🆚 DocFX vs. Read the Docs

Type

Static site generator
Deployment platform

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.

Headquarters

Redmond, Washington, United States
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

Static Site Generators › Rank #24
Static Site Generators › Rank #14
Deployment Platforms › Rank #13

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Read the Docs deployment platform is 4 times more popular than DocFX.
Total websites

Market share

Static Site Generators

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Read the Docs is more popular than DocFX in all countries.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
France
Hungary
Norway
Czech Republic
Brazil
Switzerland
Ukraine

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Read the Docs is more popular than DocFX in all market segments.
Technical Information
Software/Hardware
Internet Services
Technical/Business Forums
Business
Education/Reference
Blogs/Wiki

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#142,682
#240,524
#636,671
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Name
Rank
#5,480
#37,231
#39,890
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See also

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