Docfork alternatives: Context7, Ref and jDocMunch compared

What it did

What Docfork did

Docfork gave coding agents current documentation through two tools, search_docs and fetch_doc. It covered public libraries, and it could index your own GitHub repos as custom libraries. It was a hosted service, so when it closed, the endpoints and API keys stopped working with it (its README, read November 3, 2026).

Public library docs

For public library docs: Context7 or Ref

This is the job most Docfork users had, and jDocMunch doesn’t do it. If your agent needs the current Next.js or Supabase API, use one of these.

Context7

Version-specific library docs, by Upstash

Two MCP tools: resolve-library-id and query-docs
Matches the library version you name in the prompt
Runs as an MCP server, or as a CLI with a skill
Hosted; a free API key gets higher rate limits
MIT, 64,000+ GitHub stars (November 3, 2026). github.com/upstash/context7

Ref

Docs search that keeps the page short

Two tools: ref_search_documentation and ref_read_url
Hides results it already returned in the session
Trims a page to its most relevant 5k tokens
Also searches private sources such as repos and PDFs
Hosted, with an API key; MIT. github.com/ref-tools/ref-tools-mcp

Your own docs

For your own docs: jDocMunch

Docfork’s other half was your internal docs: runbooks, SDK guides, API specs. jDocMunch does that job on your machine.

jDocMunch

One section of your docs, not the whole file

Indexes a docs folder or a GitHub repo by heading, then returns the one section the agent asked for
Sections come out byte for byte from the original file, so the agent quotes your docs, not a summary of them
Reads Markdown and MDX, reStructuredText, AsciiDoc, Jupyter notebooks, HTML and plain text
OpenAPI specs are first-class: find_endpoint and get_schema_graph answer which call takes a schema
Nothing is hosted. Your docs stay on your machine, and there’s no service that can close on you. The only default network call is an anonymous savings counter.

Side by side

Context7, Ref and jDocMunch

	Context7	Ref	jDocMunch
Public library docs, kept current	Yes	Yes	No. You can index a library’s docs repo yourself, without version tracking
Your own docs	Its README covers public libraries	Private repos and PDFs	Folders, repos and OpenAPI specs
Where it runs	Hosted	Hosted	Your machine
Account or API key	Recommended	Required	None
What it returns	Docs for a query	A page trimmed to about 5k tokens	One section, by heading
License	MIT	MIT	Free for non-commercial use; paid commercial

Most teams that need both run two servers: Context7 or Ref for public libraries, and jDocMunch for their own docs. jCodeMunch covers the code itself.

Using it at work? A jDocMunch license for commercial use is $29 for one developer, one time. Code, docs and data together are the Trio, $99 for one developer. Non-commercial use stays free. See pricing

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