🆚 mdBook vs. Scalar

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

Type

Static site generator
Tool

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.

Scalar is an open-source platform for creating API documentation with an interactive playground, built around the OpenAPI standard.

It provides interactive documentation that doubles as a full-featured API client, a fully offline-first REST API client, a versioned API registry with Git sync, type-safe SDK generation for multiple languages, and extensive theming and customization options.

Headquarters

Wakefield, Massachusetts, United States
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source
Free version ✔️1 user
Pro$24/seat/month
EnterpriseCustom

Categories

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Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

Total websites

Market share

Static Site Generators

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

United States
Serbia
China
Germany
Australia
France
Russia
Switzerland
Japan
Netherlands

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Games
Blogs/Wiki
Software/Hardware
Information Security

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#295,790
#298,886
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Name
Rank
#280,102
#960,660
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See also

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