The Display.dev alternative for work that leaves the company.
Display.dev is a good place for a team and its agents to write docs together. Stacktree is for the page you send a client. Both take an agent's HTML over MCP and keep one link as it changes. Stacktree adds what client delivery needs: a passcode, a gate for your client's company email, your own domain, who read it and for how long, sign-off, and a portal per client.
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What is the best Display.dev alternative?
Stacktree, when the page is going to a client. Display.dev and Stacktree both let an agent publish HTML to a private link that stays put across revisions. Display.dev is a docs workspace for people inside a company. Stacktree is built for the reader outside it: a passcode or company-email gate, your own domain, named links with reading time, sign-off, and a client portal.
What Display.dev is
Display.dev calls itself the AI docs workspace for agents and people. Claude Code, Claude, ChatGPT,
Codex or Cursor publish HTML or Markdown through its MCP server, the dsp CLI or its
API. Each publish keeps the URL and adds a version, teammates edit in the browser, and anyone with
access can comment on a line. A page is private to people you invite, open to everyone who signs
in to your company, or public. An outside guest types their invited email and a one-time code, with
no account to make. Free covers one editor and three gated docs; Solo is $9 a month billed yearly,
and Team is $59 for up to 150 editors.
Where Display.dev is the better choice
- Docs a team writes together. In-browser editing, line comments and roles for viewers, commenters and editors. Stacktree has comments on the page and no live editor.
- Company sign-in. Mark a page Company and everyone who signs in with your Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 account can open it, with no per-page setup. Stacktree’s gates are set per page.
- Price for a team. $9 a month to start, $59 for up to 150 editors, and free viewers on every plan.
- Markdown and a docs home. Spaces, folders and search make it a replacement for a wiki. Stacktree is not a wiki.
Where Stacktree is the better choice
- A passcode. One code your client types, on every plan. Display.dev’s own limitations page says links cannot be password-protected.
- A gate for the client’s whole company. From Solo, anyone with a verified address at the client’s domain gets in, without you inviting each person.
- Your own domain. Pages and client portals on an address you own, from Solo. Display.dev pages open at your organization’s dsp.so address.
- Sign-off. The client approves the page itself, and the record stays with it. Display.dev has no approval step; comments and versions record a review.
- A link that ends. Set any page to expire on a date. Display.dev links do not expire on a timer.
- Encryption only the reader can open. End-to-end encryption on upload, so the server stores only ciphertext. Display.dev lists this as something it does not do.
- A portal per client. A client space collects everything you have sent one client, newest first, behind one passcode.
Pricing, side by side
Display.dev: Free, Solo $9 a month billed yearly ($12 monthly), Team $59 ($79 monthly), Business $199, with unlimited viewers and commenters on every plan. Stacktree: three free pages to try with a real client, then Solo $19 (25 live pages, your own domain, a client space, unlimited passcodes and email gates), Studio $79 (unlimited pages, ten client spaces, reading time per person) and Firm $249. Display.dev costs less for a team writing docs. Stacktree charges for the client layer.
Stacktree vs. Display.dev
| Criterion | Display.dev | Stacktree |
|---|---|---|
| Agent publishes over MCP | Yes, plus a CLI and API. | Yes, plus a REST API. |
| Same link across revisions | Yes, each publish is a version. | Yes, update_site, with version history. |
| Publish with no account | Public preview, claim within 30 days. | Private link for 24 hours. |
| Edit in the browser | Yes. | No. |
| Company sign-in for teammates | Google or Microsoft; SAML on Enterprise. | Per-page gates; no workspace SSO yet. |
| Passcode | No, by their own docs. | Every plan. |
| Gate for a client’s company email | Invite each address; one-time code. | Anyone verified at the domain, from Solo. |
| Your own domain | No, your-org.dsp.so. | From Solo. |
| Sign-off | No approval step. | Recorded on the page. |
| Link expiry | No timer. | Any date you set. |
| End-to-end encryption | No. | Yes, key in the link. |
| Price | Free, then $9, $59, $199. | Free trial, then $19, $79, $249. |
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