Issues, sprints and roadmaps on a server in the country you choose, with a fast interface and your directory for sign-on.
- Replacing
- Jira, by Atlassian Corporation
- With
- Plane, OpenProject
- Runs on
- Your servers, or Pilae Cloud in Switzerland and the EU
- Migration
- Included in onboarding, at a fixed price
Why teams leave Jira
Issues describe how you build
Security findings, customer escalations, product plans. With Plane on your own machines, that history sits in your database, in the country you choose.
A tracker people open willingly
Plane covers issues, cycles, modules and views without years of accumulated custom fields and schemes. Teams spend their time on the work, not the configuration.
Self-hosting without running it yourself
Jira Server support ended in February 2024, and Atlassian has announced that Data Center licences turn read-only on 28 March 2029. Plane runs on your own infrastructure, and Pilae operates it for you.
Jira vs Plane operated by Pilae
| What is being compared | Jira | Pilae |
|---|---|---|
| Where issues are stored | Jira Cloud in Atlassian infrastructure, with data residency on eligible plans. Jira Data Center on your own servers until 28 March 2029, when Atlassian has announced its licences turn read-only. | On your premises or on dedicated machines in any of 12 Pilae Cloud regions, six of them in Switzerland and the EU, operated by Pilae. |
| Planning | Scrum and Kanban boards, sprints, backlogs, timelines and advanced planning on higher plans. | Issues, cycles, modules, board, list, calendar and Gantt views, and project pages. |
| Customisation | Custom fields, workflows, screens and schemes, JQL, and a large Marketplace of apps. | Custom states, labels, priorities and properties, with filters and saved views. A smaller integration ecosystem than the Atlassian Marketplace. |
| Integrations | Deep links with Confluence, Bitbucket and hundreds of Marketplace apps. | Webhooks and a REST API on every edition, GitHub and GitLab integrations on the Commercial Edition, plus n8n beside it for automations. |
| Sign-on | Atlassian accounts, with SAML SSO through Atlassian Guard. | Email or GitHub, GitLab and Google sign-in on the Community Edition. OIDC or SAML through Keycloak or Entra ID on the Commercial Edition. |
| Operation | Run by Atlassian for Jira Cloud, or by your own team for Data Center. | Daily encrypted backups with monthly restore tests, planned upgrades by the Pilae Agent, 60-second probes. |
| Pricing | Per user, per month, by plan, plus Marketplace apps. | On request, for the operated platform. A Plane Commercial Edition licence, if your requirements need one, is shown separately in the proposal. |
Self-hosted project and issue tracking
Jira is the reference for issue tracking, and its depth of configuration and Marketplace are hard to match. That depth has a cost: schemes nobody dares to touch, and a tracker teams avoid opening. For self-hosted teams, the end of Jira Server in 2024 and of Data Center in March 2029 add a deadline.
Plane covers the work most teams actually do in Jira: issues, cycles, modules, boards and roadmaps, in a fast interface. Where Jira serves a project office rather than a development team, OpenProject fits better, with work packages, Gantt charts and time and cost tracking across many projects. Pilae deploys either on your premises or on dedicated machines in any of 12 Pilae Cloud regions, six of them in Switzerland and the EU, reachable through the private network, with sign-on through your directory.
Moving off Jira without losing history
The import itself is routine. The work is in deciding which workflows and custom fields still earn their place, which we do with each team before anything moves. The move is part of our fixed-price migration, with sign-on set up through identity. Automations built on Jira rules are rebuilt in n8n where they are still needed.
After the switch, the Pilae Agent plans each Plane upgrade, waits for your approval and applies it in your window. Backups are daily and restore-tested every month. Pricing is on request. Tell us how many projects you run and we come back with a plan.
Moving from Jira to Plane
Inventory the projects
Every project, workflow, custom field and Marketplace app, and which of them are still in use. Archived projects are exported and kept rather than moved.
Map workflows and fields
Jira statuses become Plane states, epics become modules or parent issues, sprints become cycles. Custom fields that matter are mapped to properties and agreed with each team.
Import into staging
Issues, comments, attachments and assignees are brought across into a staging copy of Plane, with accounts matched to your directory. Project leads check their boards before cutover.
Switch on an agreed day
A final import runs, Jira goes read-only, and links from commits, pull requests and other tools are repointed. The subscription ends at the next renewal.
The apps that replace Jira
Plane
Issues, cycles and roadmaps for engineering and product teams, on dedicated machines in Switzerland, the EU or your own datacentre.
Replaces Jira, Linear
OpenProject
Planning software for project offices, with Gantt charts and time and cost tracking, on dedicated machines in Switzerland, the EU or your own datacentre.
Replaces Microsoft Project, Jira, Asana