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Confluence vs BookStack: catalog facts
ConfluenceBookStack
Freemium

Hosted plans from Atlassian, with paid tiers for larger teams and more features.

Free

The open-source software is available without a license fee. Hosting, hardware and…

Web Web, Self-hosted
  • Central wiki for team documentation and knowledge
  • AI drafting, summaries and answers from existing pages
  • Fixed hierarchy makes large documentation sets easy to navigate
  • Granular permissions plus LDAP, SAML and OIDC sign-in
  • Hosted service; your content lives on Atlassian's servers
  • Built for teams rather than personal notes
  • PHP, MySQL and a web server are required; there is no single-binary option
  • The rigid structure gets in the way if you want a free-form wiki
Hosted service Self-hosted, Web application
Closed source Open source
License not stated License: MIT
Account needed Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline Not stated if it works offline

Checked September 24, 2026

Checked September 22, 2026

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