Stainless Docs Platform blog post (#1955)

Author: FredKSchott

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+title: 'Stainless Sponsors Astro, Launches Astro-Powered Docs Platform'
+authors:
+  - chris
+  - fred
+description: |
+  Stainless chooses Astro and Starlight to power the new Stainless Docs Platform and joins as our newest official sponsoring partner of the Astro open-source project.
+homepageLink:
+  title: Astro ❤️ Stainless
+  subtitle: Automated API docs, powered by Astro
+publishDate: 'November 5, 2025'
+socialImage: '/src/content/blog/_images/stainless-astro-launch/og-stainless.jpeg'
+coverImage: '/src/content/blog/_images/stainless-astro-launch/cover-stainless.webp'
+---
+
+import Blockquote from '/src/components/Blockquote.astro';
+import BlogContentImage from '/src/components/BlogContentImage.astro';
+
+Were excited to welcome [Stainless](https://www.stainless.com/) as a new official sponsoring partner of the Astro project, alongside the launch of the new [Stainless Docs Platform](https://www.stainless.com/products/docs) powered by Astro!
+
+Stainless is already the go-to platform for teams building high-quality, easy-to-use APIs. Stainless generates robust SDKs directly from your API spec and keeps them up to date automatically across every language. With todays Early Access launch of the [Stainless Docs Platform](https://www.stainless.com/products/docs), you also get a beautiful documentation site for your SDKs and APIs that automatically stays in sync with your spec. By choosing Astro, Stainless ensures that every docs site they generate is fast, accessible, and easy to maintain.
+
+Read the [launch post](https://www.stainless.com/blog/stainless-docs-early-access) from Stainless to learn more.
+
+<Blockquote>
+	<Fragment slot="quote">
+		Because the Stainless Docs Platform builds on the strong foundations provided by Astro, developers get great DX, extensibility, and the ability to deploy anywhere. For end users, the generated sites feel great and load near instantly. We couldnt be more excited to be the newest members of the Astro community.
+	</Fragment>
+	<Fragment slot="caption">— Alex Arena, Stainless Docs product lead</Fragment>
+</Blockquote>
+
+## Instant docs for APIs & SDKs
+
+Stainless Docs integrates into your codebase as a single Astro integration. Once set up, it adds complete prose, API, and SDK reference documentation to your docs site automatically. 
+
+Internally, it builds on top of [Starlight](https://starlight.astro.build/), Astros official documentation theme. Starlight is the [fast](https://x.com/astrodotbuild/status/1979138579751174498) and flexible docs framework already used by Cloudflare, Google, GitHub, GitLab, Microsoft, Netlify, OpenAI, WPEngine, and countless others. As Stainless built on Starlight, they realized they could extract their work into a single Astro integration—removing the indirect dependency on Starlight while preserving the power of Starlights component library, search experience, and highly flexible customization. 
+
+Read the full [launch post](https://www.stainless.com/blog/stainless-docs-early-access) to learn more about the Stainless Docs Platform. In the coming months, Stainless will also release a standalone Starlight plugin that adds API/SDK reference pages to any existing Starlight website, for developers looking to integrate the Stainless Docs Platform into an existing site.
+
+## Astro ❤️ Stainless
+
+Were grateful to the entire Stainless team for their support of Astro. Sponsorship funding will be invested directly into the open-source project to support the long-term maintenance of Astro, benefiting everyone. You can learn more about how we use these funds in our [FUNDING.md](https://github.com/withastro/.github/blob/main/FUNDING.md) on GitHub.
+
+Thank you, Stainless!