Author-it
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VisitAuthor-it vs Paligo
What both publish
| Fact | Author-it | Paligo |
|---|---|---|
| Audience | The company highlights manufacturing, software, and utilities organizations, especially those with complex content accuracy and compliance needs. | Paligo says it serves organizations in software, manufacturing, and regulated industries, including companies managing technical documentation, policies, procedures, and knowledge content. |
| Content reuse | Content is stored as reusable Topics, and updates flow to every Book that uses the Topic. | Topics, publications, text fragments, list items, variables, images and conditional content can be reused across outputs. |
| Founded | 1996 | 2015 |
| Headquarters | New Zealand | Solna, Sweden |
| Integrations | Author-it provides APIs for integration and automation with content delivery platforms, translation vendors, and other systems. | Official integrations include Zendesk, Freshdesk, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure Repos, Amazon S3, Algolia, Phrase, Slack, Microsoft Teams and many others. |
| Product | Author-it is a component content management system that unifies structured authoring, review, translation, and publishing. | Paligo is a cloud-based component content management system for authoring, managing, translating, and publishing technical documentation and knowledge assets. |
| Publishing | A single source can publish to formats including PDF, HTML5, SCORM eLearning, and AION JSON. | Paligo can publish content to PDF, HTML5, eLearning, and GitHub Flavored Markdown. |
Author-it plans
- Author-it subscriptionPriced on request
Paligo plans
- Business$15,000 a year
- Nexus Portal$5,000
- Nexus Portal free tierFree
- Nexus Answers$6,000 a year
- Nexus Answers free tierFree
- EnterprisePriced on request
Pick Author-it if…
You want what its maker publishes above — check its page for the details.
Pick Paligo if…
Paligo is for organizations managing technical documents, policies, procedures, or other knowledge content, particularly in software, manufacturing, and regulated industries. It may suit teams needing structured authoring, translation, workflow management, and multiple publishing formats.