GitBook vs Amplitude
Modern docs & knowledge bases — Notion-meets-Mintlify for teams
vs. Digital analytics + experimentation + CDP
Pricing tiers
GitBook
Free (Personal)
$0. Unlimited public docs, unlimited editors, AI Assistant (limited). For open-source or personal.
Free
Plus
$6.70/user/mo (annual) or $10/mo. Unlimited public + private spaces, custom domain.
$7/mo
Pro
$12.50/user/mo annual. SSO, advanced security, visitor auth, git sync auto-merge.
$13/mo
Enterprise
Custom. SAML, audit logs, dedicated support, security reviews.
Custom
Amplitude
Starter (Free)
10K Monthly Tracked Users, 10M events/mo. Session Replay + unlimited feature flags + Web Experimentation + AI Feedback included.
Free
Plus
$49/mo (annual). Up to 300K MTUs + 25M events. Unlimited product analytics, behavioral cohorts, feature tagging, custom audiences.
$49/mo
Growth
Custom. Causal insights, Feature Experimentation, real-time streaming, predictive audiences.
Custom
Enterprise
Custom. Cross-product analysis, advanced data controls, mutual exclusion groups, multi-armed bandit.
Custom
Free-tier quotas head-to-head
Comparing free on GitBook vs starter on Amplitude.
| Metric | GitBook | Amplitude |
|---|---|---|
| No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers. | ||
Features
GitBook · 14 features
- AI Assistant — End-user chat + authoring help.
- Block Editor — Notion-style visual editor.
- Change Requests — PR-like review for docs edits.
- Custom Domain — docs.yourco.com.
- Full-text Search — Scoped + global.
- Git Sync — Two-way GitHub/GitLab sync.
- Integrations Gallery — Built-in integrations panel.
- Markdown Support — Import/export MD.
- OpenAPI Blocks — Embed interactive API reference.
- Page Analytics — Views, search queries, feedback.
- PDF Export — Download docs as PDF.
- SSO — SAML + OIDC.
- Versioning — Compare versions, revert.
- Visitor Authentication — Gate private docs (Pro+).
Amplitude · 13 features
- AI Feedback (Asking) — Natural language questions over your Amplitude data.
- Amplitude CDP — Customer Data Platform — identify, segment, sync to 150+ destinations.
- Causal Insights — AI identifies why a metric changed — root cause.
- Cross-Product Analysis — Analyze across multiple apps/products in the same org.
- Data Governance — Taxonomies, schemas, approvals, category management.
- Data Warehouse Sync — Sync data to/from Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Databricks.
- Feature Experimentation — Server-side / SDK-level experiments. Growth+.
- Feature Flags — Targeting rules + rollouts. Unlimited in Starter.
- North Star Metric — Pre-built dashboards for key metric tracking.
- Predictive Audiences — ML-based forecasting of user behavior.
- Product Analytics — Core events + funnels + retention + segmentation.
- Session Replay — Pixel-perfect user session recording + privacy masking.
- Web Experimentation — A/B test visual changes on your site without deploy.
Developer interfaces
| Kind | GitBook | Amplitude |
|---|---|---|
| CLI | gitbook CLI (legacy) | — |
| SDK | @gitbook/api (TS) | amplitude-analytics-python, @amplitude/analytics-react-native, amplitude-android, amplitude-js / browser-sdk, amplitude-node, AmplitudeSwift (iOS) |
| REST | GitBook HTTP API | Amplitude HTTP API v2, Batch Event API, Export API |
| OTHER | GitBook Editor, GitBook Webhooks, GitHub/GitLab Sync | Data Destinations (webhooks) |
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