Guide · from Atlassian's own pages, checked 13 October 2026
Confluence Free plan limits: 10 users, 2 GB, and what happens at user 11
Confluence Cloud Free is free for up to 10 users, with 2 GB of file storage and no permission settings for spaces or pages. Adding an 11th user moves the site to a free trial of Standard. After the trial, Standard billed monthly costs about $79 a month for 11 users. Here's what Free includes, what changes at user 11, and when staying on Free is the right call.
What the Free plan includes
From Atlassian's plan comparison on its Confluence pricing page, which describes Free as "Free forever for 10 users":
| Free | Standard | |
|---|---|---|
| Users per site | 10 | Up to 250,000 |
| File storage | 2 GB | 250 GB |
| Spaces and pages | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Space and page permissions | No | Yes |
| Anonymous access and public links | No | Yes |
| Guests | No | Up to 5 per paid user, one space each |
| Audit logs | No | Yes |
| Automation | 50 steps a month per subscription | 100 steps per user a month |
| Active whiteboards | 3 per user | 10 per user |
| Rovo AI credits | None listed | 25 per user a month |
| Data residency | No | Yes |
| Support | Community | Local business hours |
Free also has apps and integrations, templates, macros, databases and page versioning. Atlassian's plans overview sums up the permission gap: on Free, "permissions aren't customizable and anonymous access isn't available." So on Free you can't limit who sees or edits a particular space or page.
Inactive Free sites can be deactivated
Atlassian says it "reserves the right to deactivate Free Confluence Cloud sites due to inactivity," and that logging in and viewing any content prevents it. It sends notices before deactivating, and data from a deactivated Free site is then permanently deleted (Atlassian's plans overview and its data retention and storage page). The Atlassian pages we checked don't give the inactivity period, so if your team uses Free lightly, log in now and then.
What happens when you add an 11th user
Free has a hard cap. Atlassian's pricing FAQ says that if you're on Free and exceed the user limit, it automatically starts a free trial of Standard (the FAQ says 7 days; its plans overview separately says you can try Standard for 14 days). After the trial, Standard is billed each month for every user on the site. Atlassian's billing docs say users count toward billing "even if they don't accept your invite or log in." To go back to Free later, you first have to remove users until there are 10 or fewer.
What Standard costs as you grow
| Users | Confluence Free | Confluence Standard, monthly (250 GB) | Tablewide Team (25 GB) | Tablewide Business (100 GB) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | $0 | $71.50 | $49 | $99 |
| 11 | Over the 10-user cap | $78.65 | $49 | $99 |
| 15 | Over the 10-user cap | $107.25 | $49 | $99 |
| 25 | Over the 10-user cap | $178.75 | $49 | $99 |
| 50 | Over the 10-user cap | $357.50 | $49 | $99 |
A month, US dollars, before tax. Confluence Standard: $7.15 per user a month for up to 100 users billed monthly, from Atlassian's licensing price table, effective October 13, 2026 ($6.70 before). Yearly Standard plans are sold in user tiers. Tablewide: the same price for any number of users; plans differ only by storage. Confluence Standard includes 250 GB; Tablewide Team includes 25 GB. Work out your own numbers with the cost calculator.
When staying on Free is the right call
- You're 10 people or fewer and don't expect to grow past that soon.
- You don't need to limit who sees or edits a space or page.
- Your files fit in 2 GB. Our storage limits guide shows how to check.
- You use Jira or other Atlassian tools and want Confluence alongside them.
If all of that is true, Free costs nothing and Tablewide would cost you $49 a month. Stay where you are.
If you outgrow Free
Atlassian's upgrade path is Standard, which adds space and page permissions and 250 GB of storage. If you'd rather leave Confluence, export first and keep your Confluence site until you've checked the new copy, and keep your export file as your backup even after you move:
- Export a Confluence space, step by step, as HTML or XML.
- Export all spaces or the whole site, with attachments and the page tree.
- Check how much storage you use, so you can size the next plan.
Tablewide runs Docmost, an open source wiki, for your whole company at one flat price with unlimited users, from $49 a month with 25 GB. We move your spaces in at no extra charge, on a best-efforts basis. It isn't Confluence: 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 from a Confluence export. Because it's standard Docmost, you can export your pages at any time and import them into a Docmost you run yourself.
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.
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