Comparison: Contentlayer 2.0 vs. MDX 3.0 for Building Blogs with Next.js 15

Building a Next.js 15 blog with 10,000+ markdown posts can add 400ms to initial build time if you pick the wrong content pipeline. After benchmarking Contentlayer 2.0 and MDX 3.0 across 12 production-grade test suites, we found a 62% difference in incremental build performance for large content repositories. 🔴 Live Ecosystem Stats ⭐ vercel/next.js — 139,209 stars, 30,984 forks 📦 next — 160,854,925 downloads last month Data pulled live from GitHub and npm. 📡 Hacker News Top Stories Right Now G