Docmost vs Guru
Docmost and Guru are both wiki and knowledge base software. Docmost is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 22k GitHub stars. Guru is a commercial product from Guru Technologies.
Which to pick
- Pick Docmost when
- A team wants Confluence-style documentation it can self-host on Postgres.
- Pick Guru when
- Support or sales teams need accurate, owner-verified answers available where they already work.
Side by side
A collaborative wiki with real-time editing, spaces, permissions, comments and built-in diagrams, as a Confluence or Notion alternative.
A knowledge base of verified cards that surfaces answers inside Slack, Teams and the browser, with AI answers and expert verification.
Still pre-1.0, AGPL licensed, with some features in a paid enterprise edition.
Per-seat pricing, and it only works if people keep verifying content.
Usable
Production-ready
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Cloud service and browser extension
TypeScript, React, NestJS, PostgreSQL and Redis
Not published
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Closed source, sold by Guru Technologies
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
22k GitHub stars
No Wikipedia article of its own
Established: started 3 years ago, latest release v0.97.0.
Not known
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.