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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.
Visit ReadMe01 · 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.
9 of the 60 sites closest to ReadMe match.
- 01
Mintlify - The documentation platform for agents
Self-updating documentation for startups, enterprises, and agents.
Very close - 02
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 - 03
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.
Very close - 04
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.
Very close - 05
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.
Very close - 06
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.
Very close - 07
Push your ideas to the web | Netlify
Create with AI or code, deploy instantly on production infrastructure. One platform to build and ship.
Very close - 08
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.
Very close - 09
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.
Very close
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
What changed
Price and policy 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
- 9,208
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 37 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
Built with
- JavaScript frameworks
- CSS & UI
- Font Awesome asset https://kit.fontawesome.com/355cd656fe.css
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-
- 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
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Email delivery
- Mailgun TXT v=spf1 include:servers.mcsv.net include:mailgun.org include:_spf.goog…
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS jeremy.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=KjhE29LcHOwn9rQWPfLRgGV2NjnhNtE0MZkrq3VMTqg
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Google Workspace 15/20
- Cloudflare DNS 12/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on readme.com 12/20
- Cloudflare · not on readme.com 11/20
- React 10/20
- Next.js 9/20
- Vercel 8/20
- Apple Business · not on readme.com 8/20
- Atlassian · not on readme.com 8/20
- OpenAI · not on readme.com 7/20
- Stripe · not on readme.com 6/20
- HubSpot · not on readme.com 5/20
- SendGrid · not on readme.com 5/20
- Google Tag Manager 5/20
- Google Fonts · not on readme.com 4/20