MkDocs VS Read the Docs

Compare MkDocs vs Read the Docs and see what are their differences.

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MkDocs Read the Docs
114 33
18,219 7,870
1.4% 0.4%
9.0 9.7
5 days ago about 11 hours ago
Python Python
BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License MIT License
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

MkDocs

Posts with mentions or reviews of MkDocs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-04.

Read the Docs

Posts with mentions or reviews of Read the Docs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-08.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing MkDocs and Read the Docs you can also consider the following projects:

sphinx - The Sphinx documentation generator

mkdocs-material - Documentation that simply works

pdoc - API Documentation for Python Projects

just-the-docs - A modern, high customizable, responsive Jekyll theme for documentation with built-in search.

DocFX - Static site generator for .NET API documentation.

MdWiki

Hugo - The world’s fastest framework for building websites.

Docusaurus - Easy to maintain open source documentation websites.

Wiki.js - Wiki.js | A modern and powerful wiki app built on Node.js

BookStack - A platform to create documentation/wiki content built with PHP & Laravel