Writing & Documentation · pricing
Confluence pricing
Confluence publishes 2 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
- Entry price
- Free, then $5.5/month
- Model
- Subscription
- Tiers
- 2
- Free tier
- Yes
Confluence plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
| Standard | $5.5/month | 4 | +$5.5/month, 4 more features |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Free
FreeThe entry tier. It covers unlimited pages, basic sharing, search, file attachments.
Standard
$5.5/monthOver Free, this tier adds:
- Everything in Free
- Advanced permissions
- Macros
- Integrations
Where Confluence stops being free
Free, Free
- Unlimited pages
- Basic sharing
- Search
- File attachments
Standard, $5.5/month
The first thing you pay for:
- Everything in Free
- Advanced permissions
- Macros
- Integrations
What the product covers
The full Confluence feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Core
- Page creation
- Rich text editing
- Macros
- Templates
- Comments
- Version history
- Content organization
Integrations
- Jira
- Slack
- GitHub
- Microsoft Teams
- Zapier
Security
- SOC2
- ISO27001
- HIPAA
Deployment
- Cloud deployment
- On-premise deployment
Platform
- Web support
- Windows support
- Macos support
- Ios support
- Android support
Localization
- 15+ languages language support
People bring Confluence in for knowledge base, meeting notes, process documentation, project planning. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Confluence are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Writing & Documentation
Too few writing & documentation tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Confluence (this page) | Free, then $5.5/month | subscription | - | |
| Logseq | Free | open-source | - | vs Confluence |
| Notion AI | $10/month | subscription | - | vs Confluence |
| Notion Web Clipper | Free | free | - | vs Confluence |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Confluence badges page.
Before you pay for Confluence
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 2 tiers between Free and $5.5/month, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Confluence runs on web, windows, macos, ios, android, and is published by Atlassian Corporation of Sydney, Australia. The full record is on the Confluence review, and the rest of the category is under best writing & documentation tools.
Confluence pricing questions
- How much does Confluence cost?
- Confluence publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Free up to $5.5/month for Standard. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Confluence have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers unlimited pages, basic sharing, search. Paying starts at $5.5/month for Standard.
- What is the difference between Free and Standard on Confluence?
- Standard costs $5.5/month against Free, and adds everything in free, advanced permissions, macros, integrations.
- Which writing & documentation tools can I use without paying?
- 2 of the 3 writing & documentation tools listed alongside Confluence have a free tier: Logseq, Notion Web Clipper.
- What am I actually paying for with Confluence?
- The record lists 23 features across 6 areas: core, integrations, security, deployment, platform, localization. In practice it is brought in for knowledge base, meeting notes, process documentation.
- Does Confluence charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Confluence prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Confluence against before paying?
- The closest writing & documentation tools in this directory are Logseq, Notion AI, Notion Web Clipper. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Confluence covering price, platforms and features.