Confluence
Connected team workspace and wiki, tightly linked to Jira.
What is Confluence?
Confluence is Atlassian's cloud-based team workspace and wiki for creating, organizing, and sharing documentation, project plans, and institutional knowledge. It serves as the knowledge companion to Jira within the Atlassian ecosystem, letting teams link pages directly to Jira issues, roadmaps, and workflows for connected work. Content is organized into spaces and pages with collaborative editing, templates, powerful search, and increasingly AI-assisted features, making it a central hub for technical and non-technical teams alike.
Best known for: Company wiki tightly integrated with Jira
Key features
- Native two-way Jira integration
- Pages, spaces, and nested hierarchy
- Real-time collaborative editing and templates
- Whiteboards and databases
- Powerful search plus AI (Atlassian Rovo)
- Automation, permissions, and analytics
Who Confluence is best for
- Teams that already use Jira and want a native knowledge and documentation companion
- Teams that need a centralized, searchable wiki for specs, docs, and meeting notes
- Teams that want structured collaborative editing with pages, spaces, and templates
Ideal team: Collaboration-heavy teams (20–1,000+ users) already invested in the Atlassian/Jira ecosystem, though small teams and startups can start free.
Confluence pricing
Free
$0
- Up to 10 users
- Unlimited pages & spaces
- Team templates
Standard
$6/per user / mo
- Unlimited storage
- Page & space permissions
- Up to 50,000 users
Premium
$12/per user / mo
- Advanced analytics
- Unlimited whiteboards
- 24/7 support
Costs to watch before you commit
- Many expected capabilities (advanced diagramming, reporting, workflows) are paid Atlassian Marketplace apps (~$2–$15+/user/mo).
- SSO/SAML via Atlassian Guard is a separate ~$4/user/mo product unless you're on Enterprise.
- Lowest rates require annual billing, and per-user pricing plus Premium/Enterprise feature gating add up at scale.
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