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A Confluence alternative your engineers will actually trust
Last updated June 30, 2026
Confluence is heavy and its AI (Rovo) is metered in credits, with the better AI on higher tiers. And like every incumbent, it cannot write your docs from your source. tela is the lightweight, markdown-native, AI-native opposite — and Atlas keeps the wiki generated and current from your git repos and Jira.
tela vs Confluence, at a glance
| Feature | tela | Confluence |
|---|---|---|
| Feel | Fast, markdown-native, clean editor | Heavy; proprietary editor |
| Self-hostable | Yes — self-host free, plus a free cloud tier | Data Center (enterprise) or cloud |
| Ask your docs (AI) | Built in — semantic + full-text, answers with citations | Rovo — metered in credits |
| Agents read & write (MCP) | Built in — agents read & write (39 scoped tools) | Rovo MCP (behind a paid plan) |
| Generate docs from your code | Yes — Atlas builds a cited, coverage-checked wiki from git + Jira | No |
Why teams switch to tela
- It stays current by itself — Atlas regenerates from the code and flags drift; the usual reason Confluence spaces rot is that nobody updates them.
- No credit accounting just to ask your own wiki a question.
- Lightweight and ownable — a self-hostable wiki with plain-markdown portability, not a sprawling enterprise install.
When Confluence is the better choice
If your organization is deep in the Atlassian stack — Jira workflows, enterprise SSO and governance, thousand-user scale — Confluence's integration depth and existing investment are real reasons to stay. tela documents from Jira; it does not drive Jira.
Try tela
tela is an open-source (AGPL), self-hostable team wiki. Self-host it, or start on the free cloud tier at telawiki.com. See the MCP server docs for connecting your agents, or compare tela with other tools.
Atlassian Rovo pricing + Rovo MCP (verified 2026). tela facts current as of June 2026.