docs.rs
docs.rs
Who runs docs.rs, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest software documentation hosting alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- RubyDoc.info
Measured from docs.rs’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit docs.rs01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs docs.rs
docs.rs
Wikidata: official documentation website for Rust libraries
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What docs.rs tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
None of the 20 alternatives below has fewer; 10 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on docs.rs’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to docs.rs
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to docs.rs, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
RubyDoc.info: Documenting RubyGems, Stdlib, and GitHub Projects
Documenting RubyGems, Stdlib, and GitHub Projects
Very close - 02
Free Java Doc hosting for open source projects - javadoc.io
Very close - 03
crates.io: Rust Package Registry
crates.io serves as a central registry for sharing crates, which are packages or libraries written in Rust that you can use to enhance your projects
Very close - 04
Full featured documentation deployment platform - Read the Docs
Read the Docs is a documentation building and hosting platform aimed at helping developers creating documentation from code with versioned documentation, integrated search, pull request previews and more.
Very close - 05
Rust Programming Language
A language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
Very close - 06
Use JSDoc: Index
Official documentation for JSDoc.
Very close - 07
TypeDoc
Documentation for TypeDoc
Very close - 08
Canva Developers
Build apps and integrations with Canva
Very close - 09
Swift Programming Language
Swift is a general-purpose programming language built using a modern approach to safety, performance, and software design patterns.
Very close - 10
Mintlify - The documentation platform for agents
Self-updating documentation for startups, enterprises, and agents.
Very close - 11
PHP
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
Very close - 12
Archbee — The First Knowledge Portal Platform
Build beautiful knowledge portals that are easy to navigate, search, share and contribute to: user guides, API docs, knowledge bases and SOPs in one platform.
Very close - 13
PostgreSQL: The world's most advanced open source database
The official site for PostgreSQL, the world's most advanced open source database
Very close - 14
ReadMe · Developer-friendly API documentation
ReadMe helps you create beautiful, interactive API documentation that developers love.
Very close - 15
SQLite Home Page
serverless relational database management system (RDBMS)
Very close - 16
The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network - www.cpan.org
Perl package repository
Very close - 17
MediaWiki
free and open-source wiki software, developed by the Wikimedia Foundation
Very close - 18
The knowledge layer for AI | GitBook
GitBook is a knowledge platform that connects your docs, product and users, answers user questions, and identifies knowledge gaps. Docs-as-code support & AI insights included.
Very close - 19
Client Challenge
free and open-source web content management system
Very close - 20
Home • Angular
The web development framework for building modern apps.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles docs.rs’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones docs.rs uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what docs.rs adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 6 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 60 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to docs.rs’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- CSS & UI
- Font Awesome asset https://docs.rs/-/static/v/c6adc0736ae17c7d/font-awesome.css
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-sjc10020-SJC, cache-ber1080037-BER
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx/1.14.0 (Ubuntu)
- Email delivery
- Mailgun TXT v=spf1 include:mailgun.org ~all
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1937.awsdns-50.co.uk
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=nQmKb5oHlB3NddbejV8Akpd9YFcKRL4Eqc9ENoIsWtY
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 15/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on docs.rs 10/20
- Google Workspace · not on docs.rs 9/20
- Cloudflare · not on docs.rs 7/20
- Fastly 6/20
- Font Awesome 5/20
- Google Analytics · not on docs.rs 4/20
- Next.js · not on docs.rs 4/20
- React · not on docs.rs 4/20
- Mailgun 3/20
- Mailchimp · not on docs.rs 3/20
- HubSpot · not on docs.rs 3/20
- Vercel · not on docs.rs 3/20
- Cloudflare Web Analytics · not on docs.rs 2/20
- jQuery · not on docs.rs 2/20
- Amazon Route 53 2/20