🆚 Docusaurus vs. Read the Docs

Type

Static site generator
Deployment platform

About

Docusaurus is a static site generator for React-powered documentation websites that uses MDX and a React-based theme system.

It provides built-in document versioning, internationalization, a flexible plugin architecture, and support for Algolia DocSearch and Typesense.

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

Menlo Park, California, 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

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Docusaurus static site generator is 4 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.

Docusaurus is more popular in the United States, China, and the United Kingdom, while Read the Docs is more popular in Norway and Hungary.
United States
China
United Kingdom
Germany
France
Australia
Canada
Switzerland
Russia
Ukraine

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Docusaurus is more popular than Read the Docs in all market segments.
Software/Hardware
Internet Services
Technical Information
Business
Technical/Business Forums
Games
Shareware/Freeware
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Marketing/Merchandising

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#11,772
#40,692
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Name
Rank
#5,480
#37,231
#39,890
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See also

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