Clevera vs ReadMe: API hub or help center?

ReadMe is a developer hub built around interactive API reference docs. Clevera is a help center your support and product team runs from an editor, with a video for any article.

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Updated November 2026 · Based on each product’s public website

The short answer

For API docs, ReadMe wins. For product and help docs your customers read, Clevera is the better fit.

Best for product and help docs

Your docs explain the product to customers, and support or product people write them.
You want a how-to video next to your articles, made from one screen recording.
You want AI answers for readers included in the plan, not sold as an add-on.

Best for API docs and developer hubs

You publish an interactive API reference that developers try out in the docs.
Your developers keep docs in GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket with two-way sync.
You want your own domain on a free plan, with one admin.

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 ReadMe compare as a help center.

Feature

Clevera

ReadMe

How the price grows

Per creator; editors free on every plan

Per project, plus $20 per admin above five on Pro

Free plan

1 help center on clevera.help, Ask AI included

1 project, 1 admin, own domain included

Own domain

From Starter, with automatic SSL

On every plan, Starter included

API reference docs

No API reference pages or API playground

Interactive API reference on every plan

Git sync

One-way import from a repo, no ongoing sync

Two-way sync with GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket

AI answers for readers

Ask AI on every plan, no credits, monthly allowance

Ask AI is a $150/mo add-on; Ask AI Lite on Pro

Video in articles

Makes the how-to video and article from one recording (credits)

Doesn’t make videos from recordings

Languages

2 on Free, 5 on Starter, all 74 on Pro; AI translation uses credits

AI translations; Localize, Smartling and Transifex integrations

Private docs

Password or workspace sign-in on Pro; no reader SSO

Private docs on Pro, with reader login by JWT or a site password

Reader insights

Views, searches with no results, unanswered AI questions, ratings

Usage analytics on every plan

Contact and deflection

Contact form that suggests articles as readers type (Starter)

Discussion forums on Pro

Changelog

Changelog with RSS on every plan

Changelog and recipes on Pro

AI agents and MCP

Agents draft, translate and publish over MCP (Pro)

MCP server on every plan; ReadMe Agent and AI Writer on Pro

Autopilot

Recurring tasks keep the help center current (Pro, on request)

Not listed; AI Linter checks pages on Pro

Moving in and out

Free import from ReadMe; free HTML or Markdown export

Git sync keeps a copy of your docs in your repo

SSO

Workspace SSO on Custom; no SSO for readers

SSO on Enterprise

IncludedPartly or on higher plansNot availableBased on public websites, checked November 2026.

Free to move from ReadMe

The import works on every plan. Your guides, images and links between pages come over, and you can export everything as HTML or Markdown at any time.

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Pricing at a glance

Public list prices, checked November 2026.

Clevera pricing →

Free

1 help center on clevera.help

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.

ReadMe pricing →

Starter

1 project, 1 admin, own domain

Pro

Billed yearly. 5 admins, private docs, changelog

$250/mo

Enterprise

Billed yearly. Several projects, SSO

Custom

Extra admins on Pro are $20 each. Ask AI is a $150 a month add-on.

What it costs for a team of five

Five people writing new articles for one product, for one year, at list prices billed yearly.

$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 creators plus $25.20 a month billed yearly for each of three more. If two people write and three update and publish existing pages as free editors, Pro is $1,041.60 a year.

$3,000 a year

Pro, because Starter has one admin. Pro covers five admins and includes Ask AI Lite. Adding the full Ask AI add-on brings it to $4,800 a year.

Assumptions: one help center or project, yearly billing, no other add-ons, prices from each product’s pricing page in November 2026. Clevera credits are only used for generated content such as videos and translations.

Common questions

Straight answers about choosing between Clevera and ReadMe.

Is Clevera cheaper than ReadMe?

For a team of writers, usually. ReadMe’s Starter is free and includes your own domain, but it has one admin. Pro is $250 a month billed yearly for five admins. Clevera’s Starter is $29 a month billed yearly with your own domain, and editors are free. For one person who wants a free custom domain, ReadMe’s Starter is hard to beat.

What does ReadMe do better?

API documentation. ReadMe gives you an interactive API reference, two-way Git sync, recipes and discussion forums, and reader login by JWT. If your readers are developers calling your API, pick ReadMe. Clevera has no API reference pages or API playground.

Can I move from ReadMe to Clevera?

Yes, and the import is free on every plan. Pages, images and links between pages come over, and you can export everything as HTML or Markdown at any time.

Can I keep ReadMe for my API and use Clevera for help docs?

Yes. You can keep the API reference on ReadMe and run product help on Clevera, each on its own domain, and link the two from your menus.

Does Clevera have an AI assistant like ReadMe’s Ask AI?

Yes. Ask AI is on every Clevera plan. It answers from your published pages, lists its sources and replies in the reader’s language. Each plan has a monthly answer allowance (300 on Free, 1,000 on Starter, 5,000 on Pro) that uses no credits. ReadMe sells Ask AI as a $150 a month add-on.

Is there a free ReadMe alternative?

Clevera Free gives you one help center on a clevera.help address, two published languages and 300 Ask AI answers a month. Your own domain starts on Starter.

Can I make my docs private on Clevera?

Yes, on Pro, with a password or Clevera workspace sign-in. Clevera doesn’t offer SSO for readers. ReadMe offers private docs on Pro with reader login by JWT.

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