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Monday.com vs Confluence

Side-by-side comparison · Updated 2026-03-30

Our VerdictMonday.com wins overall

Monday.com leads on our composite score — 4.5/5 on G2 vs Confluence's 4.1/5 — but the gap is meaningful at the category level.

Choose Monday.com if…

Choose Monday.com if your team focuses on project management and work management and fits a startup, scaleup profile. Starting at $12/user/mo/user/mo with a free tier. Highly visual and intuitive interface with color-coded boards — one of the easiest PM tools for non-technical teams to adopt

Choose Confluence if…

Choose Confluence if your team focuses on product requirements documentation and team wiki and fits a startup, scaleup profile. Starting at $6.05/user/mo/user/mo with a free tier. Deep native integration with Jira makes it the de facto documentation tool for teams already using Atlassian — Jira issues embed seamlessly in pages

Monday.com
by Monday.com
4.5
out of 5 · 15k+ G2 reviews
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Confluence
by Atlassian
4.1
out of 5 · 4k+ G2 reviews
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Feature Comparison

FeatureMonday.comConfluence
Category
work_management
documentation
G2 Score
4.5 / 5.0Better
4.1 / 5.0
G2 Reviews
15000
3600
Free Tier
Starting Price
$12/user/mo
$6.05/user/moBetter
Mobile App
AI Features
API Access
SSO / SAML
SOC 2
Learning Curve
moderate
moderate
Platforms
web, mac, windows, ios, android
web, mac, windows, ios, android

Pros & Cons

Monday.com

Pros
✓ Highly visual and intuitive interface with color-coded boards — one of the easiest PM tools for non-technical teams to adopt
✓ Exceptional flexibility with 200+ templates and 30+ column types, making it adaptable for product, marketing, HR, CRM, and operations use cases
✓ Powerful no-code automations and integrations allow teams to build sophisticated workflows without developer assistance
✓ Built-in Gantt charts, Kanban views, timeline views, calendar, and workload views available across plans — true multi-view work management
Cons
✗ Pricing adds up quickly — minimum 3 seats on paid plans and per-seat costs are higher than competitors like ClickUp or Asana
✗ Free plan is extremely limited at only 2 users and 3 boards, making it impractical for real team evaluation
✗ Automation runs are capped per plan tier (250/month on Standard, 25,000/month on Pro) — heavy automation users hit limits

Confluence

Pros
✓ Deep native integration with Jira makes it the de facto documentation tool for teams already using Atlassian — Jira issues embed seamlessly in pages
✓ Extensive template library with 100+ templates for PRDs, meeting notes, retrospectives, decision logs, and more — accelerates team onboarding
✓ Real-time collaborative editing with inline comments, @mentions, and page watching enables asynchronous team communication at scale
✓ Powerful space and page tree organization allows structured knowledge bases that scale from small teams to thousands of users
Cons
✗ Search functionality is frequently criticized — finding content across large instances with thousands of pages is unreliable and slow
✗ Page editor, while improved with the new editor, still feels less fluid than Notion or modern wiki tools for rapid content creation
✗ Information architecture degrades over time — spaces and pages become disorganized without dedicated governance and regular content audits

Frequently Asked Questions

It depends on your needs. Monday.com scores 4.5/5 on G2, while Confluence scores 4.1/5. Monday.com is better for project_management and work_management, while Confluence excels at product_requirements_documentation and team_wiki.
Monday.com starts at $12/user/mo per user/month with a free tier. Confluence starts at $6.05/user/mo per user/month with a free tier.
Monday.com supports 200 integrations, while Confluence supports 3,000.
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Data verified 2026-03-30. Some links may be affiliate links — see disclosure.