Antora vs Jupyter Book
Antora
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| Figure | Antora | Jupyter Book |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $1,166.67/mo | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | — | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 2 | 1 |
| Spec score · Technical Documentation Software | 8.2 (#11) | 8.3 (#10) |
| Spec score · Technical Writing Platforms | 8.2 (#11) | 8.4 (#8) |
| Extensibility | Antora has an open architecture and supports custom extensions and generator pipelines. | Jupyter Book uses the MyST plugin system, which supports directives, roles, and transforms; plugins can be written in JavaScript or another language following the MyST plugin protocol. |
| Integrations | The documentation describes GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and other code hosting services as platforms for Git-based documentation workflows. | The FAQ lists GitHub Pages, ReadTheDocs, Netlify, Vercel, CurveNote, and custom hosting as deployment options. |
| Purpose | Antora is a documentation site generator for technical writers working in AsciiDoc. | Jupyter Book creates computational narratives from notebooks or Markdown, executes code, and publishes the results to the web. |
| Support | OpenDevise offers paid Pro and Premier support packages covering Antora configuration and deployment, Asciidoctor extensions, and AsciiDoc syntax. | The project points users to its Discord community and GitHub Discussions, and directs most Jupyter Book 2 bug reports to the MyST repository. |
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In their own words
Jupyter Book
Jupyter Book is an open-source tool for publishing reusable, reproducible computational narratives. Authors can build websites, PDFs, and other formats using MyST Markdown and Jupyter notebooks, with cross-references, citations, figures, tables, equations, and executable code blocks. Code may run during a build to produce computed figures, tables, and values, although execution is off by default. Pages can include interactive widgets, browser execution through a remote kernel, or launch buttons for Binder and JupyterHub. Deployment options include GitHub Pages, ReadTheDocs, Netlify, Vercel, CurveNote, GitLab Pages, and custom hosting. Plugins can add directives, roles, and content transforms. Installation is available through PyPI, conda-forge, and npm, with several package-manager routes. Jupyter Book 2 uses the MyST Document Engine; version 1 is mostly in maintenance mode. The free plan costs nothing.