Knowledge bases & wikis: the tech stack of 18 real products
Team wikis, internal docs and help centers for teams.
The typical stack
The leading pick where at least 8 of them show the decision and the leader has at least a quarter of it.
| Decision | Most common pick | Share | At default usage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frontend Framework | 10 of 15 · 67% | — | |
| Database | 7 of 14 · 50% | — | |
| Transactional Email | 4 of 10 · 40% | $20/mo · Pro 50k | |
| LLM API | 6 of 8 · 75% | $10/mo · GPT-6 Luna |
Monthly bills add up to about $30 at the calculators' default usage, list prices. Set your own usage →
What they chose, decision by decision
Among the knowledge bases & wikis that show each choice, from makers' products and open-source code alike.
Small samples, fewer than 8 products: Backend Framework (FastAPI 4, Express 3) · Hosting (Cloudflare 3, Render 2) · Database Access & ORMs (SQLAlchemy 3, Prisma 1) · Vector Database (Qdrant 3, Milvus 3) · AI SDK & Agent Framework (LangChain 4, LangGraph 2) · Background Jobs & Cron (Trigger.dev 2, BullMQ 1) · Error Monitoring (Sentry 3, BugSnag 1) · LLM Observability & Evals (Langfuse 2, LangSmith 2) · Payments (Stripe 4, Paddle 1) · Product Analytics (PostHog 2, Mixpanel 2) · File Storage (MinIO 3, Amazon S3 1) · Image & Video Hosting (sharp 3) · Web Analytics (Plausible Analytics 1, Cloudflare Web Analytics 1)
Knowledge bases & wikis we track
11 makers' products and 7 open-source projects. Makers' products first.