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Docmost vs Requarks Wiki

Docmost and Requarks Wiki are both wiki and knowledge base software. Docmost is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 22k GitHub stars. Requarks Wiki is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 29k GitHub stars.

Which to pick

Pick Docmost when
A team wants Confluence-style documentation it can self-host on Postgres.
Pick Requarks Wiki when
A team wants a polished self-hosted wiki for internal documentation.

Side by side

What it does

A collaborative wiki with real-time editing, spaces, permissions, comments and built-in diagrams, as a Confluence or Notion alternative.

Wiki.js, a Node.js wiki with Markdown and visual editors, Git sync, many authentication options and search.

Watch out

Still pre-1.0, AGPL licensed, with some features in a paid enterprise edition.

AGPL license, and version 3 took years to arrive, so check the migration path from 2.x.

Ready for

Usable

Production-ready

Runs as

Self-hosted server and cloud service

Self-hosted server

Built with

TypeScript, React, NestJS, PostgreSQL and Redis

TypeScript, Vue, Node.js and PostgreSQL

Source code

Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft) (both)

What the license allows

Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes. (both)

How widely known

22k GitHub stars

29k GitHub stars

How established

Established: started 3 years ago, latest release v0.97.0.

Established: started 10 years ago, latest release 3.0.2.

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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from each project's README and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.