Atlassian's team wiki and knowledge management platform for documentation, project planning, and collaborative decision-making. Deep integration with Jira for engineering teams. Available as cloud, data center, and server deployment.
Our take
Confluence is the documentation platform most engineering teams end up with by default when they adopt Jira — the Atlassian bundle pricing and deep integration between the two products make running them together the path of least resistance. The Free tier's 10-user limit makes it a genuine trial rather than a usable long-term tool for growing teams. Standard at $5.16/user annually is competitive with Notion's paid plans. Where Confluence leads: the Jira integration depth is unmatched — linking requirements to epics to issues to deployments in a single Confluence page is genuinely useful for engineering documentation. Where Confluence loses: the editor is slower and less fluid than Notion's block-based system, page organization through nested spaces can become confusing at scale, and the product lacks Notion's database features entirely. Atlassian Intelligence (Premium/Enterprise) now offers AI page summaries and content generation, but the AI features lag Notion's more mature AI writing tools. The data center deployment option makes Confluence the choice for organizations with data residency or air-gap requirements that cloud-only Notion can't meet.
Product roadmap
Atlassian is positioning Confluence at the center of its Teamwork Graph — a connected data model linking docs, issues, code, and people. Q1 2026 brought Atlassian Intelligence across more page types and improved Team Calendars. The 2026 roadmap focuses on AI-assisted documentation workflows and deeper Jira Software + Confluence automation triggers. Server licenses end in February 2024 — all remaining server customers must migrate to cloud or data center.
Who is Confluence for?
Notion at the same price point does more and is more pleasant to use. Confluence's Jira integration is irrelevant if you're not using Jira.
Works well for small engineering teams on Jira. For non-technical teams or those without Jira, Notion or Coda offer better standalone documentation tools.
Medium engineering organizations get real value from the Jira-Confluence integration. Requirement specs, architecture decisions, runbooks, and sprint retrospectives in Confluence linked to Jira epics is a genuinely efficient documentation workflow.
Large enterprises with Atlassian-standardized stacks benefit from Confluence's enterprise features: Atlassian Access for SSO/SCIM provisioning, centralized admin across multiple instances, data center deployment for compliance, and audit logs. The Atlassian bundle discount at enterprise scale is significant.
Pricing
Free
Free- • 10 users
- • Unlimited spaces and pages
- • 2GB file storage
- • Basic templates
- • Jira integration
Standard
$6.05/mo- • Unlimited users
- • 250GB storage
- • Guest access (5 per user)
- • Page restrictions
- • Analytics
- • Archiving
Premium
$11.55/mo- • Advanced search
- • Team calendars
- • Analytics Pro
- • IP allowlisting
- • Sandbox environments
Enterprise
$null/mo- • Unlimited instances
- • Centralized admin
- • SAML SSO
- • 99.95% SLA
- • Atlassian Access
Pricing verified 2026-04-16
Ratings
Overall score: 74/100 (composite of the above ratings)
Features
core
collaboration
ai
integrations
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Founded: 2004
HQ: Sydney, Australia
Company size: 10,000+
Last updated: 2026-04-16