Vaiz vs Jira: your engineers ship with AI. Your PM shouldn’t have to chase status.

Vaiz connects AI-first development with product management. Coding agents read the task, update it and leave decisions behind. Free migration from Jira for every team, with hands-on help.

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Vaiz or Jira

Pick the tool that fits how your team works now.

Choose Vaiz if

  • Engineers code with AI agents daily
  • PMs chase status by hand
  • You pay for Jira and Confluence
  • You want setup without a Jira admin

Stay with Jira if

  • You need self-hosted deployment
  • SAML SSO or SCIM is required
  • You run on velocity reports
  • You depend on Marketplace apps

Where Jira slows AI-first teams

Code moves at agent speed. The tracker still waits for people.

Atlassian answers this with Rovo and its MCP server, and they are solid. Vaiz is built around the same problem from the start: tasks, docs and decisions live in one place, and agents are first-class members of the team.

The PM chases status that already exists.

A feature that took a week now takes a day. But someone still has to move the ticket, write the update and answer “where are we?” in standup and Slack.

Every agent starts from zero.

Specs sit in Confluence, decisions in threads, code in GitHub. The next agent and the next teammate rebuild context the last one already had.

One loop for engineers, agents and PMs

Plan, build and report in the same place.

The Vaiz MCP server covers almost every action in the product. Agents read the task, do the work and report back, so the PM sees progress without asking.

01 / Plan with an agent

Turn a spec into a sprint in one request.

PMs write the spec inside the task. Vaiz Agent breaks it into tasks with owners, dates and priorities, and keeps every task linked to the spec.

02 / Work from the editor

Engineers update tasks without leaving Cursor or Claude.

Pick up a task, change its status or owner right in the widget, or delegate it to a coding agent. The agent gets the full task, linked docs and past decisions.

03 / Controlled context

Agents see only what you allow.

Choose which projects and fields a connected agent can access and which actions it can take. Vaiz permissions still apply to every call.

Connect your coding agents to Vaiz.

Start a 14-day trial and move one Jira project first.

Feature by feature

Vaiz vs Jira, side by side.

JiraVaiz
Docs and specs
Partly: Separate product: Confluence
Yes: Built in: every task is a document, plus a knowledge base
AI assistant
Yes: Rovo, with a monthly AI credit allowance
Yes: Vaiz Agent in chat, comments and tasks (Premium)
MCP for coding agents
Yes: Rovo MCP server; some calls use AI credits
Yes: Included from Pro; covers almost every action in the product
Delegate a task to a coding agent
Partly: Through Rovo Dev and the Atlassian ecosystem
Yes: Hand a task to Cursor or Claude, get the result back on the task
Decision memory for agents
Partly: Search across Jira and Confluence
Yes: Space Memory: decisions, risks and devlogs linked to tasks
Workspace setup
Partly: Admin configures projects, workflows and schemes
Yes: Describe your team to an AI client, Vaiz sets up the space
Code links
Yes: Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab
Yes: GitHub and GitLab: branches, PRs and commits on tasks
Sprints and agile reports
Yes: Mature: sprints, velocity, burndown, advanced planning
Partly: Boards, milestones, Gantt and dashboards; lighter sprint reporting
Marketplace
Yes: Thousands of apps
Partly: Core integrations, Zapier and MCP
Enterprise identity
Yes: SAML SSO and SCIM via Atlassian Guard
No: No SAML SSO yet
Self-hosted
Partly: Data Center, until end of life on March 28, 2029
No: Cloud only
Free plan
Yes: Free for up to 10 users
Partly: 14-day free trial; guests are free
Price per user / month
Partly: Standard $9.70, Premium $19.60; Confluence extra
Yes: Pro $7, Premium $13; $5 and $9 billed yearly

Prices as of October 2026, monthly billing, list prices for 1–100 users.

What your team pays.

Most Jira teams also pay for Confluence. Vaiz includes docs in every plan.

Jira plan
Docs

Jira Data Center end of life

Leaving Jira Data Center?

Atlassian stopped selling new Data Center licenses on March 30, 2026. Data Center reaches end of life on March 28, 2029, so self-hosted Jira teams have to choose where to go next.

If the cloud is an option

You are choosing a cloud tracker anyway. Compare Jira Cloud and Vaiz on what your team uses every day: AI workflows, docs, setup effort and price. Migration to Vaiz is free.

If you must stay self-hosted

Vaiz is not a fit. It is cloud only, and we would rather say so up front.

Free migration from Jira, with a human on the other end.

What transfers.

Projects and statuses, issues with parent tasks and subtasks, assignees, priorities, due dates, comments, attachments, labels and most custom fields.

What stays behind.

Sprint history and a few custom field types: multi-line text, date-time, multi-checkbox and Atlassian Team. Try one project first before moving the rest.

Step-by-step import guide

Every team gets a guided migration.

Migration is free for every team. We move your Jira projects and check the result with you. Plan my migration.

Honest trade-offs

When Jira is the better choice.

Jira has had twenty years to grow. For some teams that depth matters more than anything above.

Self-hosted or strict compliance

You need on-premises deployment until 2029, SAML SSO, SCIM or a long list of certifications. Vaiz is cloud only and does not offer SAML yet.

Heavy Scrum reporting

Velocity charts, burndowns and cross-team program planning drive your process. Vaiz has boards, milestones, Gantt and dashboards, but lighter sprint reporting.

Marketplace-dependent workflows

Your process runs on specific Marketplace apps for test management, time tracking or service desk. Vaiz covers core integrations, Zapier and MCP, not thousands of apps.

A free plan for a small team

Jira is free for up to 10 users. Vaiz has a 14-day trial and paid plans, with guests free on any plan.

Frequently asked questions

Yes, if your engineers already work with AI coding agents and your PMs want status, specs and decisions in one place. Vaiz combines tasks, docs and an MCP server, so agents read the task and report back without anyone copying updates by hand. If you depend on advanced sprint reports or Marketplace apps, Jira is still the stronger fit.

Migration is free for every team, and we help by hand: we import your projects and check the result with you. Vaiz plans start at $5 per user per month billed yearly. Book a migration call.

Atlassian stopped selling new Data Center licenses on March 30, 2026, and Data Center reaches end of life on March 28, 2029. If your team can move to the cloud, Vaiz is worth comparing with Jira Cloud. If you must stay self-hosted, Vaiz is not a fit: it is cloud only.

Yes. The Vaiz MCP server is included from the Pro plan and covers almost everything you can do in the product: tasks, boards, documents, milestones, Space Memory and code links. It can also set up a new workspace from a short description of your team. How to connect Vaiz to MCP.

No. Every Vaiz task is a full document, and the knowledge base covers specs, runbooks and onboarding. That removes the separate Confluence seat that most Jira teams pay for.

Sprint history and a few custom field types (multi-line text, date-time, multi-checkbox and Atlassian Team) are not imported. Issues, subtasks, statuses, assignees, priorities, due dates, comments, attachments, labels and most custom fields are. How to import from Jira.

Not yet. If SAML SSO or SCIM provisioning is a hard requirement for your security team today, Jira with Atlassian Guard covers it and Vaiz does not.

Move from Jira to Vaiz for free.

Bring your projects over with hands-on help, connect your coding agents over MCP and stop chasing status.

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