🆚 mdBook vs. ReadMe

Statistics for mdBook are still being collected and do not yet reflect its full market share.

Type

Static site generator
Static site generator

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.

ReadMe is a cloud-based documentation platform that helps teams create, publish, and manage interactive API documentation hubs.

It provides a WYSIWYG and MDX (Markdown eXtended) editor with versioning and Git sync, interactive API references where developers can test endpoints and see live responses, built-in AI tools for writing and linting, customizable components and themes, and changelogs and guides.

Headquarters

Wakefield, Massachusetts, United States
San Francisco, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source
Free version ✔️3 published versions, no custom domain or forum
Plans
Startup$99/month
Business$399/month
Enterprise$3,000+/month
Ask AI
(an AI assistant)
$150

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Static Site Generators

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Serbia
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China
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Games
Blogs/Wiki
Software/Hardware
Content Server
Religion/Ideology

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