Hugo vs Jekyll

Hugo plans

• Hugo Open SourceFree

Jekyll plans

• JekyllFree
• Open-source JekyllFree

Pick Hugo if…

Hugo suits people building static sites from Markdown, including documentation, corporate, nonprofit, education, and news sites. Its multilingual support and development preview server may help site creators working across languages or iterating locally.

Pick Jekyll if…

Jekyll suits people who want to generate static websites or blogs from text and layouts. It is also relevant to users comfortable installing its Ruby and build-tool requirements.