Glean vs Confluence: find the answer, or keep pasting pages

Search across the stack is not a wiki

Glean versus Confluence is the compare for teams who say they want to replace the wiki and mean they cannot find anything. Confluence is the incumbent. Glean is not. Editorial AI-native is 9 out of 10 for Glean and 6 out of 10 for Confluence. Six means assist on pages. Nine means search is the product. The catalog briefing already says Glean is not always a 1-to-1 wiki replacement. This page keeps that constraint and does not invent a price to paper over it.

Glean's pricing URL, opened 21 October 2026, redirected to the marketing homepage at glean.com. The visible line was an October 2026 product drop about building, testing, and publishing governed agents where you already code. No dollar, no per-seat fee, and no platform fee rendered. The catalog's custom pricing model matches a missing public price. It is not a hidden number this page knows and withholds. The homepage is a demo surface. A connector list may exist there. A connector is not a price and it is not a space importer.

Confluence's pricing URL returned a large page the same day, and the extracted text did not include Standard or Premium dollar amounts, the words per user next to a price, or a free-tier headcount. A prior catalog note describes a free tier and then Standard and Premium per user. This check does not restate any numeric Confluence sticker, because the numbers did not render. If you saw $5-something on an older capture, do not treat this essay as confirming it. The honest October 2026 sentence is that Atlassian's pricing page did not expose a list price in the text that could be quoted.

Authoring and finding are different purchases

If the team still needs a place to write a page tree, Confluence is the system of record and Glean is a possible layer on top. The editorial scores say that without a vendor slogan. Confluence's AI, at 6 out of 10 on an incumbent, is assist on the pages you already have. Glean, at 9 out of 10 and not an incumbent, is sold as enterprise search and agents. Buying Glean does not delete the need for an authoring tool. Buying a higher Confluence edition, at a price this fetch could not read, does not prove search will see Slack, Drive, and tickets. Those systems are why this pair exists.

SharePoint is a different maze and a different compare. If the constraint is that the company cannot leave Microsoft 365, this page is the wrong leave story. The catalog has a Glean versus SharePoint pair for that. Mixing the two in one RFP is how a wiki migration gets scoped as an intranet migration. Keep them apart.

The company pages are the right place for ownership. Atlassian is the parent on the Confluence product. Glean has its own company record. This compare does not add a funding round that was not opened. It also does not repeat statistics or customer quotations from Glean's homepage. The October drop sentence is included because it is what the redirected pricing URL actually showed, and because it tells a buyer the page they wanted was a product announcement, not a rate card.

Afterstack's knowledge quiz removes Confluence and scores what remains. Glean can lead that list without being a wiki. Read the rank as an answer to find, not as an answer to author. If your hard filter is a free wiki for a small team, the missing Confluence numbers matter, and you should reload the pricing page yourself before you believe a third-party table. This site will not supply the missing sticker.

What was not re-opened, and how to decide anyway

The Confluence space-export article was not re-opened on this pass. Click paths for PDF, CSV, HTML, or XML are therefore not restated. A migration pair, Confluence to Glean, exists so the agent can hold the cutover. This compare does not pretend the agent is an Atlassian doc. Anything not taken from a page opened on 21 October 2026 is general guidance: pages you still need to author should stay in a wiki, and an index on top of that wiki is a second contract.

Glean's missing price means you cannot do seat arithmetic. A 200-person Confluence bill, whatever it is, cannot be subtracted from a Glean bill that was not printed. Procurement can still ask two questions that the pages support. Does the pain show up when someone searches, or when someone writes? If it shows up when someone searches across tools the wiki does not contain, Glean is the compare even with a demo button. If it shows up when the page tree is wrong, a search vendor will not fix authoring, and a Confluence edition you cannot price from this fetch might still be the stay.

Skip Glean if you needed a public list price or a rendered importer for spaces. Skip a Confluence rip-out if the only evidence is an AI-native score. Skip both if the real archive is SharePoint. Stay on Confluence when the wiki is the system of record and search can be added beside it. The editorial data-migration and implementation scores are judgments of surface area, not a services quote. Afterstack does not publish a switching invoice.

Affiliates are not in the knowledge ranking. Glean's score of 9 does not buy placement. Confluence's score of 6 does not either. The last reviewed line on this page is 21 October 2026 because that is when the pricing URL redirected and the Atlassian page failed to yield a number. If either page starts printing a price, the essay should be revised. Until then, unknown is the price.

Two catalog records, and the jobs they refuse

Glean is filed as founded in 2019, not an incumbent, headquarters not restated here because this check did not reopen the company essay for a new address. The editorial scores are 7 for ease of use, 9 for AI-native, 5 for implementation speed, 6 for reporting, 5 for customization, 5 for value, and 4 for data migration. Confluence is filed as founded in 2004 and as an incumbent, with 5, 6, 5, 5, 7, 6, and 6 on those labels. The migration score is the telling pair: 4 on the search product, 6 on the wiki. An index that sits on top of other systems is a rollout. A wiki your team already writes is a different surface. Neither score is a services quote.

Feature flags draw the same line. Glean is marked with an AI assistant, workflow automation, an open API, Gmail-native mail, a mobile app, SSO, and SOC 2, and without a marketplace, without custom objects, without calling, and without self-host. Confluence is marked with a marketplace, customization-adjacent permissions in the prose of its pros, an open API, a mobile app, SSO, and SOC 2, and without calling. The catalog pros for Glean are search as the product, coverage across the stack, and permissions awareness. The cons are that you still have the wiki, that enterprise rollout is the work, and that pricing is custom. Confluence's pros are familiarity, Jira gravity, and permissions. The cons are that pages go stale, that search is the complaint, and that AI is catching up. A 6 out of 10 on an incumbent is that last con.

The not-for lines are the buying rule. Glean is not filed as a wiki replacement by itself, not for a five-person team with one Drive folder, and not for self-host unless you have checked current options, which this pass did not. Confluence is not filed when AI search across the whole stack is the product, and not for teams that will not maintain pages. If nobody writes, a search vendor indexes an empty habit. If everybody writes and nobody can find the page, the wiki's own search is the complaint the cons already name, and a second product is a rational conversation even with no public price.

Atlassian's company record in this catalog lists a public-company ownership line. That is parent context for Confluence, not a rank, and this compare does not add a share price or a quarterly figure. Glean's company record is the place for funding if a round was sourced. This essay does not open a new round. The only Glean sentence taken from a live URL on 21 October 2026 is the redirected pricing page: an October 2026 drop about building, testing, and publishing governed agents where you already code, and no dollar.

How to budget when both stickers failed to render

Seat math is unavailable. A Confluence Standard or Premium amount did not appear in the extracted text of the pricing URL. A Glean per-seat or platform fee did not appear because the pricing URL redirected to the homepage. Older notes in the catalog describe a Confluence free tier and then per-user Standard and Premium packaging. This page does not repeat those older dollars. If a third-party table shows a figure from an earlier month, it is not confirmed here. The catalog starting price of zero and a free-plan flag on Confluence describe the free tier the price note mentions. They are not a confirmation that the free tier's headcount cap rendered on 21 October 2026.

The decision that does not need the missing stickers is the job. If the failure is authoring, stay on Confluence and treat Glean as an optional index you have not priced. If the failure is finding facts that live in tools the wiki does not contain, Glean is the compare, and the demo button is the commercial step the homepage actually offered. If the failure is that the company cannot leave Microsoft 365, stop and open the SharePoint pair. Mixing a wiki rip-out with an intranet rip-out produces a scope neither pricing page described.

Export remains unverified on this pass. The space-export article was not opened, so PDF, HTML, XML, and CSV click paths are not instructions. The migrate pair Confluence to Glean exists so a cutover can be planned as general guidance where it is not quoting a doc. Pages you still need to author should stay in a system that authors pages. An agent announcement on a redirected pricing URL is not an importer.

The knowledge quiz removes Confluence when that is the product you are leaving and scores what remains. Glean can lead that list because search is the job the quiz was pointed at. Read a high fit score as an answer to find. Read the catalog cons before you cancel the wiki. Affiliates are not in the ranking. A 9 does not buy placement, and a missing price does not either. Last reviewed 21 October 2026 because that is when the redirect and the empty price extract were observed. When either vendor prints a number, this essay should be revised before anyone copies it into a model.