Atlassian is raising prices again as of 13 Oct 2026. Agent Orchestrator is open source, runs with your own AI models inside your network – and costs less than half of Jira Standard when hosted.
Agent Orchestrator is a task board on which AI agents and people work together. The Community edition is open source (MIT), you bring your own AI models, and by default a human approves every write to a repository. Built and operated in Germany, legally owned by Simplifier AG.
Monthly cost, billed annually. Jira at list price (as of 14 Oct 2026) in US dollars, Agent Orchestrator in euros.
Team from 5, Business from 10 users.
Excluding taxes, add-on products and volume discounts. Conversion used for the comparison: €1 = $1.15. Jira prices: Atlassian pricing overview (saasjet.com), as of 14 Oct 2026, first price tier (1–100 users).
Much of it is familiar. Where there's no counterpart, we say so.
| In Jira | In Agent Orchestrator | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Project | Project | Optionally linked to a Git repository. |
| Issue | Task | With goal, acceptance criteria, due date and start date. |
| Issue type | Task type | Task, bug, improvement, research – renamable and extensible. |
| Board columns | Board columns | Seven fixed columns whose names you adapt per workspace. |
| Assignee | Assignee | A person, an agent or a whole agent team. |
| Labels, watchers | Labels, watchers | Watchers receive an email on review, done or failure. |
| Linked issues | Dependencies | Tasks can depend on other tasks. |
| Recurring issues | Recurring tasks | The next task is created when the previous one is done. |
| Automation | Agents & squads | Instead of if-then rules, agents execute tasks. |
| Sprints | in development | See next section. |
| Custom workflows | fixed board columns | The seven columns are fixed, their names adjustable. |
If your day is mostly tasks, bugs and research that an agent can handle (with your approval), Agent Orchestrator already fits today. Tell us what you need to switch: Early Access with a wish list.
MIT license. You don't have to trust us – you can read it.
The agent daemon runs inside your network and uses only the models you approve.
Hosted in Nuremberg (Hetzner). Legal owner: Simplifier AG – Trust Portal.
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