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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.
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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.
| Standard | Premium | Enterprise | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Users | Up to 100,000 | Up to 100,000 | 801 to 100,000 |
| Sites | 1 | 1 | Up to 150 |
| Storage | 250 GB | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Support | Local business hours | 24/7 Premium support | 24/7 Enterprise support |
| Uptime SLA | None | 99.9% | 99.95% |
| Automation | 400 steps per user per month | 750 steps per user per month | 1,000 steps per user per month |
| Rovo credits | 25 per user per month | 70 per user per month | 150 per user per month |
| Roadmaps | Basic | Advanced (Plans) | Advanced (Plans) |
| Capacity planning | No | Yes | Yes |
| Sandbox and release tracks | No | Yes | Yes |
| Admin insights and space archiving | No | Yes | Yes |
| IP allowlisting | No | Yes | Yes |
| SSO and user provisioning | With an Atlassian Guard subscription | With an Atlassian Guard subscription | Included |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Monthly or annual | Annual |
Source: Atlassian, Explore Jira Cloud plans and How Rovo credits work, checked October 2026.
Current Price Per User
Jira Cloud is priced per user per month, and the price per user drops as your user count grows. An Enterprise Plan is an option if your company has over 801 users. This plan is billed annually. Check out Atlassian’s official documentation for up-to-date pricing.
Atlassian also adjusts Cloud list prices, usually once a year, so last year’s quote is rarely this year’s price. Buying through an Atlassian partner like Seibert costs the same as buying from Atlassian, or less, and we check your users before every renewal so you don’t pay for inactive accounts.
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 100,000 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 includes 400 automation steps per user per month. Standard also includes Rovo, Atlassian’s AI, with 25 Rovo credits per user per month.
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.
Single sign-on and user provisioning on Standard need an Atlassian Guard subscription.
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 gets more room on the Premium Plan. Every paid plan includes Rovo, with AI-powered summaries, generative AI editing, natural language to build automations or search issues, and Rovo Agents, virtual teammates who can tackle specialized tasks you assign. Premium raises your allowance to 70 Rovo credits per user per month, and automation to 750 steps per user per month. Read our Rovo FAQ for how Rovo Search, Chat and agents work.
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
Enterprise users receive additional AI and automation capacity: 150 Rovo credits per user per month and 1,000 automation steps per user per month, along with 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, organization-wide audit logs for user activity, and BYOK (encrypted product data with a manageable key in your instance of AWS KMS).
Enterprise also includes Atlassian Guard Standard, with single sign-on and SCIM user provisioning, so you don’t need a separate Guard subscription for your Jira users. Read how Atlassian Guard licensing works if your other apps aren’t on Enterprise.
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 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 801 to 100,000 users. Where cross-company functionality and integration need enhanced enterprise capability across security, administration, and support.
Standard
Small and medium-sized companies
- Teams usually in one discipline
- Business-hours support
- One site
Premium
Medium to large organizations
- Blended teams across disciplines
- Plans, sandbox, release tracks
- 24/7 support and a 99.9% SLA
Enterprise
Multinational organizations, 801+ users
- Up to 150 Jira sites
- Atlassian Guard included
- 99.95% SLA, billed annually
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 planning across teams. Check out your company’s needs given the relevant advantages and price offerings. If you need help, we’ve got you covered.
Before you upgrade, check how healthy your current instance is. Our Jira health check worksheet walks Jira admins through 39 checks, including licensing.
Should You Buy Jira on Its Own or in Teamwork Collection?
Atlassian also sells Jira inside Teamwork Collection, together with Confluence, Loom and Rovo agents in one per-user subscription. Its Premium and Enterprise editions add Atlassian Guard Standard, and every edition includes ten times the Rovo credits of Jira on its own. It pays off when the same people use several of these apps. Our whitepaper on Teamwork Collection vs. the apps on their own shows when each option costs less.
Using Jira Service Management or Confluence too? Compare Jira Service Management Standard, Premium and Enterprise and Confluence Standard and Premium.
Jira Cloud Plans: Frequently Asked Questions
Is Rovo included in Jira Standard?
Is Rovo included in Jira Standard?
Yes. Every paid Jira Cloud plan includes Rovo. Standard comes with 25 Rovo credits per user per month, Premium with 70 and Enterprise with 150, pooled across your organization.
How many users do you need for Jira Enterprise?
How many users do you need for Jira Enterprise?
Enterprise starts at 801 users and is billed annually. Below 801 users, Premium is the top plan.
Can you use different Jira plans on different sites?
Can you use different Jira plans on different sites?
Each Jira site has one plan for all its users. If you need more than one site under a single license, that takes Enterprise, which covers up to 150 sites.
Is buying Jira through a partner more expensive?
Is buying Jira through a partner more expensive?
No. You pay the same as buying directly from Atlassian, or less, and you keep your own Atlassian account and data.
Speak with an Atlassian Partner to See Which Plan is Right for Your Team
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