This comparison is rather incomplete and based on my own opinion with the focus on Acrylamid, of course. But I tried my best to build an objective feature list:
| Feature | Mynt | Pelican | Nikola | Acrylamid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| basics | ||||
| support for pages | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| yearly archives | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| monthly archives | no | no | no | yes |
| support for tags | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| support for categories | no | no | no | no |
| * nested categories | no | no | no | no |
| multiple languages | no | yes | yes | yes |
| support for assets | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| * LESS/SCSS etc. | no | no | TODO | yes |
| auto-compilation | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| sitemap generation | no | yes | yes | yes |
| markup languages | ||||
| YAML frontmatter | yes | no | no | yes |
| native metadata format | no | yes | yes [1] | yes |
| Markdown | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| * builtin extensions | yes | yes | no | yes |
| * custom extensions | yes | no | no | yes |
| reStructuredText | no | yes | yes | yes |
| * pygments support | n/a | yes | yes | yes |
| * custom directives | n/a | no | yes | yes |
| templating | ||||
| Jinja2 templating | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Mako templating | no | no | yes | yes |
| templating in posts | yes | no | no | yes |
| awesome default theme | TODO | yes | partial | no |
| advanced features | ||||
| redirects | no | no | yes | no |
| internationalization | no | no | yes | no |
| static site search | no | no | yes | no [2] |
| incremental compilation | no | no | partial | yes |
| technical | ||||
| required deps | 7 | 8 | 10 | 3 |
| optional deps | n/a | n/a [3] | 10 | |
| support for Python 3 | no | yes | yes | partial |
| plugin infrastructure | no | yes | yes | yes |
| [1] | at least not in the default theme. Acrylamid has a static site search backend. |
| [2] | there are a few plugins on PyPi but not included into core. |
| [3] | not quite true as Nikola uses reST syntax also in Markdown and other markup languages. |