A Confluence alternative for small teams that want their documents to link.
Confluence organises pages in spaces and works hand in hand with Jira. Nodary puts a team’s documents on one map, with owners, reviews and a spreadsheet inside each page, and AI agents connected over MCP. Compared here against Atlassian’s own pages.
In short
Choose Confluence if
- Your team plans in Jira and wants work items shown and created from its pages.
- You need single sign-on (through Atlassian Guard), data residency in the EU or elsewhere, or administration for thousands of users.
- You want approvals with several required approvers (up to five per space, on Premium and Enterprise), or mobile apps for iOS and Android.
- Your documentation is organised by spaces and a page tree, and that suits you.
- You want a lower price per seat: Confluence Standard lists US$7.15 per user per month for the first 100 users, against €15 for Nodary Pro.
Choose Nodary if
- You want a project’s documents on one map that shows which depend on which, filtered to what is overdue.
- You want review requests on every plan, Free included: Confluence documents approvals on Premium and Enterprise.
- You want a superseded document to point to the one that replaces it, and AI agents told a document’s status before they read it.
- You want AI agents that do not spend credits on their MCP calls (Atlassian’s Rovo MCP calls consume Rovo credits), with a version kept before every agent write.
Feature by feature
| What you compare | Nodary | Confluence |
|---|---|---|
| Price of the paid plans | Pro: €15 per seat per month, or €12 billed yearly. Studio: €29, or €24 billed yearly. Plus tax where it applies.2 | Standard: US$7.15 per user per month on monthly billing for the first 100 users, less per user beyond. Premium: US$14.10.1 |
| Free plan | 2 members, one project, 10 documents, 50 MB of files and 20 ☄ of Studio AI a month, with no time limit.2 | Free for up to 10 users, with 2 GB of storage and community support.1 |
| Seeing how documents connect | Every document of a project on one map you work on: file by dragging, link, assign, filter what is overdue, and see teammates’ pointers live. | Pages organised in a page tree inside spaces.1 |
| Editing together | Real-time co-editing: each person’s cursor and selection shows, and changes to different cells of a sheet combine. | Pages and live docs edited together in real time, with the avatars of who is editing; up to 40 people in a live doc.3,4 |
| Comments | On a passage, a sheet cell, a diagram or board element, a point of a picture or a moment of a video, with @mentions, replies and resolve. | Comments on pages, live docs, whiteboards, blog posts and slides, including inline on selected text.5 |
| Reviews and approvals | On every plan: ask one owner or admin of the workspace or of the document’s project to review a document, or ask them all; one of them approves or requests changes with a note, signed with who and when. | Approvals on Premium and Enterprise: approvers approve or request changes, and the activity log keeps who decided and when; up to five required approvers per space.6 |
| Marking what is current | Each document can be canon, exploration, obsolete or superseded by another, and AI agents are told before they read it. | Content statuses: three suggested (Rough draft, In progress, Ready for review), and space admins can add their own, up to five per space.7 |
| Boards and canvases | Boards inside a document: notes, shapes, arrows, freehand, named frames, document cards and pictures, presented frame by frame. | Whiteboards, with a limit of active whiteboards per user that depends on the plan.1 |
| Built-in AI | Studio AI on every plan, counted in Comets: 20 ☄ a month per person on Free, 800 per Pro seat, 1,500 per Studio seat.2 | Atlassian Rovo search, chat and agents, with a monthly allowance of Rovo credits per user that depends on the plan.1 |
| MCP server for AI agents | On every plan, Free included within its limits: OAuth or an API key, 98 tools, 120 requests a minute and no daily write quota.9 | The Atlassian Rovo MCP Server, remote, with OAuth 2.1 (API tokens optional); each call consumes Rovo credits.8 |
| Export | A document as Markdown, JSON, CSV tables or an editable PowerPoint, or printed to PDF; a whole project as a .zip of Markdown with editable sources. | A page to Word or PDF; a space to PDF, CSV, HTML or XML, by a space admin.10 |
| Apps and offline use | A web app for desktop and phone browsers, installable from the browser. No offline mode and no native desktop or mobile app.12 | Confluence Cloud mobile apps for iOS and Android.11 |
| Single sign-on | Not available: email and password, with optional two-step verification by authenticator app.2 | Single sign-on through a separate Atlassian Guard Standard subscription.1 |
| Where data is stored | AWS in the United States (us-east-1, Northern Virginia) for the app, the database and files. No EU hosting option.14 | Data residency on Standard, Premium and Enterprise, in locations such as the EU, Germany, the UK, the USA and Australia.13 |
| Integrations | No native Slack, Jira, GitHub or Notion integration: review decisions can post to Slack or Discord, and agents connect over MCP. | Jira work items listed on a page and created from the editor; support for apps and integrations.15,1 |
Inside Nodary
A map you work on, not only look at
Every document of a project sits on one map, filed in folders you open like clusters. You drag a document to file it, draw a link that says why, assign it and filter the map to what is overdue, while your teammates’ pointers move on it live.
- Links read the right way from either end: blocks, depends on, inspired by, related
- Filter to what is yours, overdue, due this week or undated
- Change the owner, status or due date of many documents at once, with Undo
- Follow a teammate from the map into the passage they are reading
What it does not do The map shows documents and their links, not an RDF knowledge graph; graph views and canvases from other tools are not imported.
Owner, status, review and truth on every document
Each document says who has it, by when and where it stands: draft, in review, approved, published, done or blocked. Ask one owner or admin of the workspace or of the document’s project to review it, or ask them all; one of them approves or requests changes with a note, signed with who and when, and the person who asked decides only when nobody else can. Mark it canon, exploration, obsolete or superseded, and agents are told before they read it.
- Six work statuses and four truth statuses
- When two documents disagree, both passages side by side, word for word
- Live views list documents as a table, a board, a timeline or a progress chart
- Review decisions can post to a Slack or Discord channel
What it does not do A review request names one reviewer, an owner or admin of the workspace or of the document’s project, or asks them all; there is no approval chain with several steps.
AI agents that work with your permissions
Studio AI works inside Nodary, and Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or VS Code connect over MCP on every plan. An agent reads and writes documents block by block and sheets cell by cell, with the permissions of the person who connected it, and every write keeps the version before it.
- 98 MCP tools, with OAuth or an API key that can be limited to one project
- One connection can work in several workspaces you tick
- Agents’ versions never push out people’s
- Share links, members, roles, keys and billing stay human decisions
What it does not do Studio AI runs on Claude models through Amazon Bedrock in the United States, and its use is counted in Comets with a monthly allowance per plan.
Know whether the milestone lands
A live progress view reads the documents of a milestone: what is finished against scope, the burn-up, the pace you need and a verdict against your target date. A cut line shows what falls outside a budget in days or points.
- Late documents listed first, with who has them
- The same documents as a board, a timeline or a calendar
- One rule decides what is overdue, everywhere
- The owner is notified when a document is due within two days
What it does not do There is no time tracking, no task dependencies and no Gantt chart with links between tasks.
Coming from Confluence
Nodary reads Confluence’s HTML export, page by page or a whole space, and shows you the tree before anything is written.
- In Confluence, a space admin exports the space to HTML (Atlassian’s help explains how). A single page can also be saved as HTML.
- In Nodary, open the project’s map, choose Import, then Import a folder, and drop the .zip.
- Check the preview: each page keeps its own title without the space name, and the files no page uses are listed.
- Import. Info, note and warning panels become callouts, task lists become checklists, code keeps its language, and expands become a heading with their content.
- Links between pages and the pictures they show come along.
Jira macros come in as whatever Confluence wrote into the export, never as live Jira data: Nodary has no Jira integration. One import brings up to 200 documents.
Questions
Is Nodary a Confluence alternative for small teams?
Yes, if your team wants linked documents more than a wiki organised by spaces. Nodary is free for two members and ten documents, Pro is €15 per seat per month for up to 5 members, and Studio has no member limit. Teams that live in Jira, or need single sign-on, are better served by Confluence today.
Can I import Confluence pages into Nodary?
Yes: a space exported to HTML, or pages saved as HTML. Titles, callouts, task lists, code, expands, links and pictures come along, and you see the tree before importing.
Does Nodary integrate with Jira?
No. Nodary has no Jira integration. Each document carries its own owner, status, due date and review, and live views list documents as a board, a timeline or a progress chart.
How do prices compare?
For a team of five billed monthly, Confluence Standard lists US$35.75 a month (US$7.15 per user) and Nodary Pro €75, checked on 23 October 2026: Confluence Standard costs less per seat. Confluence’s plans include Rovo credits per user; Nodary Pro includes 800 ☄ of Studio AI per seat.
Where is the data hosted?
Nodary: AWS in the United States (us-east-1), with no EU option. Confluence offers data residency, the EU included, on Standard, Premium and Enterprise.
Does Nodary have single sign-on?
Not yet. Nodary signs in with email and password and optional two-step verification. Confluence offers single sign-on through an Atlassian Guard subscription.
Move a space over and see it as a map.
Start free, try Studio for 14 days without a card, and import a space exported to HTML. Or open the live demo first.
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How this page is made
Every fact about Confluence comes from Confluence’s own pages, read on 23 October 2026 and listed below. Every fact about Nodary comes from the product and its public pages. We compare what a team relies on, including where Confluence does more, and we never rate or rank. Prices and features change: check the source before you decide.
Sources · Checked on 23 October 2026
- Confluence Pricing: Free and Paid Plans (atlassian.com)
- nodary.ai/pricing
- Confluence guide: Collaborate (atlassian.com)
- Atlassian Support: Create and collaborate in real time with live docs (support.atlassian.com)
- Atlassian Support: Comment on pages, live docs, whiteboards, blog posts, and slides (support.atlassian.com)
- Atlassian Support: Request and manage approvals in Confluence (support.atlassian.com)
- Atlassian Support: Add a status to your content (support.atlassian.com)
- Atlassian Support: Get started with the Atlassian MCP server (support.atlassian.com)
- nodary.ai/docs/mcp
- Atlassian Support: Export content to Word, PDF, HTML, and XML (support.atlassian.com)
- Atlassian Support: MDM security controls and supported apps (support.atlassian.com)
- nodary.ai/game-design-document
- Atlassian Support: Understand data residency (support.atlassian.com)
- nodary.ai/privacy
- Atlassian Support: Display Jira work items in a list (support.atlassian.com)
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