Fisher information (I) is investigated in a confined harmonic oscillator (CHO) enclosed in a spherical enclosure, in conjugate r and p spaces. A comparative study between CHO and a free quantum particle in spherical box (PISB), as well as CHO and respective free harmonic oscillator (FHO) is pursued with respect to energy spectrum and I. This reveals that, a CHO offers two exactly solvable limits, namely, a PISB and an FHO. Moreover, the dependence of I on quantum numbers
n
r, l, m in FHO and CHO are analogous. The role of force constant is discussed. Further, a thorough systematic analysis of I with respect to variation of confinement radius r
c is presented, with particular attention on nonzero‐(l, m) states. Considerable new important observations are recorded. The results are quite accurate and most of these are presented for the first time.