Leaving Jira? Start with the version you use.
Jira Cloud and Jira Data Center give teams different reasons to leave. Compare each one with Windshift, or look at the wider self-hosted market.
Windshift is an open-source, self-hosted work management platform. It keeps the projects, boards, backlogs, fields, statuses, workflows, sprints, and milestones that Jira teams already know.
Choose the guide that matches your current setup. The Cloud and Data Center comparisons cover different trade-offs, while the alternatives guide puts Windshift beside OpenProject, Plane, and Taiga.
Choose the comparison that matches your decision
Cloud, Data Center, and the wider open-source market each raise different questions. We keep them separate so you can get to the useful part faster.
- Looking beyond Atlassian: Open-source and self-hosted Jira alternatives: A plain comparison of Windshift, OpenProject, Plane, and Taiga.
- Moving away from Jira Cloud: Windshift vs Jira Cloud: Compare data location, upgrades, pricing, feature access, AI services, and the work involved in running the platform yourself.
- Planning for Data Center end of life: Windshift vs Jira Data Center: Compare self-hosted deployment, licensing, upgrades, extensibility, operating cost, and the path beyond Atlassian’s 2029 end-of-life date.