readthedocs.io
Read the Docs
Who runs Read the Docs, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest documentation hosting alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
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- Closest alternative
- GitBook
Measured from Read the Docs’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Read the Docs01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Read the Docs
Read the Docs readthedocs.io
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.
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Read the Docs 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; 12 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on Read the Docs’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Read the Docs
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Read the Docs, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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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 - 02
ReadMe · Developer-friendly API documentation
ReadMe helps you create beautiful, interactive API documentation that developers love.
Very close - 03
Mintlify - The documentation platform for agents
Self-updating documentation for startups, enterprises, and agents.
Very close - 04
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 - 05
Push your ideas to the web | Netlify
Create with AI or code, deploy instantly on production infrastructure. One platform to build and ship.
Close - 06
Free Java Doc hosting for open source projects - javadoc.io
Close - 07
Sphinx — Sphinx documentation
documentation generator which converts reStructuredText files into HTML
Very close - 08
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 - 09
Google Open Source
Google <3 Open Source
Very close - 10
Gitea Official Website
Gitea - Git with a cup of tea! Painless self-hosted all-in-one software development service, including Git hosting, code review, team collaboration, package registry and CI/CD
Very close - 11
Docs.rs
official documentation website for Rust libraries
Very close - 12
Gitee - 基于 Git 的代码托管和研发协作平台
面向企业提供一站式研发管理解决方案，包括代码管理、项目管理、文档协作、测试管理、CICD、效能度量等多个模块，支持SaaS、私有化等多种部署方式，帮助企业有序规划和管理研发过程，提升研发效率和质量。
Very close - 13
Doxygen homepage
Source code documentation and analysis tool
Close - 14
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 - 15
Forgejo – Beyond coding. We forge.
Forgejo is a self-hosted lightweight software forge. Easy to install and low maintenance, it just does the job.
Close - 16
Document360: AI Knowledge Base Software for Documentation
Start building intelligent documentation today with AI search, AI chatbot, and writing tools inside Document360, the knowledge base trusted by teams worldwide.
Close - 17
RubyDoc.info: Documenting RubyGems, Stdlib, and GitHub Projects
Documenting RubyGems, Stdlib, and GitHub Projects
Close - 18
Launchpad
software forge
Close - 19
sourcehut - the hacker's forge
sourcehut is a network of useful open source tools for software project maintainers and collaborators, including git repos, bug tracking, continuous integration, and mailing lists.
Close - 20
Wikidot - Free and Pro Wiki Hosting
Polish wiki hosting corporation
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Read the Docs’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Read the Docs 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 Read the Docs 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 · 4 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,195
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 57 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Read the Docs’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://kit.fontawesome.com/53af4251af.js
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a562fd67eab820f2-HAM
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS ivan.ns.cloudflare.com
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on readthedocs.io 15/20
- Cloudflare DNS 11/20
- Google Workspace 9/20
- Cloudflare 8/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on readthedocs.io 6/20
- HubSpot · not on readthedocs.io 5/20
- OpenAI · not on readthedocs.io 5/20
- SendGrid · not on readthedocs.io 4/20
- Font Awesome 4/20
- Next.js · not on readthedocs.io 4/20
- React · not on readthedocs.io 4/20
- Bootstrap · not on readthedocs.io 4/20
- Apple Business · not on readthedocs.io 3/20
- Google Analytics · not on readthedocs.io 3/20
- Google Fonts · not on readthedocs.io 3/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on readthedocs.io 3/20