Read the Docs vs. Cloudflare Pages comparison

Cloudflare Pages is great for hosting SPA (single-page applications) for frontend developers. However, when talking about technical writers and documentation projects, Read the Docs is the perfect solution.

Understand the benefits of deploying your project's documentation to Read the Docs.


Build your site on the cloud Generate your site's content on the cloud
Deploy previews Solve style issues before deploying
Page analytics Understand how people browse your documentation
Redirects Redirect users to the right page
Static hosting Publish any static content
Custom 404 pages Style 404 pages with context-related information
Documentation tool agnostic Use the documentation tool your team prefers (Sphinx, MkDocs, Docusaurus, etc)
Custom theme Style the documentation as you like
Private documention Give access only to trusted people
Advanced collaboration Unlimited users
Unlimited builds per month Trigger as many builds as you need
Multiple versions Publish multiple versions of your documentation
Translations Serve translated versions of your docs
Search Always find what you are looking for
Visual diff on deploy previews Visualize differences directly on the rendered version
Custom "robots.txt" Improve your SEO by telling bots how to explore your site
Search analytics Explore what people search for in your docs
Open Source No lock in and contribute back

Try it out

.readthedocs.yaml

version: 2
build:
  os: ubuntu-22.04
  tools:
    python: "3.11"
    # You can also specify other tool versions:
    # nodejs: "16"

# Build documentation with Mkdocs
mkdocs:
   configuration: mkdocs.yml

# Dependencies required to build your docs
python:
   install:
   - requirements: requirements.txt

Cloudflare Pages is a great product, but it's more thought for deploying SPA (single-page applications) with fewer options for documentation sites. For publishing great documentation without having to build the features yourself, Read the Docs is the all-in-one solution that provides everything you need out of the box!

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