API descriptions, on Enterprise |
| AI chat for readers | Every plan | AI search on Enterprise |
| Tool export | MCP, OpenAI and Anthropic formats | Not listed |
| After release | ||
| Scheduled checks on your API | Uptime checks generated from your spec, in the plan | Respect Monitoring: workflow checks, priced by request |
| Error reporting inside the SDK | Built in, tagged to the release | Not offered |
| Status page for your users | On your own domain, with a docs banner | Not listed |
| Logs and traces for your API | Every plan | Not offered |
| Tooling and open source | ||
| Open-source API reference | Not available | Redoc, MIT licensed |
| Linting and governance | 14 scored rules in the studio and the octri CLI, with one-click fixes | Redocly CLI rules and scorecards |
| Mock servers | In every SDK repository: a local mock server built from your spec, with request checks | Hosted with your docs |
| Dashboard single sign-on | Enterprise | Enterprise |
Only on Octri
8 features you will not find in Redocly’s site or docs.
SDKs in ten languages
Generated, regenerated on every spec change and published for you, from TypeScript to Swift and Dart.
Error reporting inside every SDK
A failure in your users’ apps reaches you with the SDK version, language and method, tagged to the release.
A status page for your users
Incidents from your uptime checks publish to a status page on your own domain and a banner across your docs.
Logs and traces for your API
Follow one failing call from a user’s app into your handler, with latency targets per route.
A changelog that writes itself
Every spec change becomes a dated entry of endpoints added, removed and changed, with breaking changes flagged.
An error guide for every status code
Each endpoint lists the errors it can return, with what causes each one and how to fix it.
SDKs shaped in a studio
Client shape, method names and file layout per endpoint, with the generated code redrawn beside each change.
PDF export
Any page of your docs, saved as a clean PDF for readers who need it offline or in a review.
A reference that arrives already written
Redocly renders the descriptions your spec already holds. Octri writes the reference from it, then keeps it current as the spec changes.
Every endpoint gets a page with a description, every request and response field explained, and each error documented by status code with its cause and fix. Each page shows the call through your own SDK in every language you publish, with a playground beside it, and every spec change becomes a dated changelog entry with breaking changes flagged, without anyone writing it.
Guides are MDX in a visual editor on the published page, with Git sync, a custom domain, password protection, full-text search, an ask-the-docs chat, llms.txt and a markdown copy of every page for coding agents, docs analytics, PDF export and redirects for pages you retire, all on every plan, Free included.
Ten SDKs, built and published
Redocly’s generate-client is an experimental command that writes a TypeScript client. Octri generates, regenerates and publishes SDKs in ten languages.
Octri generates TypeScript, Python, Go, Java, Kotlin, Ruby, PHP, Rust, Swift and Dart. Every client comes with typed models and typed errors, auth from your security schemes, retries with backoff, pagination, idempotency, server-sent events, multipart uploads and webhook signature checks, and lands in its repository as a pull request on every merged spec change, ready to publish to its registry.
SDK Studio sets 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. The Free plan includes one language, Starter 2, Growth 4 and Business all ten, and the docs show each endpoint’s call through them.
An MCP server that calls your API
Redocly’s Docs MCP server reads your content, on Enterprise. Octri’s reads your docs and calls your API, on every plan.
Octri’s MCP server has seven tools for reading your 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.
It 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. Readers get an ask-the-docs chat on the site itself, from the Free plan up.
Monitoring from inside the SDK
Respect Monitoring runs workflows against your API and bills by the request. Octri’s monitoring is part of the plan, and starts inside the client.
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.
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 in ten languages add logs, traces and latency targets per route, on every plan.
- Alerts for new issues, regressions and thresholds, to Slack or any webhook
- No third-party observability vendor in the path; data stored in the United Kingdom
- Monitoring ingest is never cut off at the allowance, so a bad day’s errors still arrive
Docs and SDKs, one price
Redocly prices per seat and meters pages, projects and monitoring checks on top. Octri’s plans include docs, SDKs, the MCP server and monitoring, with every price on the page. Monthly prices as published on 16 October 2026.
Redocly Realm Pro
$28
per seat a month, billed monthly
- API reference and Markdown docs
- 100 pages, each API operation one of them
- AI search, analytics and MCP on Enterprise
- No SDKs; monitoring priced by request
Octri Starter
$49
a month, or $41.65 billed yearly
- SDKs in 2 languages, 100 endpoints
- Docs site with guides, AI chat and analytics
- Hosted MCP server with docs and endpoint tools
- SDK errors, uptime checks, status page
Octri Business
$249
a month, or $211.65 billed yearly
- Everything in Starter
- SDKs in all ten languages
- Custom components, CSS and white-label docs
- 600 endpoints, SDKs on a CDN
Plan by plan
Octri’s yearly billing takes 15% off the base price. Redocly’s prices here are per seat, billed monthly.
| Plan | Octri | Redocly |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0. Docs on your domain, one SDK language, 50 endpoints, MCP, monitoring, AI chat | A 30-day trial. The Redoc renderer is free to host yourself |
| First paid | Starter, $49 a month. Two SDK languages, 100 endpoints | Realm Pro, $28 per seat a month. One project, 100 pages, custom domain |
| Middle | Growth, $79 a month. Four languages, 300 endpoints, versioning, custom code | Realm Enterprise, $66 per seat a month. 500 pages, SSO, RBAC, AI search, analytics, MCP |
| Upper | Business, $249 a month. All ten languages, 600 endpoints, white-label | Enterprise+, by quote, billed yearly |
| Usage | Pages are not metered; monitoring past the plan’s allowance is $0.50 per GB | $0.12 a month per page past the plan; $49 a month per extra project; Respect: 1,000 requests a month free, then $10 per 1,000 |
What three common setups cost a month
Redocly’s column is per seat; Octri’s is the whole plan, monitoring included.
| Setup | Octri | Redocly |
|---|---|---|
| Docs on your own domain | Free, $0 | Realm Pro, $28 per seat |
| Docs with AI search, analytics and an MCP server | Free, $0 | Realm Enterprise, $66 per seat |
| Docs plus TypeScript and Python SDKs, published for you | Starter, $49 | Not offered: a TypeScript client from the CLI, which you publish yourself |
Moving from Redocly
The move starts from three things a Redocly project already has: the OpenAPI file its reference is built from, its Markdown in Git, and the redirects in redocly.yaml.
How the move works
Stage 1
Bring the spec
You
Upload the OpenAPI file your Redocly reference is built from, bundled with
redocly bundleif it spans several files.Octri
Writes a reference page for every endpoint, with the playground, search and chat switched on.
Stage 2
Bring the guides
You
Paste your Markdown into the editor, swap Markdoc tags for Octri components, and copy the redirects from redocly.yaml into octri.json.
Octri
Generates an SDK in each language you pick and shows the call through it on every endpoint page.
Stage 3
Go live
You
Publish, then point your custom domain at Octri.
Octri
Regenerates docs, SDKs and MCP tools on every merged spec change, and starts the uptime checks.
Which should you choose?
Choose Redocly
Choose Redocly if you want to run its open-source renderer on your own servers, or your docs need translating into other languages.
Choose Octri
Choose Octri if you want docs your readers can rely on from day one. Octri writes the reference from your spec, documents every error with its cause and fix, shows the call through your own SDK on every page, and keeps a changelog that updates itself, with AI chat, analytics and a custom domain on every plan, Free included.
Then comes the rest of the subscription. SDKs in ten languages built and published for you, a hosted MCP server whose tools call your API, error reporting inside every SDK, uptime checks with a status page and a docs banner, and logs and traces for your API, all at no extra cost.
Questions
Redocly CLI has an experimental generate-client command that writes a typed TypeScript client from an OpenAPI description. Building, versioning and publishing it are yours. Octri generates SDKs in ten languages, regenerates them on every spec change and opens a pull request in each repository.
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Written by Octri, from each vendor's public pages and our own testing, checked 16 October 2026. Products change often, so confirm anything that matters to you on the vendor's own site. Product names are the trademarks of their owners, used here only to identify their products. Octri is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of them.
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