Documentation · comparison
MkDocs vs Sphinx
MkDocs is used on 3,627 sites, 2.5 times as many as Sphinx (1,455 sites).
In Documentation, MkDocs ranks #4 and Sphinx #6 by number of sites.
From Jul 2026 to Oct 2026, MkDocs grew less than 0.1% and Sphinx held steady.
No site in our index runs both MkDocs and Sphinx.
Mk
MkDocs
www.mkdocs.org
- Sites
- 3,627
- Share of tracked sites
- 0.02%
- Rank in Documentation
- #4
- Change since Jul 2026
- ▲ +0.08%
Sp
Sphinx
www.sphinx-doc.org
- Sites
- 1,455
- Share of tracked sites
- 0.01%
- Rank in Documentation
- #6
- Change since Jul 2026
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Sites using both
0
sites run MkDocs and Sphinx
of MkDocs sites0%
of Sphinx sites0%
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Site counts and ranks come from our crawl of the web; the change compares the monthly adoption snapshots both technologies have.