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Confluence
Confluence is a structured wiki made of spaces and page trees. It is popular with engineering and product teams that already use Jira. Paid cloud plans include Rovo (search, chat and agents) with a monthly per-user credit allowance, plus whiteboards, databases and automation.
- Paid plans from
- $5.42/seat/mo
- Free plan
- Yes
- Data portability
- moderate
- Last reviewed
- Oct 13, 2026
Plans & pricing
Rovo credits are included on paid Confluence plans (25/70/150 per user per month on Standard/Premium/Enterprise). SSO/SCIM need an Atlassian Guard subscription below Enterprise. A self-managed Data Center option exists via sales.
| Plan | Price (USD) | Highlights | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/seat/mo |
| Verified· Oct 13, 2026Source |
| Standard | $5.42/seat/mo Per user per month as listed in the page's structured data; Atlassian per-user prices vary with user tier and billing cycle. |
| Verified· Oct 13, 2026Source |
| Premium | $10.44/seat/mo Per user per month as listed in the page's structured data; varies with user tier. |
| Verified· Oct 13, 2026Source |
| Enterprise | Not listed Contact sales; billed annually. |
| Verified· Oct 13, 2026Source |
What Confluence does
7 capabilities mapped. Click one to compare every tool that does it.
| Capability | Fit | Quality | Ease | Precision | Team | Plans | Watch out for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Run an internal knowledge base / wiki | Core feature | All plans | Editor feels heavier than newer note tools · Free plan capped at 10 users and 2 GB | ||||
| Write documents and notes | Strong | All plans | Less suited to personal notes than to team documentation | ||||
| Ask questions across company documents | Partial | — | Standard, Premium, Enterprise | Usage limited by monthly Rovo credits per user · Indexed object limits apply per user | |||
| General-purpose AI assistant | Partial | — | Standard, Premium, Enterprise | Credit allowance (25 per user/month on Standard) can run out · Not on the Free plan | |||
| Automate simple app-to-app workflows | Partial | — | All plans | Free plan has 50 automation steps per month in total · Mostly limited to Atlassian products | |||
| Store structured data in a shared database or spreadsheet | Partial | All plans | Far less mature than Airtable or Notion databases | ||||
| Manage projects and tasks | Workaround | — | All plans | No real task management without Jira |
Fit and scores (1–5) are editorial judgements. How we score
Why people pay for it
- Deep links with Jira issues, sprints and roadmaps
- Structured spaces, page trees and permissions suited to large documentation sets
- Rovo AI search, chat and agents included on paid plans
- Admin controls, audit logs and uptime SLAs on Premium and Enterprise
Reasons to keep paying
The honest case for Confluence. If these matter to you, don't switch.
- Jira-Confluence linking (issue macros, requirement pages) is hard to reproduce elsewhere
- Large documentation trees with macros and permissions are costly to migrate
- Marketplace apps teams rely on may have no equivalent elsewhere
Risks to know about
- mediumvendor lock in
Value is tied to the Atlassian ecosystem, especially Jira.
- mediummigration complexity
Macros and marketplace app content do not convert cleanly to other wikis.
- lowfunctionality loss
Rovo AI is credit-limited; heavy users may hit allowances.
- data portability: moderate
Spaces export to HTML, XML and PDF; pages to Word. Macros, Jira links and app content often break on export.
Overlaps with
Tools that share capabilities with this one — the first place to look for duplicate spend.
Sources & freshness
- Confluence pricing — accessed Oct 13, 2026 · Prices read from the page's structured offer data (USD).
- Rovo usage limits — accessed Oct 13, 2026