Guru Alternatives

Slite is a team knowledge base built around one idea that Guru users will recognize: a doc is only useful if someone owns it and confirms it is still true. Every plan includes doc verification, doc ownership and a Knowledge Management Panel that lists what is stale, so the habit you built around Guru cards carries over. On top sits Ask, its AI search that answers questions from your docs, and the Slite Agent, which can also run in Slack, through the API or over MCP.

The big difference with Guru is the price tag. Basic is $10 per member a month billed yearly, Pro is $20, and Enterprise is on request. For a 10-person support team, Basic comes to $1,200 a year, a number you can put in a budget without a working session with sales. Pro adds doc fact-checking with suggested fixes, agent workflows and 50 monthly credits per seat, pooled across the workspace: a team of 20 gets 1,000 credits.

Watch the AI meter, though. On Basic, AI search is capped at 30 monthly questions per seat. Agent requests use credits wherever they run, including scheduled digests, and top-ups cost $10 per 100 credits. Before you move, export a month of Guru search logs, count the questions your team really asks, and size the plan on that. Exports in PDF, Markdown and HTML keep your exit door open. Slite has its own switching guide too: see the Slite switching guide for the limits teams hit later.

Tettra is the tool that looks most like the Guru many teams first bought: an internal knowledge base and Q&A tool that lives in Slack. Its Scaling plan includes an AI bot in Slack, AI answers in DMs and channels, AI thread summarization and a feature that mines existing answers from Slack threads into pages. Verification, stale pages and unowned content reports keep the base honest, which is the job Guru cards and their verification intervals did.

Pricing is short and public. Scaling costs $8 per user a month billed yearly, or $10 billed monthly, with a 10-user minimum (the price toggle says 20% off for yearly, the FAQ two free months). The minimum is the detail to read twice: a 4-person team still pays for 10 seats, so $960 a year on yearly billing, not $384, or $100 a month on monthly billing. From 10 people up, the maths turn in its favor. Enterprise is on custom pricing and includes SSO and SCIM, hands-on training and custom import, and the FAQ says per-user rates drop for customers past 250 licenses.

Two limits to plan for. On Scaling, SAML SSO and SCIM are paid add-ons, and group permissions need the SCIM add-on, so a company that manages access through Okta or Azure AD should price that before the trial ends. And Tettra is built around pages and questions: teams that also want databases and project boards keep another tool for them, and content leaves Tettra as an HTML export. If you also want a wider view of the category, our best knowledge base software ranking compares more tools.

Slab is a knowledge base with a writing experience that people actually use: posts organized into topics, real-time collaboration, templates, verification and a unified search that also looks into connected tools. It is the calmest swap for a team that found Guru's cards and collections too rigid, and its integrations list (Google, Slack, GitHub, Asana, Okta) covers the usual stack. If you are also weighing an all-in-one workspace, our Notion alternatives page covers the other side of that choice.

Its free plan is the strongest in this list: Slab is free for up to 10 users, with unlimited posts and topics, verification and 90 days of version history (the FAQ adds guests, but the plan grid shows no guest seats on Free, so count on 10 users). Startup costs $6.67 per user a month billed annually, or $8 billed monthly, and adds AI Autofix. Business costs $12.50 billed annually, or $15 monthly, and adds AI Predict and Ask, SAML-based SSO and SCIM provisioning. Startup is free for non-profits and educational use, and Slab offers a 30-day money-back guarantee.

The pitfall sits at user number 11. The free plan stops at 10 users, so the day you add one more person the whole team moves to a paid plan: 11 users on Startup billed annually is about $880 a year. Plan that step before you invite the last contractor. And if AI answers are why you looked at Guru in the first place, budget for Business, since Ask is not on the cheaper plans.

Notion is not a knowledge base first. It is a workspace where wikis, docs, databases and project boards live side by side, and that is both why teams move from Guru to Notion and why some come back. If your knowledge sits next to your roadmaps and meeting notes, keeping it in one place removes a tool and a login. Our Notion review covers the workspace in depth.

The knowledge features that matter for a Guru user are on Business, at $20 per seat a month billed yearly or $24 monthly: Verify any page, Notion Agent, AI Meeting Notes, Enterprise Search across connected apps like Slack and GitHub, and SAML SSO. Plus costs $10 per seat a month billed yearly, or $12 monthly, and Free costs $0. Custom Agents, which run repetitive tasks on their own, are free to try, then $10 per 1,000 monthly Notion credits.

The cost trap is billing. For 20 seats on Business, monthly billing costs $960 a year more than yearly (20 × $4 × 12). Notion also synchronizes paid seats with workspace members at each renewal, so remove leavers before the date. The other trap is structure: Notion gives you blocks, not a verification routine. Assign page owners and a review rhythm on day one, or the wiki ages like any other. Exports as HTML, Markdown and CSV keep your content portable.

Confluence is the wiki most technical companies already have. It holds specs, runbooks and team pages, links them to Jira issues, and with Atlassian Rovo adds AI search and agents across Atlassian data. If your support or sales team chose Guru while engineering stayed on Confluence, merging the two removes a second source of truth, and Guru itself connects to Confluence among its integrations.

Prices are published and follow team size. On monthly billing, Standard costs $7.15 and Premium $14.10 per user a month for a team of 10 to 100 users; the pricing page opens at 300 users, where the rates drop to $5.78 and $11.16. Standard includes 100 automation steps per user per month, Premium 250, and Premium adds unlimited spaces and a dynamic intranet. Enterprise only shows a price on annual billing. Our Confluence switching guide covers the reasons teams leave it, which helps you avoid trading one problem for another.

The catch for a Guru user is the habit, not the price. Confluence is built for long pages, spaces and page trees, while Guru was built for short cards pushed to people where they work. Frontline teams who want a 30-second answer in Slack often find Confluence slow to browse. Fix that with a strict template for answer pages and a Rovo test on your real questions before you migrate, and check the Confluence Zapier integrations if Guru fed other apps for you.

Document360 covers what Guru deliberately does not: a customer-facing help center. The same account runs internal knowledge bases, external knowledge bases, software and API documentation, SOPs and user manuals, with Eddy AI for writing and search, a knowledge base widget, a support ticket deflector and an MCP server. For a support team that keeps internal answers in Guru and public articles in a help desk, Document360 can merge the two and stop the copy-paste.

Like Guru, it shows no flat price. Its pricing page explains that Document360 prices around your specific configuration: team accounts, workspaces, languages, SSO and security needs, the privacy model of the knowledge base (public, private or mixed) and use of the AI Premium Suite. Standard migration is included in most quotes, and every customer gets a dedicated success manager and onboarding sessions. That is why its pricing transparency score is the lowest in this list. Get the quote with your real number of languages, because a help center in five languages costs more than one in English.

On security it holds up for regulated buyers: SOC 2 Type II, GDPR ready and ISO 27001 certified, with SOC 2 on all plans. It also ships 60+ out-of-the-box connectors, including Intercom, Zendesk and Salesforce. If your public help sits in Zendesk today, compare with our Zendesk alternatives before you decide where the help center should live, and see the Document360 Zapier integrations for the automations around it.