🆚 GitBook vs. Read the Docs
- 📈 GitBook is noticeably more popular than Read the Docs.
- 🌍 GitBook is more popular in Germany, China, and France.
- 🌎 Read the Docs is more popular in the United States, Hungary, and Norway.
GitBookType
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.
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
Pricing
(ad-free)$5/month
Categories
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
- ⭐ 8th 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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Scalar🗃️ 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 3,370,405 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.