A practical guide to Atlassian’s usage-based pricing model, including allowances, usage meters, AI agent pricing, administrator controls, and preparation steps.

Jira Formula Fields let teams calculate values directly on work items, turning budgets, dates, durations, and status indicators into live, searchable data.

Planning work in Jira has always been easier than planning capacity. Teams could see issues, dependencies, releases, and priorities, but the human side of planning often lived somewhere else. A spreadsheet. A meeting note. A manager’s memory. A calendar that nobody checked until the sprint was already full. Atlassian has now added a capacity planning option to Jira Cloud, with a focus on helping teams plan work around individual availability. That is a meaningful step for any