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Atlassian Confluence vs Jive comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 23, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Atlassian Confluence
Ranking in Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals)
2nd
Ranking in Enterprise Social Software
3rd
Ranking in Knowledge Management Software
2nd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
109
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Jive
Ranking in Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals)
7th
Ranking in Enterprise Social Software
7th
Ranking in Knowledge Management Software
14th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Content Management (28th), Web Content Management (20th), Enterprise Intranet (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) category, the mindshare of Atlassian Confluence is 15.4%, up from 13.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Jive is 8.0%, up from 3.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Atlassian Confluence15.4%
Jive8.0%
Other76.6%
Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals)
 

Featured Reviews

Talha Hussain. - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
Manage projects effectively with seamless task tracking and integration, but deployment requires familiarity
We are conducting all our project management using Atlassian tools. We use Atlassian Confluence for task management, reporting, visualization of tasks, and reviewing the progress of tickets and work I use Atlassian Confluence for task management and other project management tasks, such as…
GD
VP - International Business at Amtex S.A.
A flexible solution that improves our administrative efficiency
We use Jive-n for followups on details regarding purchase orders, shipping documents, and other information We are able to handle more than one hundred POs at any given time with their shipping docs and info, with only one person in charge. This solution provides great flexibility of permission…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Documenting everything related to the project is good for me. It enables me to use rich text to document, insert macros and links, highlight with different colors, and organize pages in a hierarchical way."
"This is a good product which beds itself into the enterprise very quickly."
"The solution helped us to see where we were going wrong and where we were doing good, and that helped us to make proper decisions"
"The most beneficial aspect is real-time collaboration, allowing multiple users to work on the same documents simultaneously."
"This document collaboration platform makes it flexible to reach your documents at any time, with no time or location limitation, so you can access your documents whenever and wherever you want."
"JIRA has allowed my organization to aggregate our entire portfolio into one system and to eliminate five other disparate solutions."
"With Confluence, everything is in one place, so it's easy to find documentation."
"It's the best application to document all types of information."
"Colleagues are more informed, it is easier to find content, and silo breaking has significantly improved our collaboration."
"In comparison to other platforms, Jive-n provides the fastest way to integrate new affiliates into your organization."
"Jive came out on top for feature, price, and ability to meet regulatory needs."
"We recently rebranded our organization and used this tool as our primary channel."
"The platform works well to collaborate with creating documents or media for a specific goal."
"Various business groups were able to collaborate effectively using this tool."
"We are able to handle more than one hundred POs at any given time with their shipping docs and info, with only one person in charge."
"Jive-n offers the best curated experience of the social-based content for enterprises."
 

Cons

"There needs to be a flexible pricing model, where we can pick and choose services and customize our pricing model."
"I would like to see the ability for each user to config his own home page."
"The product should have a workflow with approvals out-of-the-box."
"There are some issues with performance when creating tables."
"There's room for improvement in the way folders are structured in Atlassian Confluence."
"I don't find some of the things that intuitive."
"The user interface is a little bit stale. The file attachments and how they work could be improved. There is also room for improvement when it comes to CDNs."
"The area that needs improvement is the search capability. It should have generalized capabilities."
"Create a better way of adding users in bulk by email address."
"Standard Silver technical support is similar to standard support by all vendors, i.e., not quick enough."
"A visual navigator would be very useful as many colleagues have an issue to find their way and connect the dots."
"Stream activity could be better organized."
"The search engine could be improved and also provide some kind of indexing."
"Jive-n can improve their integration, plugins and democratize their configuration abilities."
"We had major performance issues when our user base went up."
"The mobile app could be better."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Pricing wise, it ends up being an expensive solution. In the beginning it's cheap, but by the time you have all the functions you need, it turns out to be expensive."
"The issues I have with the pricing are in respect to the add-ons."
"The Confluence pricing is good. The only challenge we have experienced is with Jira and the add ons we use that need to be paid for separately."
"When you purchase this solution you get some support."
"There are some cases where you can go on Confluence as a public site without a license, but you will not have all of the features. You can also have a Confluence site that does not require a license just to read the articles. When you have Jira Service Management attached to Confluence, then you can go through the portal of Jira Service Management and read the Confluence articles without the license. This is good because when you are in an ITSM environment, you have many customers, and you do not want them to have to pay just to read articles. Regarding the use of the full features of Confluence, there is a license cost, and it depends on how many users you want."
"Licenses are quite expensive"
"To my knowledge, Atlassian Confluence had a pricing approach which is a commercial open-source solution, so that if you are a company, you had to pay an amount. This fee was not huge compared to other traditional solutions, and it was free for personal use or if you were an individual."
"The product is neither cheap nor expensive, meaning its price falls somewhere in the mid-range zone."
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Comparison Review

it_user8925 - PeerSpot reviewer
Developer with 51-200 employees
Aug 23, 2013
Jive vs Sharepoint vs Drupal Commons
At Mediacurrent we often get requests to compare Drupal to other platforms used for intranet sites and social business platforms (like https://dev.twitter.com/ for example). This is often referred to as “Social Business Software”, which has grown in popularity in recent years. I decided to do a…
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Construction Company
10%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Construction Company
22%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Comms Service Provider
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business40
Midsize Enterprise27
Large Enterprise54
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Large Enterprise5
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Atlassian Confluence?
Money is a factor because Atlassian Confluence is not free. I need to purchase extra components when adding new projects or employees.
What needs improvement with Atlassian Confluence?
Much of the room for improvement lies not with the tool itself but with how people are using it. In many cases where we have had issues, it has been based on the lack of structure. The company usin...
What is your primary use case for Atlassian Confluence?
We are using Jira as an asset management and ticketing system along with Confluence. We have significant portions of the Atlassian system implemented. Atlassian Confluence is used as a Wiki for Jir...
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Also Known As

Confluence
Clearspace, Jive SBS, Jive Engage, Jive-x, Jive-n
 

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Sample Customers

Facebook, Skype, Microsoft, NASA, Netflix, Adobe, Bonobos, LinkedIn, Pfizer, Citi.
Eloqua, Hitachi Data Systems,T-Mobile, UBM, Thomson-Reuters, Groupon, Nike, Cisco, and others.
Find out what your peers are saying about Atlassian Confluence vs. Jive and other solutions. Updated: September 2026.
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