Archbee: vendor profile
In short
Archbee turns on llms.txt, llms-full.txt and .md copies by default. Since its Q3 2026 update a public page URL also returns markdown for Accept: text/markdown, and a custom domain lists every public space in one llms.txt. Commercial teams pay from $80 a month after a 14-day trial.
At a glance
standards.txt archbee
llms-txt = supports
markdown-negotiation = supports
markdown-twin = supports
initial-html = no statement
real-404 = no statement
vary-accept = no statement
3 supports, 0 partial or announced, 3 no statement.
Archbee Docs platform
Hosted docs and knowledge portal editor with Git sync. Published spaces serve llms.txt, llms-full.txt and .md copies by default, answer Accept: text/markdown on the page URL since the Q3 2026 update, and expose a per-space sitemap.
- Type
- Docs platform
- Home page
- www.archbee.com, answered HTTP 200 on 2026-11-05
- Last read
- 5 November 2026
What it does for this layer
- Archbee's January 2025 product update made llms.txt available by default on published docs, listed among that month's smaller changes next to Bitbucket two-way sync. [primary source] source, read 5 November 2026.
- Archbee's August 2025 product update reworked llms.txt, llms-full.txt and the .md version of each doc, all on by default with no setting to switch on. [primary source] source, read 5 November 2026.
- The same August 2025 Archbee update announced a ChatGPT connector and a Claude connector built on Archbee's MCP server, with their documentation marked as upcoming. [primary source] source, read 5 November 2026.
- Archbee's Q3 2026 product update (changelog page dated 2026-10-02) lets public doc URLs return markdown when the client sends Accept: text/markdown or text/plain, with no .md suffix needed. [primary source, 2026-10-02] source, read 5 November 2026.
- Since the Q3 2026 Archbee update, a custom domain serves one llms.txt that lists every public space on that domain instead of only the space mapped to the root hostname, rebuilt on each publish or unpublish. [primary source, 2026-10-02] source, read 5 November 2026.
- Archbee's hosted MCP server gained write tools in the Q3 2026 update (create, update and delete documents, spaces and space groups), shipped in the npm package @archbee/mcp 2.4.0. [primary source, 2026-10-02] source, read 5 November 2026.
- Archbee can export a space as a Static HTML bundle from the Publish space menu, emailed as a download link, for offline copies or self-hosting on other infrastructure. [primary source, 2026-10-02] source, read 5 November 2026.
- Archbee gives each published space its own /sitemap.xml listing all of that space's URLs. [primary source] source, read 5 November 2026.
- Archbee's Space settings General tab has an Indexable by search engines switch that is on by default for public spaces; turning it off adds noindex. Per-document SEO Meta Controls set URL key, title, description and preview image. [primary source] source, read 5 November 2026.
- Archbee supports serving docs under a subfolder of the main domain through a reverse proxy (Nginx and Apache samples given) and sets a custom canonical tag so the proxied copy is not treated as duplicate content. [primary source] source, read 5 November 2026.
- Archbee's pricing page lists Growing from $80 per month and Scaling from $350 per month with a 14-day trial and no free plan; AI add-on usage beyond the plan's token allowance costs $1.2 per 1M tokens. [primary source, 2026-11-05] source, read 5 November 2026.
- Archbee runs on AWS in an EU region and a US region (us-east-2), per the Q3 2026 changelog. [primary source, 2026-10-02] source, read 5 November 2026.
- Archbee's AI connector for protected docs gives readers of Magic Link protected spaces a read-only MCP endpoint at api.archbee.com with a search tool and a fetch tool that returns a page as Markdown; a reader's access lasts 30 days. [primary source] source, read 5 November 2026.
- Archbee says more than 3,000 companies use its knowledge portals. [vendor claim] source, read 5 November 2026.
- On 2026-11-05 www.archbee.com/docs/sitemaps answered Accept: text/markdown with 200 text/markdown at 988 bytes and Vary: Accept, identical to sitemaps.md, while the HTML version was 1,176,113 bytes. [observed, 2026-11-05] source, read 5 November 2026.
- On 2026-11-05 Archbee's own help center served /docs/llms-full.txt as text/markdown at 797,608 bytes, and a made-up path under /docs/ returned HTTP 404. [observed, 2026-11-05] source, read 5 November 2026.
Products and plans
| Product | What it is | Price | As of | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Archbee Growing | Entry paid plan with custom domain publishing, SEO and AI/LLM optimization listed as included features. | From USD 80 Starting at $80 per month as shown with the Annual Billing toggle; Scaling starts at $350; 14-day trial; free Growing plan for open source. | 2026-11-05 | source |
Standards
| Standard | Status | What the vendor's pages say | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| llms-txt | supports | llms.txt on by default since January 2025; one site-wide file per custom domain since Q3 2026. | source |
| markdown-negotiation | supports | Q3 2026 update: public pages return Markdown for Accept: text/markdown or text/plain on the same URL. | source |
| markdown-twin | supports | August 2025 update: .md version of docs on by default. | source |
| initial-html | no statement | No rendering statement found in the hosted spaces docs; the sitemaps article text was in the raw HTML fetched with curl on 2026-11-05. A Static HTML export exists for self-hosting. | source |
| real-404 | no statement | No statement found in the redirects and hosting docs; a made-up /docs/ path returned HTTP 404 on 2026-11-05. | none |
| vary-accept | no statement | The Q3 2026 markdown note does not mention Vary; responses carried Vary: Accept, Accept-Encoding on 2026-11-05. | none |
Checks on its own site
| Reading | Result | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Home page request | HTTP 200; H1 in the initial HTML: yes; 3,622 words; 1 JSON-LD block | 2026-11-05 |
| Request with Accept: text/markdown | HTTP 200, text/html, Vary: rsc, next-router-state-tree, next-router-prefetch, next-router-segment-prefetch | 2026-11-05 |
| /llms.txt at the host root | HTTP 200, text/plain, 343 KB, starts with an H1 | 2026-11-05 |
| A made-up path | HTTP 404 | 2026-11-05 |
| Ora score, cached | 63, grade C | 2026-08-27 |
| Cloudflare keyless scan | 20, L1 Basic Web Presence | 2026-11-05 |
| Shared crawl row | outside the ranked slice; home page HTTP 200; H1 in the HTML: yes; 3,665 words; JSON-LD types: none; answers markdown: no; made-up path HTTP 404; llms.txt valid: yes | 2026-11-04 |
What it does not do
- Archbee offers no free plan for commercial teams: after the 14-day trial a paid plan is required, with free Growing reserved for open source projects.
- Archbee's reader-side MCP connector covers only Magic Link protected spaces; readers of SAML, OIDC or password-protected spaces get no agent connector from that feature.
- Archbee does not document JSON-LD output, and no ld+json block was in the sitemaps article HTML fetched on 2026-11-05.
Related pages on this site
Sources
- Archbee: The First Knowledge Portal Platform https://www.archbee.com/, read 5 November 2026
- January 2025 Product Updates - www.archbee.com/docs/changelog https://www.archbee.com/docs/changelog/january-2025-product-updates, read 5 November 2026
- August 2025 Product Updates - www.archbee.com/docs/changelog https://www.archbee.com/docs/changelog/august-2025-product-updates, read 5 November 2026
- Q3 Product Update - www.archbee.com/docs/changelog https://www.archbee.com/docs/changelog, read 5 November 2026
- Sitemaps - Archbee Documentation and Help Center https://www.archbee.com/docs/sitemaps, read 5 November 2026
- SEO Meta Controls - Archbee Documentation and Help Center https://www.archbee.com/docs/seo-meta-controls, read 5 November 2026
- Hosting Spaces on a sub folder - Archbee Documentation and Help Center https://www.archbee.com/docs/hosting-spaces-on-a-sub-folder, read 5 November 2026
- Archbee Pricing: The Knowledge Portal Platform Your Entire Team Will Love https://www.archbee.com/pricing, read 5 November 2026
- AI Connector for Protected Docs - Archbee Documentation and Help Center https://www.archbee.com/docs/ai-connector-for-protected-docs, read 5 November 2026
Last reviewed 5 November 2026