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Confluence publishing alternatives

Looking for an alternative to Refined for Confluence?

Refined is a powerful site-building layer for Confluence. But if your requirement is simply to choose some Confluence pages and publish them externally, you may not need a complete site and portal platform.

The real choice is not “which product has more features?” It is whether you need to build an experience around Confluence or just publish selected content out of it.

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Keep Confluence as the source Publish selected pages Preview before publishing

Start with the requirement

Build an experience

Refined Sites

Sites, intranets, portals, navigation, themes and audience experiences.

OR

Publish content

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Choose pages, sync, preview and publish them as a separate external site.

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We will compare public links, anonymous access, guest access, manual sharing, and publishing as a simple website.

What Refined is

Refined is much more than a way to make a Confluence page public.

Refined Sites for Confluence is designed to turn Confluence content into custom sites for different audiences.

That can mean an employee intranet, customer documentation site, knowledge base or another structured portal built around content from your Atlassian environment.

It therefore includes capabilities that make sense for site-building: custom landing pages, navigation, themes, permissions, search, custom domains and audience-specific experiences.

Why look for an alternative?

Sometimes the requirement is much smaller than the platform.

You only need selected pages

Perhaps ten product guides or a handful of customer-facing pages need to be available outside Confluence.

You don't need a portal project

Your goal is publishing content, not designing a new employee, customer or support experience.

You want Confluence left alone

The internal authoring process already works. You simply need an external presentation of selected content.

You want a small publishing workflow

Connect, choose content, preview it and publish — without configuring a wider site-building layer.

Side-by-side

Refined Sites vs Satori Cloud

Refined has the broader feature set. Satori has the narrower job.

Best for

Refined Sites

Building branded intranets, documentation sites, knowledge bases and broader audience portals.

Satori Cloud

Publishing selected Confluence pages as an external website.

Product role

Refined Sites

Site-building and audience-experience layer on top of Atlassian content.

Satori Cloud

Focused Confluence-to-web publishing layer.

Publishing model

Refined Sites

Build structured sites using content and resources from your connected Atlassian environment.

Satori Cloud

Select the individual Confluence pages you want included.

Site design

Refined Sites

Custom landing pages, themes, layouts, navigation and deeper visual configuration.

Satori Cloud

A simpler branded site focused on presenting the selected content.

Search

Refined Sites

Provides enhanced search as part of the site experience.

Satori Cloud

Currently focused on navigation and publishing rather than positioning itself as a search platform.

Audience access

Refined Sites

Supports public, private and other audience-specific access configurations.

Satori Cloud

This comparison focuses on external publishing. Authenticated-reader portals are a separate requirement.

Custom domain

Refined Sites

Supports sites on a custom company domain.

Satori Cloud

Current publishing uses a Satori-hosted site URL.

Satori publishing workflow

Refined Sites

Broader site-building and site-management workflow.

Satori Cloud

Connect → choose pages → sync into draft → preview → publish.

When Refined is the better fit

Choose Refined when the site itself is the product you're trying to build.

You're building an employee intranet

Personalisation, navigation, permissions and broader employee experience matter.

You want a sophisticated documentation destination

Search, custom landing pages and deeper site configuration are important.

You need restricted audience experiences

Different users need different content or access configurations.

JSM belongs in the experience

You want knowledge and service experiences brought together through the wider Atlassian stack.

When Satori is the better fit

Choose Satori when publishing is the job.

If the internal workflow already works and you simply need selected content outside Confluence, a smaller product can be easier to justify.

Selected-page publishing

Publish the pages you need rather than starting a wider portal project.

External readers

Readers need the content but do not need to join your Confluence workspace.

Manual publishing control

Sync into a draft, review the latest version and publish explicitly.

Keep Confluence untouched

Content owners continue writing and maintaining information where they already work.

The Satori workflow

Four steps instead of a site-building project

01

Connect

Connect the Confluence workspace containing your source content.

02

Choose

Select the individual pages that belong on the external site.

03

Preview

Sync the latest content into a draft and review it first.

04

Publish

Explicitly update the live external site when the draft is ready.

Typical Satori use cases

Where a focused publishing layer can be enough

Product docs

Publish customer-facing product guidance.

Knowledge base

Publish reusable customer help content.

Onboarding

Give customers a setup and implementation destination.

API guidance

Publish technical and integration guidance externally.

Building an intranet?

Refined is much closer to a full intranet platform than Satori currently is.

Refined supports richer layouts, personalisation, permissions, navigation and integrations designed for employee experiences. Satori's intranet use case is deliberately narrower.

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Simple decision rule

Are you building a site, or publishing some pages?

Choose Refined when

You are building an audience experience.

The site structure, design, search, permissions, navigation and surrounding experience are important parts of the requirement.

Choose Satori when

You are publishing content.

The main requirement is to take selected pages already maintained in Confluence and make them available on a separate external website.

Refined product information

Information about Refined Sites capabilities on this page is based on Refined's current product documentation. Features can change, so check the vendor's website for current functionality when making a buying decision.

Refined Sites for Confluence product page

FAQ

Refined for Confluence alternatives

What is Refined for Confluence?

Refined Sites for Confluence is a site-building layer for creating branded experiences from Confluence content, including documentation sites, knowledge bases and intranets.

Is Satori Cloud a direct replacement for Refined?

No. Refined is a broader site-building product. Satori is deliberately narrower and focuses on publishing selected Confluence pages as a separate external site.

When should I choose Refined instead of Satori?

Refined is the stronger fit when you need a sophisticated site experience with capabilities such as advanced navigation, landing pages, themes, search, permissions or custom domains.

When should I consider Satori Cloud?

Consider Satori when your main requirement is to choose selected pages from Confluence and publish them externally without adopting a broader site-building platform.

Can I keep writing content in Confluence?

Yes. With Satori, Confluence remains the maintained source. You sync selected pages into a draft, preview them and publish the external version when ready.

Do Satori readers need Confluence accounts?

No. Readers use the published Satori site rather than accessing your internal Confluence workspace.

Does Refined support private sites?

Yes. Refined currently supports several site access configurations, including public and restricted experiences. If authenticated reader access is a key requirement, that is an important difference to evaluate.

Does Refined support custom domains?

Yes. Refined currently supports publishing a site using your company's custom domain.

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Don't build a portal if all you need to do is publish the pages.

Connect Confluence, choose the pages external readers need, preview the synced content and publish when you're ready.

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