--- title: "Confluence whiteboards alternative for AI agent diagrams" description: "An alternative to Confluence whiteboards for diagrams your AI agent draws from your code. Your team comments at one URL. Free plan, no card needed." --- # The open alternative to Confluence whiteboards for diagrams your agent draws from your code Your agent publishes each diagram to one URL, as HTML or as Mermaid in Markdown. Your team comments on the page, and your agent publishes the next version at the same URL. Viewers and Commenters are free on every plan. [Start free](https://app.display.dev/) · Free plan: 3 diagrams behind sign-in · No card required · Unlimited viewers Kestrel's checkout service map, open on Display. The version history lists four versions at the same URL. Claude Code published v1 for Ana Ruiz. Codex published v2 for Ben Okafor. Priya Shah edited v3 on the page. Cursor published v4 for Maya Lind. Version 4 answers a comment from Priya Shah. ## Should I use Confluence whiteboards or Display? Use Display when an agent draws the diagram and your team reviews it. Cursor, Codex or Claude Code reads your code or docs and publishes the diagram to one URL, as HTML or as Mermaid in Markdown. Your team comments on the page, and the agent publishes the next version at the same URL. Viewers and Commenters are free on every plan. Use Confluence whiteboards, or Miro, when many people draw on one board at the same time, or when sticky notes must become Jira work items. Display is not a live drawing board. A Display whiteboard is Planned. To replace Confluence pages, see the [Confluence alternative](/confluence-alternative). ## Confluence whiteboards and Display, side by side Display holds the diagram that your agent draws, so your team can review it. Confluence whiteboards is a live board for a workshop. | | Confluence whiteboards | Display | |---|---|---| | **People who comment at no cost** | Partly – 10 users on Free | Yes – Unlimited, every plan | | **Your agent reads the comments** | Not documented | Yes – Publishes the next version | | **People outside your company** | Partly – 5 guests per paid user | Yes – Email invite with a role | | **File you can download** | Partly – PDF, PNG or JPG | Yes – HTML or Markdown source | | **Agents can publish into it** | Yes – Through Atlassian MCP | Yes – MCP, API or CLI | | **Version history** | Yes – Last 30 days | Yes – From Solo | | **Live board for many people** | Yes – Up to 200 people | No – Planned | | **Stickies, shapes and connectors** | Yes | No – Planned | | **Notes become Jira work items** | Yes | No | | **Timers, votes and templates** | Yes | No | | **No extra cost with Confluence** | Yes – Every Cloud plan | No – Separate product, Free plan | Checked 12 November 2026. Sources: [Confluence whiteboards](https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/whiteboards) · [Export or import your whiteboard](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/export-or-import-your-whiteboard/) · [How secure are public links](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/how-secure-are-public-links/) · [Invite guests](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/invite-guests-for-external-collaboration/) · [Atlassian MCP supported tools](https://support.atlassian.com/atlassian-ai-gateway/docs/supported-tools/) · [Whiteboard version history](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/whiteboard-history/) · [Collaboration limits on whiteboards](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/collaboration-limits-on-whiteboards/) · [Confluence whiteboard basics](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/getting-started-with-confluence-whiteboards/) · [Whiteboards under different plans](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/understand-confluence-whiteboards-plans-and-features/) · [Confluence Free](https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/free) ## Built for diagrams that agents draw Ask your agent to publish the diagram to Display. Your team comments on the page. The agent reads the comments and publishes the next version at the same URL. ## Edit any document in-line. Fix any line right where you read it. 1. Select Edit on the page 2. Change it on the page 3. Save – the next version at the same URL ## Share each diagram with the right people A diagram stays private until you share it. Then choose who can open it – one diagram, a folder or a whole Space. - **Private by default** – Every diagram stays private until you share it with people and groups. - **One-click sign-in for colleagues** – On Solo and higher plans, colleagues use the Google or Microsoft account they already have. Reviewers need no seat. - **Invite people outside your company** – Invite clients and partners by email, and give each one a role: Viewer, Commenter, Contributor or Editor. - **Know who opened it** – On Team and Business, see who opened which diagram, and when, before you follow up. ## Confluence whiteboards or Display? You can use both. Confluence whiteboards holds the live workshop. Display holds the diagrams that agents draw, at one URL that your team can review. ### Keep Confluence whiteboards for - Workshops where many people draw on one board at the same time. - Sticky notes and shapes that become Jira work items. - Timers, votes and templates for a retro or a roadmap session. - Diagrams that Rovo draws from a text description. ### Use Display for - Architecture, flow and data-model diagrams that your agent draws from your code or docs. - Reviews where your team comments on the page and your agent publishes the next version. - Diagrams that you keep as an HTML or Markdown file and download at any time. - Reviewers inside and outside your company, without a seat for each one. > “We gave it to a few people, expecting the super users who’d been asking for a publishing platform. We didn’t realize the whole business would pick it up.” > > – Rory Powell, IT and AI Ops Manager, Kogan.com **Free plan: $0.** Viewers and Commenters are free and unlimited. You get one editor, 3 diagrams behind your company sign-in, unlimited public diagrams and 50 MB of storage. No credit card required. Version history starts on Solo. [Start free](https://app.display.dev/) ## A full workspace behind every URL ### Spaces and folders A Space for every team, with folders inside and its own permissions. ### Search everything you can open You and your agents can search every doc you can open. ### Work across every agent and plan Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor, on personal or company plans. One doc, one URL. ### Build internal apps (private beta) Develop applications that pull data from your sources. ### Connect your data sources (private beta) Pull data from the sources your team already uses. ## Before you choose between Confluence whiteboards and Display ### We already have Confluence whiteboards at no extra cost. Why add Display? Display does a different job. When your agent draws an architecture or flow diagram from your code, Display holds it at one URL as an HTML or Markdown file. Your team comments on the page. Your agent reads the comments and publishes the next version at the same URL. Viewers and Commenters are free on every plan. Keep Confluence whiteboards for workshops. ### Can we keep Confluence and use Display for the diagrams our agents draw? Yes. Use a Confluence whiteboard for the workshop. Ask your agent to publish the diagram that it draws from your code to Display. Then link the Display URL from a Confluence page or a Jira work item. To replace Confluence pages, see the [Confluence alternative](/confluence-alternative). ### Is Display a whiteboard? No. Display has no live drawing board today. A Display whiteboard is Planned, and it has no date. Today, Display holds the diagram that your agent draws, as HTML or as Mermaid in Markdown. One person edits the page at a time, and reviewers comment on it. For a live workshop, use Confluence whiteboards or Miro. ### What does Display cost? The Free plan costs $0. It includes 1 editor, 3 gated documents and 50 MB of storage, without version history. Solo costs $12 a month and adds version history. Team costs $79 a month for up to 150 Editors and Contributors. These prices are for monthly billing, without VAT. Viewers and Commenters are free and unlimited on every plan. Confluence whiteboards has no separate price. Confluence includes it. ### How does my team review a diagram? A reviewer selects text on the page, for example a heading or a caption beside the diagram, and adds a comment. Your agent reads the diagram and its comments, and publishes the next version at the same URL. On Solo and higher plans, you can open and restore earlier versions. ### Can people outside our company contribute? Yes. Invite them by email to a doc or a folder, and give them a role: Viewer, Commenter, Contributor or Editor. They sign in with a one-time password, Google or Microsoft. They do not join your organization. ### Which agents work with Display? Any agent that writes HTML or Markdown, for example Claude Code, Claude, ChatGPT, Codex and Cursor. Agents connect through the Display MCP server, the CLI or the API. Each person can use a different agent on the same doc. ### Is Display open source? No. “Open” means three things. Any agent can publish to Display. Anyone you choose can open a doc without a seat. You can download the source file of any doc at any time. ## Publish the next diagram where your team can review it Display works with Cursor, Codex, Claude Code, ChatGPT and any other agent that writes HTML or Markdown. [Start free](https://app.display.dev/) · No card required · Unlimited viewers