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Alternatives to Confluence

Atlassian's team knowledge base.

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What is Confluence?
Confluence is Atlassian's team wiki and documentation tool, used for internal knowledge bases and project spaces.
What does it do?
Organises pages into spaces with templates, inline comments, version history and granular permissions. Links to Jira issues, and adds whiteboards, databases and search across company documentation.
Who is it for?
Larger teams already on Jira that need a permissioned wiki with an audit trail. Heavy for a small team that just wants a shared folder of docs.
What are the alternatives to Confluence?
Outline, BookStack and Wiki.js are open source and self-hostable. Nuclino and Slab are lighter hosted wikis, and Notion covers docs plus databases in one workspace.

Top alternatives

Smaller, founder-led tools that quietly compete with Confluence.

Outline website preview

Self-hostable team knowledge base.

Beautiful, self-hostable Confluence alt.

$10/seat/mo (Team)
Notion website preview

Notes, docs, wikis.

Many teams replace Confluence with Notion.

$10/seat/mo
BookStack website preview

OSS wiki platform.

Organises content as shelves, books and chapters rather than a free-form page tree.

Nuclino website preview

Lightweight team wiki.

German team, fast + simple.

Slab website preview

Beautiful team wiki.

Hosted wiki whose unified search also reaches into your Slack and Drive content.

Wiki.js website preview

OSS wiki engine.

Self-hosted Node.js wiki that can sync every page back to a Git repository.

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