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Open-source alternatives to Atlassian Confluence

4 open-source projects are offered as replacements for Atlassian Confluence. Outline is the most starred. Running one yourself trades the subscription for your own hosting and upkeep, so the table below leads with what decides that trade: whether the project is alive, what its licence lets a business do, and whether there is a container command to start from.

4 / 4

Pushed in the last 90 days

0 / 4

With a container command

1 / 4

Permissive licence

Atlassian Confluence’s own site ↗

Side by side

Open-source alternatives to Atlassian Confluence
Project	Stars	Activity	Licence	Self-host	Language
Outline	40,968	Active	Not identified	○	TypeScript
Docmost	22,029	Active	Network copyleft	○	TypeScript
Bookstack	19,087	Active	Permissive	○	PHP
Docuwiki	4,729	Active	Copyleft	○	PHP

Each one, briefly

Outline40,968 stars · not identified · active
The fastest knowledge base for growing teams. Beautiful, realtime collaborative, feature packed, and markdown compatible.
Also replaces Notion
Docmost22,029 stars · network copyleft · active
Docmost is an open-source collaborative wiki and documentation software. It is an open-source alternative to Confluence and Notion.
Also replaces Notion
Bookstack19,087 stars · permissive · active
NOW MANAGED ON CODEBERG
Also replaces CMS, Documentation, Markup
Docuwiki4,729 stars · copyleft · active
The DokuWiki Open Source Wiki Engine

Where this comes from

Which projects are offered against Atlassian Confluence comes from opensourcealternative.to, re-read weekly. Every figure in the table is read from the project’s own repository. We have not run these projects, and we hold no price for Atlassian Confluence. Browse every open-source alternative.