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Atlassian Confluence vs Chatter comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 23, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Atlassian Confluence
Ranking in Enterprise Social Software
3rd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
109
Ranking in other categories
Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) (2nd), Knowledge Management Software (2nd)
Chatter
Ranking in Enterprise Social Software
14th
Average Rating
7.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.9
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Enterprise Social Software category, the mindshare of Atlassian Confluence is 6.5%, down from 9.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Chatter is 2.6%, down from 4.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Enterprise Social Software Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Atlassian Confluence6.5%
Chatter2.6%
Other90.9%
Enterprise Social Software
 

Featured Reviews

Talha Hussain. - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
Manage projects effectively with seamless task tracking and integration, but deployment requires familiarity
We are conducting all our project management using Atlassian tools. We use Atlassian Confluence for task management, reporting, visualization of tasks, and reviewing the progress of tickets and work I use Atlassian Confluence for task management and other project management tasks, such as…
it_user669357 - PeerSpot reviewer
Salesforce Senior Cloud Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Contextualized collaboration on records allows you to have historical conversations that are accessible by other users.
Chatter is a great way to connect your users, especially if your team is working in multiple time zones or locations. If you're struggling with why to use collaboration tools at all, I'd suggest you watch this video. One the best examples that I've seen is a property team who were managing the entire process from leasing properties with branding to shop merges via Salesforce. All of their notifications were email-based and they were getting 100s per day. By moving these alerts to automated posts into particular groups, the users could not only access multiple updates by using digests instead of per alert, but also choose to control who (group members) and how often they get those alerts.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"It's easy to use and you can create all types of pages."
"The customization that Confluence offers is one of its most useful features. You can customise it based on the specific project you are working on. It also supports multiple languages."
"The solution is stable."
"Confluence is the BEST wiki on the market."
"As for valuable features, the team management features help us to share information very easily."
"Makes integration with other softwares or plugins easier."
"This solution allowed us to easily input details beyond just text, such as creating basic data charts to monitor team performance."
"It covers pretty much anything and everything we need and everything our marketing teams would need as well."
"The conversation function to engage different groups is the most valuable feature."
"Salesforce being the number one cloud-based CRM product, I think one can recommend it in the first go."
"It helped us to strengthen our digital community all over the world with a dedicated group to share project information and best practices."
"Salesforce Chatter allows for contextualized collaboration on records that allows you to have historical conversations, which are easily accessible by other users."
"I love the streaming feed of information from the people that I'm following that encourages collaboration at a business level."
"It is now possible to share information instantly with all the company without sending emails, but also looking for a topic using the search function."
"It offers more than what you are looking for, for example, file sharing and "mentions"."
 

Cons

"I would like to see the text editor upgraded from its current limited abilities."
"The product is considered expensive."
"Indentation and other basic word processing styles must be improved."
"There needs to be a flexible pricing model, where we can pick and choose services and customize our pricing model."
"Confluence cannot replace Microsoft Word at the moment, so even though it can be used as a document management system, it is not meant for document creation, which adds a lot of limitations to it."
"The standard table capability is substandard and virtually unusable."
"Some aspects of the drawing perspective could be improved."
"Maybe we're only using 10% of it, but we have to pay for everything."
"We would not select them again."
"Live consumption of the communication needs to be improved so that it can offer more features similar to Twitter/Slack, such as a live rolling news feed, notification bells (to avoid email alerts), ability to share multiple files or actions in one post, etc."
"The storage of documents was quite limited when we used the tool."
"I would rate the technical support a 7/10 because Salesforce has its own way of looking at technical issues and sometimes takes its own time to implement or release changes as per their convenience."
"Chatter invites should be possible from the UI on opportunity records."
"I wish an organization could create a company-wide Chatter that automatically follows everyone else in the company so that widespread access was guaranteed."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of the on-premises data center version is too expensive."
"I am using the paid version. My company has purchased it for company employees. We are using Confluence as a company. I don't know how much it costs, but its price is good enough. Its price is not so high."
"To my knowledge, Atlassian Confluence had a pricing approach which is a commercial open-source solution, so that if you are a company, you had to pay an amount. This fee was not huge compared to other traditional solutions, and it was free for personal use or if you were an individual."
"There is a license needed to use Atlassian Confluence."
"For us, it's free to use. We don't pay any licensing."
"We have to pay licensing fees."
"Licenses are quite expensive"
"Maybe we're only using 10% of it, but we have to pay for everything."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
13%
Construction Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Outsourcing Company
7%
Construction Company
19%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Comms Service Provider
12%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business40
Midsize Enterprise27
Large Enterprise54
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise1
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Atlassian Confluence?
Money is a factor because Atlassian Confluence is not free. I need to purchase extra components when adding new projects or employees.
What needs improvement with Atlassian Confluence?
Much of the room for improvement lies not with the tool itself but with how people are using it. In many cases where we have had issues, it has been based on the lack of structure. The company usin...
What is your primary use case for Atlassian Confluence?
We are using Jira as an asset management and ticketing system along with Confluence. We have significant portions of the Atlassian system implemented. Atlassian Confluence is used as a Wiki for Jir...
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Sample Customers

Facebook, Skype, Microsoft, NASA, Netflix, Adobe, Bonobos, LinkedIn, Pfizer, Citi.
Coca Cola Enterprise, Blue Shield of California, Stanley Black & Decker, Wells Fargo Bank, Phillips, Toyota Motors, American Red Cross, Time Warner Cable, Virgin America,Canon, and Bayer Pharmaceuticals.
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