🆚 mdBook vs. Read the Docs
mdBook
Read the DocsType
About
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.
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.
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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
- ⭐ 7th 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.
Compare alternatives
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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 3,531,795 websites. However, data for mdBook is still being collected and reflects a smaller subset of sites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.