🆚 MkDocs vs. Sphinx

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 MkDocs is slightly more popular than Sphinx.
🌍 MkDocs is more popular in France, Russia, and China.
🌎 Sphinx is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.

MkDocs

Sphinx

Type

Static site generator

About

MkDocs is a fast and simple static site generator for building project documentation.

Sphinx is a documentation generator written and used by the Python community.

Website

mkdocs.org #688,977

sphinx-doc.org #801,673

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The MkDocs static site generator is 1.1 times more popular than Sphinx.

Total websites

Market share

Static Site Generators

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

MkDocs is more popular in France, Russia, and China, while Sphinx is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.

United States

Germany

France

United Kingdom

Netherlands

Russia

Canada

Japan

Norway

Sweden

Awards

⭐ 5th most popular in Germany in the Static Site Generators category.
⭐ 6th most popular in the United States in the Static Site Generators category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

MkDocs is more popular among sites focused on Internet services, business, and blogs and wiki, while Sphinx is more commonly used on software and hardware, technical information, and education and reference sites.

Software/Hardware

Technical Information

Internet Services

Education/Reference

Technical/Business Forums

Business

Blogs/Wiki

Shareware/Freeware

Personal Pages

Online Shopping