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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.

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Pros of Confluence
Pros of Docusaurus
  • 94
    Wiki search power
  • 62
    WYSIWYG editor
  • 43
    Full featured, works well with embedded docs
  • 3
    Expensive licenses
  • 7
    Self Hosted
  • 7
    Open Source
  • 3
    MDX
  • 3
    Free to use
  • 3
    Easy customization
  • 3
    Jamstack
  • 3
    React
  • 2
    I18n
  • 2
    Versioning

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Cons of Confluence
Cons of Docusaurus
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    Expensive license
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    What is Confluence?

    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?

    Docusaurus is a project for easily building, deploying, and maintaining open source project websites.

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