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Guru vs Wiki.js
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Guru and Wiki.js — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Guru vs Wiki.js: at a glance
What is Guru?
Guru is tightening the leash on the Knowledge Agent it just handed the keys to.
Everything recent is the Knowledge Agent. It already writes to the knowledge base — creating collections, bulk-archiving cards, running drafts through to publish — and the newest work narrows where and how it acts: per-channel behaviour in Slack, and skills pinned to a named document instead of searching for one. Around that sit guardrails, skill permissions, recoverable drafts and scheduled automations.
What is Wiki.js?
Wiki.js 3.0 beta adds math, personal access tokens and nav automations; Postgres 17 now required.
Wiki.js runs two tracks: 2.x stable, which now gets only security patches, and a 3.0 beta still labeled 'not for production'. Over the past month the beta added Excalidraw live collaboration, SCIM provisioning, notifications, annotations, a glossary, draft recovery and multi-replica git sync. The newest beta adds inline KaTeX/MathJax math, personal access tokens, navigation-menu automations and search suggestions, and raises the minimum database to PostgreSQL 17.
Guru vs Wiki.js: editorial side-by-side
Guru
5.0COLLAB
Guru is tightening the leash on the Knowledge Agent it just handed the keys to.
◆ Current state
Everything recent is the Knowledge Agent. It already writes to the knowledge base — creating collections, bulk-archiving cards, running drafts through to publish — and the newest work narrows where and how it acts: per-channel behaviour in Slack, and skills pinned to a named document instead of searching for one. Around that sit guardrails, skill permissions, recoverable drafts and scheduled automations.
◆ Where it's heading
The arc is autonomy first, then control. Having given the agent write access and a schedule, Guru is now spending releases on determinism and scoping — making the agent's behaviour predictable per channel and its grounding exact per skill. That is the work required before customers let an agent run unsupervised on a knowledge base, and it suggests trust, not answer quality, is the constraint being engineered against.
◆ Prediction
The scoping controls point toward auditability as the next gap: some record of what the agent did to the knowledge base, and per-skill or per-channel review of those actions, to match the permissions and guardrails already shipped.
Wiki.js
6.3COLLAB
Wiki.js 3.0 beta adds math, personal access tokens and nav automations; Postgres 17 now required.
◆ Current state
Wiki.js runs two tracks: 2.x stable, which now gets only security patches, and a 3.0 beta still labeled 'not for production'. Over the past month the beta added Excalidraw live collaboration, SCIM provisioning, notifications, annotations, a glossary, draft recovery and multi-replica git sync. The newest beta adds inline KaTeX/MathJax math, personal access tokens, navigation-menu automations and search suggestions, and raises the minimum database to PostgreSQL 17.
◆ Where it's heading
Headline features are in place, and recent betas fill out editor ergonomics, identity and API plumbing, and operational safety rather than adding new editors. Personal access tokens and API keys bound to page rules extend the access model to automation clients, and the Postgres 17 floor shows the team is still willing to set hard infrastructure requirements before 3.0 locks.
◆ Prediction
More betas pairing editor and admin polish with API, multi-node and v2-import fixes are the likely next step. The entries still give no date for 3.0 dropping its beta label.
Alternatives to Guru and Wiki.js
Other Collab products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either Guru or Wiki.js.
Apache Answer
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SiYuan
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Syncthing
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GitHub
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Hive
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Recent activity from Guru and Wiki.js
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 3d agoWiki.jsWiki.js 3 beta adds math, access tokens; requires Postgres 17
- 6d agoWiki.jsWiki.js 3 beta adds draft recovery, slash menu, multi-replica git sync
- 8d agoWiki.js3.0 beta adds OIDC/SAML claim options and hardens v2 import
- 10d agoWiki.jsWiki.js 3.0 beta adds glossary auto-linking and non-Latin paths
- 15d agoWiki.jsWiki.js 3 beta adds inline annotations and translation completeness
- 17d agoWiki.jsWiki.js 3 beta adds notifications, RTL support, and broken-link detection
- 1mo agoGuruTune how your Slack agent joins the conversation, channel by channel
- 1mo agoGuruGround a skill in the exact document it should use, every time
- 2mo agoGuruHand your knowledge base upkeep to your Knowledge Agent ⚡
- 3mo agoGuruNever lose a draft to employee turnover again
- 3mo agoGuruOperator Mode
- 3mo agoGuruMicrosoft Work IQ
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Guru and Wiki.js?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Wiki.js is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 6.3 vs 5.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is Guru better than Wiki.js?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Wiki.js is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 6.3 vs 5.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Collab products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to Guru?
Top Guru alternatives in Collab are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Guru alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/guru for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to Wiki.js?
Top Wiki.js alternatives in Collab are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Wiki.js alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/wikijs for the full list with editorial commentary on each.