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Open source alternatives to Confluence

We track 7 open-source Confluence alternatives, of which 4 currently score 70 or above on Repoly's GitHub health scale and 5 ship a Docker image. Outline leads on health at 98/100 with 584 commits in the last 90 days; across all 7 projects you are choosing between AGPL-3.0, BUSL-1.1, GPL-2.0 and 2 other licences.

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Alternatives
97k
Combined stars
1,765
Commits / 90 days
5
With Docker
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Showing 7 of 7 tools

All 7 Confluence alternatives, ranked by health

  • Top pick · highest health

    Outline

    98 GOOD

    Extensible wiki for your team.

    ★ 41k · ⟳ today · v1.10.1 · BUSL-1.1

    DockerNodejs
    Website ↗ Source ↗

  • XWiki

    92 GOOD

    Second generation wiki that allows the user to extend its functionalities with a powerful extension-based architecture.

    ★ 1.3k · ⟳ today · xwiki-platform-17.10.13 · LGPL-2.1

    DockerJavadeb
    Website ↗ Source ↗

  • Dokuwiki

    85 GOOD

    Easy to use, lightweight, standards-compliant wiki engine with a simple syntax allowing reading the data outside the wiki. All data is stored in plain text files, therefore no database is required.

    ★ 4.7k · ⟳ 5 days ago · release-2026-07-14c · GPL-2.0

    PHP
    Website ↗ Source ↗

  • Wiki.js

    63 SLOWING

    Modern, lightweight and powerful wiki app using Git and Markdown.

    ★ 29k · ⟳ today · v2.5.314 · AGPL-3.0

    DockerNodejsK8S
    Website ↗ Source ↗

  • Mediawiki

    10 STALE

    Wiki software package that powers Wikipedia and all other Wikimedia projects, serving hundreds of millions of users each month.

    GPL-2.0

    PHP
    Website ↗ Source ↗

Confluence alternatives: common questions

What is the most maintained open source alternative to Confluence?

Outline scores highest at 98/100, with 584 commits in the last 90 days, 41k GitHub stars and its latest release (v1.10.1) published 5 days ago. XWiki has the most raw commit activity at 959 commits in 90 days.

Which Confluence alternatives use a permissive licence?

1 of 7 are permissively licensed (MIT, Apache, BSD or similar): BookStack (MIT). 5 use copyleft licences such as GPL or AGPL, which require you to publish changes if you distribute a modified version.

Which Confluence alternatives run in Docker?

5 of 7 publish a Docker image or Compose file: Outline, docmost Community Edition, XWiki, Wiki.js, BookStack. Docker support contributes 10 of the 100 available health points, because it is the clearest signal that self-hosting is a supported path rather than an afterthought.