Confluence
Confluence is your team workspace for creating and sharing knowledge. Use AI to draft, summarize, and find answers so projects move faster.
Confluence is commercial wiki and knowledge base software made by Atlassian. Its English Wikipedia article has about 919 readers a month on phones.
- Made by
- Atlassian
- Wikipedia readers on phones
- 919 a month
- Source code
- Closed
Judgement
- What it is
- Complete system
- What it does
- A team wiki with pages, spaces, templates and comments, tightly linked to Jira.
- Adopt it when
- Your teams already use Jira and need a shared documentation space that links to tickets.
- Watch out
- Content sprawls and search is weak without curation, and Atlassian has ended server licences, pushing you to cloud or costly Data Center.
- Ready for
- Production-ready
- Runs as
- Cloud service and self-hosted server
- What the license allows
- Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
Judged on 2026-11-03 from the maker's description and Wikipedia. The license and age lines are worked out directly.
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