Your project team is growing and your budget is not growing at the same pace? You are looking for an alternative to licence models that charge per user?
Then it is worth looking at project management tools from the open source world, for example Redmine. We migrate your Jira data, set up Redmine and run it for you afterwards, in our data centre or on your own server.
Redmine hosting by AlphaNodes compared to Jira Cloud
Whoever switches today rarely does so because of the tool. They do it because the operating model has changed. So here is the comparison of the two hosted offers first. This compares Jira Cloud with the cloud packages by AlphaNodes, not Redmine hosting in general. Other providers run Redmine under different conditions.
| Jira Cloud | AlphaNodes Cloud Basic | AlphaNodes Cloud Professional | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | per user and month | flat rate | flat rate |
| Price | Standard 7.91 $, Premium 14.54 $ per user and month | 299 EUR / month net | 499 EUR / month net |
| Cost at 50 users | around 375 EUR (Standard), around 735 EUR (Premium) | 299 EUR | 499 EUR |
| Cost at 200 users | around 1,500 EUR (Standard), around 2,940 EUR (Premium) | 299 EUR | 499 EUR |
| Users and projects | Free up to 10 users, paid tiers billed per user | unlimited | unlimited |
| Server location | data centres of the provider, data residency depends on the tier | Germany (Bavaria), operator certified to DIN ISO/IEC 27001 | Germany (Bavaria), operator certified to DIN ISO/IEC 27001 |
| Operation on your own server | not part of the cloud offer | available as InHouse package | available as InHouse package |
| Support | Standard during regional business hours, around the clock from Premium | customer area, Mon to Fri 9 am to 5 pm, German and English | customer area, Mon to Fri 9 am to 5 pm, German and English |
| Contract term | monthly or yearly | one month, two weeks notice | one month, two weeks notice |
| Included in the price | depends on the tier | Redmine plus eight plugins of the AlphaNodes Core Stack | the same eight plugins plus the Planning add-on |
| Interactive planning | from Premium | not included | Gantt with drag and drop and inline editing, issue checklists, timesheet, templates |
| Data migration | from an existing Redmine system included | from an existing Redmine system included | |
| Licence | proprietary | Redmine under GPLv2 | Redmine under GPLv2 |
Which services the hosting includes
Redmine hosting by AlphaNodes GmbH from Bavaria does not deliver a plain Redmine, but Redmine with our plugins. These eight are included in Cloud Basic and Cloud Professional:
- Reporting: dashboards, reports, task board with WIP limits, burndown charts, SLA times, budget and hourly rates
- Automation: rule based issue handling, recurring issues, reminders before dates
- ServiceDesk: service requests by email become issues, with contacts and companies
- DB: structured records for contracts, assets, licences and certificates with custom fields
- Wiki Guide: approval workflow and read confirmation for the wiki
- DevOps: connection to GitLab and GitHub, commits on the issue, deployment overview
- Passwords: credential management in the team, by role and by project
- HRM: absences and resource planning
Cloud Professional adds the Planning add-on: interactive Gantt with drag and drop, issue checklists, timesheet and templates.
Jira prices: list prices for Atlassian Cloud, retrieved in September 2026, stated in dollars and converted to euros for comparability. The official Atlassian pricing page at atlassian.com is authoritative. Prices for AlphaNodes Cloud Basic and Cloud Professional: monthly net prices according to our hosting page.
Running Jira Data Center or Server?
Then the InHouse package is the matching counterpart: Redmine runs on your own server, and we take care of operation and updates. Your admins do not have to install anything themselves. The packages are listed on the hosting page.
Functions at a glance
What you actually have in hand with a hosting package by AlphaNodes. Everything listed is included in Cloud Basic, unless Cloud Professional is stated.
| Area | What you get |
|---|---|
| Issues and workflows | Issue tracking with your own workflows, statuses, priorities and custom fields. Task board with swimlanes and WIP limits, also across projects. Issue checklists from Cloud Professional. |
| Reporting | Dashboards by drag and drop, burndown charts per version, SLA times with business hours and public holidays, distributions and counter boxes. Saved queries as the basis, export as CSV, XLSX, PNG and PDF. |
| Time and cost | Time tracking on the issue, evaluation by project, person and period. Hourly rates with a valid-from date and a budget per project. Weekly timesheet and timer from Cloud Professional. |
| Planning | Roadmap with milestones, calendar, subprojects, resource planning by workload and absences. Interactive Gantt with drag and drop and inline editing from Cloud Professional. |
| Knowledge and documentation | Wiki, forums, news and file storage, plus approval workflow and read confirmation for wiki pages. That makes it provable who reviewed a version and who read it. |
| Structured records | Custom record types with custom fields for contracts, assets, licences and certificates. Filterable, with import and export, linkable to issues. |
| Automation | Rule based issue handling with trigger, condition and action. Recurring issues, assignments, status changes and reminders before dates. |
| Service requests | Incoming emails become issues in the right project, with contact and company on the issue and replies sent from the system. |
| Development | Connection to GitLab and GitHub, commits on the matching issue, deployment overview. Plus repository support for Subversion, Git, Mercurial, CVS and Bazaar. |
| Credentials | Credential management in the team, by role and by project, linkable to entries in the structured records. |
| People | Request and approve absences, attendance recording, workload per person and week. |
| Templates | Reusable templates for projects, issues and wiki pages, from Cloud Professional. |
| Login and interfaces | Roles and permissions, LDAP, REST API, multilingual interface. SAML and single sign-on as an add-on, bookable from Cloud Professional. |
| Operation | Data centre in Germany (Bavaria), encrypted backups, 24/7 monitoring, security patches checked every four hours, support in the customer area in German and English. |
The basis is Redmine 7 under GPLv2, extended by the plugins from AlphaNodes. Jira is a registered trademark of Atlassian Pty Ltd. We have no business relationship with Atlassian.
What we migrate from Jira
We do the migration, not you. You provide your Jira data, check the result in Redmine and approve it.
| Migrated | Not migrated |
|---|---|
| Projects and users | Confluence pages |
| Issues with description, status, priority and assignee | Data from Jira apps such as BigPicture or Zephyr |
| Comments and attachments | Boards, saved filters and dashboards |
| Links between issues and subtasks | Jira workflows in every detail |
| Custom fields, as far as Redmine can represent them | Structures without a counterpart in Redmine |
Your Jira version does not matter, no upgrade is needed before the migration.
Workflows are simpler in Redmine: they apply per tracker and role across all projects, not per project. Take a look at this in the online demo before you decide.
Jira functions and their counterpart in Redmine
So that your team does not think a function is missing when it only has a different name.
| In Jira | In Redmine | Where it comes from |
|---|---|---|
| Issues and workflows | Issues with trackers, statuses, workflows and custom fields | Redmine |
| Scrum and Kanban boards | Task board with swimlanes and WIP limits | Reporting, in every package |
| Dashboards and reports | Drag and drop dashboards, burndown charts, reports | Reporting, in every package |
| Automation | Rules with trigger, condition and action | Automation, in every package |
| Jira Service Management | Requests by email become issues, with contacts and companies | ServiceDesk, in every package |
| Confluence | Wiki with approval workflow and read confirmation | Redmine and Wiki Guide, in every package. Content is not migrated |
| Resource planning, for example with BigPicture | Absences and workload per person, plus interactive Gantt | HRM in every package, Gantt from Cloud Professional |
| Time tracking | Time entries on the issue, weekly timesheet | Redmine, timesheet from Cloud Professional |
| Bitbucket | Git repositories connected, commits on the issue | DevOps in every package, GitLab hosting from us on request |
| Fisheye | Repository browser for Subversion and Git, diffs on the issue | Redmine |
| Test management, for example with Zephyr | no built in test management | external tool with a Redmine integration |
How the switch works
- Get to know Redmine in the online demo. The online demo is free. If Redmine does not fit your processes there, the next steps are not worth it.
- Test with your own team. For this you book a package regularly on the hosting page, with a one month minimum term. There is no free test instance.
- Analysis of your Jira data. We look at structure, volume of data, custom fields and apps in use. Afterwards we tell you the effort and schedule of the migration. The analysis is charged.
- Migration. We migrate the data, you check the result and approve it. Billing is based on the actual effort.
Advice on configuration, integrations and migration is available as part of a booked package.
Frequently asked questions about switching
What does Redmine hosting cost compared to Jira Cloud?
Jira Cloud is billed per user and month, at a list price of 7.91 US dollars for Standard and 14.54 US dollars for Premium. Redmine hosting by AlphaNodes costs a flat 299 euros net per month for Cloud Basic and 499 euros net for Cloud Professional, independent of the number of users. At 50 users Jira Standard converts to around 375 euros, at 200 users to around 1,500 euros.
From how many users is a switch worthwhile?
Arithmetically from around 40 users compared to Jira Standard, because the flat rate of 299 euros matches the per user amount at that point. Compared to Jira Premium the point is around 20 users, and for Cloud Professional against Jira Standard around 70. The calculation covers price only, not the effort of switching.
Where is our data stored with a cloud package?
In a data centre in Germany (Bavaria) whose operator is certified to DIN ISO/IEC 27001. Processing is GDPR compliant, with a data processing agreement and without third country transfers. With InHouse operation the data sits on your own server instead.
Is there a user limit?
No. Projects and users are unlimited in every package. Pricing depends on the feature set and not on the number of users. You pay nothing extra for occasional users from other departments.
How long are we committed?
That depends on whether you book InHouse operation or a cloud package. With InHouse operation Redmine runs on your server, so the application and the data stay with you. With the cloud packages the instance runs with us, and what applies at the end of the contract is set out in our terms of use. Both options have a one month minimum term and two weeks notice, and the packages are listed on the hosting page.
How does the data migration work?
First we analyse your Jira data: structure, volume of data, custom fields and apps in use. This analysis is charged. Then we set up Redmine following our standards and migrate the data, billed by actual effort. Migrating from an existing Redmine is included in the cloud packages.
Does Jira need to be upgraded before the migration?
No. The version of your Jira does not matter for the migration. No upgrade is needed beforehand.
Is there a free test instance?
No. The public online demo is free. For tests with your team you book a package regularly, with a one month minimum term.
Why is the effort smaller than with an Atlassian partner?
Because we only migrate the data Redmine can represent: projects, users, issues, comments, attachments and links. Confluence, data from Jira apps and rebuilding complex workflows are not part of it. A move to Atlassian Cloud with all apps is a different scope.
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