Compare Confluence Cloud and Data Center

Audit logs

Audit logs let administrators look at changes made to your site. This is useful when you need to troubleshoot a problem or keep a record of important events, like changes to global permissions.

IP allowlisting

Bolster your team’s security by limiting your site access to trusted IP ranges. Only available to Premium and Enterprise customers.

Sandbox

Prepare, test, and experiment with products & apps before making changes to your live production environment.

The sandbox gives you a realistic understanding of what your new feature might look like or how it works when released for your users.

Password policies

Password policies help ensure best practices for user-created passwords in Atlassian cloud products. This helps reduce the risk of security breaches.

Business continuity and disaster recovery

Our Disaster Recovery Program consists of a few key practices to ensure the appropriate levels of governance, oversight, and testing. 

Bulk archive pages

File away multiple outdated pages at once to keep page trees tidy. Only available to Premium and Enterprise customers.

Inspect permissions

Understand all active permissions for a specific user in one place so you can address issues quickly. Only available to Premium and Enterprise customers.

Admin insights

In Confluence Cloud you can gain visibility and a better understanding of your product usage with data such as level of security and access and activity over time. Only available to Premium and Enterprise customers.

Release tracks

Control when and how you release changes to users with release tracks.

With options to control Atlassian cloud releases, release tracks make your daily management of our cloud products more predictable. This helps you plan, prepare, and ensure success for upcoming product changes.

Data residency

Specify where you want your data hosted in Atlassian’s global cloud footprint. This can help meet your corporate policies and compliance requirements.

Guests

For each paid user, admins can add up to five guests for no additional cost or licenses.

There are no limits to how many spaces you can share or how many guests you can have in each space. However, each guest is limited to a single space.

Admin key

Admin key lets site admins diagnose problems faster with temporary access to restricted pages. Page authors receive an email when a site admin has used admin key to view or make changes to their page.

Unlimited spaces and pages

Create as much content as your team needs with unlimited pages and spaces.

Screens, workflows, issue types, fields and transitions experience

Screens, workflows, issue types, fields, and transitions in team-managed projects are a huge leap in terms of usability and visual layout compared to company-managed projects. The interactions make your experience configuring project entities easy and intuitive. 

Project issue navigator

 Search for any issue in a project using text search, or filtering by assignee, reporter, and status. Sort your lists by a variety of criteria and modify the issues directly from the list.

Atlassian Marketplace apps

Apps and integrations are better on Confluence Cloud with Cloud-only apps such as G Drive, Office 365, MSFT Teams, Zoom, Dropbox, Zoho, and Opsgenie. Cloud-enhanced integrations like Slack and Trello allow you to access more information and features across all of the apps you use.  

New Atlassian editor

The new Atlassian editor gives you a best in class editing experience to issue descriptions &  comments, with features such as mentions, emoji, advanced tables, code snippets, statuses, info panels, and smart links. 

Issue view

The new Cloud issue view comes with a simplified user experience, new editor functionality, inline editing of fields, quick add buttons, configurable layout, and more to see what's most important and take quick actions.

External collaboration

Add people outside your organization to collaborate on selected spaces. Only available to Premium and Enterprise customers.

Content quality and consumption analytics

With analytics you can get insights on how your site, spaces, and pages are performing and how active users are. You can also export reports of these insights to share with your team. Only available to Premium and Enterprise customers.

Built-in Automation

Build flexible rules to minimize manual tasks and keep your teams organized. Only available to Premium and Enterprise customers.

Confluence Cloud editor

Confluence’s new Cloud editor experience allows anyone to create beautiful, engaging pages effortlessly.  Quickly insert anything from images to files. Use slash commands to add dynamic content, page width options, and live macros.

Confluence templates

Confluence Cloud comes equipped with best-practice templates so you don’t need to reinvent the wheel. Preview and choose from over 100 templates via the in-product template gallery.

Create from anywhere

Effortlessly create top-level pages and blog posts directly in any space.  Creating pages, copying pages, and editing page titles can all be done directly in the page tree without the need to open a page or drag and drop a page into a page tree.

Decision report macro

Preview all of your decisions together and customize the level of detail you want to see.

Inline commenting

With inline commenting in edit mode, slash commands within comments, and an inline comments discovery button, collaboration just became that much easier.

Confluence Cloud mobile app

Collaborate seamlessly with your team on the Confluence Cloud mobile app. With the Cloud app, you can create, read, update, and delete pages and blogs. You can also easily view your activity feed on-the-go, switch between spaces and sites with a single tap, and manage notifications from your Slack workspace.

Schedule publish

Finished creating a page but don’t want it be published until later? In Confluence Cloud, you can schedule a page to publish at a future date and time that you set.

Smart links

Reveal important context about links within a Confluence page or Jira Software issue without leaving that page.  Smart Links let you embed documents, videos, or data from Apps. You can also view pertinent link information with just a couple of clicks supporting inline or card views.

Jira Timeline Macro

In Confluence Cloud the Jira Timeline macro allows you to add your Jira project’s timeline to a Confluence Cloud page so you can communicate plans with stakeholders, and ensure you’re all on the same page.

Built-in Integrations

Team calendars

Share and embed team calendars so teams can communicate availability and stay organized. Only available to Premium and Enterprise customers.

Mobile application management

Admins can enforce native security controls on mobile app usage from Atlassian administration.

Atlassian Marketplace apps

Apps enhance Jira Software into a tightly integrated product development solution for teams who need to get more done in less time. In the Cloud you still have your favorite apps like ScriptRunner, Tempo Timesheets, and Power Scripts, as well as, Cloud first apps such as Deep Clone, Issue Checklist Pro, and more!

Smarter publish notifications

In Confluence Cloud, publish notifications are smarter, reducing noise and making sure you don't miss out on the latest updates to a page.

Roadmaps

Build big picture plans for your team. Our basic roadmap is designed to enable you to build a roadmap for your team. Advanced Roadmaps is designed to help you build plans across multiple teams. 

Auto-convert markdown

Markdown pasted to a page will be automatically converted and formatted, including code block syntax.

Enterprise-level users per instance

In Confluence Cloud you can have up to 20,000 users in a single instance with up to 50,000 in the near future. In Confluence Data Center you manage the infrastructure and can scale the instance as large as you want.

Copy page trees

In Jira Software Cloud, you can copy pages, with their children pages, making it easier than ever to move, store, and manage your pages.