Starlight (Astro) vs. Leed
Starlight is free, open-source, and genuinely fast — Astro-powered docs with strong defaults for search, navigation, and internationalization, and a great developer experience. But everything past the static build — hosting, analytics, access control, release notes, lead capture — is something your team wires up and maintains. Leed ships all of it as a managed platform that's also free to start.
You want a free, fast, open-source generator built on Astro and your team has the engineering time to host, deploy, and extend it yourselves.
You want a free managed platform, not a build pipeline — hosting, analytics, release notes, and lead capture already built in, nothing to run yourself.
Where the platforms diverge.
The growth engine you'd build yourself on Starlight.
A managed platform, not a build pipeline
Starlight compiles to a static Astro site — you own hosting, CI, and every deploy. Leed is hosted and managed end to end, with nothing to provision, and free to start.
Analytics, access control, and lead-gen included
Starlight ships none of these natively — each means a community plugin, a third-party service, or a custom integration you maintain. Leed includes reader analytics, access control, and lead capture out of the box.
Docs that capture pipeline
A static site ends at the reader. Leed adds native lead capture, a closed per-reader funnel, and nurturing — turning the readers your docs attract into tracked pipeline, with no plugins to wire up.
Start free. See what your docs are worth.
Bring your existing docs — unlimited users, your own domain, no card. Capture leads free; pay only when you're ready to email and nurture them.