🆚 GitBook vs. mdBook

Type

Static site generator
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.

mdBook is a Rust-based command-line tool that compiles Markdown files into navigable and searchable online books for documentation, tutorials, and technical guides.

It provides built-in search, color syntax highlighting via Highlight.js, multilingual books, theme customization, preprocessors and renderer plugins, automatic table of contents generation, and automated testing of Rust code samples.

Headquarters

Covina, California, United States
Wakefield, Massachusetts, United States

Website

Pricing

Free version ✔️ Open source
Subscriptions
Premium $79/site/month
Ultimate $299/site/month
Enterprise Custom
Additionaly paid $15/user/month
Free ✔️ Open source

Categories

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The GitBook static site generator is 3 times more popular than mdBook.
Total websites

Market share

Static Site Generators

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

GitBook is more popular in the United States, France, and the United Kingdom, while mdBook is more popular in China, Serbia, and Australia.
United States
China
France
Germany
United Kingdom
Serbia
Russia
Switzerland
Netherlands
Vietnam

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

GitBook is more popular than mdBook in all market segments.
Software/Hardware
Technical Information
Games
Internet Services
Blogs/Wiki

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#87,628
#250,239
#255,262
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Name
Rank
#295,790
#298,886
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See also

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