August 2023
Confluence vs. Notion
Tired of workflows falling apart in Notion? Work seamlessly and ship faster with Confluence.
Compass offers a complete developer portal right out of the box:
Improve your DevEx with a unified catalog
Reduce cognitive load with a comprehensive software component catalog - track details like ownership, dependencies, docs, CICD events, and more
Get a complete picture of your DevOps health
Apply best practices at scale - measure health metrics, build and communicate policies, and empower teams to improve operations
Connect your data across your entire toolchain
Easily integrate all of your observability, CI/CD, OSS, cloud infrastructure data to save time searching and reduce context switching for your devs
Integrate best practices and ship faster with templates
Accelerate delivery and decrease toil with templates - integrate best practices and quickly build components along golden paths
All the features, none of the maintenance
Compass gives your engineering team all of the features without the expense. Backstage requires 4 full-stack engineers to properly setup and maintain your developer portal1. That’s roughly USD 1 million in annual costs to run Backstage in addition to infrastructure and hosting costs.
1 Spotify Senior Engineering Manager, “DEP Lowdown: How Spotify does DPE with Backstage”
Why choose Confluence over Notion?
Feature Comparison | Confluence | Notion |
|---|---|---|
| Mobile apps for iOS and Android | Confluence
| Notion
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| Real-time editor collaboration | Confluence
| Notion
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| Personal & team spaces | Confluence
| Notion
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| Templates for every role | Confluence
| Notion
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| Robust Jira integration | Confluence
| Notion
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| 1000s of apps and integrations | Confluence
| Notion
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| Admin controls across all paid plans | Confluence
| Notion
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| Homepage to track and quickly resume all work | Confluence
| Notion
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| Advanced search with unlimited version history | Confluence
| Notion
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| Free Admin tools for easy customization | Confluence
| Notion
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| Announcements and blogs for team synchrony | Confluence
| Notion
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| Automatic data retention | Compass
| Backstage
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| Default user and team management6 | Compass
| Backstage
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Backstage limitations: 1 Requires infrastructure provisioning and manual setup, manual upgrades, 2 Requires additional plugin, 3 Pay for hosting, 4 Additional billing costs from Spotify, 5 Self-hosted & patches required, 6 Plugin required
Companies of all shapes and sizes choose Compass
Compass is the largest internal developer platform, chosen by thousands of organizations to improve their developer experience. See why ExpressVPN relies on Compass to catalog its components and preserve a culture of autonomy.
Our developers are able to maintain autonomy over their services and keep up best practices, but most importantly we’ve reduced cognitive load by getting things out of our heads and into one unified place.
Confluence went from a tool used just by the Technology organization to an enterprise tool used by the entire company.
Josh Costella
Senior Solutions Specialist, Nextiva
Go beyond Notion’s limits
While Notion claims to be “all-in-one,” it overpromises and under-delivers. Confluence gives teams of any size the freedom to create the workflows that work best for them, with hundreds of integrations available.
Marketing
Plan it, create it, launch it. Collaborate seamlessly across the organization and hit your marketing goals every time.
Marketing
Plan it, create it, launch it. Collaborate seamlessly across the organization and hit your marketing goals every time.
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