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Confluence vs Docusaurus: What are the differences?
What is Confluence? One place to share, find, and collaborate on information. Capture the knowledge that's too often lost in email inboxes and shared network drives in Confluence instead – where it's easy to find, use, and update.
What is Docusaurus? Easy to maintain open source documentation websites. Docusaurus is a project for easily building, deploying, and maintaining open source project websites.
Confluence can be classified as a tool in the "Project Management" category, while Docusaurus is grouped under "Documentation as a Service & Tools".
Some of the features offered by Confluence are:
- Spaces
- Pages
- Editor
On the other hand, Docusaurus provides the following key features:
- Powered by Markdown
- Built using React
- Ready for translations
Docusaurus is an open source tool with 12.4K GitHub stars and 1.11K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Docusaurus's open source repository on GitHub.
Facebook, Netflix, and Lyft are some of the popular companies that use Confluence, whereas Docusaurus is used by Facebook, Merengue Merengue, and Config Cat. Confluence has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1172 company stacks & 655 developers stacks; compared to Docusaurus, which is listed in 4 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.
Pros of Confluence
- Wiki search power94
- WYSIWYG editor62
- Full featured, works well with embedded docs43
- Expensive licenses3
Pros of Docusaurus
- Self Hosted7
- Open Source7
- MDX3
- Free to use3
- Easy customization3
- Jamstack3
- React3
- I18n2
- Versioning2
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Cons of Confluence
- Expensive license3