Jira started as a bug tracker for software teams and is now Atlassian's general work tracker, used by marketing, operations and agency teams as well as developers. Its pricing looks simple on the card (a free plan, then a price per user) but there are two different ways to pay, and they do not charge the same way. Monthly billing counts your exact users. Annual billing charges for a block of users, and the block you land in can cost more than paying month to month.
All prices below come from Atlassian's own Jira pricing page and its built-in calculator, in US dollars, at the time of our last update. Taxes are extra.
Jira pricing at a glance
| Plan | Monthly billing | Annual plan | Users | Storage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | $0 | Up to 10 | 2 GB |
| Standard | $9.70 a user a month | From $950 a year (1 to 10 users) | Up to 100,000 a site | 250 GB |
| Premium | $19.60 a user a month | From $1,950 a year (1 to 10 users) | Up to 100,000 a site | Unlimited |
| Enterprise | Not offered | Quoted by sales | Up to 100,000 a site | Unlimited |
The monthly rates hold from 1 to 100 users. Above 100, Atlassian's calculator shows the average price per user easing down as the team grows: at 300 users it shows $8.48 for Standard and $15.56 for Premium. Most small businesses will never reach that point, so this guide sticks to teams of 100 or fewer.
Enterprise is sold only on annual subscriptions. The calculator shows its price only once you enter 801 or more users; below that, it sends you to sales.
The Free plan: what 10 users get
Jira Free is a real plan, not a trial. It has no time limit and covers up to 10 users on one site. You get:
- Unlimited goals, projects, work items and forms.
- Backlog, list, board, timeline, calendar and summary views.
- AI-driven reports and dashboards.
- 150 automation steps a month for the whole subscription.
- 2 GB of file storage.
- Support from the Atlassian Community forums.
What to watch:
- The 10-user ceiling is hard. If the site goes over, Atlassian moves you to a 7-day trial of Standard, and after that every user is billed.
- Automation runs out fast. 150 steps a month is shared by the whole site, so a few rules that fire on every new ticket can use it up in a week or two.
- Email notifications are capped at 100 a day on Free. Paid plans have no cap.
- No user roles and permissions. Atlassian lists them as a Standard feature, so on Free every user is an admin.
- Rovo, Atlassian's AI, is not included. The Free plan has no Rovo credits.
For a team of four or five that tracks client work or a product backlog, Free is often enough for months. If you are still deciding between tools, our guide to free project management software compares Jira's free plan with the others.
Standard: the plan most small teams pay for
Standard costs $9.70 a user a month on monthly billing. It adds to Free:
- User roles and permissions, and external collaboration with people outside your company.
- Rovo Search, Chat and Agents, with 25 Rovo credits a user a month.
- 400 automation steps a user a month, so a 10-user team has 4,000.
- 250 GB of storage.
- Unlimited email notifications.
- Multi-region data residency.
- Regional support during local business hours.
Choose it if you have more than 10 users, or fewer but need permissions (for example, to keep clients or contractors out of some projects), or you keep hitting the Free plan's automation and storage limits.
Premium: planning across teams
Premium costs $19.60 a user a month on monthly billing, roughly twice Standard. Atlassian pitches it at "teams of teams". It adds:
- Cross-team planning and dependency management. On Free and Standard, dependencies work within a single project; on Premium they work across projects.
- Customizable approval processes.
- Customizable onboarding by team type.
- 70 Rovo credits a user a month.
- 750 automation steps a user a month.
- Unlimited storage.
- 24/7 support for critical issues and a 99.9% uptime guarantee.
Choose it if several teams plan work that depends on each other, such as a product team waiting on design and engineering, or if you need formal approval steps inside Jira. A single team of 10 running its own board rarely needs Premium; at 10 users it costs $1,000 more a year than Standard on an annual plan.
Enterprise
Enterprise adds advanced analytics, Atlassian Guard Standard (single sign-on, SCIM user provisioning and Active Directory sync) included in the price, up to 150 sites, 1,000 automation steps and 150 Rovo credits a user a month, 24/7 support for all issues and a 99.95% uptime guarantee. On the other plans, single sign-on needs a separate Atlassian Guard Standard subscription.
It is billed annually, and pricing comes from Atlassian's sales team. It is built for organizations with hundreds of users, so we leave it out of the small-business numbers below.
Annual plans are priced by user tier
This is the part of Jira pricing most people get wrong. Monthly billing charges for the exact number of users on your site each month. Atlassian says an annual subscription instead charges "for the tier that most closely matches your user count", and the tiers are wide:
| Users | Standard, a year | Premium, a year | Standard per user, a month, at the top of the tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 to 10 | $950 | $1,950 | $7.92 |
| 11 to 15 | $1,450 | $2,950 | $8.06 |
| 16 to 25 | $2,450 | $4,900 | $8.17 |
| 26 to 50 | $4,850 | $9,800 | $8.08 |
| 51 to 100 | $9,700 | $19,500 | $8.08 |
| 101 to 200 | $18,000 | $34,500 | $7.50 |
What Jira costs a year on an annual plan, by user tier
- Standard
- Premium
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| Standard | Premium | |
|---|---|---|
| 10 users | $950 | $1,950 |
| 15 users | $1,450 | $2,950 |
| 25 users | $2,450 | $4,900 |
| 50 users | $4,850 | $9,800 |
| 100 users | $9,700 | $19,500 |
The last column divides the tier price by the largest number of users in the tier and by 12. If your team fills its tier, an annual Standard plan costs about $8 a user a month, around $1.60 less than monthly billing. Premium works out to about $16.25 to $16.40 a user a month.
Two things follow from the tiers:
- A one-person annual plan costs as much as a 10-person one. The calculator charges $950 for Standard whether you enter 1 user or 10. A small team under 10 users that needs a paid plan is usually better off paying monthly.
- You can add users within your tier at no extra cost. A 16-person team on an annual Standard plan pays $2,450 and can grow to 25 without paying more until renewal.
Monthly or annual: the 11-user trap
Because annual plans charge for the full tier, a team that sits just above a tier boundary pays for users it does not have. Here is Jira Standard for a year, monthly billing against the annual plan:
| Users | Monthly billing, 12 months | Annual plan | Cheaper option |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | $1,280 | $1,450 | Monthly, by $170 |
| 15 | $1,746 | $1,450 | Annual, by $296 |
| 16 | $1,862 | $2,450 | Monthly, by $588 |
| 25 | $2,910 | $2,450 | Annual, by $460 |
| 26 | $3,026 | $4,850 | Monthly, by $1,824 |
| 50 | $5,820 | $4,850 | Annual, by $970 |
Jira Standard for a year: monthly billing against an annual plan
- Monthly billing
- Annual plan
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| Monthly billing | Annual plan | |
|---|---|---|
| 11 users | $1,280 | $1,450 |
| 15 users | $1,746 | $1,450 |
| 16 users | $1,862 | $2,450 |
| 25 users | $2,910 | $2,450 |
| 26 users | $3,026 | $4,850 |
| 50 users | $5,820 | $4,850 |
The monthly figures are $9.70 times the number of users times 12, and they assume your headcount stays the same all year. Working the same sums through each tier, the annual Standard plan becomes the cheaper choice at:
- 9 or 10 users in the 1 to 10 tier.
- 13 to 15 users in the 11 to 15 tier.
- 22 to 25 users in the 16 to 25 tier.
- 42 to 50 users in the 26 to 50 tier.
- 84 to 100 users in the 51 to 100 tier.
Premium follows almost the same pattern, at 9 to 10, 13 to 15, 21 to 25, 42 to 50 and 83 to 100 users.
The rule of thumb: pay annually only when your team fills most of its tier, or you expect it to grow into the tier during the year. Otherwise monthly billing is cheaper and lets you drop users when people leave.
Monthly subscriptions can be paid by credit card (MasterCard, Visa or American Express) or PayPal. Annual subscriptions can also be paid by bank transfer or check.
What a small business team pays for Jira
Five common cases, on Standard unless noted:
A team of 6. Free covers you. If you need permissions or more automation, Standard on monthly billing is 6 × $9.70 = $58.20 a month, or $698.40 a year. The annual plan would cost $950 for the 1 to 10 tier, so monthly is cheaper.
A team of 10. Free still covers you. On Standard, monthly billing is $97 a month ($1,164 a year), and the annual plan is $950. Pay annually.
A team of 12. The Free plan no longer fits. Monthly billing is $116.40 a month, or $1,396.80 a year; the annual plan costs $1,450 for the 11 to 15 tier. Monthly is cheaper by $53.20 a year unless you expect to hire.
A team of 25. Monthly billing is $242.50 a month, or $2,910 a year; the annual plan is $2,450. Pay annually and save $460.
A team of 25 on Premium. Monthly billing is $490 a month, or $5,880 a year; the annual plan is $4,900. Premium costs $2,450 a year more than Standard on annual plans for the same team.
Confluence and the Teamwork Collection
Jira tracks work; Confluence holds documents, specs and meeting notes. They are separate subscriptions. On Atlassian's pricing pages, for a 10-user team on monthly billing:
| Option | Standard, a user a month | Premium, a user a month |
|---|---|---|
| Jira alone | $9.70 | $19.60 |
| Confluence alone | $7.15 | $14.10 |
| Jira and Confluence bought separately | $16.85 | $33.70 |
| Teamwork Collection (Jira, Confluence, Loom and Rovo) | $15 | $29 |
If you want both Jira and Confluence, the Teamwork Collection is cheaper than buying them separately at this team size and includes Loom video recording as well. Like Jira, it has a free plan for up to 10 users. Jira Service Management, Atlassian's help desk product, is priced on its own page and is not part of Jira.
Rovo AI and automation limits
Every paid Jira plan includes Rovo Search, Chat and Agents. The plans differ in how much use you get: 25 Rovo credits a user a month on Standard, 70 on Premium and 150 on Enterprise, pooled across your organization and reset each month. Search does not use credits; Chat and Agent requests do. Atlassian says it does not currently charge for usage beyond the allowance, and has promised at least 90 days' notice and an explicit opt-in before that changes.
Automation steps work the same way, per user and pooled: 400 on Standard, 750 on Premium, 1,000 on Enterprise. A 12-person Standard team has 4,800 steps a month, which is plenty for the rules a small team writes.
Trials, refunds and Data Center
Standard and Premium have a 7-day free trial, and Atlassian says no payment information is required. Monthly subscriptions can be refunded within the first paid month after the trial ends; annual subscriptions within 30 days of payment.
If you were looking at the self-hosted version: Atlassian stopped selling Data Center licenses to new customers on March 30, 2026, and Data Center reaches end of life on March 28, 2029. For a new small business, Jira Cloud is the only option.
How Jira compares on price
Jira Standard at $9.70 a user a month is in the same range as other project tools' entry plans. Wrike's Team plan is $10 a user a month billed annually, for 2 to 15 users, and Wrike's Business plan with resource management and approvals is $25. Jira Premium, at $19.60, is still cheaper than Wrike Business for a team that needs approvals.
Where Jira wins is its 10-user free plan, which is generous next to most rivals, and its depth for software work: backlogs, sprints and issue tracking. Where it loses is ease of use for non-technical teams. If your team mostly plans campaigns or client projects on a timeline, also look at Smartsheet's pricing and our Gantt chart software guide. Our roundup of the best project management software puts Jira next to Asana, monday.com and ClickUp.
Is Jira worth paying for?
Choose Jira if your team works in tickets: software development, IT requests, agency work broken into tasks. Start on Free; most teams under 10 can stay there until they need permissions or run out of automation.
When you move to Standard, do the tier sum before you click annual. If your headcount fills most of its tier, the annual plan brings Jira to about $8 a user a month. If you sit just above a tier boundary, as at 11, 16 or 26 users, pay monthly until you grow into the tier. And if you also need a wiki, price the Teamwork Collection before buying Confluence separately.