Redocly: vendor profile
In short
Redocly writes llms.txt and clean .md copies by default, and one setting, llmstxt.hide, removes both. Sitemaps, canonical links and JSON-LD wait for the owner: no siteUrl in redocly.yaml means no sitemap, and no jsonLd object means no structured data. Annual billing puts Pro at $249 a month.
At a glance
standards.txt redocly
llms-txt = supports
markdown-negotiation = no statement
markdown-twin = supports
initial-html = supports
real-404 = no statement
vary-accept = no statement
3 supports, 0 partial or announced, 3 no statement.
Redocly Docs platform
Redocly is a docs-as-code platform for API docs whose sites ship llms.txt, clean .md copies, markdown on Accept: text/markdown, an MCP server and WebMCP tools, with sitemaps, canonical links and JSON-LD driven by redocly.yaml.
- Type
- Docs platform
- Home page
- redocly.com, answered HTTP 200 on 2026-11-05
- Last read
- 5 November 2026
What it does for this layer
- Redocly says Redoc began at Rebilly, a Texas payments company that wrote its own documentation tool after Swagger UI let it down, and that Redocly later launched as a paid SaaS. [vendor claim] source, read 5 November 2026.
- Redocly writes /sitemap.xml and adds rel=canonical links only once siteUrl is set in redocly.yaml, and on versioned projects only the default version is marked canonical. [primary source] source, read 5 November 2026.
- Redocly emits JSON-LD only when the owner writes a jsonLd object in redocly.yaml or page front matter and picks the Schema.org type. [primary source] source, read 5 November 2026.
- Redocly validates links and redirects while content is added, and its built-in CI/CD jobs stop a project with link errors from publishing. [primary source] source, read 5 November 2026.
- Redocly's llmstxt.hide option switches off both llms.txt and the clean Markdown copies of the pages it lists, and it defaults to false. [primary source] source, read 5 November 2026.
- Redocly's llmstxt.excludeFiles setting takes file paths or glob patterns such as docs/**/*.md, including negated globs, to keep pages out of llms.txt. [primary source] source, read 5 November 2026.
- Redocly marks WebMCP experimental and publishes tools such as search_docs, read_page and navigate_page automatically; browser support is an origin trial in Chrome 149 and Edge 150. [primary source] source, read 5 November 2026.
- Redocly's Visibility tag targets a block at humans or at agents and decides what reaches the Markdown version of a page. [primary source] source, read 5 November 2026.
- Redocly's Realm changelog lists faster server-side rendering for OpenAPI reference pages with heavily reused schemas, confirming reference pages render on the server. [primary source] source, read 5 November 2026.
- Redocly Pro costs $249 a month billed annually, $2,988 a year, with unlimited seats, readers and Git contributors and an MCP server for the docs. [primary source, 2026-11-05] source, read 5 November 2026.
- Redocly charges $390 a year for each project beyond the 3 in Pro or the 10 in Scale, the $729-a-month plan billed annually. [primary source, 2026-11-05] source, read 5 November 2026.
- On 2026-11-05 Redocly returned markdown for redocly.com/docs/platform/ai-ready when asked with Accept: text/markdown, yet the only Vary value it sent was Cookie. [observed, 2026-11-05] source, read 5 November 2026.
- Appending .md to redocly.com/docs/platform/content/realm-seo on 2026-11-05 returned HTTP 200 text/markdown of 5,184 bytes. [observed, 2026-11-05] source, read 5 November 2026.
- A made-up path under redocly.com/docs returned HTTP 404 text/html on 2026-11-05 even when the request asked for text/markdown. [observed, 2026-11-05] source, read 5 November 2026.
- Redocly's own SEO docs page carried no application/ld+json block in its initial HTML on 2026-11-05, in line with JSON-LD being opt-in. [observed, 2026-11-05] source, read 5 November 2026.
Products and plans
| Product | What it is | Price | As of | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Redocly Pro | Docs platform with 3 projects, protected docs, interactive API docs, custom domain, MCP server and an AI assistant. | From USD 249 Pro, per month billed annually ($2,988 a year); 30-day free trial | 2026-11-05 | source |
| Redocly Scale | Adds 10 projects, SSO, multi-product sites, API catalog and scorecards, remote content and project analytics. | From USD 729 Scale, per month billed annually ($8,748 a year) | 2026-11-05 | source |
| Redocly Enterprise | Adds unlimited projects, project RBAC, SCIM, MCP analytics and API monitoring. | Quote on request Contact sales | 2026-11-05 | source |
| Redoc CE | Open source renderer that turns an API description into reference docs. | Free, open source Community edition, free | 2026-11-05 | source |
Standards
| Standard | Status | What the vendor's pages say | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| llms-txt | supports | The AI-ready docs page describes a generated llms.txt in the llmstxt.org shape. | source |
| markdown-negotiation | no statement | Neither the AI-ready page nor the seo config reference mentions Accept-based negotiation, though redocly.com returned text/markdown to such a request on 2026-11-05. | source |
| markdown-twin | supports | llmstxt options govern the clean Markdown versions of pages listed in llms.txt. | source |
| initial-html | supports | The Realm changelog refers to server-side rendering of OpenAPI reference pages. | source |
| real-404 | no statement | The SEO docs read do not cover status codes, and redocly.com/docs gave a made-up path a 404 status on 2026-11-05. | source |
| vary-accept | no statement | Redocly docs never mention Vary, and both markdown and HTML responses on 2026-11-05 listed Cookie as the only varying header. | source |
Checks on its own site
| Reading | Result | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Home page request | HTTP 200; H1 in the initial HTML: yes; 1,322 words; 0 JSON-LD blocks | 2026-11-05 |
| Request with Accept: text/markdown | HTTP 200, text/markdown, Vary: Cookie, Accept-Encoding | 2026-11-05 |
| /llms.txt at the host root | HTTP 200, text/plain, 125 KB, starts with an H1 | 2026-11-05 |
| A made-up path | HTTP 404 | 2026-11-05 |
| Ora score, cached | 69, grade C | 2026-08-22 |
| Cloudflare keyless scan | 47, L1 Basic Web Presence | 2026-11-05 |
| Shared crawl row | outside the ranked slice; home page HTTP 200; H1 in the HTML: yes; 1,474 words; JSON-LD types: none; answers markdown: yes; made-up path HTTP 404; llms.txt valid: yes | 2026-11-04 |
What it does not do
- Redocly serves markdown on Accept: text/markdown but did not list Accept in Vary on 2026-11-05, so shared caches are not told the body depends on that header.
Related pages on this site
Sources
- Redocly: home page https://redocly.com/, read 5 November 2026
- About Redocly https://redocly.com/about, read 5 November 2026
- SEO in your project https://redocly.com/docs/platform/content/realm-seo, read 5 November 2026
- Redocly seo configuration reference https://redocly.com/docs/platform/config/seo, read 5 November 2026
- WebMCP tools https://redocly.com/docs/platform/customization/webmcp, read 5 November 2026
- Make docs AI ready https://redocly.com/docs/platform/ai-ready, read 5 November 2026
- Realm, Redoc, Revel, and Reef changelog https://redocly.com/docs/platform/changelog-realm, read 5 November 2026
- Redocly pricing https://redocly.com/pricing, read 5 November 2026
Last reviewed 5 November 2026