Looking for amodern alternativeto Mintlify?
Mintlify is the best-looking developer documentation on the internet. Its MCP server still serves your MDX — the prose, not the system.
of day-to-day design-system work automated by Supernova agents
vs. MDX that describes a system living somewhere else
faster design system adoption across your teams via in-tool integrations
vs. hoping engineers read the docs site
fewer tokens spent on every prompt your team or agent runs
vs. pasting entire docs into prompts and hoping
“All the support we’ve received since our arrival shows just how much better it is to be here .”
Supernova laps Mintlify
Linked design system graph
Docs plus tokens, components, rules, and skills — the system you actually wanted.
Agents that take action
Automate day-to-day work with Claude, Cursor, or Supernova’s own agents.
Built-in feedback loop
See how people and agents use the system, then close the gaps.
Made to meet the true reality
Keep Mintlify for API reference. The design system needs to be data.
Skip the pitch. See it for yourself.
Mintlify teams have spoken
Read against each product’s published capabilities and documentation, August 2026.
Beautiful MDX, still prose
Mintlify renders developer docs better than almost anyone. What sits behind the page is still MDX — no Figma import, no token source of truth.
Generated MCP serves the docs
An MCP server for your MDX is real progress. Ask it for a spacing token and it returns the sentence describing it, not the token.
A table in Git goes stale
You can write tokens into MDX and render a handsome table. Nothing derives that table from Figma, and nothing notices when a variable changes.
A preview is not the component
A generic MDX component can render an image of a button. It cannot render the button from the same record your pipeline ships to code.
Welcome
Supernova Agent
to your team.
Connect your data, document it, keep it clean and ship it to code. The agent does the work. You approve what matters.
Good morning, Alex
What makes Supernova the best Mintlify alternative
Design sources
Variables, collections and components as data
You can embed a frame, not import a system
Stories, props and APIs, connected
An iframe, with no component data behind it
The system refreshes itself, on its own
An agent can rewrite it. Nothing tells it to.
Design system data
A real source of truth for tokens
Types, aliases, history and versions
A table of values copied from somewhere else
Structured data, not embedded images
One system, many brands and themes
No theme layer — a brand is a separate copy
Versions of the system, not the page
Docs versions, not system versions
Documentation
Live previews, token tables, spec blocks
Generic blocks. Images, not live components.
Real-time multiplayer editing
Publish under your own brand
Distribution and code
Design data out as platform code
Docs-as-code ships pages, not tokens
Query the system programmatically
Your MDX files, and nothing behind them
AI and agents
Agents read the system, not a page
Tokens, components and docs together
Generates an MCP server for the docs
Each agent gets only its slice
Rules that travel with the system
Change the system, not just read it
Agents edit pages, not the design system
See where people and agents hit gaps
Docs analytics, not system adoption
Everything else your company writes
The rest of how a company writes
Not what it is for. Keep your wiki.
Developer docs rather than a wiki
Switching is easier than staying
“We were prepared for a steep learning curve, but it turned out to be a smooth glide.”
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Open Mintlify to your agent
Mintlify exposes your docs through the MCP server it generates and your MDX in Git. Give Claude or Cursor read access there.
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Give it the keys to Supernova
Hook Supernova’s edit capabilities into the same agent — it can write designs, code, Figma links, and docs straight into the system.
- 3
Say the word. Watch it move.
Ask your agent to port the MDX over. It rebuilds the structure in Supernova in minutes — no export scripts, no rewrite sprint.
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Keep Mintlify for API reference
Developer documentation outside the design system stays in Mintlify. Supernova takes the tokens, components, and rules underneath.
Give your agents a system worth following
See how Supernova documents, syncs, and serves your system in one place.