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Sphinx

The Sphinx documentation generator

Doxygen, DocFX, and pdoc. 3 alternatives to Sphinx, in C++, C#, Python. Compare fit, licence, stars and the latest signed release.

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DoxygenPartial6.6kGPL-2.0Open sourceNoC++Release_1_18_02026-10-17
DocFXPartial4.4kMITOpen sourceNoC#v2.81.02026-10-18
pdocPartial2.5kMIT-0Not checkedNoPythonv16.0.02026-07-01

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DoxygenPartial

Official doxygen git repository

Generates API docs from source comments, mainly for C and C++, without Sphinx's prose-oriented authoring.

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C++
Licence
GPL-2.0
Stars
6.6k
Last push
2026-10-17
DocFXPartial

Static site generator for .NET API documentation.

Documentation site from Markdown and .NET API metadata rather than reStructuredText.

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C#
Licence
MIT
Stars
4.4k
Latest
v2.81.0
Last push
2026-10-18
pdocPartial

API Documentation for Python Projects

Generates Python API docs straight from docstrings with no configuration, without cross-project docs or extensions.

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Python
Licence
MIT-0
Stars
2.5k
Latest
v16.0.0
Last push
2026-07-01

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2026-10-19

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