Atlassian Bitbucket vs. Atlassian Jira

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Bitbucket
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Bitbucket is a Git repository and code collaboration platform, featuring automated testing and code deployment. Bitbucket Cloud Premium provides AI-powered development, more granular access controls, and enforced code quality, and Bitbucket Data Center provides a self-hosted option.
$0
Atlassian Jira
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Atlassian Jira is a project management tool, featuring an interactive timeline for mapping work items, dependencies, and releases, Scrum boards for agile teams, and out-of-the-box reports and dashboards.
$9
per month per user
Pricing
Atlassian BitbucketAtlassian Jira
Editions & Modules
Free
$0
for up to 5 users
Standard
$3.30
per month per user
Premium
$6.60
per month per user
Bitbucket Data Center
starting at $44,000
per year 1 - 500
Standard
$9
per month per user
Premium
$17
per month per user
Enterprise
Contact Sales
per year
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BitbucketAtlassian Jira
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsHigher volume teams may qualify buyers for a discount.
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Community Pulse
Atlassian BitbucketAtlassian Jira
Considered Both Products
Bitbucket
Chose Atlassian Bitbucket
When GitHub was acquired by Microsoft my previous organization had concerns about paywalls and additional restrictions that might be placed on the projects. We had made a move to Bitbucket as a result. The acquisition didn't seem to have any implications on the overall …
Chose Atlassian Bitbucket
For the features we were looking at, Bitbucket, GitHub and GitLab were all at par and were in a similar price range. We found that GitHub was the most full featured should we need to scale very quickly. GitLab was at par with GitHub for our future needs, but GitHub was a more …
Chose Atlassian Bitbucket
1. GitHub is open source and also many security vulnerabilities because it is open source. That's one of the main reasons we chose BitBucket.
2. BitBucket integrates natively with other Atlassian tools without any custom configurations.
Chose Atlassian Bitbucket
I have used Tortoise SVN in the past with various teams. Tortoise SVN is open-source and has a lot of valuable functionality built in. That being said, Bitbucket is more user-friendly being that there is a decent user interface. The UI is not great, but it still makes working …
Chose Atlassian Bitbucket
It doesn’t stack up against them. It is widely used because it comes in a great package with other Atlassian tools.
Chose Atlassian Bitbucket
Bitbucket uses Git as a client which is more advanced with lots of features for source code management tool. It is very easy to scale horizontally as per our needs, and recent new features like adding multiple file systems keep Bitbucket more useful. Due to multiple file …
Chose Atlassian Bitbucket
Bitbucket was inherited from an acquisition and not used by choice. The acquired company chose Bitbucket because - at the time - they were the market leader for private source code repositories and the team was already using JIRA.
Chose Atlassian Bitbucket
I have implemented other products such as GitHub, although it is a platform with many optimal tools for developers. Its interface is not very easy to use, while this software provides a much more intuitive and user-friendly interface, and although it is a software that may be …
Chose Atlassian Bitbucket
We have not selected Bitbucket yet. Currently, we are still using Confluence for file sharing versioning. We also explored sharing project files through LabVantage and or Shared Folders (network drives).
Chose Atlassian Bitbucket
Gitlab has better CI pipeline integrations
GitHub is more widely used in the open-source community and hence it has a much bigger user base
Bitbucket is appropriate for companies with small to medium-sized teams, specially if using JIRA integration
Chose Atlassian Bitbucket
Bitbucket has been preferred because, in my opinion, it had a better UI, and easier integrations with things like Slack. Also, because it is an Atlassian-owned product, it integrates very very nicely with JIRA (which I've often used in conjuction with Bitbucket).
Chose Atlassian Bitbucket
I selected Bitbucket due to the reasons I've listed before. It is free for individuals and small teams of up to five people. It allows for unlimited private and public repos. It integrates with JIRA automatically. It also has a nifty tool for existing repository importing which …
Chose Atlassian Bitbucket
Naturally, Bitbucket will be compared to GitHub, that has reached a tremendous importance in the open source software industry. Overall, Bitbucket comes with similar set of features as GitHub. Bitbucket brought a good integration with other Atlassian products (especially Conflue…
Chose Atlassian Bitbucket
I haven't really researched a whole lot with GitHub or SourceForge. I know there are a lot of people that use GitHub and it has kind of become a bit part of the industry. Whenever i have used GitHub to submit pull requests it has also seemed pretty easy to do, but I haven't …
Chose Atlassian Bitbucket
GitHub has a huge community to support, so, beside the price, is the best tool I've used as a git server.
Gitlab is very similar to BitBucket, and for a free version as less limitations. Also is cheaper for companies, but doesn't have a smooth integration with JIRA. Also has a …
Chose Atlassian Bitbucket
We have chosen bitbucket mainly because we already use JIRA, Confluence and HipChat from the same brand and BitBucket simply was looking like the natural solution. Gitlab and GitHub weren't giving the same integration with the other apps. We like Atlassian and we trust their …
Chose Atlassian Bitbucket
It is free for a small team up to five users which makes it appealing for anyone starting out. The other plans are also reasonable too. Since Bitbucket is a part of the Atlassian Inc., there is a seamless integration between Jira. Also, the integration with Trello is an added …
Chose Atlassian Bitbucket
The primary reasons we went with Bitbucket over TFS and/or other options are as follows: 1) Ability to integrate with other documentation and development tools we were using. 2) Cost - with our size and current business needs, we were able to implement what we needed in …
Chose Atlassian Bitbucket
Bitbucket provides a better price compared to the others as well as private repositories for people who do not want everything they do to be completely public and accessible for all to see.
Chose Atlassian Bitbucket
Our organization previously used GitHub as our VCS host and the move to Bitbucket has been very smooth and without any hassles, our team really enjoys the simple and easy to use UI over GitHub which allows for interactive code reviewing, the code search engine is also more …
Chose Atlassian Bitbucket
Using Bitbucket, GitHub, AccuRev, and svn over my dev career, I like Bitbucket the most. It's nice web UI and integration with JIRA and Sourcetree make it my favorite SCM solution.
Chose Atlassian Bitbucket
I have also used Gitlab and GitHub. There are pros and cons to using each version control system. While Gitlab has a much better interface and is easier to use, it has fewer features and integrations than BitBucket. GitHub is king, but costs money for private repositories. …
Chose Atlassian Bitbucket
I have used Gitblit and GitHub apart from bitbucket. The only thing bitbucket lacks is the ability to create issues against commits like GitHub issues and a similar feature in Gitblit.
Atlassian Jira
Chose Atlassian Jira
I have majorly used Atlassian Jira and not Asana as i have only worked it for like a month or two. The vast support with Confluence and Bitbucket makes Atlassian Jira my first choice among all other major player who are competing against each other. I absolutely love using Atla…
Chose Atlassian Jira
Trello is amazing for simple project management and great for non-technical teams, but it lacks the depth and complexity of JIRA for detailed issue tracking and complex workflows. Asana, similar to Trello, is great for simple and lightweight project management but isn't …
Chose Atlassian Jira
Jira Software works for many development environments, has custom workflows, is friendly, stable, robust, and can be integrated with the most recognized DevOps tools on the market.

Chose Atlassian Jira
Trac is as basic as the subversion with which it's often associated in feature set, requires signifiant time and patience to set up much less customize/configure, and is being abandoned by most industry folks. Bugzilla is a classic solution which holds up, but has an interface …
Chose Atlassian Jira
Jira had the full package and had a lot of options as a task management tool, good for tickets and a complex user management interface to split up permissions within our company and for our clients. We can integrate with Bitbucket and work through tickets development, design …
Chose Atlassian Jira
The main reason we chose JIRA over Trello was the ability to host on-premise. Security concerns with our data drove that requirement and is why we ultimately settled on JIRA. JIRA also provided us with integrations we needed to integrate with other tools that we use.
Chose Atlassian Jira
JIRA is way better than the IBM Rational suite, in every way i can think of, right from the user experience and look and feel. For someone who spends a lot of time per day with these tools it makes a big difference to their overall productivity.
Chose Atlassian Jira
JIRA has the flexibility of being on the cloud and is much more user friendly than other cloud based tracking software used.
Features
Atlassian BitbucketAtlassian Jira
Version Control Software Features
Comparison of Version Control Software Features features of Product A and Product B
Atlassian Bitbucket
8.1
3 Ratings
7% below category average
Atlassian Jira
-
Ratings
Branching and Merging9.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Version History9.63 Ratings00 Ratings
Version Control Collaboration Tools9.43 Ratings00 Ratings
Pull Requests9.83 Ratings00 Ratings
Code Review Tools4.32 Ratings00 Ratings
Project Access Control9.83 Ratings00 Ratings
Automated Testing Integration4.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Issue Tracking Integration8.43 Ratings00 Ratings
Branch Protection8.12 Ratings00 Ratings
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Atlassian Bitbucket
-
Ratings
Atlassian Jira
7.8
36 Ratings
1% above category average
Task Management00 Ratings8.835 Ratings
Resource Management00 Ratings7.734 Ratings
Gantt Charts00 Ratings7.225 Ratings
Scheduling00 Ratings7.733 Ratings
Workflow Automation00 Ratings8.134 Ratings
Team Collaboration00 Ratings8.535 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology00 Ratings8.936 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology00 Ratings7.930 Ratings
Document Management00 Ratings6.930 Ratings
Email integration00 Ratings8.031 Ratings
Mobile Access00 Ratings7.126 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking00 Ratings7.626 Ratings
Change request and Case Management00 Ratings8.027 Ratings
Budget and Expense Management00 Ratings7.019 Ratings
Professional Services Automation
Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Product A and Product B
Atlassian Bitbucket
-
Ratings
Atlassian Jira
7.5
21 Ratings
3% below category average
Quotes/estimates00 Ratings7.517 Ratings
Invoicing00 Ratings7.813 Ratings
Project & financial reporting00 Ratings7.219 Ratings
Integration with accounting software00 Ratings7.516 Ratings
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User Ratings
Atlassian BitbucketAtlassian Jira
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
(65 ratings)
8.3
(221 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(4 ratings)
8.5
(37 ratings)
Usability
9.5
(4 ratings)
7.8
(62 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(4 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
8.3
(14 ratings)
8.0
(24 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(9 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Atlassian BitbucketAtlassian Jira
Likelihood to Recommend
Atlassian
As a team we need to push code into the repo on daily basis, Bitbucket has proven that is a reliable and secure server to save and get the code available in no time. The administration part is really easy and there's an extra tool for every developer profile either if you want to use the console or a GUI like Sourcetree.
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Atlassian
Jira facilitates software development, bug tracking, and sprints. It's ideal for structured workflows, issue management, and customer communication. However, more straightforward tools might be more efficient for highly creative, unstructured tasks or tiny, agile teams with quick visual overviews. Jira's complexity can be overkill for basic task lists.
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Pros
Atlassian
  • Very easy to integrate with other DevOps tools like Jenkins and with project/workflow management tools like JIRA.
  • Very efficient in managing security and compliance standards for code, especially during pull requests, merge requests, branching, etc.
  • Very robust in performance, especially the cloud and datacenter versions hardly hit any performance issues and supports more than 2000+ developers in my company.
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Atlassian
  • Integration of tools like Bitbucket, Github, etc., has made it easier to track the code changes, pull requests, and branches linked to the respective ticket.
  • The detailed tracking system in JIRA has helped the teams prioritize and understand the project tasks and issues.
  • JIRA's project tracking board helps you keep track of the project, its flow, and expectations in a structured format.
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Cons
Atlassian
  • The code management UI is a bit rough around the edges and difficult to work with.
  • BitBucket does not have the same simplified PR management tools as other competitors.
  • It's not as easy to integrate 3rd party apps as other competitors.
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Atlassian
  • The interface is not intuitive to learn for new users
  • JQL is similarly challenging for newbies
  • It's possible to accidentally move issues from one sprint to another without realizing your mistake
  • Certain issue attributes aren't available in certain view (e.g. story points from the epic overview)
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Likelihood to Renew
Atlassian
All products have room for improvement. The system improves over time with better and better integrations and I look forward to even more features without paying extra! The system has increased transparency across my organization and with this transparency comes increased throughput on projects. I don't think I can go back to any other system and we are definitely married to this product.
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Atlassian
This is because Jira Software generates a huge profit for an affordable price. Having a tool that makes team management transparent and effective is very valuable.
In addition, the renewal of Jira Software and all Atlassian tools is predictable and clear, as the prices are published on the Atlassian website and there is no pyramid of intermediaries.
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Usability
Atlassian
The architecture of Bitbucket makes it more easily scalable than other source code management repositories. Also, administration and maintaining the instance is very easy. It integrates with JIRA and other CI/CD applications which makes it more useful to reduce the efforts. It supports multiple plugins and those bring a lot of extra functionality. It increases the overall efficiency and usefulness of Bitbucket.
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Atlassian
The interface is simple and easy to use if you have some experience with it. Configuration is also logical most of the time. However, less experienced users tend to find themselves lost in some tasks - usually complex project configuration- but sometimes simple things, such as seeing why a user can't move issues in a workflow. Jira configuration requires a good amount of experience - and even experienced users often resort to documentation. It's a tool that's easy to use if you know what you're doing and where to find the proper documentation, but novice users tend to find it challenging.
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Reliability and Availability
Atlassian
No answers on this topic
Atlassian
Did not face any issues and whenever they plan maintanance they update all of us very well in advance also so in that view we are good with the product stability.
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Performance
Atlassian
No answers on this topic
Atlassian
Performance is really good though it holds lot of data it loads quickly especially search operation also get the results very quickly as needed hence its good
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Support Rating
Atlassian
The customer support provided by Atlassian (Bitbucket's parent company that also makes Jira, Confluence, etc.) is very helpful. They seem to be very concerned about any issues reported with their products and even just questions about functionality. They are constantly improving the products with new features in nearly every release. Plus they have a plethora of online documentation to reference.
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Atlassian
I have not had a chance to contact JIRA's customer support. It does offer extensive documentation, although it often feels too technical for me. There is also a JIRA training app that lets you take little lessons and quizzes on different areas (e.g., JIRA basics, agile). I did find it a helpful way to teach myself.
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In-Person Training
Atlassian
No answers on this topic
Atlassian
Had received training from our own internal user so it was good and also very easy to understand topics and many tasks in the UI are self explanatory and we can do by our own
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Online Training
Atlassian
No answers on this topic
Atlassian
One of their strong points i stheir documentation. Almost all of the basic set up needed within JIRA is available online through atlassian and its easy to find and very precise. The more critical issues need to be addressed as well and hence the rating of 8 instead of a 9.
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Implementation Rating
Atlassian
No answers on this topic
Atlassian
Take your time implementing Jira. Make sure you understand how you want to handle your projects and workflows. Investing more time in the implementation can pay off in a long run. It basically took us 5 days to define and implement correctly, but that meant smooth sailing later on.
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Alternatives Considered
Atlassian
For the features we were looking at, Bitbucket, GitHub and GitLab were all at par and were in a similar price range. We found that GitHub was the most full featured should we need to scale very quickly. GitLab was at par with GitHub for our future needs, but GitHub was a more familiar tool compared to GitLab. Bitbucket won out because of its close integration with Jira and being in the Atlassian family. It was also cheaper than GitHub. As we started with Jira, Bitbucket addition became a natural next step for us. We really liked Bitbucket and stayed with it but we do know we have great options in the form of GitHub and GitLab should we need to scale fast.
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Atlassian
monday.com cannot be integrated with CI/CD tools, whereas Atlassian Jira integrates with CI/CD tools seamlessly. Atlassian Jira has strong Agile and Scrum support. Coming to monday.com, it has basic agile functionality. But Atlassian Jira has a complex UI, and monday.com has an intuitive, drag-and-drop interface. Overall, Atlassian Jira provides features like Agile project management, DevOps integration, and customizable workflows.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Atlassian
No answers on this topic
Atlassian
Product is rellay good but pricing part I am not aware
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Scalability
Atlassian
No answers on this topic
Atlassian
Atlassian Jira is highly stable and good with its performance and its has all the required scalability features as business needs
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Return on Investment
Atlassian
  • It's allowed for a lot of automation in terms of development workflows. It lets us pursue CI/CD approaches and get releases out faster
  • It has let us get our infrastructure configuration into VCS, which further improves our automation abilities.
  • It has aided in keeping track of changes, and allows us to keep workflows organized so we can track the status of development
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Atlassian
  • Atlassian Jira's robust workflow automation has boosted team efficiency, shortening delivery cycles and driving a positive ROI through improved project management.
  • Its advanced reporting and integration capabilities have enabled data-driven decisions, aligning operations with key business objectives.
  • However, the steep learning curve can delay adoption, potentially hindering short-term ROI.
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