Choosing the right Jira Cloud plan is crucial for organizations aiming to optimize their project management processes. Atlassian offers three primary plans: Standard, Premium, and Enterprise. Understanding the differences in features and costs can help IT support managers and VPs of IT make informed decisions.
This article will discuss the difference between the three plans and which is best for your organization.
Jira Standard vs. Premium vs. Enterprise
All Jira Cloud plans have project management essentials, including unlimited issues, projects, and templates. However, the difference is in the additional features, users, and support. Here’s a concise overview of the key features across the three Jira Cloud plans.
Current Price Per User
As of January 2025, the current listed price per user per month for the Standard plan is $7.53, and for the Premium plan, it is $13.53. An Enterprise Plan is an option if your company has over 801 users. This plan is billed annually for $155,000. Check out Atlassian’s official documentation for up-to-date pricing.
Pricing Example of 300 users billed monthly. Source: Atlassian
Differences in Cloud Plans
Here, we will discuss in detail the difference between standard, premium, and enterprise plans. Specifically, integrating Jira, cross-functional work, scale on the Atlassian platform, managing users and permissions, and security and compliance. Let’s go!
Standard Plan
The Standard Plan is designed for growing teams. The standard plan offers up to 50,000 user limits per site (limited to 1 site), up to 250GB in storage, and unlimited email notifications daily. This plan also offers user roles and permissions. This means you can assign roles to different users, like administrator or end-user, and control which users can create new projects and what users can do, see, and comment on. Another feature is anonymous access, which lets people outside your organization view and create issues without logging in.
Cross-functional Work
Does your organization work cross-functionally? The Premium or Enterprise Plans are better suited for your organization.
Scale on the Atlassian Platform
The Standard Plan provides an employee directory for people and teams. This means you can see who’s working with and what they’re working on. What about automation? You can automate tasks or processes by setting rules within a single project or across multiple projects to help your business scale. The Standard Plan has 1700 rule runs per month (in total). Of course, only automations that successfully act are counted towards your limit.
Manage Users and Products
The Standard Plan includes domain verification and account capture. It also offers session duration management. In other words, admins can set a session timeout value other than the default policy of 30 days. This allows admins to control how long team members can stay signed in.
Security and Compliance
In addition to industry standards regarding password policies, encryption, disaster recovery, mobile device management, etc., the Standard Plan provides audit logs to allow admins to see changes made on the site. This is incredibly important when troubleshooting a problem or keeping a record, i.e. changes to global permissions. The Standard Plan also allows you to specify where your data residency is - where you want your data to be hosted in Atlassian’s global cloud footprint. Lastly, this plan includes issue-level security; you can specify which users or groups can see and edit information.
Premium Plan
The Premium Plan is ideal for companies seeking to enhance their planning capabilities, reliability, and advanced administrative controls. Please remember this when reading the following features: the Premium Plan includes everything from the Standard Plan. The main difference is the additional features, including cross-functional work and storage.
Bring all your Teams into Jira
Instead of 250GB of storage under the Standard Plan- the Premium Plan includes unlimited file storage.
Simplify Cross-functional Work
One significant feature you should consider when upgrading or choosing between Standard and Premium is cross-functional features. The Premium Plan includes advanced planning (Plans), which allows you to plan and track work across multiple teams and projects. This is designed to bring people, work, and goals into a shared space where deliverables are balanced against capacity, dependencies are flagged early on, and real-time updates are readily available to stakeholders.
The Premium Plan is suited for dependency management. Dependencies across multiple teams and projects can be visualised in a plan using a pre-configured dependent management view or tabs. It is also suited for capacity management. Users can assign work based on capacity and timeframe within a team.
Moreover, the Premium Plan includes an expandable issue hierarchy, showing the relationship between issue types. Scenario modelling to explore alternative paths for your plan, including both best and worst-case scenarios. In addition to approvals, where users or reviews must sign off on tasks before moving to the next stage.
Scale on the Atlassian Platform
Artificial intelligence is an exciting additional feature on the Premium Plan. Your company can use AI-powered summaries, generative AI editing and natural language to build automations or search issues (Atlassian Intelligence). Moreover, Rovo, including Rovo Agents, are virtual teammates who can tackle specialized tasks you assign.
Manage Users and Products
In the Premium Plan, you have admin insights (product usage such as data security and access), Sandbox (to experiment with products before making changes to your production environments), release tracks, and project archiving.
Security and Compliance
The Premium Plan includes IP allowlisting to bolster your team’s security by limiting site access to trusted IP ranges.
Enterprise Plan
The Enterprise Plan is for large multinational organizations, allowing up to 150 sites instead of just one in the Standard and Premium Plans.
Simplify Cross-functional Work
The Premium and Enterprise Plans are the same regarding cross-functional work features.
Scale on the Atlassian Platform
Atlassian Intelligence (AI-powered automation) and Rovo Agents (virtual teammates) are exclusive to the Premium and Enterprise plans. However, Enterprise users receive additional AI-powered benefits, such as enhanced automation limits (unlimited rule runs) and more advanced analytics capabilities through Atlassian Analytics and the Data Lake. If your organization relies heavily on AI-driven workflows, Enterprise provides more scalability and deeper insights than Premium. Lastly, Enterprise includes data connectors! This allows you to query your preferred non-Atlassian data source alongside data for holistic insights.
Manage Users and Products
The Enterprise Plan includes user counts that allow admin users to see how many users there are and if a product is reaching user capacity. Moreover, there are centralized user subscriptions (you can give a user entry into all sites with a single license), product requests (enable admins to manage how and when managed users create Atlassian products), and Site Optimizer (central hub to monitor the performance of your Jira data).
Security and Compliance
The Enterprise Plan includes multiple identity providers for a single organization, audit logs for user activity, and BYOK (encrypted product data with a manageable key in your instance of AWS KMS).
Which Jira Cloud Plan is Best for Your Company?
The Standard Plan suits small and medium-sized companies. Individual teams are usually in one discipline (such as IT) that don’t need the complexity or cost of the other offerings. The Premium plan is best suited for medium to large-sized organizations with 1,000 to 5,000 users.
With blended teams and multiple disciplines (IT, Operations, Marketing, HR) looking for industry-standard support, uptime, and functionality in one hosted solution.
The Enterprise plan, as suggested by the name, is suited for multinational organisations with up to 35,000 users. Where coss-company functionality and integration need enhanced enterprise capability across security, administration, and support.
When Should You Upgrade Plans?
Your company should consider upgrading from standard to premium or enterprise plans if you require more storage, increased uptime, enhanced support, advanced automation, and control over data residency. Check out your company’s needs given the relevant advantages and price offerings. If you need help, we’ve got you covered.
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