Does giving anonymous access to a confluence space and pages result in charges?

[Hazem Ajlani]

I'm thinking about making my space public. Will there be an extra charge to the external users I give permissions ? Will this effect the maximum license count number? Do we pay for license for users and access?

Please provide supporting documentation as well.

Thank you

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

No.  Anonymous users do not count towards your licence (because Confluence doesn't know who they are!)

I would be very careful though - only allow them *read* access.  A Confluence with anonymous write access available to the whole internet tends to last less than a week...

To make it public, enable anonymous access in general, via Admin -> Global permissions, then your space administrators can enable it in <their space> -> Space Admin -> Permissions

[Hazem Ajlani]

Does that mean that the administrator will give global permission then each space administrator must set permissions to their space ? we have a lot of spaces.

What are other external user permissions and access options?

Thanks for your reply

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Yes, that's correct, you need to do it on a space-by-space basis.

There are no other external user permissions - a person either has an account with access or they do not.  If they do not, then their only access option is "anonymous"

[Hazem Ajlani]

Great. Thanks for the clarification