Both products host a team knowledge base, and their pricing pages reveal different assumptions about who reads and who edits.
TL;DR
Confluence sells a managed wiki: Free for up to 10 users with 2 GB of storage, Standard at $5.42 per user a month with 250 GB, Premium at $10.44 with unlimited storage and a 99.9% uptime SLA, Enterprise by quote. Notion sells a workspace where documents and databases are the same object: Free at $0, Plus at $10, Business at $20 per member a month. Pick Confluence when documentation has to sit next to Jira and hold enterprise permissions; pick Notion when the wiki is one surface among several.
Confluence's tiers are Free at $0 for up to 10 users with 2 GB of storage and community-only support, Standard at $5.42 per user a month with 250 GB, guest access at five guests per paid user, 100 automation runs a month and 9/5 regional support, and Premium at $10.44 per user a month with unlimited storage, unlimited whiteboards, 1,000 automation runs per user and 24/7 support with a one-hour response on critical issues plus a 99.9% uptime SLA. Enterprise is quoted annually and adds multiple sites, analytics and a 99.95% SLA. Paid tiers bundle Atlassian's Rovo AI under a monthly credit allowance, and Atlassian's page sets the per-user rate through a team-size control, so the figures move with headcount.
Notion prices per member instead: Free at $0 for individuals, Plus at $10, Business at $20 per member a month, Enterprise by quote. The free tier already carries databases with subtasks, dependencies and custom properties; Plus adds basic connections; Business adds the automations that handle repetitive work. AI runs on credits at $10 per 1,000 monthly Notion credits after the trial, custom domains for Sites cost $8 a month per domain billed annually, and a Workers beta lets a team extend the workspace with its own code.
| Feature | Confluence | Notion |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | $0 for up to 10 users, 2 GB storage, community support | $0 per member with databases and properties included |
| Entry paid plan | Standard at $5.42 per user/month, 250 GB | Plus at $10 per member/month |
| Mid tier | Premium at $10.44 per user/month, unlimited storage | Business at $20 per member/month |
| Enterprise | Quoted annually, multiple sites, 99.95% SLA | Quoted by sales |
| AI pricing | Rovo credits bundled with paid tiers, around 25 per user on Standard | Free to try, then $10 per 1,000 monthly credits |
| Automation | 10 runs a month free, 100 on Standard, 1,000 per user on Premium | Included on the Business tier |
| Support | Community free, 9/5 regional on Standard, 24/7 with one-hour critical response on Premium | Help center and community; no tiered SLA published |
| Platform | Web app, mobile apps for iOS and Android | Web app, desktop app, mobile apps |
| Offline mode | Not covered on Atlassian's Confluence pricing page | Not covered on notion.so/pricing |
| Free-tier ceiling | 10 users and 2 GB of storage | Open for personal use; paid seats start with the team |
Pick Confluence if
Confluence keeps pages, permissions and approvals inside the same Atlassian account that holds Jira, and the pricing reflects an enterprise shape: guests at five per paid user, a 99.9% SLA at Premium and multi-site governance at Enterprise. Teams that already run Atlassian tooling usually find the administration and the audit story worth the per-seat cost.
Pick Notion if
Notion puts databases inside documents, so a spec, a roadmap table and a meeting log are edited in the same window, and the free tier is usable before any card is entered. Groups that want a wiki, a project board and a small internal app in one subscription tend to land here instead of paying per reader.
No independent reviews or user ratings were collected for Confluence or Notion on this page; the bullets are each vendor's own plan wording. Confluence figures come from Atlassian's published pricing tables on its Confluence pricing page, which renders dynamically, so they were cross-checked against three independent 2026 pricing breakdowns; Notion figures come from notion.so/pricing.
Confluence's entry tier is cheaper per seat: Standard at $5.42 per user a month against Notion's Plus at $10 per member. The order matters more for readers than editors, because Confluence's free tier stops at 10 users and 2 GB while Notion's free plan stays open for personal use.
Confluence is purpose-built as a wiki with page permissions, guest access at five per paid user, 250 GB on Standard and unlimited storage on Premium. Notion builds the same knowledge base out of pages and databases, which gives more flexibility but puts automations behind its $20 Business tier.
Confluence bundles Atlassian's Rovo into paid tiers under a monthly credit allowance, roughly 25 credits per user on Standard and about 70 on Premium. Notion meters AI separately at $10 per 1,000 monthly Notion credits once the trial ends.
Confluence's free plan covers up to 10 users with 2 GB of storage, three whiteboards per user, 10 automation runs a month and community-only support. Notion's free plan has no user cap for personal use and includes databases with subtasks, dependencies and custom properties.
Atlassian's pricing pages carry a team-size control, and the per-user rate shown for Standard and Premium is the rate at that headcount; annual billing is advertised at up to 17% below monthly. Treat the listed figures as list rates for a stated team size rather than a flat per-seat price.
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