Jira Pricing
- Development pricing
- $7.91/mo at the smallest
- Free plan
Jira pricing starts at $7.91 a month, which is $94.92 over twelve months. There is a free plan, and a trial on the paid tiers: 30 days on Standard and Premium. Every figure below was read from the vendor's pricing page on 9 August 2026.
Opens the vendor's own pricing page. Figures here were read from it on 9 August 2026.
Jira ranking and coverage
- In Development
- #5 of 18
- Overall
- #9 of 122 tied
- Terms score
- 8 /10
- Referenced here
- 3 pages
Cost position 6.9 · Portability 8 · Subscription flexibility 9 - Ranked on published terms only: entry price against category peers, portability and subscription flexibility, equally weighted. This is not a quality score.How the rank is calculated.
Jira pricing at a glance
| Entry price | Free for up to 10 users; Standard from $7.91 per user/month |
|---|---|
| Smallest invoice | $7.91 a month, or $94.92 a year |
| How that is reached | Standard at $7.91 a month |
| Seat minimum | None on the entry plan |
| Free plan | Yes |
| Free trial | 30 days on Standard and Premium |
| How it charges | freemium |
| Priced plans published | 4 rows on the vendor's page |
| Affiliate programme | No |
| Prices read from | The vendor's own pricing page |
| Last checked | 9 August 2026 |
Every Jira plan and what it costs
Read from the vendor's own pricing page on 9 August 2026. Charged as freemium. Free trial: 30 days on Standard and Premium.
| Plan | Price | Billing | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | per month | Up to 10 users, 2 GB storage, community support |
| Standard | $7.91 | per month | per user - Audit logs, 250 GB storage, business-hours support |
| Premium | $14.54 | per month | per user - Adds advanced roadmaps, sandbox, 24/7 support and unlimited storage |
| Enterprise | Custom | Negotiated | Billed annually, multiple instances and unlimited automation |
What Jira actually costs over a year
A monthly price is not the same thing as a monthly contract. These are the plans above resolved both ways, per seat or unit where the plan is charged that way. Where a vendor quotes only a yearly figure it is divided by twelve rather than left out, and the Quoted column says which figure the vendor actually publishes.
| Plan | Quoted | Monthly | Over 12 months |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standardper user | per month | $7.91 | $94.92 |
| Premiumper user | per month | $14.54 | $174.48 |
Which Jira plan should you buy?
| Your situation | Recommended | Why |
|---|---|---|
| A team of ten or fewer tracking software work | Free | Up to 10 users with 2 GB storage. Genuinely usable for a small squad. |
| You have more than ten developers | Standard | $7.91 per user, with audit logs and business-hours support. |
| You need advanced roadmaps, sandbox or 24/7 support | Premium | $14.54 per user, and advanced roadmaps are usually the specific reason. |
| You run several instances or need unlimited automation | Enterprise | Annual billing only, and a procurement conversation rather than a self-serve upgrade. |
| Your team tracks marketing or creative tasks | Do not buy Jira | Asana or Trello fit that work. Jira will feel like bureaucracy. |
| Nobody will administer it | Consider Linear instead | Jira's configurability requires an owner. Linear has opinions instead, which small teams often prefer. |
Verdict by who you are
Software team running Scrum or KanbanYes
The industry standard for a reason: auditable, configurable workflows that scale to hundreds of developers.
Organisation using Confluence and BitbucketYes
The linking between issues, documentation and commits is the strongest part of the Atlassian estate.
Marketing or creative teamNo
Wrong shape of tool. The overhead will outweigh the tracking.
Small startup wanting speedCompare first
Free works, but Linear is faster to live with if you have no appetite for configuration.
Team without an adminNo
Unadministered Jira degenerates into workflows nobody understands.
Should you buy Jira?
Buy Jira if…
- Software teams running Scrum or Kanban at scale
- Organisations needing auditable, configurable workflows
- Teams that already use Confluence and Bitbucket
Do not buy Jira if…
- Small teams who want to plan work in an afternoon
- Marketing or creative teams tracking simple tasks
- Anyone without someone willing to administer it
What leaving Jira would cost
low lock-in
Jira scores on self-hostable, public API. Portability 8/10 ; lock-in is the inverse. How this is calculated.
The complaint is usually about process, not software
Almost every criticism of Jira describes a configuration decision: too many required fields, a workflow with too many states, an approval step added after one incident and never removed. Jira enforces what it is told to enforce. Before migrating away, it is worth checking whether the problem would survive the move, because it usually does.
Where the free tier ends
Ten users, and then it stops. That is a sharp cliff for a growing team, and the jump to Standard is per user for everyone, not just the eleventh person. Model the cost at your expected headcount rather than your current one.
Premium is bought for two things
Advanced roadmaps and the sandbox. If you plan across multiple teams with dependencies, roadmaps justify the step from $7.91 to $14.54. If you have a single team and one board, Premium buys support response times you probably do not need.
What to check before choosing it
Ask who will administer it. Jira without an owner degrades predictably: fields accumulate, workflows calcify, and within a year the board reflects the org chart rather than the work. If no one can hold that responsibility, a simpler tracker will serve you better for longer.
Jira questions, answered
- Is Jira worth it?
- Jira is the most configurable issue tracker available, and configurability is both the product and the problem.
- How much does Jira cost?
- Free for up to 10 users; Standard from $7.91 per user/month. The cheapest paid tier we recorded is Standard, published at $7.91 a month, which works out at $7.91 a month or $94.92 over a year. Verified against the vendor's pricing page.
- Does Jira have a free plan or free trial?
- Jira has a free plan. A free trial is available: 30 days on Standard and Premium.
- What is the best Jira alternative?
- It depends on the job. Linear: Dramatically faster and better designed, with far less configurability. Asana: Better for cross-functional work that is not software delivery. GitHub Projects: Free and adequate if your work already lives in GitHub.
- Can I self-host Jira?
- Yes. Jira can be run on your own infrastructure, so the data stays under your control.
Opens the vendor's own pricing page. Figures here were read from it on 9 August 2026.
What this profile is based on
Every claim below is about our work, not about Jira. A "no" is recorded rather than omitted, because the difference between a tested review and careful desk research is the reader's to weigh. How we research a profile.
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Prices read from the vendor : yes
Read from Jira's own pricing page on 9 August 2026
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Plans and terms recorded : yes
4 rows, each with its billing period
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Original screenshots : yes
2 captured by us: pricing page, homepage
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Sources cited and dated : yes
1 primary source, each with the date it was read
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Product used first-hand : no
Not tested. This profile is desk research from primary sources
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Alternatives used first-hand : no
None, so comparisons here rest on published facts rather than use
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Vendor contacted : no
Not contacted for this profile
Where Jira appears on this site
3 other pages here reference Jira. Every one is listed below, so the figure can be checked rather than taken.
- Another profile Confluence names it as a competitor
- Another profile Linear names it as a competitor
- Another profile Plane names it as a competitor
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Provenance and freshness
When each fact was last checked
- Pricing ·
- Plans ·
- Free trial
- Features
- Platforms
- Integrations
- Affiliate programme
- Company details
What has changed
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August 2026
- Per-user pricing verified
- Added plan picker and verdicts
Sources & verification
Facts on this page were read from the sources below on the dates shown. Where a vendor does not publish a figure, we record it as not disclosed rather than estimating it.
- Jira pricing - checked 9 August 2026
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