The GitBook alternative for internal sharing
Everything you share with GitBook,
without the format rewrite.
GitBook charges $249/month for visitor authentication – and it can't host arbitrary HTML. display.dev publishes any HTML or Markdown behind company SSO for €49/month flat. No editor required.
The demo shows an agent publishing a doc to display.dev – from a chat or a terminal – then the team opening its URL, commenting, the agent publishing v2 at the same URL, and the doc being shared with someone outside the company.
Cursor, Codex, Claude Code – any agent that writes a file. Switch agents anytime – your URLs, versions and comments stay put.
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display.dev vs. GitBook
| display.dev | GitBook Ultimate | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | €49 | $249 |
| Visitor authentication | ✅ | ✅ |
| Arbitrary HTML hosting | ✅ | ❌ |
| CLI publishing | ✅ | ❌ |
| MCP integration | ✅ | ❌ |
| Structured documentation editor | ❌ | ✅ |
| AI search on docs | ❌ | ✅ |
| Unlimited viewers | ✅ | ✅ |
| Git sync (Markdown) | ✅ (publish dir) | ✅ (native) |
The visitor auth pricing wall
Restricting a GitBook space to your internal team means Ultimate at $249/month. Free and Premium ($65/month) don't include visitor authentication at all.
For the specific job of "share HTML or Markdown with my company," you're paying five times as much for a feature set that excludes the file you wanted to share.
- ✗$200/month more for the same jobdisplay.dev gates HTML and Markdown at €49/month flat.
- ✗Arbitrary HTML still doesn't workThe $249 buys the gate, not the ability to host the file.
- ✗The editor comes whether you want it or notEverything has to be authored in GitBook's format first.
- ✗No publish commandThere's no CLI and no MCP tool, so an agent can't put its own output behind the gate.
What GitBook is for – and what it isn't
- A documentation platform
- An editor, a page tree, collaborative authoring and AI-powered search. For teams building and maintaining structured developer documentation, GitBook is strong.
- Not a host for arbitrary HTML
- Claude Code artifacts, agent-authored research dossiers, Plotly dashboards, D3 visualizations – none of them can live in GitBook. GitBook hosts GitBook-formatted content.
- display.dev has no editor
- It publishes files: any HTML file, any Markdown file, from any tool, to a company-authenticated URL.
Publish it with one command
short_id and base_version. Viewers get the current version; earlier ones stay one click away.Can you use both?
- GitBook
- Maintained developer documentation your team authors and edits together.
- display.dev
- Ad-hoc artifacts, agent output and anything that isn't structured docs. Teams that run both don't treat them as competing.
Pricing
Try it. No credit card.
- Included: 10 gated artifacts
- Included: Unlimited public artifacts*
- Included: 50MB storage
- Not included: Version history
- Not included: Google + Microsoft SSO
- Not included: Audit logs
display.dev branded
Individuals. Unlimited gated sharing.
- Included: Unlimited gated artifacts
- Included: Unlimited public artifacts
- Included: 1GB storage
- Included: 10 versions
- Not included: Google + Microsoft SSO
- Not included: Audit logs
For teams that need company auth.
- Included: Unlimited gated artifacts
- Included: Unlimited public artifacts
- Included: 25GB storage
- Included: 50 versions
- Included: Google + Microsoft SSO
- Included: 90 days audit logs
For compliance-driven organizations.
From €499/mo
- Included: Unlimited gated artifacts
- Included: Unlimited public artifacts
- Included: Custom storage
- Included: Unlimited versions
- Included: Google + Microsoft SSO
- Included: 365 days audit logs
Try display.dev free
- €49/month – not $249/month, and arbitrary HTML actually works
- No editor, no page tree, no structured docs format required
- First artifact in 15 seconds · No credit card
Features
Viewers click a link and sign in with their Google or Microsoft account, or a one-time password. No app to install. No account to create. No IT ticket.
Inline comments on every artifact. Your agent reads them via MCP, fetches the current version, republishes with short_id and base_version, and resolves the thread. The artifact stays the current version at the same URL, not a one-shot screenshot.
dsp publish ./file.html from your terminal, or one sentence in Claude Desktop. No git repo, no deploy pipeline, no project to configure.
Every artifact gets a URL that keeps working. Share in Slack, link in Notion, paste in email. It still works six months later.
No per-seat pricing at any tier. Share with your PM, exec, legal team, or designer for the same flat price.
Cursor, Codex, and Claude Code all work, along with any agent that creates HTML or Markdown output.
Common questions.
Can GitBook host HTML files?
No. GitBook renders its own content format. You cannot upload and serve an arbitrary HTML file through GitBook.
Does display.dev have an editor?
No. display.dev is a publishing tool. Create content in any tool you use; publish it with one command.
What's the cheapest GitBook plan with visitor auth?
Ultimate: $249/month (GitBook list pricing, as of 2026).
Do viewers need a display.dev account?
No. They open the link and sign in with the Google or Microsoft account they already use, or with a code sent to their email. Viewers are unlimited on every plan, including Free.
Publish your first artifact in 15 seconds.
Free tier. No credit card. One-time password auth on free, Google + Microsoft SSO on Pro (€49/month flat).