Compare Gatsby to these popular alternatives based on real-world usage and developer feedback.

Think of Jekyll as a file-based CMS, without all the complexity. Jekyll takes your content, renders Markdown and Liquid templates, and spits out a complete, static website ready to be served by Apache, Nginx or another web server. Jekyll is the engine behind GitHub Pages, which you can use to host sites right from your GitHub repositories.

Hugo is a static site generator written in Go. It is optimized for speed, easy use and configurability. Hugo takes a directory with content and templates and renders them into a full html website. Hugo makes use of markdown files with front matter for meta data.

A minimalistic static site generator with a Vue-powered theming system, and a default theme optimized for writing technical documentation. It was created to support the documentation needs of Vue's own sub projects.

Hexo is a fast, simple and powerful blog framework. It parses your posts with Markdown or other render engine and generates static files with the beautiful theme. All of these just take seconds.

It is a new kind of static site builder that delivers lightning-fast performance with a modern developer experience. It combines decades of proven performance best practices with the DX improvements of the component-oriented era. Use your favorite JavaScript framework and automatically ship the bare-minimum amount of JavaScript—by default.

Middleman is a command-line tool for creating static websites using all the shortcuts and tools of the modern web development environment.

Build websites using latest web tech tools that developers love - Vue.js, GraphQL and Webpack. Get hot-reloading and all the power of Node.js. Gridsome makes building websites fun again.

It builds completely static HTML sites that you can host on GitHub pages, Amazon S3, or anywhere else you choose. There's a stack of good looking themes available. The built-in dev-server allows you to preview your documentation as you're writing it. It will even auto-reload and refresh your browser whenever you save your changes.

A simpler static site generator. An alternative to Jekyll. Written in JavaScript. Transforms a directory of templates (of varying types) into HTML. Works with HTML, Markdown, Liquid, Nunjucks, Handlebars, Mustache, EJS, Haml, Pug, and JavaScript Template Literals.

Pelican is a static site generator that supports Markdown and reST syntax. Write your weblog entries directly with your editor of choice (vim!) in reStructuredText or Markdown.

It is the perfect cloud complement for Gatsby and provide a lot of cloud services Gatsby users need like real-time preview and very fast builds.

Empower your website frontends with layouts, meta-data, pre-processors (markdown, jade, coffeescript, etc.), partials, skeletons, file watching, querying, and an amazing plugin system. DocPad will streamline your web development process allowing you to craft full-featured websites quicker than ever before.

In Metalsmith, all of the logic is handled by plugins. You simply chain them together. Since everything is a plugin, the core library is actually just an abstraction for manipulating a directory of files.

React-Static is a next-gen static site generator for React. Finally, you can build a website like you do any other React App. There's no special CMS, query language, or crazy lifecycle hooks. Just good old React producing an amazing SEO-ready, user experience driven, progressively enhanced website. The effort is minimal, but the benefits are not!
Octopress is an obsessively designed framework for Jekyll blogging. It’s easy to configure and easy to deploy.

Most popular site generator for Grunt.js and Yeoman. Assemble is used to build hundreds of web projects, ranging in size from a single page to 14,000 pages (that we're aware of!).

It is a Python package that allows the user to create static websites using Python metadata. Static websites are safer, use fewer resources, and avoid vendor and platform lock-in.

DocGen is a command-line documentation tool for software products. It takes plain text or CommonMark (Markdown) as input, and generates both a static website and a PDF copy.

It helps you and your team build thoughtful, pattern-driven user interfaces using atomic design principles.

Punch allows you to use boilerplates to quickly setup a site, write minimal templates with Mustache, and create flexible site structures with inheritable layouts and partials.

Write your static pages and put them in the RAILS_ROOT/app/views/pages directory.

Wintersmith is a simple yet flexible static site generator. It takes contents (markdown, less, scripts, etc), transforms them using plugins and outputs a static website (html, css, images, etc) that you can host anywhere.

Cactus makes setting up a website look easy. Choose a template for a blog, portfolio or single page and Cactus generates all files and folders to get you on your way.

CMS.js is fully client-side, Javascript site generator in the spirit of Jekyll that uses plain ol' HTML, CSS and Javascript to generate your website. CMS.js is like a file-based CMS. It takes your content, renders Markdown and delivers a complete website in Single-Page App fashion...without the aid of server-side scripting (no Node.js, PHP, Ruby, etc.).

It provides you with the tools to create a simple or advanced static website using a Haskell DSL and formats such as markdown or RST.

It is a modular website compiler that helps you to build static websites, with a modern approach: you will make your website the same way you build an app

DodgerCMS is a static markdown CMS built on top of Amazon S3. It is a clean and simple alternative to heavy content management systems. There are no databases to manage, deployments to monitor, or massive configuration files. Just focus on writing your content and the results are live immediately.

It is an extension that makes VS Code ideal for managing your Markdown content. Useful when working with site generators like Hugo, Jekyll, Hexo, NextJs, Gatsby, and many more. It allows you to manage the article's front matter, preview the site, and more.

It is a static-site generator, fit for building anything from a small personal blog to a large corporate website.

It is a static site generator for Deno. It's inspired by other static site generators, such as Jekyll and Eleventy, but it's faster, simpler and easier to use and configure, besides being super flexible. It supports multiple file formats, like Markdown, YAML, JavaScript, TypeScript, JSX, and Nunjucks, and it’s easy to extend.

It is the static site generator for WordPress sites. Create or migrate WordPress sites in minutes that are scalable, secure from attacks, and 100% static with no security or caching plugins required.

It is an open-source static website generator built with Node.js aimed at users who want to get a website up and running easier and faster. We've built everything into the core of squido meaning your only need to write plugins when you want to further customize your website. It is built using the Jamstack principles which makes your website faster, more secure, and easier to deploy and scale. With Jamstack, the entire website is prebuilt into highly optimized static pages and assets during the build process. This process of building and pre-rendering results in websites that can be served directly from a CDN, reducing the cost, complexity and risk of dynamic servers.

It converts your dynamic website (like a WordPress blog) into a static website in one click. It also keeps the site updated when your content changes. This will help you reduce server costs and page load times and increase scalability and security.

It is a free next-generation TypeScript framework you can use to create blogs, landing pages, and JamStack apps. It is designed for people who want control and don't like limitations. It's also nice for teams who need power and flexibility but have deadlines.