Read the Docs
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- Automates documentation deployment and versioning from Git repositories.
- Provides deploy previews for pull requests and integrated search.
- Offers free hosting for open-source projects and paid plans for businesses with advanced features.
Pricing: Free plan available
Best for: Growing teams
Pricing Plans
Free TrialCommunity
Always free
- 2 concurrent builds
- Host public documentation
- Clone public repositories
- 2 custom domains
- Ad supported
Gold membership (individuals)
$5 per month
- Ad free projects
- Support Read the Docs
- Keep our Community site sustainable
Gold membership (companies)
$50 per month
- Ad free projects
- Support Read the Docs
- Keep our Community site sustainable
Basic
$50 per month
- API access
- Team management
- Email support (Best effort)
- Ad free
- Public repositories
- Pull request preview
- Unlimited projects
- Private repositories
- 2 concurrent builds
- Custom theming
- Automatic building
- Notifications
- Environment variables
- Automation rules
- Documentation versioning
- Documentation localization
- Subprojects
- Integrated search
- Offline formats
- Sitemap generation
- Customizable error pages
- Status badges
- CDN hosting
- Authentication auditing (30 days)
- 100 redirects
- Documentation authentication
- Single sign-on (GitHub and GitLab)
- Documentation sharing
- 2 custom domains
- Pageview analytics (30 days)
- Search analytics (30 days)
- Content embedding
- URL customization
Advanced
$150 per month
- Includes all core features
- 2 business day response support
- Single sign-on (SSO) With GitHub and GitLab
- 4 concurrent builds
- 5 custom domains
- Search and pageview analytics (30 day retention)
- API access
- Team management
- Email support (2 business days)
- Ad free
- Public repositories
- Pull request preview
- Unlimited projects
- Private repositories
- Custom theming
- Automatic building
- Notifications
- Environment variables
- Automation rules
- Documentation versioning
- Documentation localization
- Subprojects
- Integrated search
- Offline formats
- Sitemap generation
- Customizable error pages
- Status badges
- CDN hosting
- Authentication auditing (30 days)
- 250 redirects
- Documentation authentication
- Documentation sharing
- Content embedding
- URL customization
Pro
$250 per month
- Includes all Advanced plan features
- 6 concurrent builds
- 15 custom domains
- 1 business day response support
- Search and pageview analytics (90 day retention)
- Authentication auditing (90 day retention)
- Single sign-on (SSO) With Google
- API access
- Team management
- Email support (1 business day)
- Ad free
- Public repositories
- Pull request preview
- Unlimited projects
- Private repositories
- Custom theming
- Automatic building
- Notifications
- Environment variables
- Automation rules
- Documentation versioning
- Documentation localization
- Subprojects
- Integrated search
- Offline formats
- Sitemap generation
- Customizable error pages
- Status badges
- CDN hosting
- 500 redirects
- Documentation authentication
- Documentation sharing
- Content embedding
- URL customization
Enterprise
Contact us
- Custom builders
- Support SLA
- SAML SSO
- Custom build images
- Advanced audit tracking
- Custom integrations
About Read the Docs
Read the Docs is a comprehensive platform for deploying and managing documentation, designed to integrate seamlessly with Git workflows. It enables teams to adopt a "Docs as Code" approach, allowing developers and writers to create and maintain documentation using familiar tools like Git and text editors. The platform supports popular documentation tools such as Sphinx, MkDocs, and Jupyter Book.
It caters to both open-source projects and businesses, offering features like automatic deploy previews for pull requests, versioned documentation to match product release cycles, and integrated search capabilities. For businesses, it provides advanced features such as private repository support, Single Sign-On (SSO), team management, and detailed analytics. The platform aims to streamline the documentation process, ensuring accuracy, collaboration, and efficient delivery of technical content.
Read the Docs is ideal for software development teams, technical writers, and open-source projects that need a robust, scalable, and automated solution for hosting and publishing their documentation. It simplifies the publishing pipeline, allowing users to focus on content creation while the platform handles building, hosting, and versioning.
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Read the Docs FAQ
Read the Docs is a platform that automates the building, hosting, and versioning of documentation, primarily from Git repositories. It supports various documentation tools and integrates with your development workflow to provide features like deploy previews and integrated search.
Read the Docs offers a free 'Community' plan for open-source and community projects. For businesses, there are paid plans: 'Basic' at $50/month, 'Advanced' at $150/month, and 'Pro' at $250/month, with an 'Enterprise' option for custom needs. There's also a 'Gold membership' for individuals ($5/month) or companies ($50/month) to disable ads on community projects and support the platform.
Yes, Read the Docs offers a free 'Community' plan specifically for open-source and community projects. This plan includes features like public project hosting, 2 concurrent builds, and 2 custom domains, though it is ad-supported. Paid plans are available for commercial and private documentation needs.
Read the Docs is for software development teams, technical writers, and open-source projects that need a robust and automated solution for hosting and managing their documentation. It's designed for anyone who wants to adopt a "Docs as Code" approach and integrate documentation into their Git-based development workflow.