Comparison · from each vendor's own pages, checked 13 October 2026
Confluence Data Center alternatives for a small team
Data Center is closed to new customers, its smallest tier is $37,000 a year for up to 500 users, and it goes read-only on March 28, 2029. If your team is far smaller than 500, you're paying for seats you don't use, and you have to move anyway. Here's what the main options cost a 50-person team, whether they can import from Confluence, and whether you could run them yourself later.
The prices and dates for Data Center are on our Data Center pricing page, and the routes off it are in our end-of-life guide.
The options at 50 people
| Option | Hosting | Price at 50 users | Import from Confluence | Self-host later |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Confluence Cloud Standard | Atlassian | $357.50 a month billed monthly, or $3,600 a year billed yearly | Yes, with Atlassian's free Cloud Migration Assistant | No: Atlassian's self-managed Data Center is closed to new customers |
| Notion Plus / Business | Notion | $500 / $1,000 a month billed yearly; $600 / $1,200 billed monthly | Partial: imports a space's HTML export | No option found on Notion's site |
| Outline | Outline, or your servers | Cloud: $79 a month for 11 to 100 members. Self-hosted Business: $4 per user a month billed yearly ($200 a month at 50 users; 10-user minimum) | Partial: imports a space's HTML export, on Cloud, Business and Enterprise | Yes, under Outline's Business Source License |
| BookStack | Your servers | Free (MIT license); you pay for the server and the upkeep | No official importer | It's self-hosted |
| Wiki.js | Your servers | Free (AGPL-3.0 license); you pay for the server and the upkeep | None in Wiki.js's docs | It's self-hosted |
| XWiki | XWiki SAS, or your servers | Community: free. XWiki Pro & Support is priced in euros, billed yearly, the same in the cloud or on your servers | Yes: XWiki's Confluence migrator reads an XML backup; the Pro version is paid | Yes (LGPL-2.1 license) |
| Tablewide (Docmost) | Tablewide, in the US | $49 a month ($588 a year) for any number of users, with 25 GB | Partial: we import HTML or XML space exports, on a best-efforts basis; comments, page history and permissions don't come across | Yes: it's standard Docmost |
List prices in US dollars before tax unless stated, as published on each vendor's pricing page on 13 October 2026. Confluence Cloud: Atlassian's licensing price table, effective October 13, 2026 ($7.15 per user a month for up to 100 users billed monthly; Premium is $14.10). Notion: notion.com/pricing. Outline: getoutline.com/pricing. XWiki: xwiki.com/en/pricing. BookStack: bookstackapp.com. Wiki.js: js.wiki. Self-hosting costs depend on your servers and staff, so they aren't shown. Prices change; check the vendor's page before you decide.
What each one is a good fit for
Confluence Cloud
The right answer for many Data Center teams. It's the same product, Atlassian's free Cloud Migration Assistant moves spaces, pages with their history, attachments, users, groups and restrictions, plus data from apps that have a migration path. If you rely on Jira, Marketplace apps or per-page permissions, start here. Atlassian also offers migration trials and credits for Data Center customers; our pricing page has the details. The cost is per user and rises in steps as you grow.
Notion
A good fit if your team wants docs, databases and project tracking in one place. Notion's Confluence import guide works from a space's HTML export and says Notion only supports Cloud and Server instances, so check it accepts a Data Center export. It says permissions must be reapplied in Notion, most macros aren't supported, and its zip importer takes up to 5 GB (15 GB on request). It's priced per member, so 50 people is $6,000 to $12,000 a year billed yearly.
Outline
A clean, fast team wiki. Outline Cloud is priced by member band, so 50 people pay $79 a month. Its Confluence import reads a space's HTML export and lists macros, plugins, multi-column layouts, comments and authorship as not supported; it's available on Cloud and the Business and Enterprise self-hosted editions, not the free Community Edition. The code is published under the Business Source License, which allows self-hosting with limits, rather than an open source license.
BookStack or Wiki.js
Free and simple to run if you have someone to run them: a server, updates, backups and security fixes. Neither has an official Confluence importer. BookStack's own Confluence page says there's no automated way yet and points to its API. Our paid migration service (from $29) can hand you a checked import for a BookStack you run yourself, on a best-efforts basis; moving into Tablewide is free.
XWiki
A broad, extensible wiki you can use in the cloud or on your servers. XWiki's paid Confluence Migrator Pro (from €2,000 on XWiki's store) imports from a Confluence XML backup, including users, permissions and page history (not attachment history), with macro support listed macro by macro. XWiki says its migration toolkit is included free in its Business and Enterprise plans.
Tablewide
A good fit for a team that mostly writes and finds docs and wants one flat price: we run Docmost, an open source wiki, with unlimited users from $49 a month, and move your spaces in at no extra charge, on a best-efforts basis. It isn't for every Data Center team: we host in the US, sign-in is through Google accounts only, access is set per space rather than per page, and there's no Jira integration or Marketplace. Comments, page history and permissions don't come across. If you need those, Confluence Cloud or XWiki is likely a better fit. Need more than 25 GB? The other plans include 100 GB and 500 GB.
How your data moves to each
- Confluence Cloud: the Cloud Migration Assistant reads straight from your Data Center site, so you don't need an export. Its Marketplace listing supports Data Center 8.0 to 11.0.
- Notion, Outline and Tablewide: an HTML export of each space, one space at a time. Tablewide also reads XML space exports.
- XWiki: a Confluence XML backup.
- BookStack and Wiki.js: no direct import, so pages are moved by hand, by script through their APIs, or by a service.
Our guides show how to make each export: export a Confluence space, and export all spaces or the whole site, including attachments and the page tree. Whichever you choose, keep your Data Center site and a full backup until you've checked the new copy.
Try it with one space: the free preview puts one Confluence space into a private Docmost wiki for 7 days, with no card. The preview terms say where your export is stored and when it's deleted. Because it's standard Docmost, you can export your pages at any time and import them into a Docmost you run yourself.
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Atlassian and Confluence are trademarks of Atlassian. Notion, Outline, BookStack, Wiki.js and XWiki are trademarks of their respective owners. Docmost is a trademark of its developers. Tablewide is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of them. Product details are summarised from each vendor's published pages on the date above; we have not tested the other products' importers.