🆚 Read the Docs vs. Sphinx
- 📈 Sphinx is noticeably more popular than Read the Docs.
- 🌎 Sphinx is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Read the Docs is more popular in Ukraine.
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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.
Sphinx is an open-source documentation generator originally created for the Python ecosystem that converts reStructuredText and 
Markdown sources into structured technical documentation.
It supports cross-references, automatic API documentation for Python, 
C++, 
JS, and other software domains, theming, and deployments to 
Read the Docs, GitHub Pages, GitLab Pages, and 
Netlify.
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Pricing
(ad-free)$5/month
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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
- ⭐ 7th most popular in the United States in the Static Site Generators category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in the United States in the Deployment Platforms category.
- ⭐ 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.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Technologies with similar characteristics.
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Scalar🗃️ 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 3,531,690 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.