About
Read the Docs is a documentation deployment platform that connects to Git repositories and builds documentation from source on every commit. It supports public and private repositories, live pull request previews, versioned documentation, and access controls such as SSO on paid plans.
The Community offering is free for open-source projects and supports public repositories with public documentation and ads-supported hosting. Paid Business plans add private repository support, private documentation, team management, custom domains, build concurrency limits, redirects, analytics retention, and support SLAs.
- Public repository hosting
- Public documentation hosting
- Ads-supported community hosting
- Pull request preview builds
- Versioned documentation builds
- 2 to 6 concurrent builds
- Private repository support on paid plans
- SSO with GitHub, GitLab, or Google
Free Tier Value
This free tier is genuinely usable for open-source projects and is described as free forever, with no usage cap for that audience. The cheapest paid plan starts at $50/month, and the free offering covers the core hosting experience for public docs, so a practical buyer-equivalent value is about $50/month; the main limitation is that commercial/private-project features sit behind paid plans. A 30-day trial is also offered for the business side, but the perpetual open-source tier is the stronger free signal here.
What's included in the free tier
- Free open-source project hosting.
- Public documentation hosting.
- Ads-supported hosting.
- Clone public repositories.
See Read the Docs pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Basic
- concurrent builds
- 2
- redirects
- 50
- support response time
- 3 business days
- 2 concurrent builds
- Shared domain
- SSO with GitHub and GitLab
- 50 redirects
- 3 business day support
Advanced
- concurrent builds
- 4
- custom domains
- 5
- redirects
- 250
- support response time
- 2 business days
- 4 concurrent builds
- 5 custom domains
- SSO with GitHub and GitLab
- 250 redirects
- 2 business day support
Pro
- concurrent builds
- 6
- custom domains
- 15
- redirects
- 500
- support response time
- 1 business day
- 6 concurrent builds
- 15 custom domains
- SSO with Google
- 500 redirects
- 1 business day support
Enterprise
- SAML SSO
- Dedicated builders
- Advanced audit tracking
- Support SLA
Pricing extracted from Read the Docs's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
