Fandom vs Nectory

Fandom is a free platform for creating and exploring public fan wikis about games, entertainment, and culture. Communities document stories, characters, lore, and other topics, and any logged-in user with a confirmed email can create a wiki through the creation form. Hosting costs nothing plan and has no limit to wiki size, with role permissions, revision history, media uploads, and API access. UCP wikis support mobile editing through a visual editor or source mode. Discussions, article comments, message walls, and blogs provide community features that administrators can switch in some cases. Extensions including DPL, Loops, Variables, Gadgets, and Arrays are available on request; SMW cannot be enabled because of performance concerns. UCP lacks live chat and wiki-style polls, although Discussions includes polls. Wikis remain publicly viewable. Fandom says its communities span 80 languages across 200 countries and serve 350 million people worldwide.

Nectory is a documentation platform for Minecraft servers, Roblox games, and other game creators. Its block editor supports headings, callouts, tables, code blocks, and images, with drag-and-drop content organization. Teams can publish searchable wiki spaces, assign roles such as owner, admin, editor, contributor, and viewer, or keep private spaces behind authentication with fine-grained access controls. Full-text search spans pages within a space. Nectory supports Discord webhook notifications and generic signed JSON webhooks for HTTP endpoints. Public pages can collect helpfulness ratings, optional reader feedback, and threaded comments. Themes include fourteen presets and controls for colors, fonts, layout, and content density; Pro adds custom CSS and custom domains. The free plan includes one wiki space, three team members, 1 GB storage, public wikis, search, and a draft-and-publish workflow. Pro costs $4.99 a month, or $49.99 per year, and includes 25 spaces, unlimited members, and 5 GB storage.