Documentation
Documentation is one of the API Evangelist areas on the APIs.io network — a focused corner of the API landscape. The full area lives at documentation.apievangelist.com.
30 providers on the network work in this area, including Confluence, Hashnode, CompanyCam, Treblle, Scribe, ReadMe, and 24 more — each links out to that provider’s APIs, schemas, and governance artifacts.
Related areas: Developer Experience, Support, Testing, and Portal. Browse every area at areas.apis.io.
About this area
A curated index of services, tooling, and open source solutions for producing API and developer documentation. This collection covers hosted documentation platforms, open source…
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Top 30 of 89 network providers tagged for this area — search the full set on apis.io.
| Provider | Description | APIs | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Confluence | APIs for Atlassian Confluence - team collaboration and knowledge management software. | 66 | strong |
| Hashnode | Hashnode is a blogging platform for developers and engineering teams, offering publications on a custom domain, a headless CMS mode, and a public GraphQL API covering posts, dra... | 1 | strong |
| CompanyCam | CompanyCam is a photo-based job-site documentation platform for contractors and the trades — roofing, restoration, solar, home services and construction. Its mobile apps capture... | 10 | strong |
| Treblle | Treblle helps engineering and product teams build, ship and understand their REST APIs in one single place. Empowering API producers by showing actionable data in real-time wher... | 15 | strong |
| Scribe | Scribe (scribehow) is an AI workflow-documentation platform founded in 2019 that automatically turns any process or software walkthrough into a step-by-step guide. Its products ... | 3 | developing |
| ReadMe | ReadMe is a developer hub platform that helps companies design, document, and operate their APIs. The platform combines hosted API reference (OpenAPI-driven), guides and changel... | 14 | developing |
| HackMD | HackMD is a real-time collaborative Markdown editor and knowledge base for individuals and teams. Multiple people can co-edit a Markdown document live, organize notes into folde... | 8 | developing |
| Sweep | Sweep is the agentic layer for enterprise systems. By connecting to platforms like Salesforce, Snowflake, ServiceNow, and HubSpot, Sweep reads live metadata and gives AI agents ... | 2 | developing |
| Elium | Elium is a European enterprise knowledge-management SaaS platform, founded in 2007 as Knowledge Plaza and renamed Elium in 2017, headquartered in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. Team... | 2 | developing |
| APIMatic | APIMatic is a developer experience platform for APIs that specializes in automated SDK generation, API documentation portal creation, specification validation and linting, and A... | 6 | developing |
| Apidog | Apidog is an all-in-one API development platform that connects the entire API lifecycle: visual API design, multi-protocol debugging (HTTP, REST, GraphQL, gRPC, WebSocket, SOAP,... | 1 | developing |
| Mintlify | Mintlify is an AI-native intelligent documentation platform designed for the next generation of technical documentation, combining beautiful out-of-the-box design with advanced ... | 5 | developing |
| Speakeasy | The platform to Build APIs your users love. Best in class API tooling for robust SDKs, API docs, Terraform providers and end-to-end testing. | 20 | developing |
| SwaggerHub | SwaggerHub is SmartBear's enterprise collaborative API design and documentation platform built around the OpenAPI specification. It provides tools for designing, building, docum... | 9 | developing |
| Atlassian Confluence | Atlassian Confluence is a team collaboration and wiki platform for creating, organizing, and discussing work with your team. It provides REST APIs (v1 and v2) and a GraphQL API ... | 6 | developing |
| PlanRadar | PlanRadar is a SaaS platform for construction and real estate documentation, defect and task management, and site inspections, used by builders, owners, facility managers, archi... | 36 | developing |
| Nuclino | Nuclino is a unified team workspace that combines wikis, docs, and project management into one collaborative platform. Its REST API enables developers to build integrations and ... | 6 | developing |
| Inkeep | Inkeep is an AI support and agent platform for documentation and products. Its developer platform exposes an OpenAI-compatible RAG / chat completions API over your own content, ... | 3 | developing |
| Salesforce Knowledge Management | API for managing knowledge articles, categories, and data in Salesforce Knowledge. Enables creating, reading, updating, publishing, and archiving knowledge articles for customer... | 5 | developing |
| DreamFactory | Automate the building, securing, and documenting of REST APIs for data products with built-in enterprise security on bare-metal, VMs, or containers. | 16 | developing |
| Eraser | Eraser is an AI-powered diagramming and technical documentation platform designed for engineering teams. It provides a REST API for generating diagrams from natural language pro... | 7 | developing |
| Sideko | Sideko is an API tooling generation platform that turns an OpenAPI specification into a complete developer-tooling suite — SDKs in six languages (Python, TypeScript, Java, Go, C... | 18 | developing |
| Document360 | Document360 is a SaaS knowledge base platform that allows teams to create, manage, and publish self-service knowledge bases and documentation portals. It supports version contro... | 6 | developing |
| CoreStory | CoreStory is an AI code intelligence platform that ingests large brownfield and legacy codebases and reverse-engineers a persistent understanding of how they work — generating p... | 47 | developing |
| OpenAPI Generator | OpenAPI Generator is a community-governed, Apache-2.0 open-source project that generates client libraries (SDKs), server stubs, API documentation and configuration automatically... | 2 | developing |
| Stainless | Stainless is an API developer experience platform that generates best-in-class SDKs, interactive documentation, production-ready CLI tools, MCP servers, and Terraform providers ... | 10 | developing |
| Slite | Slite is a collaborative documentation and knowledge base platform with a REST API for managing notes, channels, documents, templates, and team knowledge bases. It enables async... | 7 | thin |
| APIGen | ApiGen is an open source PHP API documentation generator that automatically produces smart and simple documentation from PHP source code. It supports PHP 7.1+ including all PHP ... | 8 | thin |
| kapa.ai | kapa.ai is an AI assistant and answer platform that turns technical documentation, GitHub content, forums, and developer products into a retrieval-augmented chat experience. The... | 6 | thin |
| Slab | Slab is an internal knowledge base and team wiki for the modern workplace, pairing a clean editor and fast search with dozens of integrations. Slab exposes a single GraphQL API ... | 1 | thin |
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