readme.com

ReadMe

Who runs ReadMe, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest API documentation software alternatives.

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

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

We’ll send a link to confirm. Your address is only used for these alerts.

Visit ReadMe

01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs ReadMe

ReadMe readme.com

ReadMe helps you create beautiful, interactive API documentation that developers love.

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

02 · Privacy

What ReadMe 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

8 of the 19 alternatives below have fewer, 2 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
None found
US company
2 tools
  • Marketing and email tracking

    Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.

  • Tag manager

    Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to ReadMe

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to ReadMe, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Fewer trackers than ReadMeNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

8 of the 60 sites closest to ReadMe match.

  1. 01
    Mintlify mintlify.com English Free plan 1 tracker

    Mintlify - The documentation platform for agents

    Self-updating documentation for startups, enterprises, and agents.

    Compare Mintlify with ReadMe →
  2. 02
    GitHub github.com Top 100 English Free plan 2 trackers

    GitHub · Change is constant. GitHub keeps you ahead. · GitHub · GitHub

    Join the world's most widely adopted, AI-powered developer platform where millions of developers, businesses, and the largest open source community build software that advances humanity.

    Compare GitHub with ReadMe →
  3. 03
    GitLab gitlab.com Top 1K English Free plan 2 trackers

    GitLab - Speed with control for agentic software engineering

    Teams and agents ship trusted software faster with GitLab, the intelligent orchestration platform with context and governance for the entire software lifecycle.

    Compare GitLab with ReadMe →
  4. 04
    Retool retool.com English Free plan 2 trackers

    Build internal software better, with AI. | Retool

    Build, deploy, and manage internal tools with Retool's unified engine. Connect to any database, API, or LLM. Leverage AI throughout your business.

    Compare Retool with ReadMe →
  5. 05
    Ably ably.com English Free plan 2 trackers

    Ably | Realtime platform for chat, AI and live apps at scale

    Ably is the realtime platform built for scale and reliability. Power live chat, messaging, collaborative apps, and AI experiences that never drop.

    Compare Ably with ReadMe →
  6. 06
    Netlify netlify.com Top 10K English Free plan 2 trackers

    Push your ideas to the web | Netlify

    Create with AI or code, deploy instantly on production infrastructure. One platform to build and ship.

    Compare Netlify with ReadMe →
  7. 07
    Mixpanel mixpanel.com Top 1K English Free plan 4 trackers

    Product Intelligence Platform for the AI Era | Mixpanel

    Mixpanel is the product intelligence platform for the AI era, combining analytics, session replay, experiments, feature flags, and AI-powered insights.

    Compare Mixpanel with ReadMe →
  8. 08
    Visme visme.co English Free plan 2 trackers

    Visme: AI Presentation maker, Infographics, and One pager templates

    Create professional presentations, interactive infographics, beautiful design and engaging videos, all in one place. Start using Visme today.

    Compare Visme with ReadMe →

Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles ReadMe’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones ReadMe uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what ReadMe 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 · 11 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,216
Vector
384-d
Query
44 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to ReadMe’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

MixpanelNetlifyAblyRetoolGitLabGitHubMintlify

Built with

JavaScript frameworks
  • Next.js page source: /_next/static/
  • React implied by Next.js (page source: /_next/static/)
CSS & UI
  • Font Awesome asset https://kit.fontawesome.com/355cd656fe.css
Tag managers
Marketing automation
  • Mailchimp TXT v=spf1 include:servers.mcsv.net include:mailgun.org include:_spf.goog…
Live chat & support
  • Intercom page source: widget.intercom.io
Hosting
  • Vercel header x-vercel-id: fra1::lnqj6-1794172850022-60e61be50f15
Email hosting
Email delivery
  • Mailgun TXT v=spf1 include:servers.mcsv.net include:mailgun.org include:_spf.goog…
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)