--- title: "Jira Data Center Alternative | Self-Hosted, Free Migration | Orangescrum" description: "Alternative to Jira Data Center with self-hosted migration support. Expansions end March 2028, end of life March 2029. Runs on your servers or air-gapped. Free guided migration." canonical: https://www.orangescrum.com/jira-on-premises-alternative --- # Jira Data Center Alternative | Self-Hosted, Free Migration | Orangescrum > For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://www.orangescrum.com/llms.txt). [Home](/) / [Compare Orangescrum](/compare-orangescrum) / Jira on-premises alternative Jira Data Center on-premise # The Jira Data Center Alternative for Teams _Who Cannot Move to Cloud_, with Migration Included You run Jira on your own servers because a regulator, a security team, or a network boundary says you have to. Data Center is winding down. This is where those instances are going. Orangescrum Pro Unlimited$69_/month flat_Unlimited users Jira Standard$9.05_/user/month_per user with volume tiers [Talk to us about migration](/contact-sales?utm_source=site&utm_medium=alt&utm_campaign=jira-on-premises-alternative) [See self-hosted pricing](/self-hosted/pricing) Free guided migration from Jira Data Center. Enterprise license: contact sales. ## The short answer If you run Jira Data Center, you have three dates to plan around. New Data Center sales closed to new customers on 30 March 2026. Existing customers can buy expansions and renewals until 30 March 2028. Full end of life is 28 March 2029, when instances become read only. Jira Server reached end of life separately on 15 February 2024. The date that constrains you today is 2028, not 2029, because it caps how much you can grow the instance two years before it stops working. Orangescrum Self-Hosted is a current product on the same ground: your servers, your data residency, air gapped networks supported, SSO, OAuth, LDAP, and Active Directory. It is also ahead of our own Cloud edition on modules. If your instance also runs Jira Service Management, if you have written your own Data Center apps, or if you need multi node clustering for tens of thousands of users, stay where you are for now. We do not cover those and pretending otherwise would waste your evaluation. ## When Jira is _the better choice_ We would rather you find this out here than three weeks into a trial. - **You run Jira Service Management on the same instance**ITSM with queues, service level agreements, a customer portal, and asset management is a whole product on top of the issue tracker. We do not have an ITSM product. Replacing the project side while leaving service management on Data Center means running both anyway. - **You have written your own Data Center apps**Atlassian's plugin framework lets you build and deploy Java apps directly into the instance, and some teams have years of internal tooling in there. We have an API and integrations, but no comparable on-premise plugin framework. That code does not come with you. - **You need multi node clustering at very large scale**Data Center is designed for clustered deployment across nodes with zero downtime upgrades for very large user counts. If your instance is genuinely at that scale and your operations team has built around it, that is real engineering you would be giving up. - **Your instance is stable and your budget runs to 2028**If nothing is growing, your license is paid, and 2028 is beyond your planning horizon, doing nothing for another year is a legitimate decision. We would rather you moved when there is a reason than because a comparison page told you to. ## What on-premise teams _get instead_ ### A deployment with no end date Atlassian has published the dates when Data Center stops being sold, stops being expandable, and stops working. Orangescrum Self-Hosted is a current product we are still shipping modules to, with no announced end of life. ### Runs in an air gapped network No outbound connection required to operate. If your environment has no route to the public internet by design, the product installs and runs inside it. ### Your servers, your data residency Data stays on infrastructure you control, in the country and the data centre you choose, which is usually the reason you were on-premise in the first place. ### Identity you already run SSO, an OAuth identity provider, LDAP, and Active Directory, so accounts, groups, and de-provisioning follow the directory your organisation already administers. ### Modules our Cloud does not have Self-Hosted currently leads Cloud: risk management, document management with approvals, attendance and leave, release management, TestLab, collaborative document editing, and a visual workflow designer with transition rules and permissions. ### Guided migration, at no charge Our team runs the move, including instances that sit behind your firewall where we never touch the data ourselves. Projects, issues, users, sprints, custom fields, and comment history are mapped and validated with you. ## Orangescrum compared with _Jira_ Jira figures were read from [their pricing page](https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/pricing) on 2026-08-03. Prices change, so check before you decide. | | Orangescrum | Jira | | Price for a team of 50Both cloud editions: Orangescrum Pro Unlimited against Jira Standard at its published monthly rate. Atlassian's proposed destination for Data Center customers is its cloud. | $69 per month, flat | $453 per month at list | | Self-hosted license for 50 users | $2,250 per year (Business, up to 50 users). Enterprise: custom quote, contact sales | Renewals for existing customers only, until 30 March 2028 | | Users included | Cloud: unlimited on every plan. Self-Hosted: by license tier (Core 25, Business 50, Enterprise custom) | Charged per user | | On-premise edition sold to new customersNew Data Center sales closed on 30 March 2026 | Yes | No | | Expansions and renewals | No limit and no end date | Existing customers until 30 March 2028 | | Published end of life | None announced | 28 March 2029, instances become read only | | Air gapped deployment | Yes | Yes | | Data stays on your infrastructure | Yes | Yes | | SSO with SAML | Self-Hosted | Yes | | LDAP and Active Directory | Self-Hosted | Yes | | OAuth identity provider | Self-Hosted | Via Atlassian identity products | | Visual workflow designer with transition rules | Self-Hosted | Yes | | Risk management | Self-Hosted | No | | Document management with approvals | Self-Hosted | Confluence, sold separately | | Collaborative document editing | Self-Hosted | Confluence, sold separately | | Attendance and leave | Self-Hosted | No | | Release management | Self-Hosted | Versions and release hub | | Test case management | Self-Hosted, via TestLab | Via Marketplace apps | | Microsoft Teams integration | Self-Hosted | Yes | | Jenkins CI/CD integration | Self-Hosted | Via Marketplace or Jenkins plugins | | IT service management on the same instanceJira Service Management, sold separately | No | Yes | | Free and open source edition | Yes | No | ## 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 a Data Center instance On-premise migrations have a constraint hosted ones do not: the data often cannot leave your network. We work inside that rather than asking you to make an exception for us, and there is no charge for the migration. 1. **Scope the instance**Number of projects, issue volume, which custom fields and workflow schemes are load bearing, whether sprint history has to come across, and what your identity provider is. 2. **Stand up Orangescrum inside your network**Installed on your infrastructure, in your data centre or private cloud, behind your firewall, wired to your directory for SSO, LDAP, or Active Directory before any data moves. 3. **Mapping and a sandbox run**Issue types, statuses, custom fields, and users are mapped, you approve the mapping, and the import runs into a sandbox instance your team can open and check. 4. **Cutover with the old instance kept**The real import runs and we validate it with you. Keep the Data Center instance read only for as long as your retention policy or your nerves require. ## Jira Data Center and _on-premise FAQ_ When exactly does Jira Data Center stop being an option? Three dates. New Data Center sales closed to new customers on 30 March 2026. Existing customers can buy expansions and renewals until 30 March 2028. Full end of life is 28 March 2029, when instances become read only. Jira Server was retired separately, reaching end of life on 15 February 2024. Why does 30 March 2028 matter more than the 2029 date? Because 2028 is when you stop being able to grow. After that date an existing customer cannot buy expansions or renewals, so your user count is effectively frozen at whatever you last bought, two full years before the instance goes read only. Teams that plan for 2029 find in 2028 that they cannot hire into the tool. Can Orangescrum run in an air gapped network? Yes. Orangescrum Self-Hosted installs and operates with no outbound connection to the public internet, on hardware you control. Updates are applied from packages you bring in yourself, so the network boundary stays where your security team drew it. Does Orangescrum Self-Hosted support SSO, LDAP, and Active Directory? Yes, all three, plus an OAuth identity provider. Users, groups, and de-provisioning follow the directory your organisation already runs, so leavers lose access through your normal process rather than through a separate list somebody has to remember to update. Where does our data sit if we self-host Orangescrum? Entirely on your infrastructure, in whichever country and data centre you choose. We hold no copy of it and we have no access to it. If data residency or a national regulator is the reason you were on-premise, nothing about that changes. Can you migrate a Jira Data Center instance that sits behind our firewall? Yes, and this is the normal case rather than the exception. We stand Orangescrum up inside your network first, then your own team runs the import with us guiding it, so the data never leaves your environment. We can also do it hands on if your policy allows. There is no charge either way. What does Jira Data Center do better than Orangescrum Self-Hosted? Multi node clustering at very large scale, running Jira Service Management on the same instance for full ITSM, and its plugin framework, which lets you build and deploy your own Java apps into the product. We have none of those three, and if any of them is central to your deployment it is a real reason to stay. What does Orangescrum Self-Hosted have that Orangescrum Cloud does not? Self-Hosted is currently ahead of Cloud on modules: risk management, document management with approvals, collaborative document editing, attendance and leave, release management, TestLab, the visual workflow designer with transition rules and permissions, the OAuth identity provider, LDAP and Active Directory, Microsoft Teams, and Jenkins CI/CD. ## Plan the move while 2028 is still a long way off Talk to us about a self-hosted deployment inside your network. Free guided migration from Jira Data Center. [Contact sales](/contact-sales?utm_source=site&utm_medium=alt_cta&utm_campaign=jira-on-premises-alternative) [See self-hosted pricing](/self-hosted/pricing) ## Other comparisons [**Jira alternative**The general comparison, cloud included](/best-jira-alternative)[**Self-Hosted edition**What is in it and how it installs](/self-hosted)[**Open source edition**Free under AGPL, no user limit](/open-source)[**Risk management**A module Jira does not have](/risk-management)