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Product Information on Atlassian Confluence

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Atlassian Confluence?

Confluence is a software developed by Atlassian designed to facilitate collaboration and knowledge management within organizations. The software enables users to create, organize, and share content such as documents, project plans, and meeting notes within a centralized workspace. Confluence provides features for real-time editing, access control, version tracking, and integration with other tools to streamline communication and documentation processes. The software addresses the business need for efficient information sharing and project coordination by allowing teams to manage resources, maintain transparency in workflows, and preserve institutional knowledge in a searchable repository.

Atlassian Confluence Pricing

Confluence software uses a subscription-based pricing model with tiers based on the number of users and features offered. The software provides multiple plans including free and paid options, with higher tier plans offering additional administrative controls and support, suited for different organizational needs.

Overall experience with Atlassian Confluence

PROJECT MANAGER
500M - 1B USD, Consumer Goods
FAVORABLE

“Powerful enterprise documentation and collaboration platform, especially effective when paired with Jira and strong governance”

4.0
Jan 20, 2026
Confluence is a strong enterprise knowledge and collaboration platform for documenting processes, decisions, risks, and project artifacts at scale. It works particularly well when paired with Jira to provide traceability from execution to documentation. While the core capabilities are solid and reliable, advanced reporting, aggregation, and dashboards styles views often require add-ons or manual structure. Overall, Confluence delivers high value governance and page standards are clearly defined.
Product Manager
50M - 250M USD, Media
CRITICAL

“Strong Collaboration Features in Confluence Offset Clunky Editor and Navigation Challenges”

3.0
Feb 4, 2026
Confluence has been a solid, dependable knowledge base for our team, especially as our documentation and cross-functional needs have scaled. From a product perspective, it works well because it's flexible, integrates tightly with Jira, and makes it easy to create a single source of truth across teams. That said, the editor and information architecture can feel clunky at times, and without strong governance, pages can sprawl or become hard to navigate over time.

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4.4
Market Presence: Social Software in the Workplace, Knowledge Management (KM) Software

About Company

Company Description

Updated 8th January 2025

Atlassian's mission is to unleash the potential of every team. We make agile & DevOps, IT service management and work management software to help teams organize, discuss, and complete shared work. Over 300,000 companies of all sizes worldwide rely on Atlassian to help their teams work better together and deliver quality results on time

Company Details

Updated 26th February 2025
Company type
Public
Year Founded
2002
Head office location
Sydney, Australia
Number of employees
10001+
Website
http://www.atlassian.com/

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Atlassian Confluence Likes & Dislikes

Like

1) Excellent integration with Jira Seamless linking between Jira issues, epics, and Confluence pages enables strong traceability between delivery and documentation, which is critical for PMOs and enterprise programs. 2) Flexible, living documentation Pages are easy to update, versioned automatically, and well suited for evolving artifacts such as decision logs, RAID registers, operating models, and SteerCo reporting. 3) Strong collaboration and transparency Commenting, mentions, page history, and permissions support cross-team collaboration and leadership visibility relying on static documents. 4) Extensive ecosystem of macros and add-ons Marketplace apps significantly extend Confluence for reporting, diagrams, tables, and structure content.

Like

Tight Jira integration which makes it easy to connect product requirements, decisions and documentation to actual work in progress. Flexible page templates and structure, allowing teams to document everything from PRDs to retros in a consistent but adaptable way. Strong collaboration features, like inline comments, version history, and permissions, which support cross-functional alignment without a lot of overhead.

Like

I found it very helpful for us because (i) This is a centralized knowledge base for a project. It is excellent for creating a single source of info with organized pages and spaces. So that anyone can access it in future if required. (ii) I found it has strong integration and seamless connects with Bitbucket and JIRA, which makes the life easy for us in terms of documenting JIRA and bitbucket updates on confluence page. (iii) It have rich editing, versatile formatting, templets and dynamic macros to build a detailed pages with advanced features. (iv) It has feature to provide page level permission control which is very very essential for managing sensitive or departmental information within the business line.

Dislike

1) Limited native roll-up and aggregation capabilities Summarizing content across multiple pages or child pages often requires manual effort or marketplace apps. 2) Dashboarding for executives is not fully native Leadership-level dashboards and dynamic summaries typically require add-ons or custom page structures. 3) Content quality depends heavily on governance Without page templates and standards, spaces can quickly become inconsistent and hard to navigate. 4) Search relevance can degrade at scale In large instances, finding the right content depends on disciplined labeling and structure

Dislike

Content sprawl and weak information architecture, which makes long-term knowledge management difficult without heavy governance. Editor performance and UX quirks, especially on larger pages or when formatting complex content. Search relevance, which can be inconsistent, makes it harder to quickly find the most up-to-date information.

Dislike

Things which I disliked the most about this product : (i) Sometimes it becomes sluggish which hiders the writing and editing experience especially with large pages or pages with many macros. (ii) I faced complex navigation, finding specific content across multiple spaces becomes unintuitive. (iii) I think it has outdated UI/UX, the editor and overall interface feel dated compared to modern interfaces. (iv) Pricing is significant for large organizations making it a considerable investment.

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Peer Discussions

What Your Peers Are Saying About Atlassian Confluence

CEO
Question about SSO and WordPress: Does anybody have experience with miniorange? They seem to have a bunch of interesting solutions. The first workflow I'm looking at is to use the user DB from one WP site on to a second one with a simple plugin, but they also have more advanced options like managing the full LDAP or syncing 3rd party apps. This could be interesting to link a download center with a LMS system swell as the internal Office365 users and clients using a Jira or confluence system. Other options would be Okta and Onelogin it seems. https://plugins.miniorange.com/single-sign-on-sso-between-two-wordpress-sites 
Director of Information Technology
We've been using their SAML plugin to integrate our Portalguard SSO server with our WordPress website. It has been decent and worked well for a few years now.
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20 Jan 2022259 Views1 Comment
VP of IT
What product can you recommend that provides document (email, word, pdf) review and approval workflow? Needs to provide versioning, multiple approval workflows (parallel, serial, and/or), scheduling/deadlines, and reminders. I've looked at Exchange/Outlook/Sharepoint solutions (we use MS365), and they are either overly simple or overly complex.  There seem to be some solutions with Jira/Confluence.
VP of IT
If you are already using Microsoft 365 you should definitely check out the Power Apps/ Power BI suite. You can build easy to use forms and worflows that embed neatly into Outlook and Teams. 
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31 Oct 20231.7k Views1 Comment

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Atlassian Confluence Reviews and Ratings

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  • PROJECT MANAGER
    50M-1B USD
    Consumer Goods
    Review Source

    Powerful enterprise documentation and collaboration platform, especially effective when paired with Jira and strong governance

    4.0
    Jan 20, 2026
    Confluence is a strong enterprise knowledge and collaboration platform for documenting processes, decisions, risks, and project artifacts at scale. It works particularly well when paired with Jira to provide traceability from execution to documentation. While the core capabilities are solid and reliable, advanced reporting, aggregation, and dashboards styles views often require add-ons or manual structure. Overall, Confluence delivers high value governance and page standards are clearly defined.
  • Design Engineer
    10B+ USD
    Hardware
    Review Source

    Project Collaboration Enhanced by Confluence, Yet Navigational Challenges Remain for Teams

    4.0
    Jan 2, 2026
    For the companies where lots of teams are working on same project from different counties, Confluence is the one powerful hub for entire project related progress tracing and documentation, fostering collaboration across teams. This makes the process of accessing any project related information very easy for anyone who wants to get project related info. However, I faced little struggle when I was preparing one page for the first time. Its traditional interface and bloated features makes the simple documentation feel unnecessarily complex and slow. Also, if someone is preparing some confluence page for the first time then proper understanding is required related to features available on the page.
  • Module Lead
    1B-10B USD
    Software
    Review Source

    Interface Design Of Confluence Enhances Daily Workflow And System Integration Efficiency

    5.0
    Jan 5, 2026
    Atlassian Confluence is a widely used tool to manage tasks, collaborate across teams and integrate various System Lifecycle aspects for development and continuous integration. It is an all-in-one tool with a robust mechanism to link Jira, calendar, and all other team documents. It provides a very consistent task management module with tagging features. It also gets integrated with other native tools on the system. Provides sitewide search. The deployment objective was to resolve a number of business issues pertaining to productivity, ease of use, scalability, and adaptability. The ROI has also been very good. It has helped a lot in scaling across teams.
  • Director Of Products
    <50M USD
    Software
    Review Source

    Confluence AI Assistant Is Extremely Powerful But Overall Platform Could Use Some Modern Updates

    4.0
    Feb 6, 2026
    I've used Confluence at a few different companies over the last decade. It can be a powerful tool, but it requires everyone to buy into it in order to truly realize its value. You really do get back what you put into it.
  • DIRECTOR OF CUSTOMER SERVICE AND SUPPORT
    <50M USD
    Software
    Review Source

    Think big: where will you be in 20 years?

    4.0
    Dec 15, 2025
    Overall, my experience with Atlassian Confluence has been positive. It provides a centralized location platform for all of our documentation resources and allows us to collaborate globally. It makes it easier to organzie, share, and access information across teams. The integration with other tools Atlassian offers has enhanced our workflows, and provided effective content management. There is a learning curve for admins and the upkeep and maintenance can be tedious if you are not aware of all the abilities and permissions or limitations in formatting, but it is a reliable tool for knowledge management and team collaboration.
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4.4

(1607 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
43%
4 Star
50%
3 Star
7%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.3

Integration & Deployment

4.4

Service & Support

4.4

Product Capabilities

4.4