Open Source vs. Professional Edition Comparison

# Comparison of Open Source Edition and Pro Edition

- MrDoc Open Source Edition is suitable for personal knowledge management and basic document management
- The Pro Edition provides enhanced capabilities for team collaboration, enterprise knowledge management, and AI application scenarios

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## How to Choose?

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## Why Choose the Pro Edition?

### Enhanced AI Knowledge Base: Make Documents an Intelligent Knowledge Assistant

Connect document content to the AI knowledge base and use RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) technology to enable AI to answer and retrieve knowledge based on your actual document content, avoiding the generic responses of general-purpose AI.

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    <div style="font-size:15px;font-weight:600;color:#166534;margin-bottom:8px;">✓ Pro Edition</div>
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      <li>Complete AI knowledge base capabilities</li>
      <li>Web-based online AI chat</li>
      <li>Intelligent search of site documents</li>
      <li>Project-level AI Q&A</li>
      <li>Supports integration with third-party IM such as WeCom</li>
      <li>Supports built-in database, LanceDB, Qdrant</li>
    </ul>
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    <div style="font-size:15px;font-weight:600;color:#92400e;margin-bottom:8px;">○ Open Source Edition</div>
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      <li>Supports RAG AI knowledge base</li>
      <li>Supports Web-based AI Q&A</li>
      <li>Suitable for scenarios with a small number of documents</li>
    </ul>
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### Enterprise-Level Permission Management: Make Knowledge Sharing More Secure and Controllable

Provides more complete member, role, and document permission control capabilities, supports independent permission settings for documents, user group management, and multiple user collaboration modes, enabling more granular control over document viewing, editing, and collaboration permissions.

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    <div style="font-size:15px;font-weight:600;color:#166534;margin-bottom:8px;">✓ Pro Edition</div>
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      <li>More complete member and role management</li>
      <li>Supports user group management</li>
      <li>Supports independent permission settings for documents</li>
      <li>Supports richer user collaboration modes</li>
      <li>More granular control over document viewing and collaboration permissions</li>
    </ul>
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    <div style="font-size:15px;font-weight:600;color:#92400e;margin-bottom:8px;">○ Open Source Edition</div>
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      <li>Supports basic member and document permissions</li>
      <li>Supports multi-user document collaboration</li>
      <li>Suitable for personal and small team use</li>
    </ul>
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### Rich Document Types: Meet More Knowledge Creation Scenarios

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    <div style="font-size:15px;font-weight:600;color:#166534;margin-bottom:8px;">✓ Pro Edition</div>
    <ul style="font-size:13px;color:#374151;margin:0;padding-left:16px;line-height:2;">
      <li>Markdown / Rich text</li>
      <li>Online spreadsheet</li>
      <li>Mind map</li>
      <li>Office online documents</li>
      <li>Drawio flowchart</li>
      <li>Hand-drawn diagram</li>
      <li>Meets scenarios such as technical documentation, product plans, and process design</li>
    </ul>
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    <div style="font-size:15px;font-weight:600;color:#92400e;margin-bottom:8px;">○ Open Source Edition</div>
    <ul style="font-size:13px;color:#374151;margin:0;padding-left:16px;line-height:2;">
      <li>Markdown documents</li>
      <li>Rich text editing</li>
      <li>Supports basic document creation and knowledge management</li>
    </ul>
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### Site Management: Build an Exclusive Knowledge Management Platform

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    <div style="font-size:15px;font-weight:600;color:#166534;margin-bottom:8px;">✓ Pro Edition</div>
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      <li>Custom site version information</li>
      <li>Multi-mode homepage settings</li>
      <li>Site announcements</li>
      <li>Site feedback</li>
      <li>Richer site customization and management capabilities</li>
      <li>Suitable for teams and enterprises to build an exclusive knowledge platform</li>
    </ul>
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    <div style="font-size:15px;font-weight:600;color:#92400e;margin-bottom:8px;">○ Open Source Edition</div>
    <ul style="font-size:13px;color:#374151;margin:0;padding-left:16px;line-height:2;">
      <li>Provides basic site functionality</li>
      <li>Supports self-deployment and configuration</li>
      <li>Meets the basic knowledge management needs of individuals and small teams</li>
    </ul>
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### Third-Party Authentication System Integration

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    <div style="font-size:15px;font-weight:600;color:#166534;margin-bottom:8px;">✓ Pro Edition</div>
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      <li>Supports WeCom login</li>
      <li>Supports DingTalk login</li>
      <li>Supports LDAP unified authentication</li>
      <li>Supports OIDC unified authentication</li>
      <li>Can integrate with the enterprise's existing account and authentication system</li>
      <li>Reduces the cost of maintaining accounts across multiple systems</li>
    </ul>
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    <div style="font-size:15px;font-weight:600;color:#92400e;margin-bottom:8px;">○ Open Source Edition</div>
    <ul style="font-size:13px;color:#374151;margin:0;padding-left:16px;line-height:2;">
      <li>Supports the MrDoc local account system</li>
      <li>Supports basic user registration and login</li>
      <li>Suitable for independent deployment and basic usage scenarios</li>
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## Detailed Feature Comparison Table

<p>As of September 1, 2026, the differences between MrDoc Open Source Edition and Pro Edition (including planned features) are as follows (due to version iterations, for features not listed in a timely manner, please obtain a Pro Edition test account to experience them):</p>

| Category | Feature | Open Source Edition | Pro Edition |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Site and User Management | Site LOGO configuration | - | Supported |
| Site and User Management | Site copyright information configuration | - | Supported |
| Site and User Management | Homepage menu | - | Supported |
| Site and User Management | Homepage template | Project list | Project list, personal homepage, help center, specified project |
| Site and User Management | In-site feedback | - | Supported |
| Site and User Management | Personal group | - | Supported |
| Site and User Management | System group | - | Supported |
| Site and User Management | User operation log | - | Supported |
| Site and User Management | User list hiding | - | Supported |
| Site and User Management | User read-only permission | - | Supported |
| Site and User Management | User creation permission configuration | - | Can separately configure creation permissions for projects, documents, images, and attachments |
| Site and User Management | Strong password restriction for user registration | - | Supported |
| Site and User Management | Email verification for user registration | - | Supported |
| Site and User Management | Asynchronous task system | - | Supported |
| Site and User Management | User search dashboard | - | Supported |
| AI Features | AI framework integration | Built-in RAG | Dify, built-in RAG |
| AI Features | AI chat assistant | - | Dify, built-in |
| AI Features | Document sync to Dify knowledge base | - | Supported |
| AI Features | AI creation | Supported | Supported |
| AI Features | AI search | - | Supported |
| AI Features | AI knowledge base Q&A | - | Supported |
| AI Features | AI knowledge base scope | Whole site | Custom configuration |
| AI Features | AI knowledge base vector database | Built-in | Built-in, LanceDB, Qdrant |
| AI Features | AI knowledge base integration | - | WeCom intelligent robot |
| Projects and Documents | Project pinning | Supported | Supported |
| Projects and Documents | Project sorting | - | Supported |
| Projects and Documents | Project icon customization | - | Supported |
| Projects and Documents | Project URL customization | - | Supported |
| Projects and Documents | Project permissions | Public, private, specified users, access code | Public, private, specified users, specified user groups, logged-in users |
| Projects and Documents | Project group (project classification) | - | Supported |
| Projects and Documents | Project related collections | - | Supported |
| Projects and Documents | Project sharing | - | Supported |
| Projects and Documents | Project collaboration | Users | Users, user groups |
| Projects and Documents | Visitor watermark for project documents | - | Supported |
| Projects and Documents | Project document sorting | Default sorting | Time ascending, time descending, manual sorting |
| Projects and Documents | Project homepage display control | - | Supported |
| Projects and Documents | Project document WebHook push | - | DingTalk robot, WeCom robot |
| Projects and Documents | Document switching without refresh | - | Supported |
| Projects and Documents | Unlimited document hierarchy | - | Supported |
| Projects and Documents | Document permissions | - | Public, password, specified users, specified user groups, logged-in users |
| Projects and Documents | Document anti-copy | - | Supported |
| Projects and Documents | Document view count statistics | - | Supported |
| Projects and Documents | Document visitor records | - | Supported |
| Projects and Documents | Document text selection feedback | - | Supported |
| Projects and Documents | "Shortcut" type document | - | Supported |
| Projects and Documents | "Hyperlink" type document | - | Supported |
| Projects and Documents | Mind map document | - | Supported |
| Projects and Documents | Online spreadsheet document export to Excel | - | Supported |
| Projects and Documents | Document export to PDF | Supported | Supported |
| Projects and Documents | Document export to Word | - | Supported |
| Projects and Documents | Project export to Word | - | Supported |
| Projects and Documents | Non-public document sharing | Supported | Supported |
| Projects and Documents | Document comments | - | Supported |
| Projects and Documents | Document templates | Private templates | Public templates + private templates |
| Projects and Documents | Document template types | Markdown | Markdown, rich text, online spreadsheet |
| Projects and Documents | Document snippets | - | Supported |
| Projects and Documents | Drawio integration for online flowchart editing | - | Supported |
| Projects and Documents | Excalidraw hand-drawn diagrams | - | Supported |
| Projects and Documents | Office documents | - | Supported |
| Projects and Documents | OnlyOffice integration | - | Supported |
| Materials | Local material storage | Supported | Supported |
| Materials | Third-party material storage | - | Alibaba Cloud OSS, Qiniu Cloud Storage, MinIO, S3, Tencent Cloud |
| Materials | Image management | Supported | Supported |
| Materials | Attachment management | Supported | Supported |
| Materials | Attachment size limit | Supported | Supported |
| Materials | Attachment whitelist settings | Supported | Supported |
| Materials | Attachment preview | - | PDF, Word, Excel, PPT, TXT, MP4, ZIP, etc. |
| Materials | Attachment permissions | - | Attachment access permissions based on document permissions |
| Third-Party Authentication | DingTalk QR code login | - | Supported |
| Third-Party Authentication | DingTalk self-built application password-free login | - | Supported |
| Third-Party Authentication | WeCom QR code login | - | Supported |
| Third-Party Authentication | WeCom self-built application password-free login | - | Supported |
| Third-Party Authentication | WeCom user synchronization | - | Supported |
| Third-Party Authentication | OIDC authentication integration | - | Supported |
| Third-Party Authentication | LDAP authentication integration | - | Supported |
| Third-Party Authentication | LDAP user synchronization | - | Supported |
| Clients | WeChat Mini Program | - | - |
| Clients | Mobile APP | Limited support | Full support |
| Clients | Browser extension | Limited support | Full support |
| Clients | Desktop client | Limited support | Full support |
| Clients | Obsidian extension | Supported | Supported |
| License | License agreement | GPLv3 | Commercial agreement |
| Services | Feature requests | - | Prioritized |
| Services | Bug fixes | - | Prioritized |

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