Docmost vs Slab
Docmost and Slab are both wiki and knowledge base software. Docmost is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 22k GitHub stars. Slab is a commercial product from Slab.
Which to pick
- Pick Docmost when
- A team wants Confluence-style documentation it can self-host on Postgres.
- Pick Slab when
- A small or mid-size team wants a simpler, tidier wiki than Confluence or Notion.
Side by side
A collaborative wiki with real-time editing, spaces, permissions, comments and built-in diagrams, as a Confluence or Notion alternative.
A clean team wiki with topics, a good editor and unified search across tools like Google Drive, GitHub and Slack.
Still pre-1.0, AGPL licensed, with some features in a paid enterprise edition.
A small vendor with fewer features and integrations than the large suites.
Usable
Production-ready
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Cloud service
TypeScript, React, NestJS, PostgreSQL and Redis
Not published
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Closed source, sold by Slab
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.