diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index 2a4a72ef062..0c50b2ec401 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -323,116 +323,6 @@ jobs:
       - store_artifacts:
           path: output.tgz
 
-  build-doc:
-    resource_class: xlarge
-    docker:
-      - image: cimg/python:3.9-browsers
-
-    steps:
-      - add_ssh_keys:
-          fingerprints:
-            - "dc:5f:39:48:00:b4:72:34:e1:d2:c4:e1:1f:d1:e2:ce" #plotlydocbot
-
-      - checkout
-      - browser-tools/install-chrome
-      - browser-tools/install-chromedriver
-      - run:
-          name: Install dependencies
-          command: |
-            cd doc
-            sudo apt-get update
-            sudo apt-get install rename
-            curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
-            uv venv
-            source .venv/bin/activate
-            uv pip install -r requirements.txt
-            cd ..
-            if [ "${CIRCLE_BRANCH}" != "doc-prod" ]; then
-              uv pip uninstall plotly
-              uv pip install -e .
-            fi
-
-      - run:
-          name: make html
-          command: |
-            cd doc
-            source .venv/bin/activate
-            echo ${mapbox_token} > python/.mapbox_token
-            make -kj8 || make -kj8
-            curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/plotly/graphing-library-docs/master/front-matter-ci.py > front-matter-ci.py
-            curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/plotly/graphing-library-docs/master/check-or-enforce-order.py > check-or-enforce-order.py
-            python front-matter-ci.py build/html
-            python check-or-enforce-order.py build/html
-            if [ "${CIRCLE_BRANCH}" == "doc-prod" ]; then
-              cd build/html
-              git init
-              git config user.name plotlydocbot
-              git config user.email accounts@plot.ly
-              git add *
-              git commit -m "build of https://github.com/plotly/plotly.py/commit/${CIRCLE_SHA1}"
-              git push --force git@github.com:plotly/plotly.py-docs.git master:built
-              rm -rf .git
-              cd ../..
-              cd build/ipynb
-              git init
-              git config user.name plotlydocbot
-              git config user.email accounts@plot.ly
-              git add *
-              git commit -m "build of https://github.com/plotly/plotly.py/commit/${CIRCLE_SHA1}"
-              git push --force git@github.com:plotly/plotly.py-docs.git master:built_ipynb
-              rm -rf .git
-              cd ../..
-            fi
-            tar -zcf build/html.tgz build/html
-            rm -rf build/html build/ipynb
-            cd ..
-
-      - run:
-          name: trigger doc build
-          command: |
-            if [ "${CIRCLE_BRANCH}" == "doc-prod" ]; then
-              git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/plotly/graphing-library-docs.git
-              cd graphing-library-docs
-              git config user.name plotlydocbot
-              git config user.email accounts@plot.ly
-              git commit --allow-empty -m "deploying https://github.com/plotly/plotly.py/commit/${CIRCLE_SHA1}"
-              git push
-              cd ..
-              rm -rf graphing-library-docs
-            fi
-
-      - run:
-          name: make doc
-          command: |
-            cd doc
-            source .venv/bin/activate
-            # For the API doc, we need to use the local version of plotly
-            # since we are tweaking the source because of
-            # graph_objs/graph_objects
-            if [ "${CIRCLE_BRANCH}" == "doc-prod" ]; then
-              uv pip uninstall plotly
-              cd ..
-              uv pip install -e .
-              cd doc
-              cd apidoc
-              make html
-              cd _build/html
-              touch .nojekyll
-              git init
-              git config user.name plotlydocbot
-              git config user.email accounts@plot.ly
-              git add *
-              git add .nojekyll
-              git commit -m "build of https://github.com/plotly/plotly.py/commit/${CIRCLE_SHA1}"
-              git push --force git@github.com:plotly/plotly.py-docs.git master:gh-pages
-              rm -rf .git
-              cd ../..
-            fi
-
-      - store_artifacts:
-          path: doc/build
-          destination: doc/build
-
 workflows:
   code_formatting:
     jobs:
@@ -476,4 +366,3 @@ workflows:
               python_version:
                 - "3.12"
       - python_311_percy
-      - build-doc
diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-doc.yml b/.github/workflows/build-doc.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8e994093cfd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-doc.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,160 @@
+name: Build Documentation
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - doc-prod
+  pull_request:
+
+jobs:
+  build-doc:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
+
+      - name: Install uv
+        uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@v7
+        with:
+          python-version: "3.9"
+
+      - name: Install system dependencies
+        run: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install rename
+
+      - name: Install doc dependencies
+        run: |
+          cd doc
+          uv venv
+          source .venv/bin/activate
+          uv pip install -r requirements.txt
+
+      - name: Install plotly in editable mode
+        if: github.ref_name != 'doc-prod'
+        run: |
+          cd doc
+          source .venv/bin/activate
+          uv pip uninstall plotly
+          uv pip install -e ..
+
+      - name: List installed packages
+        run: |
+          cd doc
+          source .venv/bin/activate
+          uv pip list
+
+      - name: Build HTML docs
+        env:
+          MAPBOX_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.MAPBOX_TOKEN }}
+        run: |
+          cd doc
+          source .venv/bin/activate
+          echo "${MAPBOX_TOKEN}" > python/.mapbox_token
+          make -kj8 || make -kj8
+          curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/plotly/graphing-library-docs/master/front-matter-ci.py > front-matter-ci.py
+          curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/plotly/graphing-library-docs/master/check-or-enforce-order.py > check-or-enforce-order.py
+          python front-matter-ci.py build/html
+          python check-or-enforce-order.py build/html
+
+      - name: Upload HTML docs artifact
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          name: doc-html
+          path: doc/build/html/
+
+      - name: Create GitHub App token
+        if: github.ref_name == 'doc-prod' && github.event_name == 'push'
+        uses: actions/create-github-app-token@v2
+        id: app-token
+        with:
+          app-id: ${{ vars.GRAPHING_LIBRARIES_CI_GHAPP_ID }}
+          private-key: ${{ secrets.GRAPHING_LIBRARIES_CI_GHAPP_PRIVATE_KEY }}
+          owner: ${{ github.repository_owner }}
+          repositories: plotly.py-docs,graphing-library-docs
+
+      - name: Checkout plotly.py-docs (built)
+        if: github.ref_name == 'doc-prod' && github.event_name == 'push'
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        with:
+          repository: plotly/plotly.py-docs
+          ref: built
+          token: ${{ steps.app-token.outputs.token }}
+          path: plotly.py-docs-html
+
+      - name: Deploy HTML docs
+        if: github.ref_name == 'doc-prod' && github.event_name == 'push'
+        run: |
+          git config --global user.name plotlydocbot
+          git config --global user.email accounts@plot.ly
+          rm -rf plotly.py-docs-html/*
+          cp -r doc/build/html/* plotly.py-docs-html/
+          cd plotly.py-docs-html
+          git add .
+          git commit -m "build of https://github.com/plotly/plotly.py/commit/${{ github.sha }}" || echo "No changes to commit"
+          git push --force
+
+      - name: Checkout plotly.py-docs (built_ipynb)
+        if: github.ref_name == 'doc-prod' && github.event_name == 'push'
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        with:
+          repository: plotly/plotly.py-docs
+          ref: built_ipynb
+          token: ${{ steps.app-token.outputs.token }}
+          path: plotly.py-docs-ipynb
+
+      - name: Deploy notebooks
+        if: github.ref_name == 'doc-prod' && github.event_name == 'push'
+        run: |
+          rm -rf plotly.py-docs-ipynb/*
+          cp -r doc/build/ipynb/* plotly.py-docs-ipynb/
+          cd plotly.py-docs-ipynb
+          git add .
+          git commit -m "build of https://github.com/plotly/plotly.py/commit/${{ github.sha }}" || echo "No changes to commit"
+          git push --force
+
+      - name: Checkout graphing-library-docs
+        if: github.ref_name == 'doc-prod' && github.event_name == 'push'
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        with:
+          repository: plotly/graphing-library-docs
+          ref: master
+          token: ${{ steps.app-token.outputs.token }}
+          path: graphing-library-docs
+
+      - name: Trigger downstream doc build
+        if: github.ref_name == 'doc-prod' && github.event_name == 'push'
+        run: |
+          cd graphing-library-docs
+          git commit --allow-empty -m "deploying https://github.com/plotly/plotly.py/commit/${{ github.sha }}"
+          git push
+
+      - name: Build API docs
+        if: github.ref_name == 'doc-prod' && github.event_name == 'push'
+        run: |
+          cd doc
+          source .venv/bin/activate
+          # For the API doc, we need to use the local version of plotly
+          # since we are tweaking the source because of
+          # graph_objs/graph_objects
+          uv pip uninstall plotly
+          uv pip install -e ..
+          cd apidoc
+          make html
+
+      - name: Checkout plotly.py-docs (gh-pages)
+        if: github.ref_name == 'doc-prod' && github.event_name == 'push'
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        with:
+          repository: plotly/plotly.py-docs
+          ref: gh-pages
+          token: ${{ steps.app-token.outputs.token }}
+          path: plotly.py-docs-api
+
+      - name: Deploy API docs
+        if: github.ref_name == 'doc-prod' && github.event_name == 'push'
+        run: |
+          rm -rf plotly.py-docs-api/*
+          cp -r doc/apidoc/_build/html/* plotly.py-docs-api/
+          touch plotly.py-docs-api/.nojekyll
+          cd plotly.py-docs-api
+          git add .
+          git commit -m "build of https://github.com/plotly/plotly.py/commit/${{ github.sha }}" || echo "No changes to commit"
+          git push --force
diff --git a/doc/requirements.txt b/doc/requirements.txt
index 8f8a77ef3e3..ccd83633597 100644
--- a/doc/requirements.txt
+++ b/doc/requirements.txt
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ requests
 scikit-image==0.20.0
 scikit-learn
 scipy==1.9.1
+setuptools<=81
 shapely==2.0.5
 sphinx==3.5.4
 sphinx_bootstrap_theme