Outline

What it is for

Outline is an open-source team wiki: you write a doc in a collection, comment on it, and you can start Cloud from $10/month (1–10 people) or Community on-prem at $0. Use it when the job is docs you start at $10 Cloud or $0 Community, not when you need a $20 chat seat.

What makes it unique: the cover is the official Outline document (Engineering / Documentation, Webhooks page, contents rail) from the GitHub product still — not a pricing card. The page itself is ops of Documents.

Key features

• Documents — realtime collaborative pages with version history (pricing Unlimited docs + version history). One page. Realtime editing is how this writes. The cover is ops.
• Collections — folders that hold documents and set a default audience. A shelf, not a page. Nested collections sit here.
• Comments — threads and @mentions on a document (pricing Commenting + @mentions). A remark, not the page body.
• Templates — a starter page the team clones (pricing Templating). A stencil, not a live doc. Groups and user permissions sit next to this.
• Self-host — Community Edition you run yourself; Cloud is the hosted desk (pricing On-Premises). A deploy, not a page. On-prem Business is $4 / user / month annual (10-user min).

Cloud bills team-size bands, not a per-seat meter. API + webhooks are install. AI question answering is SKU of Cloud. SSO is included on every Cloud band we fetched.

Who it's for

Best fit: teams of 1–10 who will start Cloud at $10/month (trial) while they file a first collection, or download Community at $0 when they will run the wiki themselves and accept “limited features, no support.”

Pricing

Verified 2026-10-22 (Asia/Shanghai) from getoutline.com/pricing. Cloud is member bands. On-prem Business / Enterprise is per user / year.

Cloud (annual pricing available; dollars below are the printed monthly cards)

• $10 / month — 1–10 team members.
• $79 / month — 11–100 team members.
• $249 / month — 101–200 team members.
• Every Cloud band includes unlimited docs and history, realtime edit, comments, AI Q&A, 17 languages, SSO, 20+ integrations, templates, groups, API + webhooks, audit log, email support.

On-premises

• Community Edition — $0. Limited features. No support. Download.
• Business — $4 / user / month billed annually. 10-user minimum (so $40 / month floor).
• Enterprise — $5 / user / month billed annually. 100-user minimum (so $500 / month floor). Trial on request.

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Limitations / costs

• Community is $0 and limited. SSO and the full Cloud feature list are not the Community card.
• Cloud jumps at 11 people. The 11th member is $79 / month, not $10 plus a seat.
• A wiki, not a CRM or an issue board. For product docs as a site see GitBook. For a notes canvas see Affine.

Alternatives

• GitBook — public product docs when you will not run an internal wiki.
• Affine — a notes / whiteboard canvas when the page is a board, not a collection.
• Plane — work items and cycles when the “doc” is an issue.

Official tutorial

Official docs / GitHub path only. The @outline and @getoutline YouTube handles we opened did not resolve to the Outline wiki in a form we could verify by oEmbed on 2026-10-22 — do not embed a third-party walkthrough.

Written path: getoutline.com/pricing plus the official document still on GitHub.

Website

https://www.getoutline.com

Repository

https://github.com/outline/outline

Source

Catalog row curated for AI Tools Nav. Cover is the official Outline document from the GitHub product still. Dollars checked on getoutline.com/pricing (Cloud $10 / $79 / $249; Community $0; on-prem Business $4/user/yr min 10; Enterprise $5/user/yr min 100).

Last verified

2026-10-22 (Asia/Shanghai) editorial check.