Hugo
The world's fastest framework for building websites
- Also known as
- hugo
What is Hugo?
Hugo is a static site generator written in Go, optimized for speed and designed for flexibility. Open source and free to use under the Apache 2.0 License.
Hugo pricing
We don't have Hugo's full plan breakdown yet (its pricing page resisted automated reading). Here's what we could confirm. Always check live pricing for exact numbers.
What Hugo does
The capabilities that matter for documentation tools, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Tool kind
- Static-site generator
- Engine / language
- Go
- Authoring format
- -
- API reference from OpenAPI / code
- -
- Multi-version docs
- -
- Internationalisation
- ✓
- Search
- -
- Theming / custom design
- ✓
- Edit-in-Git / WYSIWYG round-trip
- -
- Self-hostable
- ✓
- Official managed host
- -
- Built-in usage analytics
- -
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Self-hosted
Hugo alternatives
Other documentation tools we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- DocusaurusBuild optimized websites quickly, focus on your contentlow · 46%
- SphinxCreate intelligent and beautiful documentation with easelow · 42%
- VitePressVite & Vue Powered Static Site Generatorlow · 40%
- GitBookThe knowledge layer for AI — AI made docs easy to write. Not easy to trust.medium · 59%
- FumadocsA fast, flexible documentation framework for Reactlow · 40%
- StarlightEverything you need to build a stellar documentation websitelow · 49%
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Hugo, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Release Cadence | 98 | 10.00 | 983.3 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 58 | 16.00 | 925.0 | ✓ |
| Github Activity | 49 | 18.00 | 881.9 | ✓ |
| Github Stars | 93 | 5.00 | 467.0 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 0 | 8.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Security Posture | 0 | 13.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Package Downloads | 0 | 26.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Stackoverflow Activity | 0 | 12.00 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Activity
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Commits last 30d | 35 | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 65% |
Adoption
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Github stars | 89,298 | highsource · 2026-08-03 · 90% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"i18n":true,"kind":"static_generator","engine":"Go","themeable":true,"self_hostable":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | Go | highsource · 2026-08-03 · 90% |
License
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Spdx | Apache-2.0 | highsource · 2026-08-03 · 95% |
Pricing
Release
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Cadence days | 3 | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 70% |