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Choosing Between Our Two Sites
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Choosing Between Our Two Platforms
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A question our users often have is what the difference is between |org_brand| and |com_brand|.
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This page will lay out the functional and philosophical differences between the two sites,
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which should help you choose which is a better fit for your organization.
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Users often ask what the differences are between |org_brand| and |com_brand|.
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The features available on both platforms are the same.
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The primary difference is the audience and use cases that are supported.
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While many of our features are available on both of these platforms, there
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are some key differences between our two platforms.
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Read the Docs Community
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|org_brand| is meant for open source projects to use for documentation hosting.
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This is great for user and developer documentation for your project.
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|org_brand| is exclusively for hosting open source documentation. We support
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open source communities by providing free documentation building and hosting
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services, for projects of all sizes.
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* All documentation sites have advertising
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* Open source project hosting is always free
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* All documentation sites include advertising
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* Only supports public VCS repositories
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* All documentation is publicly accessible to the world
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* Less build time and fewer build resources (memory & CPU)
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* Email support included only for issues with our platform
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* Documentation is organized by projects
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You can sign up for an account at https://readthedocs.org.
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Read the Docs for Business
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|com_brand| is meant for companies and users who have private documentation.
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It works well for product documentation as well as internal docs for your developers.
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|com_brand| is meant for companies and users who have more complex requirements
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for their documentation project. This can include commercial projects with
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private source code, projects that can only be viewed with authentication, and
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even large scale projects that are publicly available.
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* No advertising
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* Hosting plans require a paid subscription plan
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* There is no advertising on documentation sites
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* Allows importing private and public repositories from VCS
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* Supports private versions that only your organization or people you give access to can see
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* Supports private versions that require authentication to view
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* Supports team authentication, including SSO with Google, GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket
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* More build time and more build resources (memory & CPU)
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* Includes 24x5 email support, with 24x7 SLA support available
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* Documentation is organized by organization, giving more control over permissions
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You can sign up for an account at https://readthedocs.com.
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If you have a question about which platform would be best,
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email us at [email protected].

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