Guru
Slite
| Feature | Guru | Slite |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free / from $10/mo | Free / from $8/mo |
| Free Plan | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Rating | 4.4 / 5 | 4.3 / 5 |
| Best For | support-teams, sales-teams, hr-teams, growing-companies | remote-teams, startups, ops-teams, distributed-teams |
| Founded | 2015 | 2017 |
| Knowledge Cards | ✓ | ✗ |
| Verification | ✓ | ✗ |
| Ai Search | ✓ | ✗ |
| Browser Extension | ✓ | ✗ |
| Analytics | ✓ | ✗ |
| Integrations | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ai Assistant | ✗ | ✓ |
| Doc Editor | ✗ | ✓ |
| Collections | ✗ | ✓ |
| Ask Feature | ✗ | ✓ |
| Templates | ✗ | ✓ |
✓ Guru Pros
- Knowledge verification
- Browser extension
- AI-powered search
- Slack/Teams integration
✗ Guru Cons
- Unwieldy at scale
- Verification overhead
- Limited formatting
✓ Slite Pros
- AI that actually reads and answers from your docs
- Clean distraction-free editor
- Good for async-first teams
- Templates for common documentation needs
✗ Slite Cons
- Limited customization of structure
- No public documentation hosting
- Fewer integrations than Notion
The Verdict
Guru is built for support teams and sales teams, with a focus on knowledge-cards and verification. Slite targets remote teams and startups and leads with ai-assistant and doc-editor.
Pricing is close: Slite starts at $8/mo versus $10/mo for Guru — not a deciding factor on its own.
Both offer free plans, so you can test each with your real workflow before committing to a subscription.
This is a genuinely close comparison. If you can, sign up for both free trials (where available) and run a one-week test with your actual team tasks before deciding.