Here’s the Deal
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When comparing Apiary vs Pandoc, the Slant community recommends Apiary for most people. In the question“What are the best documentation tools for frameworks?” Apiary is ranked 3rd while Pandoc is ranked 4th. The most important reason people chose Apiary is:
Apiary generates comprehensive HTML documentation based on your API routes.
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Pros
Pro Automatically generates API documentation
Apiary generates comprehensive HTML documentation based on your API routes.
Pro Type-level routes
Apiary provides type modeling, down to URL parameters, ensuring type safety.
Pro It converts from almost any human readable text, marked-up or not, to plain HTML
Cons
Con Mediocre documentation
Users must rely primarily on the example project and auto-generated API documentation (Haddocks). The author of Apiary is not a native English speaker and openly acknowledges this issue.
Con No workflow
To build a complete site, 3rd-party tools (scripts) are needed.