# Confluence vs NoteDiscovery — Fit & Features

Canonical: https://trutool.co/compare/confluence-vs-notediscovery
Author: Sandeep (https://trutool.co/authors/sandeep)

Compare Confluence and NoteDiscovery by use case, features, limitations, and evaluation questions.

## Compare fit, features, and limitations

### Confluence
Team documentation and knowledge sharing.
Best fit: Teams maintaining reusable knowledge considering Confluence for this job: Team documentation and knowledge sharing.
- Team documentation and knowledge sharing
Before you choose: Test search relevance, content ownership, freshness, access boundaries, and usable exports in the exact plan you intend to use.
Pricing: https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence
- [Read Confluence profile](https://trutool.co/tools/confluence): Read Confluence profile

### NoteDiscovery
Self-hosted Markdown knowledge base with AI assistant integration (MCP) for Claude & Cursor, wikilinks, graph view, drawing editor, LaTeX, Mermaid — free and open source.
Best fit: People and teams evaluating documentation & knowledge bases for a specific workflow.
- Knowledge workflows
- Editing
Before you choose: Test a representative task, inspect outputs, and confirm integrations, permissions, data handling, licensing, and current costs.
Pricing: https://www.notediscovery.com/
- [Read NoteDiscovery profile](https://trutool.co/tools/notediscovery): Read NoteDiscovery profile