Pages & spaces
Per-user pricing punishes every read-only stakeholder, and the editor still mangles tables and paste in 2026.
What people actually say
✕Capterra reviewers report constant formatting issues when copy-pasting content, with tables and embedded files particularly painful to keep clean.
Source: Capterra — Confluence editor reviews ↗✕Reviewers describe the editor as restrictive — limited design elements, awkward table handling, and formatting that breaks when content is moved between pages.
Source: Capterra — Confluence editor limitations ↗✕Atlassian's October 2025 price increase pushed some customers from around $150K to $500K a year over three years, largely on per-user seat inflation for a tool many users only read.
Source: Capable — Confluence price increases and app sprawl ↗
A Postgres-backed page store with a Tiptap or ProseMirror editor in Next.js — paste, tables and Markdown round-trip cleanly because the schema is structured, not a soup of legacy macros. Every employee gets a login; read-only viewers don't cost £108 a head per year just to open a runbook.