Plane

vs

Jira

Complete Comparison

Everything a switching team needs to compare: AI agents, features, pricing, deployment

from cloud to air-gapped, and the Jira migration path.

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50,000+ teams run on Plane Cloud, from startups to the Fortune 500

3/5 Data Center and Server customers are moving to Plane

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What customers are saying about switching to Plane

Consolidates the stack

Work, docs, and intake live in Plane under one permission model and one renewal. Jira splits the same job across Jira, Confluence, and Jira Service Management.

Built for the agentic era

Agents get assigned work, leave comments, and move items over MCP on the same work graph people use. Jira’s model was built for tickets, then AI was added on top.

Runs where you need it

Every edition has the same product, AI included. Jira’s path is Atlassian Cloud. Self-hosted Jira is being retired.

Enterprise controls, included

SSO, LDAP, audit logs, and approvals ship in Plane and set up from one admin console. In the Atlassian stack, a lot of this lands in extra products and add-ons.

Let agents run your busywork

Agents take the work nobody wants, triage, status, spec drafts, and the team reviews everything in the activity trail.

Assign, mention, trigger, or schedule. The agent works in the same workspace the team already uses.

Model-agnostic. Bring your own keys.

Plane vs Jira, at a glance

Six decisions, twenty features, side by side. Want every detail?

Capability	Jira
Run the work
Work item types and custom fields The fields your process already uses	Work types and custom fields, with schemes and screens on company-managed spaces	Custom types with properties, including formula and rich text
Sprints Timeboxes and leftover work	Sprints on Scrum boards	Cycles with auto-rollover, auto-scheduling, manual start and stop, and overlapping cycles
Timeline and dependencies What blocks what	Blocks links on the timeline; cross-project dependencies in Plans on Premium	Finish-to-start, start-to-start, and finish-to-finish links; dates shift with them
Automation Rules and run limits	100 runs a month on Free, 1,700 on Standard, 1,000 per user on Premium; billed per step from 3 December 2026	Trigger, condition, and action rules, scheduled or workspace-wide
See the whole picture
Dashboards Charts leadership opens themselves	Gadget dashboards; Atlassian Analytics on Enterprise	Bar, line, area, pie, and donut charts across any projects; private, shared, or published; PDF export
Cross-project planning One view across every team's quarter	Plans on Premium and Enterprise	Initiatives that span projects, with states and an updates feed
Query language Power filters for people who live in JQL	JQL	Plane Query Language, or plain English that Plane AI turns into PQL
Keep control
Custom workflows Transition rules without schemes	Workflow schemes on company-managed spaces	Transition rules per project, workflows per work item type, and a change log
Roles and permissions Who can see and change what	Project roles and permission schemes from Standard	Custom roles and reusable permission schemes
Approvals Sign-off before work moves on	Premium	Named approvers on transitions
Audit logs The trail your auditor asks for	Site audit log from Standard; organization log with Guard	Append-only log, XLSX and CSV export, chain verification by API
One workspace
Git hosting Pull requests linked to work items	GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket apps	GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket, including Enterprise, self-managed, and Data Center
Wiki Docs beside the work	Confluence, sold separately	Wiki with collections; Pages in every project
Feedback intake Requests from anyone, triaged into work	Forms; portals need Jira Service Management	Intake queue with a triage state
AI in the work
Assignable agents AI teammates you can hand work to	Rovo Agents, Jira Coding Agent	Plane Agents, beta
MCP server Claude, Cursor, and ChatGPT in your tracker	Rovo MCP Server, hosted by Atlassian	MIT-licensed, hosted or self-hosted
Bring your own model provider Your keys, your data	No	On self-hosted Plane
Yours to run
Hosting Cloud, your servers, or fully offline	Atlassian Cloud; Data Center closed to new customers, read-only from 2029	Cloud, self-hosted, or air-gapped
Single sign-on Okta, Entra, and the rest	SAML via the Atlassian Guard add-on, included on Enterprise	SAML, OIDC, and LDAP
What the Jira importer moves Your history comes with you	Not applicable	Work items, comments, attachments, users, sprints, components, links, worklogs, and history; safe to re-run