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Slite at a glance

Vendor
Slite, Inc.
Headquarters
Incorporated in United States source, captured 1 Nov 2026
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
Panel verdict
The AI panel rates Slite 3/5, the mean of 6 judges. 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. how scores are made
As of
Vendor pages captured 1 Nov 2026; evaluated by the panel 1 Nov 2026. all sources

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The Operations Lead

Weighted verdict

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.

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Scored by The Operations Lead

Panel median The Operations Lead This judge’s scores over the panel median. Each label opens its reasoning below.
Scores per criterion, in stars out of 5
Criterion Panel median The Operations Lead
Editor, structure & search 3.5 of 5 3.5 of 5
Verification, ownership & freshness 3.5 of 5 3.5 of 5
Permissions, SSO & administration 3.5 of 5 3.5 of 5
Help-center publishing & integrations 3 of 5 3 of 5
Import, export & self-hosting 2 of 5 2 of 5
European sovereignty 2 of 5 2 of 5
Pricing transparency 2.5 of 5 2.5 of 5

Verification, ownership & freshness

How this is scored

Whether the content stays true: page owners or experts named per page, verification with a review date and a reminder when it lapses, approval or publishing workflows with drafts and reviewers, read confirmations for mandatory pages, analytics on views, searches without a result and stale pages, duplicate detection, archiving rules, and an audit trail of who changed and approved what.

0 — No way to see who owns a page or when it was last checked beyond the edit date.

3 — Page history and last-edited dates; owners, verification, approvals and content analytics are basic or not described.

5 — An owner or verifier per page, a review interval with reminders, a draft and publish step, page view statistics, and archived pages kept out of search.

8 — Approval workflows with several reviewers, read confirmations for mandatory pages, analytics on failed searches and stale content, duplicate or outdated content flagged automatically, and an exportable audit trail of changes and approvals.

10 — Governance that a regulated organisation runs on: controlled documents with versioned approvals that meet a named standard (ISO 9001, GxP), expiry and review enforced per space, knowledge gaps reported from searches and AI questions, and every published statement traceable to an approved version.

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The Operations Lead

Doc ownership and a verification workflow are named per doc, even the API sets a verification expiry date, and the agent flags outdated content by comparing docs against Slack, GitHub and Linear activity, routing drafted fixes through human triage; a proofreader workflow produces a gap analysis against tickets and threads. Reading and search analytics are described. We found no public information on read confirmations for mandatory pages, multi-reviewer approvals or an exportable audit trail. 6 13 3 14 2

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Permissions, SSO & administration

How this is scored

Who may see and edit what, and how the administrator keeps control: roles and permissions per space and per page, restricted or private pages, guest and external access, groups synced from Azure AD/Entra ID, Google Workspace or LDAP, single sign-on (SAML, OIDC), SCIM provisioning, two-factor authentication enforced, an audit log of access and permission changes, and admin controls over sharing and public links. Where the data is hosted and certifications are scored under sovereignty.

0 — Everyone in a workspace sees and edits everything; no permissions of any kind.

3 — Admins, members and guests, or private and shared pages; per-space or per-page rights, SSO and an audit log are basic or not described.

5 — Permissions per space and per page, guest access with limits, single sign-on through Google or Microsoft, two-factor authentication, groups, and admin control over public sharing.

8 — SAML or OIDC single sign-on with any identity provider, SCIM provisioning or LDAP and directory group sync, enforced 2FA, an audit log of views, edits and permission changes, IP or domain restrictions, and permissions honoured by search and AI answers.

10 — Access control an enterprise auditor accepts as documented: granular roles with inheritance explained, just-in-time and external access with expiry, every access and permission change logged and exportable to a SIEM, and the permission model published with its limits.

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The Operations Lead

Five workspace roles, per-doc roles for writer, reader and channel admin, cascading permissions with overrides, guest collaborators and admin controls over inviting and public sharing are documented, along with OpenID SSO, SCIM and an audit log. Every AI query and the MCP server inherit the user's permissions, so the workshop can ask questions without seeing HR's pages. We found no public information on enforced two-factor authentication for members, IP or domain restrictions, or directory group sync; reader-only seats sit only in the custom-priced Enterprise plan. 16 15 6 1 7 18

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Help-center publishing & integrations

How this is scored

How knowledge reaches people outside the editor: public or password-protected sites and help centers with a custom domain, branding and SEO controls, an in-app widget or contextual help, ticket deflection in a help desk, multilingual publishing, integrations with Slack, Microsoft Teams, Jira, Google Drive, help desks and CRMs, a browser extension, a documented REST or GraphQL API, webhooks, and an MCP server or connector for AI assistants.

0 — Content cannot be shared beyond the editor and nothing connects to it.

3 — Sharing a page by public link and a few integrations such as Slack; a branded help center, an API and webhooks are basic or not described.

5 — A published site or help center with custom domain and branding, integrations with Slack or Teams and Google Drive or Microsoft 365, a documented API, and embeds of common tools.

8 — A help center with SEO controls, multilingual publishing, access for logged-in customers and analytics, a widget or contextual help inside the customer's product, help desk integration with ticket deflection, webhooks, and a connector or MCP server for AI assistants.

10 — Knowledge delivered wherever it is needed from one source: internal and public audiences served from the same pages with per-audience rules, a complete API with SDKs and rate limits stated, a marketplace of integrations, and every channel measured in one report.

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The Operations Lead

Public docs can carry custom branding and domain with SEO indexing and AI answers, and the integration catalogue runs to hundreds — Slack, Jira, Google Drive, Linear, Notion — plus a documented API with rate-limit responses and an MCP server with OAuth and more than 40 tools. We found no public information on multilingual publishing, logged-in customer access to a help center, an in-product widget, webhooks or ticket deflection, so this reads as strong public sharing rather than a full help-center operation. 6 5 8 18

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Import, export & self-hosting

How this is scored

What arriving and leaving would cost: import from Confluence, Notion, Google Docs, Word and Markdown with structure, attachments and links kept, a full export of every space in an open format (Markdown, HTML, XML, PDF) with attachments and history, an API that reaches all content, a stated migration path from Confluence Server or Data Center, open-source code under a named licence, and a self-hosted or on-premise edition with its own documentation.

0 — Content cannot be imported or exported; it can only be read in the vendor's interface.

3 — Single pages export to PDF or Word and some files can be imported; a full export, a Confluence import and self-hosting are basic or not described.

5 — Import from Confluence or Notion and from Word or Markdown, a full workspace export to Markdown or HTML with attachments, a documented API covering pages, and a stated retention of data after cancellation.

8 — A Confluence migration tool or service that keeps hierarchy, permissions and attachments, a full export with history in an open format, a self-hosted or on-premise edition with installation and update documentation, and data returned or deleted on termination under stated terms.

10 — The customer owns the content end to end: open-source code under a named licence that runs fully self-hosted with feature parity stated, a complete export another tool can import without loss, and the deletion of every copy on termination documented.

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The Operations Lead

Arriving is well covered: migrations from Notion, Confluence, ClickUp, Quip and OneNote are advertised, which would absorb our OneNote books, and the API can export a doc subtree in SliteML or HTML. The help pages state that doc history and comments are not included in exports and that exporting several docs in bulk, such as a channel, is not possible. We found no public information on a self-hosted edition. 1 19 20

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European sovereignty

How this is scored

Who the contracting entity and the parent company are, where pages, attachments and search indexes are stored and processed, and who the subprocessors are (hosting, CDN, search, email, support, payment, and the AI model provider that reads pages for answers and summaries, with whether content is used for training). Independently sourced by the sovereignty pipeline; a wiki holds internal processes, customer data and trade secrets, so the whole chain counts, not only the database. A self-hosted or open-source edition the customer runs on its own European servers counts as the customer's chain, whatever the vendor's seat.

0 — Non-EU vendor and contracting entity, hosting unstated, subprocessors unnamed, and no data processing agreement offered.

3 — A privacy policy and a data processing agreement exist, but hosting location is unstated or non-EU and the subprocessors are not listed.

5 — EU data residency available and an EU contracting entity or EU representative, but parts of the chain (CDN, search, email, support, AI model) run through non-EU providers without a stated safeguard, or EU residency is limited to the higher tiers.

8 — EU hosting on named infrastructure, EU contracting entity, subprocessors listed with their locations including the AI model provider, no training on customer content stated, a data processing agreement published, and security certifications (ISO 27001, SOC 2) stated — or a self-hosted edition documented that keeps every page on the customer's own servers.

10 — Sovereign end to end and evidenced: European ownership, entity, hosting and every subprocessor including AI, or a self-hosted open-source edition with no call home, data export and deletion documented, and certifications published with their scope rather than implied.

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The Operations Lead

The contracting entity is Slite, Inc., a Delaware corporation in San Francisco, the primary transfer country is the United States, and the captured pages state the Paris entity does not commercialise the service or contract with customers. On the other side, media assets and backups sit in EU Google Cloud, a data processing agreement with standard contractual clauses is published, customer content is stated never to train AI models, and SOC 2 Type II is evidenced. Subprocessors appear only as categories plus Google Cloud, Stripe and Datadog, with no list of locations, so the chain is only partly visible. 9 10 7

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Pricing transparency

How this is scored

Whether a buyer can compute the real annual cost from public pages alone: price per user and tier, readers or guests free or charged, minimum seats, which features (SSO, SCIM, audit log, verification, help-center publishing, custom domain, AI answers, EU data residency) cost extra, the free tier and its limits, storage limits, the self-hosted edition's licence and support price, minimum term and setup or migration fees.

0 — No public prices at all; every customer is a sales call.

3 — A starting price or a free tier exists, but how cost scales with users, readers or features is unclear.

5 — Tiers are public with their price per user and main inclusions, but at least one commonly needed piece (SSO, AI, readers or guests, EU residency, the self-hosted edition) is unpriced or "on request".

8 — Every tier priced publicly with its scaling rule (editors, readers, guests, storage), add-ons priced, the self-hosted edition's licence and support cost stated, minimum seats, term and VAT treatment stated.

10 — Complete price computability: annual cost derivable for a given number of editors and readers and a feature set, with every add-on, AI credit, setup, migration and support fee and the cancellation and data-return terms published.

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The Operations Lead

Basic and Pro are published at "$10 per user/month" and "$20 per user/month" billed yearly, with storage per user, AI-edit quotas, a 200MB upload limit and a 14-day trial without credit card stated. But reader-only seats, audit logs, SCIM and the service level agreement sit only in Enterprise, which is "Let's talk" custom pricing — so the one price I care about, read access for the workshop, is a sales call. We found no public information on minimum seats, minimum term, VAT treatment or a permanent free plan. 6 16

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European sovereignty — proven facts

1 of 6 dimensions proven

Built only from facts shown on the vendor's own pages. A dimension we could not prove is left open, not scored as zero.

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Questions about Slite

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.

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), BookStack (3/5) and XWiki (3/5) 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 (UK / wider Europe). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made. The full list, with European products first: Slite alternatives.

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Sources (20)

The pages every claim on this page was read from — each one checked, dated, and kept verifiable.

  1. 1 Vendor homepage slite.com Checked 1 Nov 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Features page slite.com Checked 1 Nov 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Features page (knowledge base) slite.com Checked 1 Nov 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Features page (AI search) slite.com Checked 1 Nov 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Integrations page slite.com Checked 1 Nov 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Pricing page slite.com Checked 1 Nov 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Security page slite.com Checked 1 Nov 2026 Details →
  8. 8 API documentation developers.slite.com Checked 1 Nov 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Legal notice slite.com Checked 1 Nov 2026 Details →
  10. 10 Privacy policy slite.com Checked 1 Nov 2026 Details →
  11. 11 Editor, structure & search — found from sitemap slite.com Checked 1 Nov 2026 Details →
  12. 12 Editor, structure & search — found from sitemap slite.com Checked 1 Nov 2026 Details →
  13. 13 Verification, ownership & freshness — found from sitemap developers.slite.com Checked 1 Nov 2026 Details →
  14. 14 Verification, ownership & freshness — found from sitemap slite.com Checked 1 Nov 2026 Details →
  15. 15 Permissions, SSO & administration — found from sitemap slite.com Checked 1 Nov 2026 Details →
  16. 16 Permissions, SSO & administration — found from sitemap slite.com Checked 1 Nov 2026 Details →
  17. 17 Help-center publishing & integrations — found from sitemap slite.com Checked 1 Nov 2026 Details →
  18. 18 Help-center publishing & integrations — found from sitemap slite.com Checked 1 Nov 2026 Details →
  19. 19 Import, export & self-hosting — found from sitemap slite.com Checked 1 Nov 2026 Details →
  20. 20 Import, export & self-hosting — found from sitemap slite.com Checked 1 Nov 2026 Details →