🆚 Astro vs. Read the Docs

Type

Static site generator
Deployment platform

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.

Read the Docs is a continuous documentation deployment platform that automatically builds, versions, and hosts software documentation from Git repositories.

It integrates with GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket to rebuild documentation on every commit, supports tools like Sphinx, MkDocs, and Jupyter Book, hosts multiple versions with full-text search and downloadable PDF and EPUB formats, and offers previews for pull requests.

Headquarters

Portland, Oregon, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source
Free version ✔️Community, free for open source, ad supported, open source
Community Gold
(ad-free)
$5/month
Business Advanced$150/month
Business Pro$250/month

Categories

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Astro static site generator is 29 times more popular than Read the Docs.
Total websites

Market share

Static Site Generators

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

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

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
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Name
Rank
#5,480
#37,231
#39,890
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See also

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