Navigating Atlassian's Price Increase: A Strategy for Optimizing Your Spend

Right on track for 2025, Atlassian once again has shared the big news for all Jira and Confluence subscribers: Up to 10% price increase for both products, effective October 2025.

In addition, popular application vendors like Appfire have also recently introduced price increases of up to 20%, with most of their cloud apps increasing by up to 10%. 

While these price hikes might seem like an unwelcome change (nobody wants to pay more), they present an opportune moment to re-evaluate your current Atlassian ecosystem and identify areas for significant cost optimization. 

This blog post will explore how you can mitigate the impact of these price increases, with a focus on consolidating your Atlassian apps and leveraging integrated solutions like the Revyz platform.

The Impact of Atlassian's Price Adjustment

Atlassian's price adjustments, while perhaps a reflection of their continued investment in product development and innovation, will undoubtedly impact budgets for many organizations, large and small.

For businesses heavily reliant on Jira for the management of all projects and Confluence for collaboration, a 10% increase across the board can add up significantly, especially when factoring in the various marketplace apps that often complement these core platforms.

Strategies to Mitigate the Price Increase

Instead of simply absorbing the increased cost, consider this an invitation to streamline your Atlassian environment and balance the budget!

Here are a few key strategies:

1. Audit Your Apps:
   1. Identify Redundancies: Do you have multiple apps performing similar functions? For example, are you using different apps for work item cloning or site optimization that could be consolidated?
   2. Assess Usage: Are all your subscribed apps being actively used and providing tangible value? Many organizations pay for features they rarely, if ever, utilize.
   3. Evaluate Cost-Benefit: For each app, weigh its cost against the specific benefits it delivers. Is the ROI still strong with the upcoming price increase?
2. Consolidate Functionality with Integrated Platforms:
   This is where a platform like Revyz can offer significant advantages. Often, organizations subscribe to numerous individual apps to achieve specific functionalities within Jira and Confluence – from enhanced backups and data protection to advanced reporting, migration tools, and workflow automation. 

       These disparate apps can quickly become a significant portion of your Atlassian spend.

The Revyz | Data Manager for Jira app is designed to provide a comprehensive suite of capabilities that often replace the need for multiple, single-purpose apps. 

By consolidating onto a unified platform, you can:

• Reduce App Subscriptions: Many individual functionalities provided by separate apps are integrated into Revyz, potentially allowing you to drop redundant subscriptions.
• Simplify Management: Managing fewer vendors and fewer individual app licenses reduces administrative overhead.
• Improve Data Integrity and Security: A consolidated platform often offers more robust, integrated data management and security features than a patchwork of disparate apps.
• Gain Holistic Insights: A unified platform can provide a more comprehensive view of your Atlassian data and operations, leading to better decision-making.

Making the Switch: A Smart Financial and Operational Move

The recent price increase from Appfire and the upcoming price increase from Atlassian present a compelling reason to critically assess your current app landscape. 

By meticulously auditing your existing applications and exploring consolidated solutions like Revyz, you can not only offset the impending price increase but also streamline your operations, reduce complexity, and potentially unlock greater value from your Atlassian investment.

Let’s take the following example for a 1,000-user Jira instance and evaluate the benefits:

• Appfire's Configuration Manager has seen a price hike of $1,310, from $12,810 to $14,120 annually and while it presents basic configuration management, it lacks features like comprehensive impact analysis or cloud version control.
• Revyz Data Manager costs $24,320 annually (or about $2 per user per month) and delivers dramatically more value by consolidating the functionality of multiple apps including Appfire’s Configuration Manager into one platform. 
  
  

• Gives you the added benefit of peace-of-mind with daily automated backups and on-demand granular restore of data. This satisfies data security and compliance requirements for regulated businesses.

• Provides a single platform solution that delivers complete coverage and enhanced configuration management functionality across your Jira instance, reducing app and vendor sprawl.

Take a look at all the apps that Revyz can comfortably replace and note the pricing for each at the 1,000 user-level over here. The table below reflects in brief, cost savings with Revyz Data Manager. 

By undertaking this optimization activity, you can easily calculate the savings that can be achieved on an annual basis, to make your business more efficient!

Don't let the Atlassian and Appfire price increases catch you off guard. 

Take this opportunity to optimize your Atlassian spend and ensure your ecosystem is as efficient and cost-effective as possible with Revyz | Data Manager for Jira.