A Jira alternative, hosted in Europe
Jira: Atlassian's tracker for software and business teams; Jira Work Management was folded into Jira in 2024. Artavolo is where your team and your AI agents work on the same tables, with no record limit, in our cloud in Germany or on your own server. Here is how they compare, with sources, and where Jira is ahead.
| Artavolo | Jira | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $8 a person a month (Standard), VAT included, the same on your own server | about $8.50: Standard, per person a month (the rate Atlassian shows; small teams on monthly billing pay more since October 2026). |
| Records | No limit, on every plan, the free one included | No limit per space; 30 million work items per site recommended |
| Automation | Automations on every plan, run on the server | Counted in steps: 400 a person a month on Standard, more at $0.50 per 1,000 from December 2026 |
| Where your data lives | OVHcloud in Germany, or your own server | Data residency, EU included, on Standard and above |
| Run it yourself | Yes, with the same plans and prices; the Community edition is free | Data Center only: no new customers since March 2026, end of life on 28 March 2029 |
| Getting your data out | Any table as Airtable-format CSV or JSON, the API, and full backups | CSV from a search, 10,000 work items at a time; a site backup by an admin |
| API | REST, plus Airtable’s API at the same paths, on every plan | REST with API tokens |
| AI agents | Each with its own access; their changes can wait for a person to accept them, and everything one did can be undone | See Jira’s own AI features |
| Where Jira is ahead | Sprints, backlogs, workflows and permissions built for software teams, at any scale. | |
| JQL, a query language for work items, and a large Marketplace. | ||
| Links to code, builds and deployments. |
Jira’s figures as published on its own pages in November 2026: Jira pricing, Data Center end of life, Export search results, Exporting more than 10,000 work items, Automation usage. Prices change: check theirs for today’s. Artavolo’s prices are on the pricing page.
What people moving from Jira tell us about
- Jira Data Center reaches end of life on 28 March 2029; teams running Jira on their own servers must move to the cloud or elsewhere.
- Prices rose in October 2026, and automation beyond the included steps is billed from December 2026.
- Business teams find it heavy for work that is mostly tables, forms and approvals.
Tables for people and AI agents
- No record limit on any plan, and the same price in our cloud in Germany or on your own server.
- Grid, kanban, calendar, gallery, timeline, forms and dashboards, and interfaces for people who should see one page and nothing else.
- AI chat that changes records as the person asking, and AI agents whose changes wait for review.
- An append-only audit log of every change, a 30-day trash, and an export of any table at any time.
- Airtable’s API at the same paths, Zapier, Make and n8n apps, and webhooks.
From Jira in an afternoon
Export from Jira (CSV from a search (all fields)), and bring the files in: what comes over is shown before anything is made, and a report says what came over and what to rebuild.
- Every work item you exported, as records
- Status, priority and issue type as single selects
- Labels, components and versions (Jira writes a column for each) as multiple selects
- Comments (also a column each in Jira's CSV) as one field, with their dates; created, updated and due dates