Requarks Wiki vs Slab
Requarks Wiki and Slab are both wiki and knowledge base software. Requarks Wiki is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 29k GitHub stars. Slab is a commercial product from Slab.
Which to pick
- Pick Requarks Wiki when
- A team wants a polished self-hosted wiki for internal documentation.
- Pick Slab when
- A small or mid-size team wants a simpler, tidier wiki than Confluence or Notion.
Side by side
Wiki.js, a Node.js wiki with Markdown and visual editors, Git sync, many authentication options and search.
A clean team wiki with topics, a good editor and unified search across tools like Google Drive, GitHub and Slack.
AGPL license, and version 3 took years to arrive, so check the migration path from 2.x.
A small vendor with fewer features and integrations than the large suites.
Production-ready (both)
Self-hosted server
Cloud service
TypeScript, Vue, Node.js and PostgreSQL
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.
29k GitHub stars
No Wikipedia article of its own
Established: started 10 years ago, latest release 3.1.0.
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.