Confluence is Atlassian's team workspace for documentation and knowledge bases. Free for up to 10 users; paid plans start at $5.42/user/month.
Confluence is Atlassian's team workspace and enterprise wiki product, first released as Confluence 1.0 on March 25, 2004, two years after Atlassian's founding and the launch of its first product, Jira. Atlassian was founded in Sydney, Australia, in 2002 by Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar.
Confluence organizes content into spaces and pages, supports real-time collaborative editing and whiteboards, and offers a large template library for use cases such as product requirements, meeting notes, and internal documentation, with native integration into Jira and the rest of Atlassian's product suite.
Confluence Data Center, released in 2014, added clustering and high availability for large self-hosted deployments, and remains the self-hosted option today after Atlassian discontinued its Server license. More recently, Atlassian has integrated Rovo AI into Confluence for semantic search, summarization, and content generation on paid plans.
Permissions and guest access allow fine-grained control over who can view or edit specific spaces and pages, while automation rules let teams trigger actions (like notifications or page updates) without manual work.
Confluence Cloud offers a Free plan for up to 10 users, a Standard plan at $5.42 per user per month (billed annually), a Premium plan at $10.44 per user per month (billed annually), and custom-priced Enterprise plans available only on annual contracts.
Organizations that need to self-host can use Confluence Data Center, which is licensed per user tier and estimated at roughly $28,000 per year for a 500-user deployment, since Atlassian no longer sells the older, cheaper Server license.
Yes, a Free plan supports up to 10 users with basic pages, spaces, and 2GB of storage.
Cloud is Atlassian's hosted SaaS product; Data Center is a self-hosted, clustered option licensed per user tier for organizations that need on-premises control.
Yes, both products share Atlassian's platform, and pages can be linked directly to Jira issues.
Confluence 1.0 launched on March 25, 2004, two years after Atlassian's first product, Jira.
Yes, Rovo AI is bundled starting on the Standard plan, offering search, summarization, and content generation.
No, Atlassian has discontinued Server licensing; current self-hosted customers use Confluence Data Center instead.