Azora vs Confluence
Confluence is the polished team wiki with twenty years of momentum and a deep marketplace. Azora's Wiki module is one of eight — its job is to keep documents next to the tasks, sprints, and CAPAs they describe, not to compete with Confluence on editor depth.
Azora
$39
/user/month (Pro)
Docs live with the work. Wiki pages reference tasks, CAPAs, vendors, units — and vice-versa. One login, one search, one tenant database.
Trade-off: Less rich editor. No marketplace of macros. No public-facing pages. If wiki is your only problem, Confluence is more mature.
Confluence Cloud
$6.40–$12.30
/user/month (Standard / Premium)
The wiki UX every knowledge-worker recognizes. Best-in-class editor, page hierarchy, templates, public pages, deep Jira integration, hundreds of marketplace macros.
Trade-off: Only wiki. Tasks live in Jira (separate bill). QMS, ERP, HR are entirely outside the stack. The "Atlassian stack" is multiple line items.
| Feature | Azora | Confluence |
|---|---|---|
| Core wiki | ||
| Rich text editor | ✓ | ✓ |
| Page hierarchy / tree | ✓ | ✓ |
| Page templates | ✓ | ✓ |
| Page version history | ✓ | ✓ |
| Mentions + comments | ✓ | ✓ |
| Full-text search | ✓ | ✓ |
| Wiki depth (Confluence's home turf) | ||
| Macros / embeds (marketplace) | Built-in only | ✓ |
| Whiteboards / databases | — | ✓ |
| Public-facing pages | — | ✓ |
| Page analytics | Limited | ✓ |
| External-user collaboration | — | Premium |
| Cross-module linking (Azora's home turf) | ||
| Wiki pages linked to tasks / bugs | ✓ | Jira integration |
| Wiki pages linked to CAPAs / NCRs | ✓ | — |
| Wiki pages linked to vendors / POs | ✓ | — |
| Document control (Draft → Approved) | ✓ | Workflows add-on |
| Cross-module search (one query, all modules) | ✓ | — |
| Beyond Wiki (Azora's other 7 modules) | ||
| Project Management | ✓ | Jira ($) |
| QMS (CAPA, audits, traceability) | ✓ | — |
| ERP (Vendors, POs, Units) | ✓ | — |
| HR (Directory, Leave) | ✓ | — |
| Finance (Budgets, Timesheet) | ✓ | — |
| Customer support tickets | ✓ | JSM ($) |
| Compliance | ||
| ISO 13485-aligned modules | ✓ | — |
| 21 CFR Part 11 e-signatures | ✓ | — |
| HIPAA-eligible | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| SOC 2 Type 2 | Q4 2026 | ✓ |
| Operations | ||
| Self-host option | ✓ | Data Center ($$) |
| Tenant isolation by row | ✓ | By cloud account |
| API + webhooks | In-session JSON API | ✓ |
| Integrations marketplace | — | ✓ |
| Cost (15-person team) | ||
| Monthly cost (matched scope) | $585 (Pro, all 8 modules) | $185 (Premium, wiki only) |
| Tools replaced | 8 | 1 (Wiki) |
| To match Azora's scope | Included | + ~$1,000/mo for Jira + JSM + a QMS + an ERP + an HR tool |
| Effective cost / module | $73/mo | $185/mo |
When NOT to pick Azora
- Your team is non-engineering and only needs a wiki. Confluence is the better point tool.
- You publish public-facing docs (customer portals, knowledge bases) from the same tool you write in.
- You rely on specific Confluence marketplace macros (diagrams, embeds, third-party integrations).
- You're already deep in Atlassian and the integration cost of leaving outweighs the integrated database win.
Pick Azora when
- Your docs are mostly internal — SOPs, design docs, retros, runbooks — and you want them next to the work.
- You're an engineering / hardware / med-device team needing PM + QMS + ERP + HR in the same DB.
- You're tired of "the doc is in Confluence and the task is in Jira and they don't link."
- You want one bill instead of three or four.
If the doc and the task should live next to each other, they should be in the same DB.
Email us and we will provision a seeded tenant for your team within 24 hours — wiki pages already linked to sample tasks, sprints, and CAPAs.