🆚 Astro vs. GitBook

Type

Static site generator
Static site generator

About

Astro is a web build tool optimized for creating fast, content-driven websites using server-rendered HTML and an Islands architecture for partial hydration.

It supports UI components from React, Vue, Svelte, and other frameworks, includes built-in content collections with type safety, ships zero JavaScript by default, and provides incremental content caching with flexible deployment modes, including hybrid static and SSR output.

GitBook is a cloud-based documentation platform for creating and publishing product documentation, API references, and knowledge bases.

It provides a collaborative editor with Markdown and rich formatting, structured navigation and versioning, AI-powered features such as GitBook Agent and embedded AI assistants for writing help and query answering, automatic generation of llms.txt for large language models, and integrations with GitHub, GitLab and other tools.

Headquarters

Covina, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source
Free version ✔️Open source
Subscriptions
Premium$79/site/month
Ultimate$299/site/month
EnterpriseCustom
Additionaly paid$15/user/month

Categories

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Astro static site generator is 16 times more popular than GitBook.
Total websites

Market share

Static Site Generators

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Astro is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Japan, while GitBook is more popular in Togo, Namibia, and the Cayman Islands.
United States
Germany
Japan
United Kingdom
India
France
Brazil
Spain
Australia
Netherlands

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Astro is more popular than GitBook in all market segments.
Business
Internet Services
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Software/Hardware
Online Shopping
Entertainment
Education/Reference
Health
Travel

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
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Name
Rank
#87,628
#250,239
#255,262
#338,463
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See also

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