Comparison of Confluence Alternatives
Feature |
Confluence |
Knowledge Base (KB) |
WiscWeb |
GitLab |
Google Workspace |
Box |
Office 365 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Spaces/Sites |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Pages/Articles Pages with content used for various purposes |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Notifications |
Y |
Y |
N |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Commenting |
Y |
Y |
N |
N |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Macros |
Y |
Y |
Y |
N |
Y |
N |
N |
Real-time editing and collaboration |
Y |
N |
N |
N |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Page versioning |
Y |
Y |
Y (last 14 revisions) |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Permissions at the group, space, and page/article level |
Y |
Y |
Y (limited to access per website based on user roles) |
N (limited to group and project level) |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Internal content accessed using permissions |
Y > |
Y |
Y limited (can protect a single page using a password, improvements in progress) |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
External/public content |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y (using GitLab pages) |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Personalized feed and home page |
Y |
N |
N |
N |
N |
N |
N |
Landing page |
N |
Y |
Y |
N |
N |
N |
N |
Announcements |
Y |
N |
Y |
N |
N |
N |
N |
Blogs |
Y |
Y |
Y |
N |
N |
N |
N |
Structured page tree |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
N |
N |
N |
Templates |
Y |
Y |
N (can duplicate content) |
N |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Search |
Y |
Y (semantic search in progress) |
Y |
Y (limited search capabilities) |
Y (limited search capabilities) |
Y (limited search capabilities) |
Y (limited search capabilities) |