Read the Docs
Full featured documentation deployment platform
- Also known as
- read-the-docs
What is Read the Docs?
Read the Docs is a documentation hosting and deployment platform that connects Git repositories to automate builds, previews, and hosting. Supports Sphinx, MkDocs, Docusaurus, and other documentation tools.
Read the Docs pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
From $50/month. Free tier for open source. 30-day free trial.
Basic
For small teams getting started with private docs
- redirects
- 50
- custom_domains
- 1
- concurrent_builds
- 2
- 2 concurrent builds
- Shared domain
- SSO with GitHub and GitLab
- 50 redirects
- 3 business day support
- Email support
- Pageview analytics (30 days)
- Search analytics (30 days)
Advanced
For hosting public docs at your own domain
- redirects
- 250
- custom_domains
- 5
- concurrent_builds
- 4
- 4 concurrent builds
- 5 custom domains
- SSO with GitHub and GitLab
- 250 redirects
- 2 business day support
- Email support
- Pageview analytics (90 days)
- Search analytics (90 days)
- URL customization
Pro
For organizations with scale and security needs
- redirects
- 500
- custom_domains
- 15
- concurrent_builds
- 6
- 6 concurrent builds
- 15 custom domains
- SSO with GitHub, GitLab, and Google
- 500 redirects
- 1 business day support
- Email support
- Pageview analytics (90 days)
- Search analytics (90 days)
- URL customization
- Authentication auditing (90 days)
Enterprise
Contact salesFor organizations with custom requirements
- SAML SSO
- Dedicated builders
- Advanced audit tracking
- Support SLA
What Read the Docs 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
- Hosted platform
- Engine / language
- Sphinx, MkDocs, Docusaurus, and others
- Authoring format
- -
- API reference from OpenAPI / code
- -
- Multi-version docs
- ✓
- Internationalisation
- -
- Search
- Built-in
- Theming / custom design
- -
- Edit-in-Git / WYSIWYG round-trip
- ✓
- Self-hostable
- -
- Official managed host
- ✓
- Built-in usage analytics
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
Integrations (3)
Independently observed- Sphinx
- MkDocs
- Docusaurus
Read the Docs 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%
- HugoThe world's fastest framework for building websiteslow · 21%
- FumadocsA fast, flexible documentation framework for Reactlow · 40%
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 Read the Docs, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | 67 | 16.00 | 1073.9 | ✓ |
| Release Cadence | 97 | 10.00 | 966.7 | ✓ |
| Github Activity | 46 | 18.00 | 828.7 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 100 | 8.00 | 800.0 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 8.00 | 400.0 | ✓ |
| Github Stars | 74 | 5.00 | 370.0 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 50 | 6.00 | 300.0 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 17 | 8.00 | 138.5 | ✓ |
| Security Posture | 5 | 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 | 28 | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 65% |
Adoption
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Github stars | 8,373 | highsource · 2026-08-01 · 90% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"kind":"hosted_platform","engine":"Sphinx, MkDocs, Docusaurus, and others","search":"built_in","git_sync":true,"analytics":true,"versioning":true,"hosted_offering":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 3 | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | Python | highsource · 2026-08-01 · 90% |
License
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Spdx | MIT | highsource · 2026-08-01 · 95% |
Pricing
Release
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Cadence days | 6 | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 70% |
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60% |
Security
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure policy | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60% |