The Best Jira Alternative for Teams That Want Their Time Back
Full Scrum and Kanban without the per seat bill or the administration overhead. And unlike Jira Data Center, our self-hosted edition is not on an end of life clock.
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The short answer
Jira is a serious tool and the most capable issue tracker most engineering teams will ever use. Teams leave it for three reasons: the per seat cost stops them inviting everyone who should be involved, it takes real administration to keep working well, and Data Center is winding down, which removes the on-premise option a lot of them chose it for. If those are your reasons, Orangescrum covers the agile ground at a flat price with a self-hosted edition that is not being retired. If they are not, stay on Jira.
When Jira is the better choice
We would rather you find this out here than three weeks into a trial.
- You live in the Atlassian ecosystemIf Confluence, Bitbucket, and Jira Service Management are load bearing for you, the integration between them is genuinely tight and we do not match it. Replacing one piece of that means unpicking the rest.
- You need very deep issue customisationJira's field, screen, and workflow scheme model goes further than ours. If you have built something intricate over years and it is working, moving it will cost you more than it saves.
- You depend on specific Marketplace appsThe Atlassian Marketplace is the largest in this category. If your process runs on a particular app with no equivalent elsewhere, that is a real dependency and worth respecting.
- You are a very small team on the free planJira is free forever for up to 10 users. If you are under that and expect to stay there, free is hard to beat, and we would rather say so than pretend otherwise.
Why teams move from Jira
The bill stops scaling with headcount
One flat monthly price for the whole team instead of a rate per person. The cost of adding someone is nothing, which changes who gets invited.
Everyone can be in the tool
Unlimited users on every plan means stakeholders, clients, and contractors are inside the workflow rather than being emailed screenshots of it.
Self-hosted that is not ending
Atlassian closed Data Center to new customers in March 2026 and sets end of life at March 2029. Our self-hosted edition is a current product we are still shipping modules to.
Less to administer
Custom statuses, fields, and workflows without needing a dedicated administrator to keep schemes coherent.
One tool, not four
Time tracking, budget and cost, invoicing, documents, and resource planning are in the same product rather than bought separately.
Migration is done for you
Our team maps and moves projects, tasks, users, sprints, custom fields, and comment history, and validates it with you before cutover.
Orangescrum compared with Jira
| Orangescrum | Jira | |
|---|---|---|
| Price for a team of 25Jira Standard at its published monthly rate | $69 per month, flat | $226 per month at list |
| Users included | Unlimited on every plan | Charged per user |
| Scrum and Kanban boards | Yes | Yes |
| Backlogs, sprints, story points | Yes | Yes |
| Burndown and velocity | Yes | Yes |
| Gantt chart with critical pathAdvanced Roadmaps is a Premium feature | Yes | Via Marketplace apps or Premium |
| Time tracking built in | Yes | Basic, most teams add an app |
| Budget, cost, and invoicing | Yes | No |
| Resource and workload planning | Yes | Via Marketplace apps |
| Document management with approvals | Self-Hosted | Confluence, sold separately |
| Self-hosted edition available to new customersData Center closed to new customers 30 March 2026 | Yes | No |
| Free and open source edition | Yes | No |
| Free plan | 1 project, 1 user | Up to 10 users |
What it costs as the team grows
Jira Standard at $9.05 per user per month on monthly billing, against Orangescrum Pro Unlimited at $69 per month for the whole team.
| Team size | Jira | Orangescrum | Difference per year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 people | $91/mo | $69/mo | $258 less |
| 25 people | $226/mo | $69/mo | $1,887 less |
| 50 people | $453/mo | $69/mo | $4,602 less |
| 100 people | $905/mo | $69/mo | $10,032 less |
Figures use Jira's published monthly billing rate for its Standard plan and assume every person needs a seat. Annual billing is cheaper on most tools, including theirs. This compares list prices, not negotiated ones.
Moving off Jira
Migration is the part everyone is worried about, so we do it rather than hand you an importer and wish you luck. There is no charge for it.
- Tell us what you haveNumber of projects, roughly how many issues, which custom fields matter, and whether sprint history needs to come across.
- We map itIssue types, statuses, custom fields, and users are mapped to Orangescrum, and we show you the mapping before anything moves.
- Trial runWe import into a sandbox so your team can check that the data landed the way they expected.
- CutoverThe real import runs, we validate it with you, and your team starts working. Jira stays available read-only for as long as you want it.
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