Docmost

What Docmost does

Docmost is a wiki for teams that want something closer to Confluence or Notion than to a classic wiki with markup. Content is organized into spaces, each with its own members and permissions. Several people can edit a page at the same time, leave comments, and restore older versions from the page history. Diagrams can be drawn inside a page with Draw.io, Excalidraw or Mermaid, and embeds bring in content from services such as Airtable, Loom and Miro.

The open source edition also includes user groups, labels, synced blocks that show the same content in several places, public sharing of pages, full-text search, and import from Markdown, HTML and Notion exports. The interface is translated into more than ten languages.

Editions and licensing

Docmost is open core. The main code is AGPL-3.0, while three ee directories hold code under a proprietary enterprise license that unlocks paid editions on the same installation.

• Community (open source): everything described above, plus air-gapped deployment and community support.
• Business: adds databases (Bases), kanban, personal spaces, templates, page-level permissions, API keys, MCP, AI search and an assistant, SSO with SAML 2.0, OIDC or LDAP, multi-factor authentication, and import from Confluence, DOCX and PDF.
• Enterprise: adds page verification workflows, read confirmations, SCIM, audit logs, SIEM integration and retention controls.

For a team leaving Confluence, note that both the Confluence importer and single sign-on are in the paid Business edition.

Self-hosting Docmost

Installation uses Docker Compose. The official compose file runs the Docmost container with PostgreSQL and Redis, which keeps the stack small. Attachments can be stored on the local disk, in S3-compatible storage or in Azure Blob storage. A commercial license key turns an existing installation into a Business or Enterprise one, and a trial license is available.

Hosted version

None at the moment. The README still links to a cloud version, but the pricing page and the editions documentation describe all three editions as self-hosted or on-premises, and no hosted plan is listed.

Limitations

SSO, MFA, page-level permissions, API keys and the Confluence importer are paid, which many organizations will consider basic requirements. Databases, kanban and templates are also outside the open source edition. There is no hosted option, so you are responsible for the server and backups. Docmost is web only, with no desktop or offline apps.

Who it suits

Docmost suits small and medium teams that want a modern, easy-to-learn wiki with real-time editing and diagrams, and that can run Docker. If you need SSO, LDAP and MFA without a paid license, compare BookStack and Wiki.js; for a large intranet with fine-grained rights, XWiki. See also our alternatives to Confluence.