Confluence
Rovo, Atlassian's assistant, searches across connected apps and data sources, summarises pages and comments, remixes a document into timelines, charts or slides, and runs agents that transform documents and automate workflows.
Atlassian's team workspace, where project documentation sits next to the Jira work it describes.
- Starting price
- Free plan; Standard from $5.42 / user / month
- Free trial
- Free plan for up to 10 users
- Output
- Spaces of pages, live docs, whiteboards, databases, slides and videos
Overview
Confluence is Atlassian's workspace for team knowledge: pages and live docs for written work, whiteboards for visual thinking and databases for structured records, organised into spaces with their own permissions. The AI layer is Rovo: it searches across connected apps, summarises pages and comments, remixes a document into a timeline or a set of slides, and runs agents over that content. A Teamwork Graph links teams, work and goals across Atlassian products, which is where the Jira relationship matters. Cloud pricing starts with a free plan for ten users.
Our take
The case for Confluence is almost entirely about what it sits next to. On a team already running Jira, the documentation, the tickets and the AI search over both live in one account with one permission model, and that is worth more than any individual feature in the editor. On a team that is not, the same product has to be judged against Notion and Coda on its own merits, and there it is a more conventional wiki than either. Read the deployment question early rather than late: the self-managed edition now has a support end date, so an on-premise requirement is a reason to talk to Atlassian before committing, not after. And budget by headcount, because the per-user rate is quoted as an estimate that moves with the number of users rather than a flat figure.
Key Facts
| Category | |
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| Starting price | Free plan; Standard from $5.42 / user / month Atlassian quotes Standard at $5.42 and Premium at $10.44 per user and month; the rate is an estimate that varies with the number of users. The free plan covers up to ten users. Enterprise is quoted by sales and is listed from 801 users. |
| Free trial | Free plan for up to 10 users |
| Output | Spaces of pages, live docs, whiteboards, databases, slides and videos |
| API | Yes, the Confluence Cloud REST API v2, plus an official Atlassian Remote MCP Server |
| Hosting | Cloud (SaaS); Confluence Data Center is self-managed, with Atlassian support for it ending 28 March 2029 |
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Placeholders. They are replaced as soon as the vendor sends material, and both open the same short form.
Features
- Task planning
- Partly. Pages carry tasks, and databases and whiteboards organise work visually, but boards, sprints and backlogs live in Jira; the Teamwork Graph links the two rather than duplicating one in the other
- Resource planning
- No. Confluence carries no capacity or allocation planning
- Time tracking
- No. There are no timesheets in Confluence
- Reporting and controlling
- Rovo answers questions across connected apps and data sources and remixes page content into timelines, charts and slides; advanced analytics is listed as an Enterprise feature
- Integrations and API
- Yes. The Confluence Cloud REST API v2 covers pages, blog posts, attachments, comments, spaces, permissions, labels, tasks, whiteboards, databases, users and versions, with OAuth 2.0 or JWT for apps and basic auth for direct calls, and cursor-based pagination. An official Atlassian Remote MCP Server exposes Jira and Confluence to AI agents, rate-limited per plan from 500 calls an hour on Free to 1,000 on Standard
Integrations
- Jira
- Figma
- GitHub
- Google Drive
- Microsoft Teams
- Loom
Deployment and Support
- Deployment
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- Cloud (SaaS)
- Browser-based
- On-premise
- Onboarding
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- Documentation and knowledge base
- Company size
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- Small and mid-sized
- Enterprise
Pros and Cons
Strengths
- Documentation, whiteboards and databases in the same account and permission model as Jira
- Rovo searches and summarises across connected apps, and remixes a page into timelines, charts or slides
- A free plan for up to ten users, and a documented REST API v2 on every tier
- An official Atlassian MCP server lets AI agents read and write Confluence content
Limitations
- The quoted per-user price is an estimate that moves with headcount rather than a flat rate
- No time tracking and no resource planning; scheduling work means adding Jira
- Atlassian support for the self-managed Data Center edition ends on 28 March 2029
- The MCP server does not currently support FedRAMP or HIPAA requirements
Pricing
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Free
$0
Free forever for up to ten users.
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Standard
$5.42
Per user and month, as quoted by Atlassian; the rate varies with the number of users.
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Premium
$10.44
Per user and month, as quoted by Atlassian; the rate varies with the number of users.
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Enterprise
Not stated
Quoted by sales, listed from 801 users. Adds advanced analytics, scale and security.
Alternatives and Comparisons
FAQ
- Do I need Jira to use Confluence?
- No. Confluence is sold and used on its own. The two are designed to work together though: the Teamwork Graph links teams, work and goals across Atlassian products, so a page can sit alongside the Jira work it describes.
- Can Confluence still be self-hosted?
- Yes, through Confluence Data Center, which is the self-managed edition and is quoted by sales. Atlassian has announced that support for Data Center ends on 28 March 2029 and is encouraging migration to Atlassian Cloud.
- Can an AI agent read and write Confluence pages?
- Yes. Atlassian runs an official remote MCP server that connects Jira and Confluence to clients such as Claude, ChatGPT, VS Code and Cursor. Agents can search and retrieve content and create work items and pages. It is available to all Atlassian Cloud customers, rate-limited by plan, and does not currently support FedRAMP or HIPAA.
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