Confluence alternatives
Confluence is already the cheapest docs and wiki tool we track at a 10-person team (free). Here's how the other 2 compare. The closest match, Microsoft 365, covers 90% of what Confluence does. Each one shows how much of it it covers, capability by capability, next to the price.
What Confluence does
Core: Spaces and nested pages, Full-text search with filters, Granular permissions and guests, SSO and compliance.
Important: Real-time collaborative editor, Version history and review (partly), AI answers from your docs (partly), AI writing assistant, Integrations, API and import (partly).
Also has: Search across connected apps, Automations and AI agents, Databases inside docs (partly), Docs content analytics (partly), Knowledge in Slack, Teams and browser (partly), Public help center & docs (partly), Whiteboard canvas, Native desktop and mobile apps (partly), Open source and self-hosting (partly).
Alternatives to Confluence at a 10-person team, best match first
- Notion: $120/mo Monthly billing; yearly is $10 per seat (Plus plan, monthly billing, 10 members). It covers 90% of Confluence; missing or partial: Full-text search with filters (partly), Whiteboard canvas (partly), Open source and self-hosting. Free plan: Free plan: $0 for one person; block-capped for 2+ members, 5 MB per file upload, 10 external guests.. Last price hike: Jul 2025.
- Coda: $30/mo Pro, 2 Doc Makers, monthly billing (Pro). It covers 74% of Confluence; missing or partial: Spaces and nested pages (partly), Full-text search with filters (partly), SSO and compliance (partly), Search across connected apps (partly), Automations and AI agents (partly). Free plan: Free plan at $0 per PricingSaaS; its caps and storage were not verified..
Other kinds of products that cover part of Confluence
- Microsoft 365 (Business email & office suites): covers 90% of Confluence; missing or partial: Spaces and nested pages (partly), SSO and compliance (partly)
- ClickUp (Project management): covers 82% of Confluence; missing or partial: Spaces and nested pages (partly), Full-text search with filters (partly), Docs content analytics, Whiteboard canvas (partly), Open source and self-hosting
- Google Workspace (Business email & office suites): covers 77% of Confluence; missing or partial: Spaces and nested pages (partly), SSO and compliance (partly), AI writing assistant (partly), Search across connected apps, Automations and AI agents (partly)
- GitBook (Developer docs): covers 60% of Confluence; missing or partial: Spaces and nested pages (partly), Full-text search with filters (partly), Granular permissions and guests (partly), SSO and compliance (partly), Real-time collaborative editor (partly)
Prices at every size
- Confluence: a 10-person team free, a 10-person team using AI answers $89/mo, a 25-person team $178.75/mo (AI point assumes Rovo overage at $0.01 per credit)
- Notion: a 10-person team $120/mo, a 10-person team using AI answers $240/mo, a 25-person team $300/mo (Monthly billing; yearly is $10 per seat)
- Coda: a 10-person team $30/mo, a 10-person team using AI answers no public price, a 25-person team $75/mo (Pro, 2 Doc Makers, monthly billing)
Prices are total USD per month on monthly billing (annual-only plans divided by 12) for the cheapest plan that runs a team wiki: 10 or 25 members who can all create and edit pages, with 500 to 1,200 pages and 2 to 5 GB of attachments, and the same 10 people asking the built-in AI questions about their docs. A free plan counts as $0 only when it covers the team without member, page, block or storage caps.
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