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Confluence alternatives

2 open-source projects that already do this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.

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The projects

documize/community2,415AGPL-3.0Self-hosted documentation and wiki platform for internal and external docs with team collaboration features.Open on GitHub AIDotNet/OpenDeepWiki3,515MITModular knowledge management and collaboration platform with extensible C# backend and TypeScript frontend.Open on GitHub

What you give up either way

Enterprise compliance certifications (FedRAMP etc.)
Large ecosystem marketplace of apps and integrations
Enterprise-grade, highly-resilient global infrastructure and SLAs
Years of product polish, templates, and admin tooling

An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches Confluence, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.