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Confluence vs Jira: What are the differences?

What is Confluence? One place to share, find, and collaborate on information. Capture the knowledge that's too often lost in email inboxes and shared network drives in Confluence instead – where it's easy to find, use, and update.

What is Jira? The #1 software development tool used by agile teams to plan, track, and release great software. Jira's secret sauce is the way it simplifies the complexities of software development into manageable units of work Jira comes out-of-the-box with everything agile teams need to ship value to customers faster..

Confluence and Jira are primarily classified as "Project Management" and "Issue Tracking" tools respectively.

"Wiki search power" is the primary reason why developers consider Confluence over the competitors, whereas "Powerful" was stated as the key factor in picking Jira.

Pinterest, Twitter, and Coursera are some of the popular companies that use Jira, whereas Confluence is used by Facebook, Netflix, and LinkedIn. Jira has a broader approval, being mentioned in 2090 company stacks & 1470 developers stacks; compared to Confluence, which is listed in 1152 company stacks and 628 developer stacks.

Decisions about Confluence and Jira
Christopher Cooke
CEO at Old Street Solutions · | 9 upvotes · 57.8K views

Jira 's dashboards are great, but for wider collaboration, reporting to management, and to avoid informational siloes, Confluence is a wonderful place to share Jira Dashboards.

Atlassian Consultant Prodigy, Tom Harris, shares his thoughts on all the options for creating the best Jira reports in Confluence in the blog below.

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Jakub Olan
Node.js Software Engineer · | 4 upvotes · 299.7K views

YouTrack feels much more lightweight than Jira and additionally have all of features that Jira have, of course lacks at some analytics features, but it's more powerful at permission management and agile workflow. Additionally YouTrack have awesome integration with other JetBrains products such as incoming JetBrains Space and all other IDEs such as GoLand.

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Pros of Confluence
Pros of Jira
  • 94
    Wiki search power
  • 62
    WYSIWYG editor
  • 43
    Full featured, works well with embedded docs
  • 3
    Expensive licenses
  • 310
    Powerful
  • 254
    Flexible
  • 149
    Easy separation of projects
  • 113
    Run in the cloud
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    Code integration
  • 57
    Easy to use
  • 52
    Run on your own
  • 39
    Great customization
  • 38
    Easy Workflow Configuration
  • 27
    REST API
  • 12
    Great Agile Management tool
  • 7
    Integrates with virtually everything
  • 6
    Confluence
  • 5
    Complicated
  • 3
    Sentry Issues Integration

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Cons of Confluence
Cons of Jira
  • 3
    Expensive license
  • 8
    Rather expensive
  • 5
    Large memory requirement
  • 2
    Slow
  • 1
    Cloud or Datacenter only

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What is Confluence?

Capture the knowledge that's too often lost in email inboxes and shared network drives in Confluence instead – where it's easy to find, use, and update.

What is Jira?

Jira's secret sauce is the way it simplifies the complexities of software development into manageable units of work. Jira comes out-of-the-box with everything agile teams need to ship value to customers faster.

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