Mintlify
Ranked 3 of 6 documentation generators by recommenders
Recommended for good-looking docs sites that just work, with a free plan. Most common caveat: security, with critics citing a supply-chain breach and an inadequate response.
Recommended for good-looking docs sites that just work, with a free plan. Most common caveat: security, with critics citing a supply-chain breach and an inadequate response.
23 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 11
- criticize it
- 12
- approval share
- 48%
Recommended in 7 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 11 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 0.9 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 7 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Attractive, polished default theme
“Mintlify does look pretty, but between that and all the React exploits, I'll stick with good ol' static sites.”
Comment from 19 Dec 2025 in “We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack” “the font/colour choice on the Mintlify theme is nice”
Comment from 8 Feb 2026 in “Speed up responses with fast mode” “It just works and it's pretty.”
Comment from 7 Feb 2026 in “Speed up responses with fast mode” Gets the job done
“Im on their free plan and it gets the job done”
Comment from 11 May 2026 in “Ask HN: Best static site generator for a docs site in 2026?” “It just works and it's pretty.”
Comment from 7 Feb 2026 in “Speed up responses with fast mode” Free plan available
“Im on their free plan and it gets the job done”
Comment from 11 May 2026 in “Ask HN: Best static site generator for a docs site in 2026?” “Mintlify for free??? Sign me up!”
Comment from 16 Jul 2026 in “Show HN: Docs.dev Your Own Hosted Docs Platform in Minutes”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Security lapses and vulnerabilities
“We don't support this, nor do we request access to codebases for Git sync. Both are security issues waiting to happen”
Comment from 18 Dec 2025 in “We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack” “Mintlify does look pretty, but between that and all the React exploits, I'll stick with good ol' static sites.”
Comment from 19 Dec 2025 in “We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack” “The first CVE here definitely sounds like they absolutely weren't thinking care security.”
Comment from 19 Dec 2025 in “How to hack Discord, Vercel and more with one easy trick” - Comment from 18 Dec 2025 in “We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack”
- Comment from 19 Dec 2025 in “We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack”
Doubts about developer competence
“they were sloppy with GitHub credentials and their response was inadequate”
Comment from 18 Dec 2025 in “We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack” “nobody there seems to know what they're doing”
Comment from 18 Dec 2025 in “How to hack Discord, Vercel and more with one easy trick” “their developers are completely incompetent”
Comment from 18 Dec 2025 in “How to hack Discord, Vercel and more with one easy trick” Bloated for simple sites
“Thanks to stupid AI shit like Mintlify, that's like worth 2GB of RAM or something.”
Comment from 18 Dec 2025 in “We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack” “felt bloated for a site that updates occasionally”
Comment from 22 Apr 2026 in “Kazam – my answer to static sites in the age of Claude being my main author”
Other documentation generators people recommend
The four most recommended other documentation generators, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sphinx documentation generator | 19 | 10 | 66% | 6 | — | — |
| Code Wiki | 14 | 13 | 52% | 5 | — | — |
| MintlifyThis page | 11 | 12 | 48% | 7 | — | — |
| Astro Starlight | 8 | 1 | 89% | 7 | — | — |
| Material for MkDocs | 8 | 3 | 73% | 2 | — | — |
What people said
23 of the 25 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Mintlify for free??? Sign me up!”
“mintlify is too expensive for me”
“I use tools like DeepWiki, Mintlify, Cubic daily to analyze complex codebases”
“Mintlify generates an llms.txt and llms-full.txt for all documentation sites.”
“Im on their free plan and it gets the job done”
“felt bloated for a site that updates occasionally”
“Using mintlify for the docs, just points to the markdown files in the docs folder”
“the font/colour choice on the Mintlify theme is nice”
“It just works and it's pretty.”
“it's a positive thing to see Mintlify launch this”
“an increasing number of documentation teams are cross-functional (marketing, sales, engineering, product), and not everyone is comfortable editing content directly in Git”
“It's seriously good and it's why huge companies use it”
“The first CVE here definitely sounds like they absolutely weren't thinking care security.”
“nothing pays as much as doing free work for (checks notes) mintlify”
“Minitlifly was vulnerable.”
“Mintlify does look pretty, but between that and all the React exploits, I'll stick with good ol' static sites.”
“they were sloppy with GitHub credentials and their response was inadequate”
“We don't support this, nor do we request access to codebases for Git sync. Both are security issues waiting to happen”
“I'm curious what caching architecture a docs site needs, it can't be more complicated than a standard fare CDN?”
“their developers are completely incompetent”
“Thanks to stupid AI shit like Mintlify, that's like worth 2GB of RAM or something.”
“Mintlify security is the worse I have even encountered in a modern SaaS company.”
“nobody there seems to know what they're doing”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.