Grain vs Nikola
Grain
github.com
Nikola
getnikola.comSide by side
| Figure | Grain | Nikola |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 0 | 1 |
| Spec score · Static site generators | 7.0 (#33) | 8.8 (#4) |
| Deployment | Grain can generate website files and deploy them manually or with its deploy command. | Nikola sites can be hosted on any web server that serves HTML files, and the handbook lists GitHub Pages deployment support. |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| License | The README states that Grain is licensed under Apache License 2.0. | Nikola is released under the MIT license, while some bundled or required components use other licenses. |
| Support | The README says SysGears offers commercial support and will respond to inquiries within one working day. | The project directs users to GitHub Discussions, a Libera.Chat IRC channel, and GitHub Issues for bug reports; indexed plugins and themes are not officially supported. |
| What it does | Grain is a Groovy framework and static website generator for company websites and personal blogs. | Nikola is a static website and blog generator that turns written content into a folder of HTML files for upload to a server. |
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In their own words
Nikola
Nikola is a static site and blog generator that turns written content into HTML files and assets for a web server. It can build blogs, company and personal sites, software project sites, and book sites. Built-in inputs include reStructuredText, Markdown, IPython notebooks, and HTML, with plugins available for additional formats. Blog components include comments, tags, categories, archives, and RSS/Atom feeds; image galleries and code listings are also included. Nikola supports almost 40 languages out of the box, including posts in multiple languages. Sites can be hosted on any web server that serves HTML files, and the handbook lists GitHub Pages deployment. The software is written in Python 3, with Python 3.8 or later listed on the homepage, and is free under the MIT license. Users can extend it with Python plugins and make themes using Mako or Jinja2. Incremental builds use doit. Because generated sites do not run code on the server, they cannot process form input except for comments. Indexed plugins and themes are not officially supported.