Sites like Read the Docs

01 · Entity

About Read the Docs

Read the Docs readthedocs.io

Full featured documentation deployment platform - Read the Docs

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.

Top 1K · #893 English 4 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026

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Summary by Claude

Read the Docs builds and hosts software documentation from Git repositories, with versioned docs, search, pull request preview builds and access controls. It is free for open-source projects and has paid Business plans for private and commercial documentation.

Who it’s for

Software developers, open-source projects and documentation teams

Business model

Subscriptions for business plans; free community tier

• documentation hosting
• Sphinx documentation hosting
• versioned documentation
• pull request preview builds
• docs-as-code from Git
• private documentation with SSO
• documentation search
• MkDocs hosting
• open source project docs

02 · Embedding space

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   docs.rs Top 10K English

   Docs.rs

   official documentation website for Rust libraries

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2. 02
   GitBook gitbook.io Top 10K English

   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.

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3. 03
   git-scm.com Top 10K English

   Git

   distributed version control system

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4. 04
   GitHub github.com Top 100 English

   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
   Wikidot wikidot.com Top 10K English

   Wikidot - Free and Pro Wiki Hosting

   Polish wiki hosting corporation

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6. 06
   doxygen.org Top 10K English

   Doxygen homepage

   Source code documentation and analysis tool

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7. 07
   Open Source googlesource.com Top 10K English

   Google Open Source

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8. 08
   Gitea gitea.com Top 10K

   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

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9. 09
   Scribd scribd.com Top 1K English

   Scribd: Home to the world’s documents.

   Get to the source. Specialized knowledge on any topic, and answers you won’t find anywhere else. Home to the world’s documents, 300M+ and counting.

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10. 10
    Zotero zotero.org Top 10K English

    Zotero | Your personal research assistant

    Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.

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11. 11
    Codeberg e.V. codeberg.org Top 10K English

    Codeberg.org

    Codeberg is a non-profit community-led organization that aims to help free and open source projects prosper by giving them a safe and friendly home.

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12. 12
    Zenodo zenodo.org Top 10K English

    Zenodo

    research data repository

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    SlideShare slideshare.net Top 1K English

    Client Challenge

    American hosting service, owned by Scribd, for professional content including presentations, infographics, documents, and videos

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14. 14
    Academia.edu academia.edu Top 1K

    open repository of academic articles

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15. 15
    RustDesk rustdesk.com Top 10K English

    RustDesk: Open-Source Remote Desktop with Self-Hosted Server Solutions

    RustDesk is open-source remote desktop software for your own self-hosted server, a TeamViewer and AnyDesk alternative for Windows, macOS, Linux and Android.

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16. 16
    Bitbucket bitbucket.org Top 10K English

    Bitbucket | Git solution for teams using Jira

    Bitbucket Cloud is a Git-based code and CI/CD tool optimized for teams using Jira.

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17. 17
    Linux kernel kernel.org Top 10K English

    The Linux Kernel Archives

    Unix-like operating system kernel, basis for all Linux operating systems

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18. 18
    Go go.dev Top 10K English

    The Go Programming Language

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    Hugging Face huggingface.co Top 10K

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20. 20
    GitLab gitlab.com Top 1K English

    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.

    • Cloudflare
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    0 say GitLab is a good alternative to Read the Docs 0 say GitLab isn’t a real alternative to Read the Docs

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Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to readthedocs.io’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Read the Docs uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What Read the Docs is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.