Comparison

Antora vs Starlight

On the evidence we track, Starlight leads this comparison with a composite score of 62/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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Antora53
★Starlight62
Score
vioscaleAI score
Antora53 / 100low · 25%
Starlight62 / 100medium · 69%
Pricing
Free tier
Antora✓
Starlight✓
Model
Starlightopen_source
Price level
Antorafree
Starlightfree
Transparent
Antora–
Starlight✓
Integrations
Count
Antora19
Starlight4
Adoption
Dependent repos
Antora–
Starlight35
Github stars
Antora–
Starlight9,407
Package downloads weekly
Antora29,351
Starlight1,439,772
Activity
Commits last 30d
Antora–
Starlight69
Release
Cadence days
Antora–
Starlight4
History
Antora–
Starlight20 items
License
Spdx
AntoraMPL-2.0
StarlightMIT
Language
Primary
Antora–
StarlightTypeScript
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
Antora6 items
Starlight5 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for documentation tools. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Core
Tool kind
AntoraStatic-site generator
StarlightStatic-site generator
Engine / language
AntoraRuby
StarlightAstro
Authoring
Authoring format
AntoraAsciiDoc
Starlight-
API docs
API reference from OpenAPI / code
Antora-
Starlight-
Content
Multi-version docs
Antora✓
Starlight-
Internationalisation
Antora-
Starlight✓
Discovery
Search
Antora-
StarlightBuilt-in
Design
Theming / custom design
Antora✓
Starlight✓
Workflow
Edit-in-Git / WYSIWYG round-trip
Antora✓
Starlight-
Deployment
Self-hostable
Antora✓
Starlight✓
Official managed host
Antora-
Starlight✓
Insight
Built-in usage analytics
Antora-
Starlight-

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Antora

Asciidoctor is a publishing toolchain for processing AsciiDoc markup into HTML, DocBook, PDF, and other formats. It includes native PDF generation capabilities and integrations with various diagram and visualization tools.

Independently observed

Starlight

Leader

A static documentation platform built on Astro with integrated search, multi-language support, code formatting, color theme options, and TypeScript-validated metadata for page organization and discovery.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Antora

Open source
as of verify ↗

Starlight

Leader
Open source
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Antora✗
Starlight✓
CLI
Antora✓
Starlight✓
Deployment
Self-hosted
Antora✓
Starlight✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

Antora

19 total
  • Visual Studio Code
  • GraphViz
  • PlantUML
  • Mermaid
  • BlockDiag
  • Ditaa
  • Erd
  • AsciiToSVG
  • Msc
  • Shaape
  • SvgBob
  • Syntrax
  • UMLet
  • Vega
  • Vega-Lite
  • WaveDrom
  • SeqDiag
  • ActDiag
  • NwDiag
Independently observed

Starlight

Leader
4 total
  • React
  • Vue
  • Svelte
  • Solid
Independently observed
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