Compare Jira Cloud and Jira Software Data Center

Admin insights

In Jira Cloud, you can gain visibility and a better understanding of your product usage with data such as level of security and access and activity over time. Only available to Premium and Enterprise customers.

Admin insights

Gain visibility and a better understanding of your product usage with data such as level of security and access and activity over time.

IP allowlisting

Bolster your team’s security by limiting your site access to trusted IP ranges. Only available to Premium and Enterprise customers.

Sandbox

Prepare, test and experiment with products & apps before making changes to your live production environment.

Using a sandbox, you’ll get a realistic understanding of what a new feature might look like or how it will work once fully released in the product for your users. 

Only available to Premium and Enterprise customers.

Project archiving

Archive projects and their associated issues when they’re no longer active to reduce clutter and to ensure everyone on your team is accessing up-to-date information. Only available to Premium and Enterprise customers.

Audit logs

Audit logs let administrators look at changes made to your site. This is useful when you need to troubleshoot a problem or keep a record of important events, like changes to global permissions.

Reporting and insights

Get access to more than 12 default reports with real-time, actionable insights into how your team is performing over time.

Planning

The timeline is a planning view available in all Jira Software plans that allows you to plan work, track progress, and map dependencies at a granular level within a single team or project.

Plans is an advanced planning feature available on our Jira Premium plan that allows you to plan and track work across multiple teams and projects. Designed to help teams of teams drive cross-functional work, our planning feature comes with expanded issue hierarchy, dependency mapping, capacity management, custom reporting, and more.

Learn more about planning features in Jira Software.

Capacity management

Keep your goals on track by accounting for whether your teams have bandwidth to complete the work they’ve scoped. See multiple teams' capacity on a sprint by sprint basis. Only available to Premium and Enterprise customers.

Dependency management

Track dependencies within your team and organization to ensure projects deliver on time.

Basic dependency management helps you map dependencies within your team. Advanced dependency management helps you map dependencies across many teams.

Advanced permissions

Permissions in Jira control whether users can create new projects to what users can do, see, and comment on within a project or issue.

Data residency

Specify where you want your data hosted in Atlassian’s global cloud footprint. This can help meet your corporate policies and compliance requirements.

Learn more about data residency.

Release tracks

Control when and how changes are released to end users with Release Tracks.

With options to control Atlassian cloud releases, your day-to-day management of our cloud products becomes more predictable, helping you plan, prepare and ensure success for upcoming product changes.

Only available to Premium and Enterprise customers.

MDM (Mobile Device Management)

Enforce security controls on mobile app usage through built-in mobile device management (MDM) support for iOS and Android.

Password policies

Password policies help ensure best practices for user-created passwords in Atlassian cloud products. This helps reduce the risk of security breaches.

Unlimited project boards

Visualize your team’s work on a customizable board. Our boards follow agile frameworks like scrum, Kanban, and anything between so you can get more visibility over planned and in-progress work.

Team-managed projects

 In Jira Cloud, you have access to two project styles company-managed or team-managed. Company-managed are centrally administered with tighter control of processes, where as team-managed allows for teams to be more autonomous with simpler project based administration.

Screens, workflows, issue types, fields and transitions experience

In Jira Cloud, team-managed projects now allow for more autonomy but also an enhanced project entity configuration experience over company-managed projects with screens, workflows, issue types, fields, and transition, a.k.a. SWIFT.

Primary navigation search

The primary navigation in Jira Cloud offers a rich search capability across projects, issues, boards, and Atlassian Cloud products. Coming soon, you'll be able to filter your search results without leaving the drop down.

Project issue navigator

 Search for any issue in a project using text search, or filtering by assignee, reporter, and status. Sort your lists by a variety of criteria and modify the issues directly from the list.

Predictive smarts

Using machine learning, Jira Cloud is able to recommend the optimal Issue Assignee automatically in 86% of cases, saving you time when allocating work to the right people.

New Atlassian editor

The new Atlassian editor gives you a best in class editing experience to issue descriptions &  comments, with features such as mentions, emoji, advanced tables, code snippets, statuses, info panels, and smart links. 

Issue view

The new Cloud issue view comes with a simplified user experience, new editor functionality, inline editing of fields, quick add buttons, configurable layout, and more to see what's most important and take quick actions.

In-product help

In-product help on Jira Cloud surfaces articles on the most common issues users might be looking for based on where they are in the product, reducing the need to search for external documentation.

Toggle project features

Features such as the timeline, backlog, reports, and pages can be easily toggled on/off within a project helping users to only see things that they use within a project.

Centralized dashboard in “Your work”

Wasting time setting up dashboards? In Jira Cloud, finding and resuming your work has never been easier. “Your work” is your very own out-of-the-box dashboard with quick links to recent projects as well as any issues users have worked on, viewed, assigned, or starred.

Built-in automation

In Jira Cloud, automation is available out-of-the-box. With just a few clicks, a task or process can be automated across as many projects as you need with a single rule. Depending on which Cloud plan you are on, there may be limits to the number of monthly rule executions.

Quick setup user management

The set up for Cloud instances is much faster than Server and Data Center. When an admin logs in, they can add team members and manage access easily.

Project trash

Projects can be trashed and can be restored up to 60 days from when they have been trashed. This reduces the pain of accidentally deleting a project and needing to go through customer support to restore the project.

Custom roles

Create custom roles and assign permissions in team-managed projects. In addition to standard roles (Administrator, Member, and Viewer), you can create custom-named roles. You can also view and change associated permissions, clone, and delete the custom role.

Teams in Jira Software Cloud

In Jira Software, teams are a collection of Atlassian accounts that represent your real-world team. Teams have members, a profile, work, and resources. As a member of a team, your activity contributes to your team’s work section, which shows tickets and Confluence pages that your team members have worked on.

Jira Mobile app

With Jira for mobile, you’re never out of the loop on important projects or issues. Read, create, update, and delete issues and columns right from your mobile device. Access all your web views from roadmaps, boards, backlogs, and more, anytime and anywhere.

Built-in integrations

Customizable boards

Customize your own workflows, issue types, and fields for your boards, all without needing an administrator’s help or putting another project’s customizations at risk. Generate custom views of team-managed boards in seconds, with out-of-the-box filters by issue owner, epic, label, and more. No JQL required, although it’s still under the hood if and when you need it.

Mobile application management

Admins can enforce native security controls on mobile app usage from Atlassian administration.

Atlassian Marketplace apps

Apps enhance Jira into a tightly integrated product development solution for teams who need to get more done in less time. In the Cloud, you still have your favorite apps like ScriptRunner, Tempo Timesheets, and Power Scripts, as well as, Cloud-first apps such as Deep Clone, Issue Checklist Pro, and more!

Project auto re-indexing

Manually re-indexing projects each time a new scheme is applied is no longer required as Jira Cloud takes care of it automatically. Similarly, updates for features and new improvements are automatically received by Cloud instances.

Advanced planning (Plans)

Plans is an advanced planning feature available on our Jira Premium plan that allows you to plan and track work across multiple teams and projects.

Timeline

In Jira Cloud, you can create a project timeline to visualize stories and epics against important dates and releases. This view is also exportable and shareable so you can easily communicate updates to stakeholders.

Atlassian Intelligence (AI)

Get more done with AI-powered summaries, generative AI editing, and natural language to build automations or search issues.

Agile reporting

Access out-of-the-box reports with real-time, actionable insights on how your team is performing over time. Bring reports into a dashboard to have all your data in a single view for fast, informed decision-making.

Learn more about reporting in Jira.

Scrum and Kanban boards

Continuously improve the flow of work and minimize time to project completion with the kanban board.

Commit to completing an increment of work each sprint and accelerate feedback loops with the scrum board.

Dependency management

In Jira Cloud, you can map dependencies to show the relationship between issues in a project or plan.

Dependencies within a single team or project can be visualized in the timeline view of a project.

Dependencies across multiple teams and projects can be visualized in a plan using the pre-configured dependency management view or Dependencies tab.

Learn more

Business continuity & disaster recovery

Our Disaster Recovery Program consists of a few key practices to ensure the appropriate levels of governance, oversight, and testing. 

Audit logs

Jira Premium provides audit logging for site changes. This is useful when you need to troubleshoot a problem or keep a record of important events, like changes to global permissions.

In addition to this, Jira Enterprise also provides comprehensive audit logging of user-initiated activity including permission changes.

Business continuity & disaster recovery

Our Disaster Recovery Program consists of a few key practices to ensure the appropriate levels of governance, oversight, and testing.