Platform vs Jira
Platform and Jira are both project management software. Platform is open source under EPL-2.0, with 28k GitHub stars. Jira is a commercial product from Atlassian.
Which to pick
- Pick Platform when
- Only for existing installs; new users should look at the Platform-Collective fork.
- Pick Jira when
- A software team wants the industry-standard tracker with deep integrations and configurable workflows.
Side by side
Huly, an all-in-one workspace combining issue tracking, chat, documents, HR, recruiting and CRM.
Issue and project tracking for software and business teams with boards, backlogs, sprints, workflows and reporting.
This repository is frozen and no longer maintained, per its own notice.
It becomes slow and cluttered without careful administration.
Usable
Production-ready
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Cloud service, self-hosted server and mobile app
TypeScript and Svelte
Not published
Open source, EPL-2.0 (weak copyleft)
Closed source, sold by Atlassian
You can use it inside a product you sell; changes you make to its own files must be shared.
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
28k GitHub stars
3.7k Wikipedia readers a month on phones
Established: started 5 years ago, latest release v0.7.426.
Not known
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.