Confluence vs Notion
Confluence and Notion are both wiki and knowledge base software. Confluence is a commercial product from Atlassian. Notion is a commercial product from Notion Labs.
Which to pick
- Pick Confluence when
- Your teams already use Jira and need a shared documentation space that links to tickets.
- Pick Notion when
- A small or mid-size team wants one flexible tool for docs, wiki and light project tracking.
Side by side
A team wiki with pages, spaces, templates and comments, tightly linked to Jira.
A workspace of pages and databases for notes, wikis, project tracking and docs, with AI search and agents built in.
Content sprawls and search is weak without curation, and Atlassian has ended server licences, pushing you to cloud or costly Data Center.
Cloud only, slow on large workspaces, offline support is limited, and its flexibility leads to messy structures.
Production-ready (both)
Cloud service and self-hosted server
Cloud service, desktop app and mobile app
Not published (both)
Closed source, sold by Atlassian
Closed source, sold by Notion Labs
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
4.1k Wikipedia readers a month on phones
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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.