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Clevera vs Docusaurus: build it or run it?
Docusaurus is Meta’s free, open-source site generator for docs your developers build and host. Clevera is a hosted help center your support and product team runs from an editor, with a video for any article.
Updated November 2026 · Based on each product’s public website
The short answer
Pick Docusaurus if your engineers want full control and will run the site. Pick Clevera if your support or product team should run it without them.
Best for help centers run by support and product
Support and product people write and publish, with no repo, build or deploy.
You want Ask AI, search insights and (from Starter) a contact form working on day one, with nothing to set up.
You want a how-to video next to your articles, made from one screen recording.
Best for docs built by developers
Your developers write docs in Markdown or MDX next to the code and review them as pull requests.
You want full control of the site, down to your own React components and plugins.
You want free, open-source software and can host and maintain it yourself.
What your help center gets on Clevera
All of it runs in the product today.
Anyone on the team can edit
Write in an editor, not a repo, and publish when you’re ready. Editors who update and publish pages are free on every plan.
A video for your articles
Record your screen once. Clevera writes the article and makes the how-to video to go with it.
Answers with sources
Ask AI answers readers from your published pages and shows where each answer came from. It’s on every plan, and answers within your plan use no credits.
Agents that keep it current
On Pro, Claude or ChatGPT can draft, translate and publish pages for you. You set what they can spend.
Feature by feature
How Clevera and Docusaurus compare as a help center.
Free to move from Docusaurus
The import works on every plan, from your public site or straight from the Git repo. Pages, images and links come over, plus translations and redirects where your site has them.
Pricing at a glance
Clevera list prices and what Docusaurus leaves to you, checked November 2026.
Free
1 help center on clevera.help
$0
Starter
Billed yearly ($36 monthly). Your own domain, 1 creator
$29/mo
Pro
Billed yearly ($124 monthly). 2 creators, private sites, AI agents
$86.80/mo
Custom
More than 10 creators, SSO
Quote
Editors are free on every plan. Extra creators on Pro are $36 a month, or $25.20 billed yearly.
Software
Open source, MIT license, no seats
$0
Hosting
Any static host you choose
Your host’s price
Search
Algolia DocSearch, free for eligible docs
$0 if eligible
AI answers
Algolia Ask AI with your own LLM provider
LLM usage
Building, upgrading and deploying the site is work for your developers.
What a team of five pays for
Five people writing new help-center articles for one product, for one year.
$1,948.80 a year
Pro with five creators, since each person who writes new articles needs a creator seat: $1,041.60 for two plus $25.20 a month billed yearly for each of three more. Hosting, your own domain, search, Ask AI and the contact form are included. With two writers and three free editors, it’s $1,041.60.
$0 for the software
No license or seat fees. You pay your host, apply for DocSearch or run another search, pay an LLM provider if you add Ask AI, and give a developer time to build, upgrade and deploy the site.
Assumptions: one help center, Clevera billed yearly at list prices from November 2026. Docusaurus costs depend on the host, search and AI provider you pick, so we don’t put a number on them.
Common questions
Straight answers about choosing between Clevera and Docusaurus.
Is Clevera cheaper than Docusaurus?
What does Docusaurus do better?
Can I move from Docusaurus to Clevera?
Do I need a developer for Clevera?
Does Docusaurus have AI answers?
Is there a free Docusaurus alternative that’s hosted?
Can I keep my docs in Markdown with Clevera?
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