mkdocs.org

MkDocs

Who runs MkDocs, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest documentation generator alternatives.

Who’s behind it: Not stated
Online since: Unknown
Trackers
Prices: No pricing page
Last price change: –
Closest alternative: Docusaurus

Measured from MkDocs’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.

Visit MkDocs

01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs MkDocs

MkDocs mkdocs.org

Project documentation with Markdown.

Wikidata: static site generator

Company: No imprint we could read
Online since: Not in the Internet Archive
Audience: In English

02 · Privacy

What MkDocs 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.

tracker that follows visitors

10 of the 20 alternatives below have fewer, 1 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →

Cookie banner: None found
US company: 1 tool

Visitor analytics

Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
- Google AnalyticsUS

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to MkDocs

Fewer trackers than MkDocs No ad trackers Registered in the EU Free plan Only in English

None of the 60 sites closest to MkDocs match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.

04 · History

What changed

Price and policy history →

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what MkDocs 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 and search numbers · 8 technologies

Neighbours: k = 60
Sites searched: 9,217
Vector: 384-d
Query: 55 ms

Built with

JavaScript libraries: jQuery asset https://www.mkdocs.org/js/jquery-3.6.0.min.js
CSS & UI: Bootstrap asset https://www.mkdocs.org/js/bootstrap.min.js
Font Awesome asset https://www.mkdocs.org/css/font-awesome.min.css
Analytics: Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
CDN: cdnjs asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/highlight.js/11.8.0/highlight.min.js
Fastly header x-fastly-request-id: 09891bffd30d67ba8eef2990dad2e21c2fe1c65d
Hosting: GitHub Pages header server: GitHub.com
DNS hosting: Amazon Route 53 NS ns-176.awsdns-22.com

What competitors use

Across the 20 closest sites.