Confluence vs Guru
Confluence and Guru are both wiki and knowledge base software. Confluence is a commercial product from Atlassian. Guru is a commercial product from Guru Technologies.
Which to pick
- Pick Confluence when
- Your teams already use Jira and need a shared documentation space that links to tickets.
- Pick Guru when
- Support or sales teams need accurate, owner-verified answers available where they already work.
Side by side
A team wiki with pages, spaces, templates and comments, tightly linked to Jira.
A knowledge base of verified cards that surfaces answers inside Slack, Teams and the browser, with AI answers and expert verification.
Content sprawls and search is weak without curation, and Atlassian has ended server licences, pushing you to cloud or costly Data Center.
Per-seat pricing, and it only works if people keep verifying content.
Production-ready (both)
Cloud service and self-hosted server
Cloud service and browser extension
Not published (both)
Closed source, sold by Atlassian
Closed source, sold by Guru Technologies
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code. (both)
919 Wikipedia readers a month on phones
No Wikipedia article of its own
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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.