Comparison · Docmost 0.96.0 and Confluence Cloud, checked 12 October 2026
Docmost vs Confluence: free Docmost covers the core wiki; Confluence adds page permissions, Jira, apps and mobile
Docmost is an open source wiki that looks and works a lot like Confluence. Its free Community edition covers writing, organizing, sharing per space, page history and search. Page-level permissions, single sign-on and the API need a paid Docmost license, and there's no Jira integration, app marketplace or mobile app. Below is each area with a link to the vendor's own docs, then what each option costs at 10, 25 and 50 people.
At a glance
| Area | Docmost | Confluence Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Editor | Real-time, slash commands, built-in draw.io, Excalidraw and Mermaid. Free. | Real-time live docs, slash commands, whiteboards. draw.io is a Marketplace app. |
| Page tree and spaces | Unlimited spaces, nested page tree. Free. | Unlimited spaces, nested page tree. |
| Permissions | Per space, with groups, free. Per page is paid. | Per space and per page on Standard and up. None on Free. |
| Comments | Inline comments free. Resolving them is paid. | Inline and page comments. |
| Page history | Automatic versions, compare and restore. Free. | Versions, compare and restore. |
| Search | Full-text, free. Inside attachments is paid. | Full-text, including inside attachments. |
| Integrations | Embeds such as Figma, Miro, Loom and Google Docs. No Jira, no marketplace. | Jira built in, plus the Atlassian Marketplace. |
| Single sign-on | SAML, OIDC and LDAP on a paid license. | SAML through the paid Atlassian Guard add-on, included on Enterprise. |
| API | REST API on a paid license. | REST API on every plan. |
| Mobile apps | None. | iOS and Android. |
| Self-hosting | Yes, Docker with PostgreSQL and Redis. | Cloud: no, Atlassian runs it. Data Center, the self-managed edition, ends in March 2029. |
"Paid" means Docmost's Business or Enterprise edition, which you install on your own server. Docmost Business is $6 per seat a month billed annually, with a 10-seat minimum, per Docmost's pricing page. Page templates, Word export, the Confluence importer and turning off public sharing are paid too; the free edition's Markdown and HTML zip import can bring in a Confluence HTML export, keeping less of the structure than the paid importer.
Editor
Both editors are block-based, with slash commands, tables, callouts and real-time co-editing. Docmost edits live in every edition (Docmost pricing). Confluence's live docs allow up to 40 people editing at once (Atlassian).
Docmost includes draw.io, Excalidraw and Mermaid at no extra cost; draw.io loads from diagrams.net unless you host your own (Docmost diagrams docs). Confluence has native whiteboards, and draw.io is a third-party Marketplace app with its own price. Docmost's databases (Bases) and Kanban boards are paid.
Page tree and spaces
Both organize pages into spaces with a nested page tree you can drag to rearrange (Docmost pages docs). Docmost allows unlimited spaces in every edition (Docmost pricing), and Confluence allows unlimited spaces and pages, even on Free (Atlassian plans). Docmost's personal spaces are paid.
Permissions
Docmost Community gives each space three roles, Full Access, Can Edit and Viewer, and lets you assign them to groups (Docmost spaces docs). Restricting a single page needs a Business or Enterprise license (Docmost page permissions).
Confluence has space permissions and page restrictions on Standard and above. On Free, "You can't restrict access to content" (Atlassian).
Comments
Docmost has inline comments on selected text in every edition. Resolving a comment is paid, and Docmost's docs describe only inline comments, not comments on the page as a whole (Docmost pages docs). Confluence has both inline and page-level comments (Atlassian).
Page history
Docmost saves versions automatically while you edit, lets you restore any of them, and since 0.96.0 compares two versions, all in the free edition (Docmost pages docs, release notes). Confluence keeps a version per publish, compares versions, and restores an old one as the newest version (Atlassian).
Search
Docmost's free edition searches the full text of pages using its PostgreSQL database (Docmost configuration docs). Searching inside PDFs and Word files is paid. Confluence search covers attachments including Word, PowerPoint, Excel and PDF (Atlassian).
Integrations
This is Confluence's biggest advantage. Jira issues render inside pages through the Jira work items macro (Atlassian), and the Atlassian Marketplace adds thousands of apps. Docmost has no app marketplace and no Jira integration in its docs. It embeds Figma, Miro, Loom, YouTube, Airtable and Google Docs, Sheets and Drive, and its roadmap lists Slack, GitHub and GitLab integrations for the fourth quarter of 2026.
Single sign-on and two-step sign-in
Docmost supports SAML 2.0, OIDC and LDAP on a paid license. Its pricing page lists them under Business, while its SAML docs say Enterprise, so confirm with Docmost before buying Business for SSO. SCIM is Enterprise only, and Docmost's own two-step sign-in is paid (Docmost MFA docs).
Confluence's SAML single sign-on needs the paid Atlassian Guard Standard add-on, except on Enterprise where it's included (Atlassian). Admins can require two-step verification on every plan (Atlassian).
API
Docmost added a public REST API in version 0.70.0 in March 2026 (roadmap). API keys need a paid license: the pricing page lists them under Business, but the API docs say Enterprise, so confirm with Docmost before buying Business for API access. Confluence Cloud's REST API works on every plan with an API token (Atlassian developer docs).
Self-hosting
Docmost is built to be self-hosted. Docker is the recommended install, with PostgreSQL and Redis alongside it (Docmost install guide). The core is open source under the AGPL 3.0, and the paid features sit in separately licensed folders (Docmost on GitHub).
Confluence Cloud runs only on Atlassian's servers. Atlassian's self-managed product, Data Center, goes read-only on March 28, 2029 (our Data Center end-of-life guide).
What Docmost doesn't have
- Jira integration. If your team plans work in Jira and links it from the wiki, Confluence is hard to replace.
- An app marketplace. What Docmost ships is what you get.
- Mobile apps. Docmost's docs, pricing and roadmap mention no iOS or Android app. Confluence has both (Atlassian).
- Page-level comments. Only inline comments are documented.
- As many export formats in the free edition. Docmost Community exports Markdown and HTML, and PDF through your browser's print dialog (Docmost import and export docs). Word export, added in 0.95.0, needs a paid license. Confluence also exports Word, CSV and XML.
- A long track record. Templates, SCIM, databases and audit logs all arrived in 2026, per Docmost's roadmap.
Paid Docmost also lacks some things Confluence Standard includes: audit logs are Enterprise only, and AI needs your own provider, such as OpenAI or a local model (Docmost AI docs). Confluence Standard includes Atlassian's Rovo AI.
What it costs at 10, 25 and 50 people
| Per month | 10 people | 25 people | 50 people |
|---|---|---|---|
| Confluence Free | $0, 2 GB | Not available | Not available |
| Confluence Standard, billed yearly, from Oct 13, 2026 | $60 | $150 | $300 |
| Confluence Standard, billed monthly, from Oct 13, 2026 | $71.50 | $178.75 | $357.50 |
| Docmost Community, you host it | About $7 for a small server, plus your time | ||
| Docmost Business, you host it, billed yearly | $60 + server | $150 + server | $300 + server |
| Tablewide Team, we host Docmost Community | $49 | $49 | $49 |
Confluence: Standard is $7.15 per user a month billed monthly from October 13, 2026 ($6.70 before), from Atlassian's list price tables. Paying yearly from that date costs $720 for 10 users, $1,800 for 25 and $3,600 for 50, shown above per month. Confluence Free covers up to 10 users, with 2 GB of storage and no permissions. Docmost Business: $6 per seat a month billed annually, 10 seats minimum. Server: Hetzner's CX23, with 2 vCPUs and 4 GB of memory, or a similar small server; the CX23 lists at €5.49 a month before VAT and an IPv4 address (Hetzner specs, Hetzner prices). That size is our assumption, since Docmost publishes no minimum. Tablewide: monthly price before tax, with unlimited users; paying yearly gets two months free.
Storage: Confluence Standard includes 250 GB and Free 2 GB (Atlassian plans; more in Confluence storage limits). Tablewide Team includes 25 GB; Business is $99 a month with 100 GB and Company $199 with 500 GB. Self-hosted Docmost is limited by your disk.
The server is the small part of self-hosting. Someone has to apply Docmost updates, run and test backups, renew HTTPS and set up sign-in and email, every month. If nobody on your team wants that job, or you'd rather not pay per person, Tablewide runs Docmost for you at one flat price for the whole company. It's Docmost's free Community edition, so none of the paid features above are included: access is set per space, and sign-in is through Google. See hosted Docmost for what's in and out, and how to move from Confluence to Docmost if you'd rather do it yourself.
What you give up with Tablewide, compared with Confluence Standard:
- Sign-in is with Google accounts only. No Microsoft sign-in, SAML or other single sign-on.
- No page-level permissions, API, attachment search, resolving comments, templates, Word export or AI.
- No Jira integration, Marketplace apps or mobile apps.
- Less storage on the $49 plan: 25 GB, against Confluence Standard's 250 GB.
Because it's standard Docmost, you can export your pages as Markdown or HTML at any time and import them into a Docmost you run yourself. Like any export, that carries the pages, not their history or comments.
To try it, start a free preview: you upload a Confluence HTML export and see it as your wiki. If your team uses Google Workspace you can start it yourself right away; through the form, it's ready within two business days of your upload. Comments, page history, permissions, original authors and dates don't move.
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