Nikola
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Nikola, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Nikola's own pricing page, checked 11 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Nikola | Free | Free open-source software under the MIT license · Requires Python 3.8+ |
The facts
Each one read from Nikola's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Builds
- Nikola uses doit for incremental rebuilds that rebuild only pages needing changes.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Built-in features
- Nikola includes blog support with comments, tags, categories, archives and RSS/Atom feeds, along with image galleries and code listings.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Built-in memberships
- Nochecked 22 Sep 2026
- Custom domain
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Deployment
- Nikola sites can be hosted on any web server that serves HTML files, and the handbook lists GitHub Pages deployment support.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Extensibility
- Users can add features with Python plugins and create themes with Mako or Jinja2.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Hosting
- A generated Nikola site can be hosted on any web server because it consists of HTML files and assets.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Importers
- Nikola includes a built-in WordPress importer, with other blog importers available as plugins.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Input formats
- Built-in input formats include reStructuredText, Markdown, IPython notebooks, and HTML; plugins add other formats.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Installation limits
- The getting-started guide warns Linux distribution packages may be outdated and says the Ubuntu package is broken and unsupported.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The features page says Nikola can work with static-site CMS solutions including Dato CMS, Netlify CMS, and Contentful.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Languages
- Nikola supports almost 40 languages out of the box and allows posts in multiple languages.checked 11 Oct 2026
- License
- Nikola is released under the MIT license, while some bundled or required components use other licenses.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Notable limitation
- Because Nikola sites do not run code on the server, they cannot process user input in forms, except for comments.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Plugin and theme support
- Nikola states that plugins and themes from its indexes are not officially supported.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Post scheduling
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Product
- Nikola is a static site generator that turns content into a website ready to deploy.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Runtime
- Nikola is written in Python 3 and the homepage lists Python 3.8 or later.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Security and portability
- The site describes static websites as safer, lower-resource, and less prone to vendor and platform lock-in.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Security model
- The handbook says Nikola-generated sites do not run code on the server and describes their server stack as smaller, which it says implies less security risk.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Site features
- Built-in components include blogs with comments, tags, categories, archives and RSS/Atom feeds, plus image galleries and code listings.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Site types
- Nikola can be used for blogs, company sites, personal sites, software project sites and book sites.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Support
- 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.checked 11 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
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