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Pelican vs Nikola: catalog facts
Pelican	Nikola
Free Free and open source under the AGPL-3.0 licence.	Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.
Command line	Command line
Imports content from WordPress and RSS feeds Jinja2 themes and a large plugin ecosystem	Incremental rebuilds save time on large sites Accepts Jupyter notebooks as well as Markdown and reST
Command-line only, no visual editor Requires Python and some setup	Command-line only, no visual editor Requires a Python environment
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: AGPL-3.0	License: MIT
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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