Guru vs Confluence
Confluence is where documents live: published per-seat pricing, a free tier, and AI metered in credits. Guru is a layer that verifies knowledge and delivers answers across your tools, with no published pricing. The real question is whether your problem is writing things down or keeping them correct.
These are not the same kind of product
Confluence is a place to put things. Its published feature list is about pages, spaces, templates, whiteboards, permissions and version history, and it is priced like infrastructure: there is a free tier and a per-seat rate you can read without talking to anyone.
Guru is a layer over the places things already are. Its pricing page barely mentions authoring. It talks about structuring, verifying and delivering answers, and about pushing that governed knowledge into the other AI tools you run.
So the comparison only makes sense if you frame it as a question about your actual problem. Teams that cannot write anything down need a workspace. Teams that have written plenty down and cannot trust it need something else.
The two costs people miss on Confluence
The first is single sign-on. On the pricing page, SSO and SCIM are not part of Standard or Premium; they require an Atlassian Guard Standard subscription on top. For a security team treating SSO as non-negotiable, the per-seat figure on the pricing page is not the figure you will pay.
The second is AI metering. Rovo is included from Standard, but in credits: 25 per user per month with 100 indexed objects per user, rising through the tiers. Credits and indexed-object caps are a genuinely different model from an AI layer bundled into a platform price, and it is worth modelling against how often you expect people to ask questions.
Neither of these is a criticism. They are published, they are ordinary for the category, and Confluence at the Standard rate is inexpensive software. They just change the comparison.
The accuracy question decides it
Every wiki starts clean. What happens over three years is that pages accumulate, some are superseded and nobody deletes them, and the search box returns a confident answer from a document that was overruled two years ago.
Confluence gives you the tools to manage that: versioning, insights on which pages are read, archiving, permissions. They are real, and they all depend on someone choosing to use them.
Guru's proposition is that this should be a property of the system rather than a matter of discipline, which is why verification workflows and automated knowledge quality sit at the top of its pricing page. Whether that is worth an unpublished enterprise price instead of a published per-seat one is exactly the decision you are making.
MindKeepr is neither a wiki nor a general knowledge layer, and it does not replace Confluence. We work over the systems you already have.
The gap we address is the one neither product is built for: the reasoning that was never written down anywhere, because the person who held it did not know it was worth writing. A wiki cannot store what nobody authored, and a verification workflow cannot verify a page that does not exist.
MindKeepr finds the decisions and context that only one person has ever touched, routes a short question on each to a named colleague with a deadline, and refuses to answer when nothing verified supports an answer, naming what is missing instead.
Questions people ask
Is Guru a replacement for Confluence?
Not usually, because they do different jobs. Confluence is where pages are written and stored; Guru is a layer that verifies knowledge and serves answers across the tools you run, including Confluence itself, which is listed among its integrations. Most organisations evaluating Guru are adding it over existing systems rather than switching off their wiki.
How much does Confluence cost?
On the pricing page at the time of writing, Confluence is free for up to 10 users, 5.42 US dollars per user per month on Standard and 10.44 US dollars per user per month on Premium under monthly billing, with Enterprise quoted by sales and billed annually. Single sign-on is not included and requires a separate Atlassian Guard Standard subscription.
Does Confluence include AI?
Atlassian Rovo is included from the Standard plan, metered in credits: 25 credits per user per month and 100 indexed objects per user on Standard, 70 credits and 250 objects on Premium, and 150 credits and 625 objects on Enterprise. It is included but capped rather than unlimited.
Does Confluence include SSO?
No. The Confluence pricing page states that SSO, SCIM and mobile app management require an Atlassian Guard Standard subscription in addition to the Confluence plan, on every tier including Premium.
Which is better for a knowledge base, Guru or Confluence?
If the problem is that nothing is written down, Confluence is cheaper, published and designed for authoring. If the problem is that plenty is written down and nobody trusts it, the maintenance and verification mechanisms Guru puts at the centre of its product are the thing you are actually buying.
- Guru, pricing page. www.getguru.com/pricing Checked 27 September 2026.
- Atlassian, Confluence pricing page (monthly billing). www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/pricing Checked 27 September 2026.
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