🆚 DocFX vs. Read the Docs
- 📈 Read the Docs is four times more popular than DocFX.
- 🌍 Read the Docs is more popular in all countries.
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About
DocFX is an open-source static site generator for .NET API documentation that builds developer documentation websites from source code comments and
Markdown files.
It provides customizable templates, generates API references from C#, F#, and Visual Basic projects, can use additional documentation sources including
Swagger files, supports richer Markdown syntax with extensions, and includes built-in workflows for publishing generated documentation to
GitHub Pages and
Azure Websites.
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.
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Pricing
(ad-free)$5/month
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- ⭐ 7th most popular in the United States in the Static Site Generators category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in the United States in the Deployment Platforms category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,531,795 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.