Docmost vs Notion
Docmost and Notion are both wiki and knowledge base software. Docmost is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 22k GitHub stars. Notion is a commercial product from Notion Labs.
Which to pick
- Pick Docmost when
- A team wants Confluence-style documentation it can self-host on Postgres.
- Pick Notion when
- A small or mid-size team wants one flexible tool for docs, wiki and light project tracking.
Side by side
A collaborative wiki with real-time editing, spaces, permissions, comments and built-in diagrams, as a Confluence or Notion alternative.
A workspace of pages and databases for notes, wikis, project tracking and docs, with AI search and agents built in.
Still pre-1.0, AGPL licensed, with some features in a paid enterprise edition.
Cloud only, slow on large workspaces, offline support is limited, and its flexibility leads to messy structures.
Usable
Production-ready
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Cloud service, desktop app and mobile app
TypeScript, React, NestJS, PostgreSQL and Redis
Not published
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Closed source, sold by Notion Labs
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
22k GitHub stars
4.1k Wikipedia readers a month on phones
Established: started 3 years ago, latest release v0.97.0.
Not known
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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.