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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
–
Closest alternative
GitBook

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01 · 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.

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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.

No ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

6 of the 60 sites closest to Read the Docs match.

  1. 01
    GitBook gitbook.com English Free plan 6 trackers

    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.

    Compare GitBook with Read the Docs →
  2. 02
    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 Read the Docs →
  3. 03
    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 Read the Docs →
  4. 04
    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.

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  5. 05
    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 Read the Docs →
  6. 06
    Notion notion.com Top 10K English Free plan 1 tracker

    The AI workspace that works for you. | Notion

    Build Custom Agents, search across all your apps, and automate busywork. The AI workspace where teams get more done, faster.

    Compare Notion with Read the Docs →

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

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 = 60
Sites searched
9,214
Vector
384-d
Query
79 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.

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