Compare Jira Cloud and Data Center

Explore how Jira Cloud and Data Center features compare as you assess your team’s needs.

Get more with Jira Cloud

Accelerate your team’s delivery with the Jira you know and love reimagined in the Cloud.

Automation

  • Automate with a few clicks: Automate repetitive processes, save time, and keep Jira up to date with a built-in, no-code rule builder.
  • Connect your work and tools: Jira automation works across the tools you love like Slack, Microsoft Teams, Bitbucket, GitHub, and more.

Insights

  • Focus on continuous improvement: Access data at the right time so teams can work smarter, monitor performance, and continuously improve.
  • Become even more Agile: With sprint commitment, progress, and burndown insights, you can help make Agile your teams’ number-one priority.

Roadmaps

  • Track the big picture: Ladder your work up to the epic level to see your team’s progress in real-time.
  • Get ahead of dependencies: Visualize dependencies within your team so you’re able to account for them when you’re making plans.

Compare features side by side

Get a high-level comparison for your deployment options, and find out how features vary across Jira Cloud and Data Center.

Cloud

Atlassian is all-in on a Cloud-first future to help your teams create, discuss, and complete work together.

  • Win back valuable time for teams with no-code automation and tighter integrations across your toolchain.
  • Reallocate infrastructure costs and IT resources to strategic business priorities.
  • Get built-in security, privacy, compliance, and reliability.

Data Center

If you need to stay behind the firewall, you can host Jira Data Center on IaaS or on-premise.

  • Continued investment in the areas of performance & scale, security & compliance, and infrastructure & operations.
  • Flexible deployment options including on-premise, infrastructure as a service, and Kubernetes.

Project management

Feature Cloud Data Center
Project templates
Team-managed projects
Customizable boards
Customizable screens, workflows, issue types, fields, and transitions
Custom roles
No-code automation
Advanced planning (Plans)
Limited functionality
Summary, list, timeline, and calendar views
Limited functionality
Goals in Jira
Approvals
Forms

Atlassian Intelligence

Feature Cloud Data Center
Generative AI in editor
Natural language to JQL
Natural language automation rules
AI-powered summaries
AI work breakdown

Integrations & Apps

Feature Cloud Data Center
Advanced security integrations
Jira mobile app
Limited functionality

Data Center end of life will take place on March 28, 2029

Data Center subscriptions and any associated Marketplace apps will expire on this date. To make this transition as smooth as possible, Atlassian is winding down support in phases across the next 3 years. As Atlassian Platinum Solution Partner, we can help you plan your next steps.

Timeline of Data Center Lifecycle

* All changes are effective at 23:59 PST (Pacific Time) on the date(s) mentioned below.

DEC 16, 2025

No new Data Center app submissions

MAR 30, 2026

End of license sales to new customers

MAR 30, 2028

End of license sales to existing customers

MAR 28, 2029

End of life of Data Center products

Need help? We’ve got you covered.

Consult Atlassian Platinum Partner and Cloud & ITSM Specialist Partner – DragonSoft :

TEL: +0852-55169850

Email: customer@hkdsdtech.com

About DragonSoft

Founded in 2006, DragonSoft is now a leading DevSecOps solution provider in China. Integrating DevOps with the Agile management concept and the leading tools in the world, DragonSoft offers ALM (SDLM) / DevSecOps / Agile solutions as well as implementation, upgrading, training, customized development and maintenance services to automate the software development process, drive team collaboration, improve both efficiency and quality, and also ensure the traceability and measurability.