🆚 Read the Docs vs. ReadMe
- 📈 ReadMe is noticeably more popular than Read the Docs.
- 🌎 ReadMe is more popular in the United States, France, and Germany.
- 🌍 Read the Docs is more popular in the United Kingdom, Norway, and Hungary.
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About
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.
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
Pricing
(ad-free)$5/month
(an AI assistant)$150
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.
- ⭐ 7th 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.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Doxygen🗃️ 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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.