# Slite — Knowledge Base & Wiki

Slite by Slite, Inc. holds a panel rating of 3/5 from 6 AI judges (category median 3/5), as of 2026-11-01. Provenance: Rest of world; sovereignty: 1 of 6 dimensions proven.

- Vendor: Slite, Inc. (https://slite.com)
- Category: [Knowledge Base & Wiki](https://whats-best.ai/software/knowledge-base.md)
- Provenance (editorial classification): Rest of world
- Canonical page: https://whats-best.ai/software/knowledge-base/slite
- Alternatives: https://whats-best.ai/software/knowledge-base/slite/alternatives ([markdown](https://whats-best.ai/software/knowledge-base/slite/alternatives.md))
- Data as of: 2026-11-06 · evaluated 2026-11-01 · oldest source captured 2026-11-01

**AI-generated.** Every score, rationale and verdict here is written by a panel of AI judges from public evidence — an analysis, not a hands-on test. Every fact quotes the vendor page it was read from. No score can be bought. How scores are made: https://whats-best.ai/methodology

## At a glance

- Vendor: Slite, Inc.
- Headquarters: Incorporated in United States [S9]
- Data hosting: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 1 Nov 2026
- Free plan: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 1 Nov 2026

## The panel's verdict

Slite is a collaborative knowledge base, strongest on authoring and search and access control: a real-time editor with Markdown, diagrams and hundreds of embeds, AI answers that cite their exact sources across 20-plus connected sources, and per-doc roles with cascading permissions that every query inherits. Knowledge governance spreads 6-8: API-settable verification expiries and an agent that flags outdated docs against Slack, GitHub and Linear activity are documented, while the lower scores cite no public information on read confirmations, multi-reviewer approvals or an exportable audit trail. Portability and hosting scores 4 with no spread — the help pages state bulk export is not possible and that history and comments are not included — and sovereignty follows at 3-4: the contracting entity is Slite, Inc., a Delaware corporation, personal information is stated to be provided in the United States, and media assets and backups sit in EU Google Cloud storage. Pricing transparency scores 5-6: Basic at "$10 per user/month" and Pro at "$20 per user/month", both billed yearly, are published, but reader-only seats, audit logs and SCIM sit in custom-priced Enterprise.

**Speaks for it:**
- AI answers cite the exact sources that shaped them, with verified docs ranked first and a trust signal on every citation
- Every query — search, AI answers and even third-party agents over MCP — inherits the user's permissions
- Doc verification carries an expiry date settable through the API, and an agent flags outdated content against Slack, GitHub and Linear activity with human approval of drafted fixes
- A documented public API (v1.0) and an MCP server with over forty tools over OAuth support custom integrations
- Importers are advertised for Notion, Confluence, ClickUp, Quip and OneNote

**Held against it:**
- The export help states that exporting several docs in bulk is not possible and that doc history and comments are not included
- The contracting entity is Slite, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and the privacy policy states personal information is provided in the United States
- Reader-only seats, audit logs and SCIM sit in the Enterprise tier, priced only on request
- Subprocessors appear as categories rather than a named list with locations

**Best for:**
- You need an internal knowledge base where AI answers cite their sources and every query, including third-party agents, inherits the reader's permissions
- Your team writes in Markdown with diagrams and wants search to reach Slack, Google Drive and 20-plus connected sources
- You want stale docs flagged automatically against Slack, GitHub and Linear activity, with drafted fixes routed for human approval
- You plan to build on a documented public API and an MCP server with over forty tools

**Avoid if:**
- You need to leave with a complete archive: bulk export is documented as not possible, and doc history and comments are not included in exports
- You require an EU contracting entity or self-hosted delivery — ask the vendor: the public pages we read do not show it
- You need a computable price for read-only access: reader-only seats sit only in the Enterprise tier with custom pricing on request

## Scores by judge and criterion

Scores out of 5, each judge scoring independently against the published rubric (v1). "n/r" = not rated: the vendor publishes no price, or the judge found no public information on that criterion.

| Criterion | The Operations Lead | The IT Administrator | The Support Knowledge Manager | The Engineering Lead | The Quality Manager | The Skeptic |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Editor, structure & search | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 4/5 | 3.5/5 | 4/5 | 3.5/5 |
| Verification, ownership & freshness | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 4/5 | 3/5 | 3.5/5 | 3/5 |
| Permissions, SSO & administration | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 4/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 |
| Help-center publishing & integrations | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 |
| Import, export & self-hosting | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 |
| European sovereignty | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 |
| Pricing transparency | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 3/5 | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 |
| **Weighted verdict** | **3/5** | **3/5** | **3.5/5** | **3/5** | **3/5** | **2.5/5** |

### The judges

- **The Operations Lead** (v1.0): Head of operations at a 180-person machine builder in Baden-Württemberg, where onboarding, travel rules and the service hotline's answers live in a shared drive, three OneNote books and two colleagues' heads. Wants one place the whole company actually uses: an editor office staff manage without training, a search that finds the answer rather than the file, pages that name who keeps them current, and a price that does not double when the workshop gets read access.
- **The IT Administrator** (v1.0): Runs IT for a public utility with 900 staff whose Confluence Server held twelve years of pages until Atlassian ended its support. Was offered the cloud, read the subprocessor list and went looking instead. Needs a migration that keeps page trees, permissions and attachments, single sign-on against Entra ID with groups synced, an audit log the auditor accepts, and an edition they can run in the utility's own data centre if the works council or the regulator asks.
- **The Support Knowledge Manager** (v1.0): Owns the knowledge base of a Dutch SaaS company with customers in six languages and a support team of twenty-five. Writes once for agents and customers, publishes the public part as a help center on the company's own domain, and watches which searches find nothing. Wants review dates that nag the right expert, translations kept in step with the source, a widget inside the product, and articles that show up in the help desk next to the ticket.
- **The Engineering Lead** (v1.0): Leads a forty-person engineering team at a Berlin fintech that writes runbooks, architecture decisions and on-call guides. Writes in Markdown, links pages to Jira tickets and Slack threads, and has moved the team's docs twice. Wants fast search, code blocks and diagrams that render, an API and webhooks to generate pages from the pipeline, AI answers that cite their pages, and a full export the next tool can read.
- **The Quality Manager** (v1.0): Quality manager at a medical device supplier certified to ISO 9001 and ISO 13485, where every work instruction must be approved, versioned and read by the people it applies to. Today that means Word files, a sign-off sheet and an audit every spring. Wants approval workflows with named reviewers, read confirmations, review dates that expire pages, an audit trail they can export for the certifier, and permissions that keep drafts out of sight.
- **The Skeptic** (v1.0): Has migrated a wiki whose "export" turned out to be one PDF per page, watched a self-hosted edition announced as retired with two years' notice, and read "your data is never used for training" above a subprocessor list naming two AI providers. Asks what a full export contains, which model reads the pages and where, whether readers are billed like editors — and what leaving would cost.

## European sovereignty — proven facts

Built only from facts on the vendor's own pages; a dimension we could not prove is left open, never scored as zero. Headline: 1 of 6 dimensions proven.

| Dimension | Finding | Points | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legal entity | Incorporated in US | 0/2 | [S9] |
| Hosting location | Not determined | — | — |
| Hosting options | Not determined | — | — |
| Open source | Not determined | — | — |
| Data processing agreement | Not determined | — | — |
| Transfer impact assessment | Not determined | — | — |

## Key facts

Each fact is the vendor's own statement, cited to the source page it was read from ([S*n*] → Sources).

**Compliance**
- Access controls: yes · yes · yes · yes [S1]
- AI training: yes · yes [S1]
- Auditability: yes · yes · yes · yes [S1]
- Certifications: yes · yes · yes · yes [S1]
- Certifications: yes · yes · yes [S12]
- Device security: 1Password · yes [S7]
- DPA available: Data Processing Addendum · yes [S10]
- E2e encryption: no [S7]
- Employee access controls: Google · yes · quarterly [S7]
- Employee training: regular security awareness training including GDPR and HIPAA specific training [S7]
- Encryption at rest: Google Cloud built-in encryption · yes [S7]
- GDPR: yes [S7]
- GDPR program: yes · yes · yes [S7]
- HIPAA: yes · enterprise · yes [S7]
- Security features: Automatic data backups · OpenID SSO · SCIM provisioning · Audit log · SOC 2 Type II compliance · HIPAA compliance [S6]
- Security measures: reasonable organizational, technical and administrative measures [S10]
- SOC 2 type2: SOC 2 Type II · annual [S7]
- Tls rating: A+ [S7]
- Transfer safeguards: EU Commission adequacy decision · UK government adequacy decision · contractual protections [S10]
- Trust center: Vanta [S7]

**Data**
- Deletion right: yes [S10]
- Document content backup: 6 · 7 · 4 · 12 [S7]
- Marketing opt out: yes [S10]
- Media storage: EU · Google Cloud Storage [S7]
- Min age: 18 [S10]
- No access to card numbers: no [S10]
- Processor role: service provider/data processor [S10]
- Retention: retain only as long as necessary [S10]
- Retention policy: documented retention and deletion policies; data purged after backup retention windows expire [S7]
- Search embedding: semantic vector embeddings computed internally on GPUs for Ask feature and Slite Agent enterprise search [S7]
- Sharing categories: hosting · information technology · customer support · chatbot functionality · referral partners · email delivery · website analytics [S10]
- Structural backup: 7 · daily · monthly [S7]
- Third party logins: Slack · Google · Apple [S10]
- User rights: yes [S10]
- Workspace deletion: workspace deletion removes data from active systems and schedules backup deletion [S7]

**Hosting**
- International transfers US: yes · United States [S10]
- Provider: 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States · Google LLC · Google Cloud Platform [S9]
- Provider: EU (St. Ghislain, Belgium) · Google Cloud Platform [S7]

**Integrations**
- Adobe xd: Embed Adobe Xd prototypes and design specs [S5]
- Airtable: Bring Airtable data into Slite [S5]
- API: Slite offers a public API to build on top of Slite docs [S8]
- API and tools: Public API · Service accounts · Embeds & link previews · Authenticated embeds · Slack integration · MCP access [S6]
- API auth API key: Script requires a Slite API key [S20]
- API dependencies: Python requests library required as dependency [S20]
- API descendants endpoint: fetch document subtree without client-side recursion · GET /v1/notes/{id}/children?includeDescendants=true [S20]
- API doc id input: Script requires the ID of the parent doc to export [S20]
- API doc tree: Zapier · Slack Integration · SliteML Reference · Generate a whole structure with Slite API · Export a doc and its subdocs with Slite API · Update a doc block with 3rd party data with Slite API · Slite MCP · Service accounts [S20]
- API export formats: sliteml · html (css stripped) [S20]
- API key generation: API keys are generated in the user's Slite settings [S8]
- API version: v1.0 [S8]
- Asana: Embed Asana tasks in Slite docs [S5]
- Bigquery: BigQuery data source; pull analytics without SQL knowledge [S5]
- Calendly: Add Calendly scheduling links to Slite docs [S5]
- Canva: Embed Canva creations [S5]
- Clickup: Add ClickUp tasks and projects to Slite docs [S5]
- Codepen: Add CodePen code snippets [S5]
- Create docs markdown: create docs via markdown [S8]
- Custom blocks: create custom blocks with live interaction in the editor [S8]
- Docs fetch and search: fetch docs · search docs [S8]
- Drawio: Draw.io flowcharts in Slite documents [S5]
- Drift sources: Slack · Linear · GitHub · codebase [S1]
- Examples repo: TypeScript · yes [S8]
- Excalidraw: Excalidraw collaborative drawings [S5]
- Figma: Embed Figma designs in Slite docs [S5]
- Github: Insert GitHub issues or PRs into Slite docs [S5]
- Google docs: Embed Google Docs content [S5]
- Google drive: Connect Google Drive as data source into knowledge base [S5]
- Google sheets: Live Google Sheets data in Slite docs [S5]
- Google slides: Embed Google Slides [S5]
- Grain: Grain AI-powered meeting recordings [S5]
- Jam: Jam bug information in Slite docs [S5]
- Jira: Insert Jira issues into Slite docs [S5]
- Latex: LaTeX math formulas in docs [S5]
- Linear: Insert Linear issues into Slite docs [S5]
- Loom: Embedded Loom videos [S5]
- Lottiefiles: Embedded LottieFiles [S5]
- Lucidchart: Lucidchart visuals in Slite docs [S5]
- Mcp: yes · Claude · ChatGPT · Cursor [S1]
- Mcp: yes · MCP support [S2]
- Mcp: yes [S11]
- Mcp custom connectors: space · channel · folder · yes · yes [S12]
- Mermaid: Mermaid visual representations in Slite docs [S5]

**Legal**
- Eea contact: gdpr@slite.com · 128 Rue La Boétie, Paris 75008 France [S10]
- Entity: Slite, Inc. [S1]
- Entity: Slite, Inc. [S2]
- Entity: Slite, Inc. [S6]
- Entity: controller · Slite, Inc. [S10]
- EU entity: FR50834263774 · 834263774 · Slite France SAS · 128 Rue La Boétie, Paris 75008 France [S9]
- EU entity role: employment and support services within the group · no [S9]
- Operator: Delaware corporation · Slite, Inc. [S9]
- Operator address: 490 Post Street, Suite 640, c/o Jade Fiducial Inc, San Francisco, CA 94102 USA [S9]
- Registration: 6597785 [S9]
- US address: 94102 · San Francisco · 490 Post Street, Suite 640 · Jade Fiducial Inc · USA [S10]

**Pricing**
- Basic features: Unlimited docs · Ask (AI search & answers) · Doc verification workflow · Knowledge Management Panel · MCP and API access [S6]
- Basic price: yearly · 10 [S1]
- Basic price: Basic · yearly · USD · 10 [S6]
- Enterprise includes pro plus: Reader-only seats · Advanced security and controls · Audit logs · Service Level Agreement · Dedicated account manager · Priority support · Custom agent sources · Migration and onboarding support · SCIM · yes [S6]
- Enterprise price: yes [S1]
- Enterprise price: Enterprise · yes [S6]
- Free trial: 14 · Basic · Pro · no [S6]
- Member prices recap: contact_us · 20 · 10 [S6]
- Pro includes basic plus: The Slite Agent · Search across your connected tools · Doc fact-checking with suggested fixes · Agent workflows · 50 monthly credits per seat · OpenID SSO · Custom domain for public docs · yes [S6]
- Pro price: yearly · yes · 20 [S1]
- Pro price: Pro · yearly · USD · 20 [S6]
- View pricing: yes [S12]

**Product**
- Admin controls: Doc permissions · Protect doc editing · Reader access on docs · Reader-only seats · Workspace analytics · Control who can invite · Control public sharing · Control who can create channels · Control who can manage user groups [S6]
- Admin limitations: yes · yes [S16]
- Agent: Slite Agent writes missing docs, answers questions from knowledge base and connected tools [S3]
- Agent triage: yes [S3]
- AI agent features: Doc fact-checking with suggested fixes · Custom Assistants · Automated digests · Bulk mode [S6]
- AI answers slack: yes [S6]
- AI data usage: no [S7]
- AI insights: yes · AI insights panel for docs requiring attention, bulk actions [S2]
- AI knowledge base: yes · AI knowledge base [S2]
- AI search: yes · yes [S1]
- AI search: yes · AI search [S2]
- AI search: Slack · Chrome · desktop app · yes [S3]
- AI search: yes · yes [S11]
- AI writing assistant limits: Unlimited · 30 AI edits/month/user · Unlimited [S6]
- Analytics: yes · reading and search analytics [S2]
- API auth: bearer [S13]
- API error responses: Ok · Invalid authentication · Input validation error · Rate limitation error [S13]
- Apps: yes · yes [S11]
- Article input: Accepts article by name, link, or ID [S14]
- Audit logging: detailed logs of auth/SSO, admin actions, application/infrastructure activity, alerts [S7]
- Authorization controls: workspace-wide access, per-user/group restriction, public publishing, read-only/read-write at document level [S7]
- Benchmark accuracy: 80 · 68 [S18]
- Benchmark speed: 76.8 · 39.5 · 101.9 [S18]
- Billing admin capabilities: yes · no [S16]
- Billing admin rights: yes · yes · yes [S16]
- Browser extension: yes · browser extension [S2]
- Browser extension: Chrome extension · yes [S12]
- Capterra rating: 4.7 · Capterra [S1]
- Cascading permissions: yes [S15]
- Channel admin permissions: Channel admin · channel [S15]
- Chrome extension: yes [S6]
- Citations: yes [S12]
- Cited answers: yes [S1]
- Code review: yes [S7]
- Collaboration features: Guest collaborators · User groups [S6]
- Context awareness: jargon and context aware [S18]
- Dependency scanning: Google Cloud Container Scanning · GitHub Dependabot alerts [S7]
- Deployment infrastructure: ArgoCD · Kubernetes [S7]
- Description: Slite is a writing tool that serves as a knowledge base for teams. [S10]
- Desktop apps: yes · downloadable apps [S2]
- Disaster recovery: yes · yes · annual [S7]
- Doc maintenance: yes [S1]
- Doc verification: yes · doc verification [S2]

**Subprocessors**
- Stripe: Stripe · PCI-DSS [S7]

**Support**
- API email: support@slite.com · email [S8]
- Orphaned workspace recovery: support@slite.com [S16]
- Services: Priority support · Dedicated account manager · Personalized onboarding & migration · Custom data sources, built with you · Service Level Agreement [S6]

90 more facts on the canonical page: https://whats-best.ai/software/knowledge-base/slite

## Questions

### Is Slite European?

No. whats-best.ai classifies Slite as Rest of world. Its vendor, Slite, Inc., is incorporated in United States, per [the vendor’s page captured 1 Nov 2026](https://whats-best.ai/evidence/13535).

### Where does Slite store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 1 Nov 2026.

### Does Slite have a free plan?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 1 Nov 2026.

### What are the best alternatives to Slite?

As of 1 Nov 2026, the panel rates [Document360 (3.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/knowledge-base/document360), [BookStack (3/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/knowledge-base/bookstack) and [XWiki (3/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/knowledge-base/xwiki) highest among the other 13 Knowledge Base & Wiki products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is [Document360](https://whats-best.ai/software/knowledge-base/document360) (UK / wider Europe). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: [how scores are made](https://whats-best.ai/methodology#ordering). The full list, with European products first: [Slite alternatives](https://whats-best.ai/software/knowledge-base/slite/alternatives).

## Head-to-head

- [Slite vs Nuclino](https://whats-best.ai/compare/nuclino-vs-slite.md)

## What this page leaves out

- 12 product facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 7 compliance facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 4 pricing facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 3 integrations facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 2 data facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 2 legal facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 1 hosting fact could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and was left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 6 of the readings below were written against an earlier fact sheet — a fact has been corrected, added or pulled since. Until the panel next runs on this product you are reading the older judgement.

## Sources

- [S1] Vendor homepage: https://slite.com/ (checked 2026-11-01)
- [S2] Features page: https://slite.com/features (checked 2026-11-01)
- [S3] Features page (knowledge base): https://slite.com/solutions/knowledge-base (checked 2026-11-01)
- [S4] Features page (AI search): https://slite.com/ai-search (checked 2026-11-01)
- [S5] Integrations page: https://slite.com/integrations (checked 2026-11-01)
- [S6] Pricing page: https://slite.com/pricing (checked 2026-11-01)
- [S7] Security page: https://slite.com/security (checked 2026-11-01)
- [S8] API documentation: https://developers.slite.com/ (checked 2026-11-01)
- [S9] Legal notice: https://slite.com/legal (checked 2026-11-01)
- [S10] Privacy policy: https://slite.com/privacy (checked 2026-11-01)
- [S11] Editor, structure & search — found from sitemap: https://slite.com/editor (checked 2026-11-01)
- [S12] Editor, structure & search — found from sitemap: https://slite.com/de/ai-search (checked 2026-11-01)
- [S13] Verification, ownership & freshness — found from sitemap: https://developers.slite.com/reference/verifynote (checked 2026-11-01)
- [S14] Verification, ownership & freshness — found from sitemap: https://slite.com/workflows/knowledge-proofreader (checked 2026-11-01)
- [S15] Permissions, SSO & administration — found from sitemap: https://slite.com/help/revxa5CI8j1Hs4/Doc-Permissions (checked 2026-11-01)
- [S16] Permissions, SSO & administration — found from sitemap: https://slite.com/help/8YFftGfiLXr4qM/User-Roles (checked 2026-11-01)
- [S17] Help-center publishing & integrations — found from sitemap: https://slite.com/integrations/api (checked 2026-11-01)
- [S18] Help-center publishing & integrations — found from sitemap: https://slite.com/mcp (checked 2026-11-01)
- [S19] Import, export & self-hosting — found from sitemap: https://slite.com/help/PxKfPvLrLHj07O/Export-Docs (checked 2026-11-01)
- [S20] Import, export & self-hosting — found from sitemap: https://slite.com/help/Npm8Zaqw4QGwWk/Export-a-doc-and-its-subdocs-with-Slite-API (checked 2026-11-01)

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