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Confluence is Atlassian's team wiki, with pages, live docs, whiteboards, and databases linked to Jira. Standard, Premium, and Enterprise Cloud include Rovo. It answers across Confluence, Jira, and connected apps. Rovo also writes in the editor and runs agents against pooled monthly credits.

The 30-Second Take

Buy Confluence with Rovo if Jira and Confluence already hold your work, because Rovo answers from both.

Rovo comes with Standard and above and runs agents on pooled monthly credits. Its answers draw the most praise in public accounts, and keyword search draws the most complaints.

Best fit
Companies that document in Confluence and track work in Jira.
Main constraint
Rovo's answers depend on page upkeep, and keyword search is the most criticized feature.
First move
Settle data contribution and residency. Clean the ten busiest spaces before teams rely on Rovo.

Why

Watch the billing date: cap extra usage before credits bill from December 3, 2026. Free and Standard plans contribute data to Atlassian by default, and Jenkins lost its self-managed wiki to one unpatched flaw.

Practitioner sentiment, leaders and teams+8 Mixed

36 practitioners, 115 sources reviewed, Updated Nov 1, 2026How this is measured

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Comparisons

How does Confluence compare with the alternatives?

  1. Confluence vs Glean

    • Enterprise Search

    Choose Rovo when Atlassian holds most answers, and Glean when much of your knowledge sits elsewhere. Rovo, Atlassian's AI layer across Confluence and Jira, comes with paid Cloud plans at no extra charge and searches Atlassian apps plus 56 connectors; Glean is a separate per-user license over 275+ apps, including Confluence.

  2. Confluence vs Microsoft Copilot

    • Enterprise Search

    Pick the assistant that sits where your answers live: Rovo for Confluence and Jira, Microsoft 365 Copilot for mail, Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive. Rovo, Atlassian's AI layer across Confluence and Jira, comes with every paid Cloud plan, with a monthly credit allowance per seat. Copilot lists at US$30 per user per month on top of a Microsoft 365 plan and reads Confluence Cloud through a connector that updates permissions once a day.

  3. Confluence vs Notion AI

    • AI Knowledge & Docs

    Choose Confluence for a lower seat price beside Jira, and Notion when documents and projects should share a workspace with meeting notes. Rovo comes with Confluence Standard and above with a monthly credit allowance; Notion AI comes with Business and Enterprise.

Operator Insights

What are business and product leaders learning from rolling Confluence out across their teams?

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Buying and deployment

What business and product leaders should verify before rolling it out across teams.

Sourced from Atlassian documentation

How you buy it

US$5.78

Per user per month for Standard at 300 users, billed monthly. Rovo comes with every paid Cloud plan.

Source 1, Atlassian, Confluence pricing: Confluence pricingSource 2, Atlassian, Rovo plans and trial: Rovo plans and trial

Details

Per user per month: Standard US$5.78 and Premium US$11.16 at 300 users, billed monthly. Enterprise starts at 801 users, billed annually through Atlassian sales, with a list price of US$137,000 a year for 801 to 1,000 users. Free covers up to 10 users. Rovo Search, Chat, Studio, and agents come with every paid Cloud plan, with no separate purchase.

Cost drivers

25 to 150 credits

Rovo credits per user per month by plan. Extra usage bills from December 3, 2026.

Source 2, Atlassian, Rovo plans and trial: Rovo plans and trialSource 3, Atlassian, How Rovo credits work: How Rovo credits work

Details

Seats, then Rovo credits: 25, 70, or 150 per user per month on Standard, Premium, and Enterprise, pooled across the organization. Search and summaries are free, and extra usage bills at US$10 per 1,000 credits from December 3, 2026, on by default unless capped.

Where it runs

Cloud or Data Center

Full Rovo needs Atlassian Cloud. Data Center reaches end of life March 28, 2029.

Source 4, support.atlassian.com, What is Rovo?: What is Rovo?Source 2, Atlassian, Rovo plans and trial: Rovo plans and trialSource 5, Atlassian, Understand data residency: Understand data residencySource 6, Atlassian, Data Center end of life: Data Center end of life

Details

Atlassian Cloud. Rovo Chat works inside Confluence and Jira and anywhere through the Rovo browser extension, with Rovo Desktop, the Rovo mobile app, Rovo apps for Slack and Microsoft Teams, and the Rovo MCP server. Data residency covers Confluence on Standard, Premium, and Enterprise, including Rovo Chat session logs and agent configuration. Data Center reaches end of life on March 28, 2029, and full Rovo needs a Cloud plan.

What to verify

August 17, 2026

From then, Free and Standard plans contribute in-app data to Atlassian by default.

Source 7, Atlassian, Data contribution settings: Data contribution settingsSource 8, Atlassian, Rovo AI security and trust: Rovo AI security and trustSource 9, Atlassian, Rovo data, privacy, and usage guidelines: Rovo data, privacy, and usage guidelines

Details

Whether your plan shares in-app data with Atlassian (Free and Standard do by default from August 17, 2026, until an admin turns it off), whether you need Atlassian-hosted LLMs only, which Atlassian offers on request to Cloud Enterprise organizations, and which connectors will index whole drives.

Signals

What is the current evidence saying about Confluence?

A current read of what people and teams using Confluence and its Rovo AI at work report publicly, with every finding linked to its sources.

Whose sources count

Practitioner sentiment, leaders and teams

+8 Mixed net

of 36 sources that take a side, each author counted once.

How this figure is made

Current sentiment

Positive, mixed and negative sources

Team and company accounts lean slightly positive. All 8 that discuss Jira links praise them, and all 6 that discuss data raise it, from the data contribution default to a published Rovo exfiltration test. Search draws complaints from 3 of the 5 that discuss it. On whether to use Rovo or their own AI tools, they lean 6 to 3 toward their own.

Run a pilot with one team to measure how much of its planning and writing stays in the tool after a month.

Evidence field. All 115 sources, one mark each.

Arrange by

Each mark is one source: positive, mixed, negative, no opinion stated, or documentation (not counted).

By sentiment, Leaders and teams rolling it out. Every source GILD read, grouped as the field draws it.
GroupSourcesPositiveMixedNegativeNo opinion stated and not counted in the scoreDocumentation, checked and not counted
Positive18180000
Mixed303000
Negative15001500
Not counted100010
Documentation14000014
Outside this group642093500
Every source GILD read, by the quarter it was published, as the field's time axis counts it. Documentation is dated by the day it was checked.
QuarterSources
Q1 20256
Q2 20255
Q3 20259
Q4 202514
Q1 202616
Q2 202618
Q3 202631
Q4 20262
Documentation, checked14

By sentiment

14 documentation pages check facts and are not counted; 64 sit outside this group.

Hover a mark for a quick look, click it or press Enter to open its source.Tap a mark to open its source, then step to its neighbors with Previous and Next.

What practitioners praise

Top praise of 3. Each mark is a source on it; filled marks praise it.

  1. Works With JiraAll 8 sources on it praise it

Most common concerns

Top concern of 2. Each mark is a source on it; filled marks raise it.

  1. Data Use & SecurityAll 6 sources on it raise it as a concern
All 115 sources behind these findings
  1. Rovo updating an image in ConfluenceMai Vang, software engineer (self-described: Writing a page in Confluence), X post, published Oct 20, 2026
  2. Confluence pricingAtlassian (Official Atlassian documentation), Product documentation, checked Oct 12, 2026
  3. Rovo plans and trialAtlassian (Official Atlassian documentation), Product documentation, checked Oct 12, 2026
  4. How Rovo credits workAtlassian (Official Atlassian documentation), Product documentation, checked Oct 12, 2026
  5. Rovo data, privacy, and usage guidelinesAtlassian (Official Atlassian documentation), Product documentation, checked Oct 12, 2026
  6. Available Rovo connectorsAtlassian (Official Atlassian documentation), Product documentation, checked Oct 12, 2026
  7. Understand data residencyAtlassian (Official Atlassian documentation), Product documentation, checked Oct 12, 2026
  8. Data contribution settingsAtlassian (Official Atlassian documentation), Product documentation, checked Oct 12, 2026
  9. Manage Rovo accessAtlassian (Official Atlassian documentation), Product documentation, checked Oct 12, 2026
  10. Rovo agent permissions and governanceAtlassian (Official Atlassian documentation), Product documentation, checked Oct 12, 2026
  11. What is Rovo Studio?Atlassian (Official Atlassian documentation), Product documentation, checked Oct 12, 2026
  12. Get started with the Atlassian MCP serverAtlassian (Official Atlassian documentation), Product documentation, checked Oct 12, 2026
  13. Data Center end of lifeAtlassian (Official Atlassian documentation), Product documentation, checked Oct 12, 2026
  14. Rovo AI security and trustAtlassian (Official Atlassian documentation), Product documentation, checked Oct 12, 2026
  15. What is Rovo Standard?Atlassian (Official Atlassian documentation), Product documentation, checked Oct 12, 2026
  16. Comment on: Docker Agentalemanek, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Hacker News comment, published Oct 8, 2026
  17. Rovo Studio Update - Please help me get out of a documentation loop, how do I disable this new role?Hefty-Possibility625, Reddit user, Atlassian organization admin (self-described: Organization admin for Jira, Confluence, and Jira Service Management), Reddit post, published Sep 30, 2026
  18. Comment on: The problem is not AI code, but not knowing about system architecture or intentzero_shift, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Hacker News comment, published Sep 28, 2026
  19. Atlassian's newest feature: Rovo is mandatory, and if you dare block it with uBlock, Confluence rage-quits.SipsAndGiggles, Reddit user (self-described: Writes documentation and runbooks in Confluence), Reddit post, published Sep 28, 2026
  20. Gemini Pro is much more reliable than Rovo when it comes to information about Atlassian productsGGuts, Reddit user (self-described: Admin questions about Atlassian products), Reddit post, published Sep 16, 2026
  21. One tool your support team needsRobert Hean, Hean Tech consultant (self-described: Support organizations using Confluence as a knowledge base), Practitioner guide, YouTube, published Sep 14, 2026
  22. Comment on: Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?steammaho, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Hacker News comment, published Sep 4, 2026
  23. Comment on: How accurate is Rovo chat?herdingcats61, Reddit commenter (self-described: Team with extensive documentation), Reddit comment, published Sep 3, 2026
  24. Comment on: How accurate is Rovo chat?Mental_Yard, Reddit commenter, head of account management (self-described: Fintech SaaS company with Jira tickets, Confluence, and a client wiki), Reddit comment, published Sep 2, 2026
  25. How accurate is Rovo chat? and what the use cases it fails?mrkri25, Reddit user (self-described: Learning features from Jira tickets and Confluence pages without full documentation), Reddit post, published Sep 2, 2026
  26. SCRUM Automation with Jira, Rovo, Loom, and ConfluenceShivam Kadwade, Scrum team member (self-described: Scrum team automating status documents, retrospectives, and Jira triage), Personal blog post, Medium, published Aug 28, 2026
  27. Comment on: Struggle to find value in Rovo what do you think?iCantStopTheDark, Reddit commenter (self-described: Company on Atlassian's Teamwork Collection that also uses Claude), Reddit comment, published Aug 28, 2026
  28. Comment on: Struggle to find value in Rovo what do you think?Own_Mix_3755, Reddit commenter (self-described: Company on a Premium plan running Rovo agents against incoming tickets), Reddit comment, published Aug 27, 2026
  29. Comment on: Struggle to find value in Rovo what do you think?sssst_stump, Reddit commenter (self-described: Company whose staff search through Rovo in Slack), Reddit comment, published Aug 27, 2026
  30. Comment on: Struggle to find value in Rovo what do you think?TigerB65, Reddit commenter (self-described: Company without Claude licenses for all Jira users), Reddit comment, published Aug 27, 2026
  31. Struggle to find value in Rovo what do you think?KookyOky, Reddit user (self-described: Compares Rovo with Claude Code connected to Jira and Confluence), Reddit post, published Aug 27, 2026
  32. Rovo is a painPositive_Studio8083, Reddit user (self-described: Team that recently started on Jira Cloud with Rovo), Reddit post, published Aug 26, 2026
  33. Comment on: How to disable or avoid intrusive AIyabones, Hacker News commenter who ran the company's on-premises Atlassian servers (self-described: Ran on-premises Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket until 2023), Hacker News comment, published Aug 17, 2026
  34. A series: Fun with Atlassian Cloud Ecosystem & AIKesavan Narayan, runs their company's Atlassian Cloud admin function (self-described: Enterprise move from Jira Data Center to Atlassian Cloud), Personal blog post, Medium, published Aug 7, 2026
  35. Comment on: Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controlssubscribed, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Hacker News comment, published Aug 6, 2026
  36. Comment on: Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controlswell_ackshually, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Hacker News comment, published Aug 6, 2026
  37. Comment on: Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controlskhanan, Hacker News commenter who led a 3, 500-user migration (self-described: 3,500 users moved off Atlassian products), Hacker News comment, published Aug 5, 2026
  38. Comment on: Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controlspram, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Hacker News comment, published Aug 5, 2026
  39. Comment on: Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controlsjerf, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Hacker News comment, published Aug 5, 2026
  40. Comment on: Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing ControlsExoticPearTree, Hacker News commenter answering security questions at work (self-described: Rovo connected to Google Docs or SharePoint), Hacker News comment, published Aug 5, 2026
  41. Comment on: Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controlsangeldimitrov94, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Hacker News comment, published Aug 5, 2026
  42. Comment on: Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controlscrnkofe, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Hacker News comment, published Aug 5, 2026
  43. Comment on: Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controlscucumber3732842, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Hacker News comment, published Aug 5, 2026
  44. Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing ControlsPromptArmor, AI security research firm (self-described: Security test of Rovo against an organization's Jira tickets and Confluence documents), Security research blog post, PromptArmor, published Aug 5, 2026
  45. The Quadmire of Jira Adminnetean, Reddit user, Jira admin for 10+ years (self-described: New organization on a new Jira Cloud site), Reddit post, published Jul 28, 2026
  46. G2 review: Confluence + Jira Links Keep Decisions Clear and Easy to TraceClara C., G2 reviewer (self-described: Team linking Confluence pages to Jira tickets and onboarding new staff), G2 review, republished on AWS Marketplace, published Jul 27, 2026
  47. Comment on: Jira launches system for AI-native software developmentverdverm, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Hacker News comment, published Jul 15, 2026
  48. How FINEOS Connected SharePoint and ConfluenceAlyssa Bowers, FINEOS team member (self-described: FINEOS's CISO organization using Confluence with SharePoint and Rovo), Customer case study, YouTube, published Jun 26, 2026
  49. Comment on: Atlassian "Data Contribution" - Privacy and Welfareyells_jovially, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Hacker News comment, published Jun 15, 2026
  50. Comment on: If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effortdwd, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Hacker News comment, published Jun 12, 2026
  51. Comment on: Programmers will document for Claude, but not for each otherp2detar, Hacker News commenter (self-described: Team wiki in Confluence and Jira), Hacker News comment, published Jun 5, 2026
  52. Rovo success storiesBlondBot, Reddit user, documentation department (self-described: Product documentation team writing release notes in Confluence), Reddit post, published Jun 4, 2026
  53. Comment on: Jira Is Turing-Completeonion2k, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Hacker News comment, published May 25, 2026
  54. Comment on: Atlassian enables default data collection to train AIkevcampb, Hacker News commenter administering Atlassian instances (self-described: Administers several Atlassian Cloud instances), Hacker News comment, published Apr 20, 2026
  55. Comment on: Atlassian enables default data collection to train AIcarld, Hacker News commenter with Atlassian Administration access (self-described: Organization admin), Hacker News comment, published Apr 20, 2026
  56. Comment on: Atlassian enables default data collection to train AIshadowgovt, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Hacker News comment, published Apr 20, 2026
  57. Comment on: Atlassian enables default data collection to train AIrdedev, Hacker News commenter (self-described: Pharma company, regulated investigation reports in Jira and Confluence), Hacker News comment, published Apr 20, 2026
  58. Comment on: Anyone actually using Rovo daily?Snoo-86489, Reddit commenter (self-described: Jira automation work), Reddit comment, published Apr 17, 2026
  59. Comment on: Exploring Atlassian Rovo AI - Experiences, Tips, and ChallengesCrispin Bayross, Atlassian Community member (self-described: Using Rovo for summarizing, drafting, and searching), Atlassian Community comment, published Apr 16, 2026
  60. Comment on: An AI Vibe Coding Horror Storyconsumer451, Hacker News commenter (self-described: Solo projects), Hacker News comment, published Apr 14, 2026
  61. Comment on: Anyone actually using Rovo daily?dessydes, Reddit commenter (self-described: New employee at a company that works in Confluence and Jira), Reddit comment, published Apr 11, 2026
  62. Comment on: Anyone actually using Rovo daily?ByronScottJones, Reddit commenter, DevOps engineer (self-described: Confluence how-to pages for DevOps engineers), Reddit comment, published Apr 11, 2026
  63. Comment on: Anyone actually using Rovo daily?aedeye, Reddit commenter (self-described: Organization with extensive Confluence documentation), Reddit comment, published Apr 11, 2026
  64. Comment on: Anyone actually using Rovo daily?tekn0viking, Reddit commenter (self-described: Service desk tickets in Jira), Reddit comment, published Apr 11, 2026
  65. Comment on: Anyone actually using Rovo daily?anyelo-cp, Reddit commenter, Jira admin and automation consultant (self-described: Organization running Rovo agents in several Jira projects), Reddit comment, published Apr 10, 2026
  66. Comment on: Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?Sohcahtoa82, Hacker News commenter (self-described: Claude Desktop connected to Confluence at work), Hacker News comment, published Mar 24, 2026
  67. Comment on: Atlassian says it had right to fire engineer for suggesting CEO is 'rich jerk'array_key_first, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Hacker News comment, published Mar 22, 2026
  68. Collaborative workspace has improved cross-team documentation and now supports structured projectsPatrik Rosendahl, PeerSpot reviewer (self-described: Jira and Confluence with external companies in their own areas), Independent review, PeerSpot, published Mar 19, 2026
  69. Comment on: How do you capture WHY engineering decisions were made, not just what?hiyer, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Hacker News comment, published Mar 14, 2026
  70. Comment on: An important update on our teamandrekandre, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Hacker News comment, published Mar 12, 2026
  71. Comment on: Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI000ooo000, Hacker News commenter (self-described: Cloud edition, after about ten years including on-premises use), Hacker News comment, published Mar 12, 2026
  72. Comment on: Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AIccosky, Hacker News commenter (self-described: Senior software engineer in the US), Hacker News comment, published Mar 12, 2026
  73. Comment on: Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AItaurath, Hacker News commenter (self-described: Team encouraged by its employer to use Rovo), Hacker News comment, published Mar 12, 2026
  74. Comment on: Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI_bypa, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Hacker News comment, published Mar 12, 2026
  75. updateConfluencePage / createConfluencePage unusable for large pagesDariusz Szwarc, GitHub user at TomTom (self-described: Agent-written RFCs and technical design docs in Confluence, with Claude Code), GitHub issue on atlassian/atlassian-mcp-server, published Mar 11, 2026
  76. Editing content via Rovo MCP causes the loss of all ADF-rich contentAdriano Caloiaro, GitHub user (self-described: AI agents editing Jira issues and Confluence pages through the Rovo MCP server), GitHub issue on atlassian/atlassian-mcp-server, published Feb 15, 2026
  77. Comment on: Xcode 26.3 - Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcodeandrekandre, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Hacker News comment, published Feb 3, 2026
  78. Disable Rovo prompt in Confluence?ananbd, Reddit user (self-described: Writing in the Confluence editor), Reddit post, published Jan 24, 2026
  79. Comment on: Updates to our web search products and Programmable Search Engine capabilitiespjc50, Hacker News commenter (self-described: Company intranet on Confluence), Hacker News comment, published Jan 23, 2026
  80. Comment on: cURL removes bug bountiesfredrikholm, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Hacker News comment, published Jan 21, 2026
  81. Comment on: cURL removes bug bountiesarionmiles, Hacker News commenter (self-described: Many team wikis on Confluence Cloud), Hacker News comment, published Jan 21, 2026
  82. Comment on: Ask HN: Does Confluence still suck today?tim-tday, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Hacker News comment, published Dec 28, 2025
  83. Comment on: Ask HN: Does Confluence still suck today?PaulHoule, Hacker News commenter (self-described: Documents work in Jira tickets and leaves Confluence unused), Hacker News comment, published Dec 27, 2025
  84. My path to my first coded Rovo agentLissa Franzini, Agile coach (self-described: Team performance analysis agent), Personal blog post, Medium, published Dec 3, 2025
  85. Rovo is an excellent tool for retrieving informationDavid Burnett, Software Engineer at Washington University in St. Louis (self-described: IT organization's Confluence pages and Jira boards), X post, published Nov 22, 2025
  86. Comment on: Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlashlobsterthief, Hacker News commenter (self-described: Company wiki on Confluence, searched daily), Hacker News comment, published Nov 21, 2025
  87. Comment on: Is Rovo Useful? How do you use it?pclark2, Reddit commenter (self-described: Jira automation that parses structured tickets), Reddit comment, published Nov 7, 2025
  88. Comment on: Is Rovo Useful? How do you use it?NegativePenalty5941, Reddit commenter (self-described: Support ticket analysis in Jira), Reddit comment, published Nov 7, 2025
  89. How to build an AI-ready knowledge base: Migrating data from Confluence to AzureAshwin Mattur, Principal Consultant at Thoughtworks, with Vinay Chaudhari and Aakash Jha (Thoughtworks AIOps team, a pipeline that copies Confluence spaces daily into Azure storage and search for retrieval-augmented generation), Company engineering blog post, Thoughtworks, published Nov 6, 2025
  90. Comment on: I'm drowning in AI features I never asked for and I hate itbravetraveler, Hacker News commenter (self-described: Company Atlassian Cloud instance), Hacker News comment, published Oct 27, 2025
  91. Comment on: I'm drowning in AI features I never asked for and I hate itPeterHolzwarth, Hacker News commenter (self-described: Company wiki on Confluence), Hacker News comment, published Oct 26, 2025
  92. Comment on: I'm drowning in AI features I never asked for and I hate itYizahi, Hacker News commenter (self-described: Company moved from on-premises Confluence to Confluence Cloud), Hacker News comment, published Oct 26, 2025
  93. Fuck Atlassian, and Fuck AIpmbrandvold, Reddit user, sysadmin (self-described: Atlassian tenant administrator), Reddit post, published Oct 22, 2025
  94. Project Management with Confluence and JiraAnkush, Shorthills AI team lead (self-described: A distributed technology team working across the US, Canada, Argentina, and India), Team case study, YouTube, published Oct 17, 2025
  95. Manage projects effectively with seamless task tracking and integration, but deployment requires familiarityTalha Hussain, PeerSpot reviewer (self-described: All project management on Atlassian tools), Independent review, PeerSpot, published Oct 6, 2025
  96. Comment on: Would you trust AI to query and act on your company data?auslegung, Hacker News commenter (self-described: Atlassian search across connected apps), Hacker News comment, published Sep 30, 2025
  97. Comment on: Jiratui - A Textual UI for interacting with Atlassian Jira from your shellmr_mitm, Hacker News commenter (self-described: Team Confluence pages), Hacker News comment, published Sep 11, 2025
  98. Comment on: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Companyblackqueeriroh, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Hacker News comment, published Sep 5, 2025
  99. Comment on: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser CompanyEsophagus4, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Hacker News comment, published Sep 4, 2025
  100. Comment on: If you're remote, rambleDrillShopper, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Hacker News comment, published Aug 4, 2025
  101. Comment on: Why is AI so slow to spread?SAI_Peregrinus, Hacker News commenter (self-described: Employer uses Glean alongside Jira and Confluence), Hacker News comment, published Jul 18, 2025
  102. Comment on: Ask HN: Is every company's internal wiki just broken by default?NanaAmun, Hacker News commenter (self-described: Fortune 500 company wiki on Confluence), Hacker News comment, published Jul 9, 2025
  103. Comment on: Ask HN: Is every company's internal wiki just broken by default?muzani, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Hacker News comment, published Jul 9, 2025
  104. Comment on: Ask HN: Is every company's internal wiki just broken by default?Rastonbury, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Hacker News comment, published Jul 9, 2025
  105. Comment on: I deleted my second brainmrweasel, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Hacker News comment, published Jun 28, 2025
  106. Comment on: Ask HN: How do you store the knowledge gained in a day?coolcase, Hacker News commenter (self-described: Confluence personal and team spaces at work), Hacker News comment, published May 13, 2025
  107. Comment on: Claude Integrationsdeanc, Hacker News commenter advising client organisations (self-described: Advises client organizations on tools), Hacker News comment, published May 1, 2025
  108. Comment on: Ask HN: How do you prevent documentation from becoming tribal knowledge?sky2224, Hacker News commenter (self-described: Company documentation in Confluence), Hacker News comment, published Apr 14, 2025
  109. Comment on: Ask HN: Do you still use search engines?foobahify, Hacker News commenter (self-described: Employer is a heavy Confluence and Rovo user), Hacker News comment, published Apr 8, 2025
  110. Comment on: What the heck is MCP? And why is everybody talking about it?atonse, Founder and CEO of Kaizen (self-described: Founder and CEO of Kaizen, hiring remote developers), Hacker News comment, published Mar 26, 2025
  111. Comment on: Docs - Open source alternative to Notion or Outlinertpg, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Hacker News comment, published Mar 16, 2025
  112. Comment on: Users don't care about your tech stack2OEH8eoCRo0, Hacker News commenter (self-described: Employer uses Jira and Confluence), Hacker News comment, published Feb 21, 2025
  113. Comment on: Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation (2019)0xbadcafebee, Hacker News commenter (self-described: Operations runbooks kept in Confluence), Hacker News comment, published Feb 9, 2025
  114. Real-time editing and seamless integration enhance documentation managementVenkata Raghuram Challa, PeerSpot reviewer (self-described: Company with its own Jira admin team), Independent review, PeerSpot, published Jan 26, 2025
  115. Editing features improve document accessibilityRabindra K Maharana, PeerSpot reviewer (self-described: Project team documentation and team structure pages), Independent review, PeerSpot, published Jan 26, 2025

Jan 2025 to Oct 2026.

101 sources from practitioners, by month and sentiment.

The full readExplore all Confluence Signals5 praise themes, 6 concerns, 2 points of agreement and 2 disagreements across all three groups, with all 115 sources open to inspect.

Where It Fits

Where does Confluence belong in the stack?

Open Where It Fits: the Stack Field and the full map

Confluence is Core across Find and Create, supports Assist and Automate, and touches Analyze.

Business area
Company-wide
Function
Knowledge Work
Operating stack
AI Knowledge Work
Primary role
Team Wiki with Built-In AI Search & Agents
Confluence beside the rest of its stackThe Stack Field, every product on every layer
FootprintConfluence across the AI Knowledge Work stack. Bar height is its role on each layer.

  1. Assist

    1. AI assistant: Supports

      AI assistant, supports. Rovo Chat answers, drafts, and reasons in Quick answer, Think deeper, and Deep Research modes across Confluence, the browser extension, Slack, Teams, and the desktop and mobile apps. It is grounded in company content, so open-ended personal assistant work stays with a general assistant.

  2. Find

    1. Web research: Touches

      Web research, touches. Agents can use web search when an admin allows it. Deep Research writes cited reports in up to 15 minutes from company knowledge, connected apps, and uploaded files. Cited research across the public web belongs to a research tool.

    2. Enterprise search: Core

      Enterprise search, core. Rovo Search returns Confluence, Jira, and connected-app results in one list under each user's permissions at no credit cost, and Rovo Chat answers from the same sources. Atlassian lists 56 connectors, including Google Drive, SharePoint, Slack, GitHub, and Notion. Indexed objects are capped at 100, 250, or 625 per user by plan.

  3. Create

    1. Documents: Core

      Documents, core. This is Confluence's home layer: pages, live docs, whiteboards, and databases in spaces with page and space permissions. Rovo drafts, rewrites, summarizes, and turns pages into slides and visuals in the editor.

    2. Meeting notes: Touches

      Meeting notes, touches. Confluence holds meeting pages, and the Meeting Insights Reporter agent adds summaries and action items. Loom or a dedicated meeting tool handles recording and transcription.

  4. Analyze

    1. Data analysis: Touches

      Data analysis, touches. Rovo Chat analyzes and charts Excel, CSV, and Confluence tables and databases. Atlassian Analytics comes with Enterprise. Atlassian's documentation says Chat does not analyze unstructured content such as pages, so warehouse analysis stays with an analytics tool.

  5. Automate

    1. Automation: Supports

      Automation, supports. Studio agents answer questions, follow multi-step scenarios, and act in Jira and Confluence with the user's permissions. Automation flows can call them on Confluence and Jira events. Multi-step automation across many outside apps stays with an automation platform.

Market mapThe layers Confluence covers, and who else owns each one.

  1. Enterprise search & company knowledge

    CoreFind

  2. Writing & documents

    CoreCreate

  3. General AI assistant

    SupportsAssist

  4. Workflow automation & agents

    SupportsAutomate

  5. Web research & cited answers

    TouchesFind

2 more layers on the full map. Core, Supports and Touches describe coverage. They say nothing about quality.

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