🆚 Read the Docs vs. Slate

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Deployment platform
Static site generator

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.

Slate helps you create beautiful, intelligent, responsive API documentation.

Headquarters

Portland, Oregon, United States

Website

Pricing

Free version ✔️Community, free for open source, ad supported, open source
Community Gold
(ad-free)
$5/month
Business Advanced$150/month
Business Pro$250/month
Free ✔️Open source

Categories

Deployment Platforms › Rank #13
Static Site Generators › Rank #14
Static Site Generators › Rank #23

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Read the Docs deployment platform is 5 times more popular than Slate.
Total websites

Market share

Static Site Generators

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Read the Docs is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France, while Slate is more popular in Russia.
United States
United Kingdom
France
Germany
Hungary
Norway
Switzerland
Russia
Ukraine
Poland

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Read the Docs is more popular than Slate in all market segments.
Technical Information
Software/Hardware
Internet Services
Technical/Business Forums
Business
Education/Reference
Blogs/Wiki

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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Rank
#5,480
#37,231
#39,890
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Rank
#1,928,168
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See also

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