Features, Price and Security Comparison
Applies to: v11.0.0 and later. Rovo and Rovo Dev details verified 26 July 2026 — see Sources.
Overview
AI ChatGPT for Confluence connects your own AI provider account — OpenAI, Google Gemini or Anthropic Claude — to your Confluence content. You choose the provider, you choose the models, you hold the contract with the model vendor, and every request is billed to your key at that vendor's list price. It generates text, images and diagrams inside pages, summarizes, explains, translates and improves writing, saves results straight into Confluence, and acts on Jira and Confluence through connectors. It runs on Confluence Cloud on any plan, including Free.
Atlassian Rovo is Atlassian's own AI, built into its cloud products. Its strength is reach: one assistant across Jira, Confluence, JSM, Bitbucket and Compass, plus federated search over third-party SaaS through admin-managed connectors, and a no-code agent builder. Atlassian selects and routes the models; there is no bring-your-own-key option, and usage is metered in Rovo credits.
Rovo Dev is Atlassian's coding agent, a separate product with its own pricing. It works on repositories and development tasks from a CLI or an IDE. It is not a Confluence content tool, so for the work described on this page the comparison is mostly with Rovo.
They are not an either/or. This app ships with Atlassian Rovo pre-configured as a connector, so an assistant running on your own model and your own key can call Rovo's Atlassian tools. Many sites run both. → MCP Servers: let it act on Jira and Confluence
Features
Feature | AI ChatGPT for Confluence | Atlassian Rovo | Rovo Dev |
|---|---|---|---|
Choose your AI provider | ✅ OpenAI, Gemini or Claude, several side by side | ❌ Atlassian routes its own models | ⚠️ Switches between Atlassian-offered models |
Choose the exact model per conversation | ✅ From the composer | ❌ | ⚠️ In the CLI |
Bring your own API key and provider contract | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ |
New models on release day | ✅ Read live from your provider account | ❌ When Atlassian rolls them out | ❌ |
Run two providers for resilience | ✅ | ❌ Single vendor | ❌ |
Image generation | ✅ Raster on OpenAI, vector (SVG) on Claude and Gemini | ⚠️ Not documented | ⚠️ Not documented |
Diagram generation (flowchart, sequence, class, gantt, …) | ✅ Any provider, no setup | ⚠️ Not documented | ⚠️ Not documented |
Custom prompts | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
Summarize, explain, translate, improve writing | ✅ One click on a page or a selection | ✅ Through chat | ⚠️ Not its purpose |
Text generation in pages | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
Upload files and query them | ✅ Per user, per AI service | ✅ Reads existing Atlassian attachments | ✅ Repository files |
Save the answer into Confluence — create, replace, append, prepend | ✅ Four modes | ⚠️ Agents can create and edit pages | ❌ |
Quick access from page actions, byline, space, Apps menu, home feed | ✅ Six entry points plus an | ✅ Chat panel and product surfaces | ❌ CLI and IDE |
Assistant embedded in a page or template | ✅ The | ❌ | ❌ |
Voice input and spoken answers | ✅ In the composer | ✅ Confluence mobile app | ❌ |
Confluence and Jira actions on the user's own permissions | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ Repository scope |
Confirmation shown before anything is written | ✅ Every write | ⚠️ Varies by agent and action | ⚠️ Varies |
Restrict access by Atlassian group | ✅ Four levels: AI service, model, connector, individual tool | ✅ Admin controls for Rovo, agents and connectors | ⚠️ Product-level |
Scan a space for secrets and PII | ✅ Restricted to site administrators by default | ⚠️ Not documented | ⚠️ Not documented |
Connect third-party systems over MCP | ✅ Catalog servers, or any server by URL | ✅ Registered by an org admin | ✅ |
Federated search over third-party SaaS | ❌ No search index of its own | ✅ 50+ connectors | ❌ |
No-code agent builder | ❌ Not in v11.0.0 | ✅ Rovo Agents and Rovo Studio | ❌ |
Coding agent for repositories | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ Its whole purpose |
Works on Confluence Free and Standard plans | ✅ Any Confluence Cloud plan | ❌ Not on Free plans | ❌ |
⚠️ means the capability is absent from the vendor's published documentation, not that the vendor has stated it is unsupported.
Pricing
| AI ChatGPT for Confluence | Atlassian Rovo | Rovo Dev |
|---|---|---|---|
The product | See the Marketplace listing for current pricing | Included with paid Standard, Premium and Enterprise Jira, Confluence and JSM Cloud plans; a separate Rovo Standard SKU covers organizations without a qualifying plan | Priced separately — see Rovo Dev pricing |
The AI usage | Billed by your provider, on your key, at their list price. No resale, no markup, no per-seat AI fee. | Rovo credits, pooled across the organization, reset monthly | Its own allowance |
What you can see | ✅ Cost per request in your provider's usage dashboard. A dedicated key per AI service splits spend cleanly. | Credit and usage data reaches the Atlassian Administration billing dashboard from August 2026 | Per its own plan |
The ceiling | ✅ A budget cap and alert you set on your own provider account — a hard stop you control | Credit allowances per plan | Per its own plan |
Free Atlassian plans | ✅ Only your provider costs apply | ❌ Not available | ❌ |
The practical difference: with Rovo the AI cost is folded into a per-seat licence you pay whether or not people use it. Here you pay for exactly what is consumed, and you can see what consumed it. → AI models, capabilities and cost in AI ChatGPT for Confluence
Security
Question | AI ChatGPT for Confluence | Atlassian Rovo and Rovo Dev |
|---|---|---|
Who processes our content? | ✅ The provider you chose, under your own agreement, on your own key | Atlassian, and the LLM providers it contracts with on your behalf |
Is our content used to train models? | Governed by your own provider agreement. The app sends content nowhere else. | Atlassian states its LLM providers do not use customer inputs or outputs to improve their services |
Can a user reach content they are not entitled to? | ✅ No. Every read and write runs on that user's own Atlassian permissions. | No. Rovo respects existing product permissions. |
Where are credentials kept? | API keys and OAuth secrets encrypted in Forge app storage, never displayed back | Not applicable — you supply no model credentials |
Is page content stored by the vendor? | ✅ No copy is kept. Chat history stays in the user's browser. | Chat session logs and agent configuration are stored by Atlassian |
Named model and named provider for procurement | ✅ You name both, and can change either | Atlassian selects and routes |
Data residency | Determined by the provider account and region you choose | Inherits your organization's Atlassian residency pinning |
Certifications | Those of the AI provider you selected, plus Atlassian's for the Forge platform the app runs on | Atlassian's cloud attestations |
Audit trail | Actions appear in the target system's own audit log, under the user who performed them | Organization-level Rovo audit logs require Atlassian Guard |
Turn it off | Remove the AI Services — nothing works without one | Admin disables it for the organization or product |
Which one fits your situation
If this is you | Choose |
|---|---|
Procurement requires a named model, a named provider and your own data-processing agreement | AI ChatGPT for Confluence |
You want AI cost to be a measured, attributable line item rather than a per-seat licence | AI ChatGPT for Confluence |
You need generated images or diagrams inside Confluence pages | AI ChatGPT for Confluence |
Different teams should get different models, and only some the expensive one | AI ChatGPT for Confluence |
You are on Confluence Free or Standard and do not want to change plan to get AI | AI ChatGPT for Confluence |
You want the assistant embedded in a page or a template | AI ChatGPT for Confluence |
You want one assistant across Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Slack and Teams | Rovo |
You need search across Google Drive, SharePoint, Figma and Notion alongside Atlassian | Rovo |
You want autonomous agents built without code | Rovo |
You want an agent that writes and reviews code in your repositories | Rovo Dev |
You want your own model to be able to act on Atlassian data | Both — add Rovo as a connector inside this app |
Sources
Atlassian's AI products change quickly. Every Rovo and Rovo Dev claim above was checked against Atlassian's own documentation on 26 July 2026; re-check before quoting it.