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Confluence vs Outline: catalog facts
ConfluenceOutline
Freemium

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

Freemium

Hosted plans are paid. Self-hosting is possible under the source-available Business Source…

Web Web, Self-hosted
  • Central wiki for team documentation and knowledge
  • AI drafting, summaries and answers from existing pages
  • Fast collaborative editor with slash commands and nested collections
  • Hosted service; your content lives on Atlassian's servers
  • Built for teams rather than personal notes
  • Source-available under the Business Source License, not open source
  • The hosted plan is paid and self-hosting needs Postgres, Redis and object storage
Hosted service Self-hosted, Web application, Hosted service
Closed source Closed source
License not stated License not stated
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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