Read the Docs vs. Mintlify comparison

Mintlify is a proprietary documentation platform built around a vendor-specific MDX dialect. If you want a fully managed, closed-source product, Mintlify may suit you.

Read the Docs takes a different approach: your tools, your content, your terms. Write in any documentation tool your team already uses, and publish on a platform trusted by engineering teams at AMD and Canonical, and by open source projects like Jupyter and Flask — over 15 years of reliable documentation hosting.

No lock-in. No per-seat pricing. Business and Enterprise plans for commercial teams, with a free Community tier for open source.


Build your site on the cloud Generate your site's content on the cloud
Deploy previews Solve style issues before deploying
Search Always find what you are looking for
Multiple versions Publish multiple versions of your documentation
Translations Serve translated versions of your docs
Page analytics Understand how people browse your documentation
Search analytics Explore what people search for in your docs
Private documentation Give access only to trusted people
Documentation tool agnostic Use the documentation tool your team prefers (Sphinx, MkDocs, Docusaurus, Jupyter Book, etc)
No per-seat pricing Unlimited users on every plan
Unlimited builds per month Trigger as many builds as you need
Open Source Own your content, self-host if you want, contribute back

Try it out

.readthedocs.yaml

# Example for a Node-based doc tool (e.g. Docusaurus).
# Replace the install/build commands with whatever your tool uses
# (mkdocs build, sphinx-build, jupyter-book build, etc).
version: 2

build:
  os: ubuntu-24.04
  tools:
    nodejs: "20"

  commands:
    # Install dependencies and build the site
    - cd docs/ && npm install
    - cd docs/ && npm run build
    # Copy output to Read the Docs
    - mkdir -p $READTHEDOCS_OUTPUT/html/
    - cp -r docs/build/* $READTHEDOCS_OUTPUT/html/

Write in the documentation tool your team already uses, keep your content portable, and publish on an open platform with no vendor lock-in.

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