Confluence vs Docmost
Confluence and Docmost are both wiki and knowledge base software. Confluence is a commercial product from Atlassian. Docmost is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 22k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Confluence when
- Your teams already use Jira and need a shared documentation space that links to tickets.
- Pick Docmost when
- A team wants Confluence-style documentation it can self-host on Postgres.
Side by side
A team wiki with pages, spaces, templates and comments, tightly linked to Jira.
A collaborative wiki with real-time editing, spaces, permissions, comments and built-in diagrams, as a Confluence or Notion alternative.
Content sprawls and search is weak without curation, and Atlassian has ended server licences, pushing you to cloud or costly Data Center.
Still pre-1.0, AGPL licensed, with some features in a paid enterprise edition.
Production-ready
Usable
Cloud service and self-hosted server
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Not published
TypeScript, React, NestJS, PostgreSQL and Redis
Closed source, sold by Atlassian
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
919 Wikipedia readers a month on phones
22k GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 3 years ago, latest release v0.97.0.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.