🆚 GitBook vs. Jekyll

📈 Jekyll is four times more popular than GitBook.
🌎 Jekyll is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
🌍 GitBook is more popular in Vietnam, the United Arab Emirates, and the Cayman Islands.

Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data

GitBook

Jekyll

Type

Static site generator

About

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.

Jekyll is a static site generator written in Ruby.

It uses the Liquid templating language, supports front-matter metadata and data files in YAML, JSON, and CSV formats, includes a plugin system with custom converters and generators, and offers incremental regeneration to speed up build times.

Headquarters

Covina, California, United States

Website

gitbook.com #11,585

jekyllrb.com #447,254

Pricing

Free version ✔️ Open source

Subscriptions Premium $79/site/month
Ultimate $299/site/month
Enterprise Custom

Additionaly paid $15/user/month

Free ✔️ Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Jekyll static site generator is 4 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.

Jekyll is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while GitBook is more popular in Vietnam, the United Arab Emirates, and the Cayman Islands.

United States

United Kingdom

Germany

France

China

Netherlands

Brazil

Italy

India

Australia

Awards

⭐ 4th most popular in the United States in the Static Site Generators category.
⭐ 4th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Static Site Generators category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Germany in the Static Site Generators category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Jekyll is more popular than GitBook in all market segments.

Blogs/Wiki

Software/Hardware

Education/Reference

Technical/Business Forums

Business

Internet Services

Technical Information

Games

Marketing/Merchandising

Personal Pages

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#87,628

#250,239

#255,262

#256,063

#419,003

Name

Rank

#2,326

#12,723

#15,399

#17,950

#25,736