DeveloperHub: vendor profile
In short
DeveloperHub sends crawlers it does not recognise a 20,124-byte HTML shell with no article text. Recognised bots and assistants get rendered pages, and with llms.txt switched on a markdown copy of the page. There is no llms-full.txt. Plus costs $99 a month billed annually.
At a glance
standards.txt developerhub
llms-txt = supports
markdown-negotiation = partial
markdown-twin = supports
initial-html = partial
real-404 = no statement
vary-accept = no statement
2 supports, 2 partial or announced, 2 no statement.
DeveloperHub Docs platform
Hosted docs and API reference platform that renders pages in the browser for people, serves cached bot-rendered HTML to crawlers, and when llms.txt is on gives AI assistants markdown at the page URL, .md copies, a per-version llms.txt and WebMCP tools.
- Type
- Docs platform
- Home page
- developerhub.io, answered HTTP 200 on 2026-11-05
- Last read
- 5 November 2026
What it does for this layer
- DeveloperHub turns llms.txt on by default for new projects, under Project Settings, AI, AI Agents & MCP, Readers, and labels the feature beta. [primary source] source, read 5 November 2026.
- DeveloperHub writes a separate llms.txt for each published docs version, refreshes the files every 5 minutes, and does not offer llms-full.txt. [primary source] source, read 5 November 2026.
- With llms.txt on, DeveloperHub serves any page as markdown at its URL plus .md, and its llms.txt links each API endpoint on its own. [primary source] source, read 5 November 2026.
- DeveloperHub hands AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity the markdown at the page's own URL, while search and training crawlers still get the HTML page. [primary source] source, read 5 November 2026.
- DeveloperHub's SEO page lists bot-friendly rendering among its defaults and says bot-rendered pages are cached for 7 days. [primary source] source, read 5 November 2026.
- DeveloperHub serves /robots.txt, /sitemap.xml and /sitemap.txt at the docs root, regenerates sitemaps every 6 hours, and treats the short unversioned URL as canonical unless Canonicalize Short URL Form is set. [primary source] source, read 5 November 2026.
- DeveloperHub fills a page's meta description from its first paragraph unless an author overrides it in Page Info, and builds the title tag from the seo.titleFormats pattern %page% - %project%. [primary source] source, read 5 November 2026.
- Every DeveloperHub docs page offers WebMCP tools (search_docs, read_page, get_site_overview, navigate_page) to in-browser agents with no setup; read_page and get_site_overview need llms.txt switched on. [primary source] source, read 5 November 2026.
- DeveloperHub's read-only Reader MCP Server sits at /mcp on the docs URL with a single search tool over Streamable HTTP, needs AI Assistant on, and is limited to public projects. [primary source] source, read 5 November 2026.
- DeveloperHub's pricing page lists Free at $0 on a DeveloperHub subdomain, Plus at $99 per month billed annually ($129 monthly), Pro at $199 ($229 monthly) and Enterprise from $499 per month; paid plans include a custom domain and a 14-day trial. [primary source, 2026-11-05] source, read 5 November 2026.
- On 2026-11-05 a DeveloperHub docs page fetched with a plain crawler user agent returned a 20,124-byte HTML shell with no article text and Vary: X-Bot, and a made-up path returned the same shell with HTTP 200. [observed, 2026-11-05] source, read 5 November 2026.
- On 2026-11-05 the same DeveloperHub page answered Accept: text/markdown with 200 text/markdown at 2,710 bytes and Vary: X-Bot, Accept, User-Agent, matching its .md URL. [observed, 2026-11-05] source, read 5 November 2026.
Products and plans
| Product | What it is | Price | As of | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeveloperHub | Hosted documentation and API reference portal with an AI writing agent, AI search, reader and editor MCP servers and WebMCP. | Free tier, paid plans above it Free $0 on a subdomain; Plus $99 per month billed annually or $129 monthly; Pro $199 or $229; Enterprise from $499 per month billed annually. | 2026-11-05 | source |
Standards
| Standard | Status | What the vendor's pages say | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| llms-txt | supports | llms.txt enabled by default for new projects, one per published version, beta. | source |
| markdown-negotiation | partial | Docs describe markdown at the page URL for AI assistant fetches, keyed to the assistant rather than an Accept header; Accept: text/markdown also worked on 2026-11-05. | source |
| markdown-twin | supports | Pages readable as markdown by adding .md when llms.txt is enabled. | source |
| initial-html | partial | Bot-friendly rendering for crawlers, cached 7 days; a plain user agent got an empty HTML shell on 2026-11-05. | source |
| real-404 | no statement | No 404 statement found in the SEO or hosting pages; a made-up path returned HTTP 200 to a plain user agent on 2026-11-05. | none |
| vary-accept | no statement | DeveloperHub's docs say nothing on Vary; its markdown response carried Vary: X-Bot, Accept, User-Agent on 2026-11-05. | none |
Checks on its own site
| Reading | Result | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Home page request | HTTP 200; H1 in the initial HTML: yes; 2,573 words; 1 JSON-LD block | 2026-11-05 |
| Request with Accept: text/markdown | HTTP 200, text/html, Vary: Accept-Encoding | 2026-11-05 |
| /llms.txt at the host root | HTTP 200, text/plain, 4.2 KB, starts with an H1 | 2026-11-05 |
| A made-up path | HTTP 404 | 2026-11-05 |
| Ora score, cached | Not available: GET /api/score returned 404 DOMAIN_NOT_SCANNED | 2026-11-05 |
| Cloudflare keyless scan | 7, L0 Not Ready | 2026-11-05 |
What it does not do
- DeveloperHub sends an agent that is not recognised as a bot or assistant a JavaScript shell with no article text, so content in the initial HTML depends on user-agent detection.
Related pages on this site
Sources
- DeveloperHub: home page https://developerhub.io/, read 5 November 2026
- llms.txt - DeveloperHub support center (markdown version) https://docs.developerhub.io/support-center/llms-txt.md, read 5 November 2026
- SEO - DeveloperHub support center (markdown version) https://docs.developerhub.io/support-center/seo.md, read 5 November 2026
- WebMCP - DeveloperHub support center (markdown version) https://docs.developerhub.io/support-center/webmcp.md, read 5 November 2026
- Reader MCP Server - DeveloperHub support center (markdown version) https://docs.developerhub.io/support-center/reader-mcp-server.md, read 5 November 2026
- DeveloperHub pricing https://developerhub.io/pricing, read 5 November 2026
Last reviewed 5 November 2026