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Compass is built with extensibility in mind to help you easily integrate with any of your internal or third-party tools.

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Companies of all shapes and sizes use Compass to reduce cognitive load, create a better developer experience, and improve ops readiness across their engineering organizations.

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Free Standard
Usage
Feature Free Standard
Full user limit per site ?
Free Three
Standard 35,000
Number of basic users ?
Free Unlimited
Standard Unlimited
Catalog
Feature Free Standard
Templates ?
Free One
Standard 20
Component creation ?
Free ✓
Standard ✓
Component ownership management ?
Free ✓
Standard ✓
Activity feed ?
Free ✓
Standard ✓
Dependencies ?
Free ✓
Standard ✓
Configuration as code ?
Free ✓
Standard ✓
Announcements ?
Free ✓
Standard ✓
Apps
Feature Free Standard
First- and third-party apps ?
Free ✓
Standard ✓
Teams & DevOps health
Feature Free Standard
Teams ?
Free ✓
Standard ✓
Team dashboard ?
Free ✓
Standard ✓
Predefined metrics ?
Free ✓
Standard ✓
Built-in scorecards ?
Free ✓
Standard ✓
CheckOps ?
Free ✓
Standard ✓
Customizations
Feature Free Standard
Custom fields ?
Free Three
Standard 50
Custom metrics ?
Free Three
Standard 100
Custom scorecards ?
Free One
Standard 50
Support & storage
Feature Free Standard
Support ?
Free Atlassian Community
Standard Business hours support
Data retention ?
Free One month of data retention
Standard One year of data retention

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Definitions of full user and basic user Copy link to heading Copied! show +

Full users are billable, paid users in Compass who have access to all features available for their site’s plan.

Basic users need a free Atlassian account. They have access to a basic set of features listed for the basic user role, regardless of their site’s plan.

Below is an overview of permissions each role has in Compass. See a full breakdown.

 

 

 

 

Basic User

Full user

Catalog

Limited access: view-only access to some features like dependencies and the activity feed

Full access

Scorecards

Use built-in scorecards: two read-only scorecards automatically applied to components

Use built-in scorecards and create and apply custom scorecards

Health

View team overview page

View team health details and create CheckOps and announcements

Apps

No access

Apps and extensions: first- and third-party apps and extensions to the UI for customized views of data from other tools

Software templates

View templates as component types only

Can search, view, create, and use templates to create components

Definition of product admin Copy link to heading Copied! show +

Product admins are full users (billable, paid users) in Compass. They have access to all features available for their site's plan, plus extra administrative capabilities such as installing and configuring apps.
Integrations with other Atlassian products Copy link to heading Copied! show +

Both the Free and Standard plans include integrations with the following Atlassian products: Jira, Jira Service Management, Bitbucket, and Opsgenie.

  • Jira: Discover and build your software catalog by importing components from repositories linked to Jira. Link components with Jira issues to track, prioritize, and complete the right work on your software architecture.
  • Jira Service Management: Discover and build your software catalog by importing services from Jira Service Management as Compass components. Get a holistic view of your service and make meaningful incident investigations by linking service records in Jira Service Management and Compass.
  • Bitbucket: Discover and build your software catalog by importing components from repositories. Automate component management from external tools with configuration as code. View component data from your toolchain at a unified location in Compass. Learn more about integrating with Bitbucket Cloud.
  • Opsgenie: View your component’s on-call information, and visualize incident events and metrics all in a unified place in Compass. Learn more about integrating with OpsGenie.
Subscription plans & free trial period Copy link to heading Copied! show +

The Free plan allows up to unlimited basic users per site and up to three full users for free, no credit card required.

If you want to add more than three full users or get access to more features, support, and storage, you can sign up for a 14-day free trial of our Standard plan or upgrade to our Standard plan in the ‘Manage subscription' section of your site. No payment information is required during the 14-day free trial. No payment information is required until your first payment. Cancel any time.

During your free trial, we’ll send reminders to update your payment details to ensure uninterrupted service, or choose to downgrade to the Free plan yourself.

If you’re unsatisfied with your purchase, we offer a 30–day money–back guarantee.
Payment info Copy link to heading Copied! show +

You can pay your subscription by credit card (MasterCard, Visa, or American Express). Subscriptions to Compass are currently only available as monthly payments. We plan to offer annual subscriptions in the future.

At this time, we’re only accepting payment for Compass in US dollars. We plan to accept other currencies in the future.
About cloud or self-managed options Copy link to heading Copied! show +

Compass is only available on Cloud, meaning we don’t offer Data Center options with your subscription.
How to invite users Copy link to heading Copied! show +

Site admins can activate Compass for all users. When Compass is active, all users on your site can find Compass with the app switcher. Learn more about inviting users to Compass.

Still have more questions?

Read more at Atlassian Cloud Licensing.

Here's how user pricing is calculated

Tier

Standard

Premium

First 100 users

Standard

$3 per user

Premium

$6 per user

Next 400 users

Standard

$2 per user

Premium

$4 per user

All users past 501

Standard

$1 per user

Premium

$2 per user

Full user limit per site

This is the maximum number of full users you can add to your Compass site (you get one site per plan). Full users are licensed users who get access to all features included in the plan their Compass site is on. See a full list of user permissions.

Number of basic users

Basic users need a free Atlassian account. They have access to a basic set of features listed for their role, regardless of the plan their Compass site is on. See a full list of user permissions.

Templates

Speed up and standardize software component creation with reusable templates.

Learn more about templates.

Component creation

Get started building your software catalog by creating components manually, using the API, or by importing from connected tools in your toolchain.

Component ownership management

Encourage accountability and make communication easier by assigning owner teams to components.

Learn how to manage component ownership.

Activity feed

Get real-time component events from your toolchain, and track those events over time.

Learn more about the activity feed.

Dependencies

Define relationships between components, and identify their impact on each other.

Learn more about dependencies.

Configuration as code

Manage and update components from a YAML configuration file alongside your code.

Learn more about configuration as code.

Announcements

Share upcoming news or changes, and stay updated with announcements that may affect your components.

Learn more about announcements.

First- and third-party apps

Seamlessly connect Compass to the tools you use. Customize the product user interface and build new capabilities at the component, team, or global level.

Teams

Create and discover teams across your software distributed architecture. Assign responsibility toward building, maintaining, and functioning of components and to drive best practices that make great software.

Learn more about using teams in Compass.

Team dashboard

Find your team’s information, view and manage component ownership, and perform team-related functions from a centralized team dashboard.

Learn more about team dashboards.

Predefined metrics

Collect data points that help you track and assess the performance of your processes, products, and teams with metrics. Use our predefined metrics to influence and improve your DevOps practices.

Built-in scorecards

Codify development and operational best practices at scale. Give teams autonomy while ensuring security, compliance, and reliability best practices are maintained. Get started on the health journey with guidance from our built-in scorecards.

Learn more about scorecards.

CheckOps

Better understand development and operational health and the health of your components. Reflect on team performance, and create action items in order to improve over time.

Learn more about CheckOps.

Custom fields

Create custom fields to classify a component and store information that’s most important to you.

Custom metrics

Create custom metrics to track and assess performance of your processes, products, and teams with data that’s valuable to you.

Custom scorecards

Offer strong guidance with a custom framework to cultivate behavior that improves your organization’s DevOps practices. Ensure your software components are healthy and teams are following the recommended best practices with custom scorecards.

Support

The Free plan provides access to self-help resources in the Atlassian Community while the Standard plan includes support during business hours (see which hours apply to your time zone).

Learn more about support.

 

Data retention

Access your toolchain data in Compass for a designated amount of time. This includes metrics, events, and scorecard scores, while catalog data is unlimited on both plans.