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MaWiki vs Confluence.

Confluence is a serious wiki for serious organisations. If your team lives inside Jira and the rest of the Atlassian suite, sticking with Confluence is a sensible choice. But for small teams who don't need spaces-of-spaces, plugin marketplaces, or per-page page-level permissions, Confluence is a tax. MaWiki removes the tax.

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When Confluence fits, when it doesn't.

Confluence is well-loved by orgs that have grown around the Atlassian ecosystem. Tight Jira links, deep page hierarchies, plugin marketplaces, and a permissions model that scales to hundreds of teams. If that is the world you live in, Confluence does its job.

MaWiki is for teams who never wanted page hierarchies in the first place. Five to twenty people. A handful of spaces. Documents that need to be findable and trustworthy, not categorised into a tree. Our AI assistant reads everything you have and answers questions with citations, so the team stops asking "where is that doc?" in Slack.

If you've outgrown a Confluence space that was set up by someone who left two years ago, importing into MaWiki is straightforward. Export Confluence as XML, upload to MaWiki, and the structure carries over. From there, the AI helps you figure out what matters and what to archive.

MaWiki
Confluence
Setup time before the team can use it
Sign up, drop in your docs, ask a question. Five minutes.
Spaces, permissions, page hierarchies, plug-ins. A week, often longer.
AI assistant grounded in your docs
Yes, every answer cites the document and paragraph
Atlassian Intelligence, additional cost, results vary
Import from Confluence
Upload a Confluence XML export, links and structure preserved
You can export from Confluence, but you cannot easily import back
Editor
Fast, focused on prose, no plugins required
Capable but slow. Macros, plugins, and inline tables get heavy
Search
Local search runs in your browser. AI search runs over the index
Server-side search. Reliable but not always relevant
Offline editing
Works offline, syncs on reconnect
Cloud only. No offline mode
Private AI on your machine
Available on the desktop app for sensitive documents
Cloud only
Pricing for ten people
AUD 80 a month, billed annually
USD 60 to USD 110 a month, depending on plan and add-ons
Best fit
Small teams who write docs and want them to be useful
Larger orgs with Jira, Bitbucket, and the rest of the Atlassian stack
switching from confluence

From Confluence to MaWiki in an afternoon.

  1. Export your Confluence space. In Confluence, open Space settings, choose Export, pick XML. Wait a minute. Download the zip.
  2. Upload the export. Sign up to MaWiki, open import, drop the zip. Spaces become spaces. Pages become docs. Internal links keep working.
  3. Ask the AI what to keep. "Which docs have not been touched in 18 months?" "Which pages are policy and which are scratch notes?" Archive the noise, keep the signal.
Made by a small team in Australia. Self-funded. We answer emails. The roadmap and the changelog are public.

Try it on your Confluence export. No card to start.

If MaWiki isn't right for you, the export still belongs to you. No lock-in.

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