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EU VETTED
Alternatives to

European alternatives to Jira.

Atlassian-owned issue tracker. Australian-founded, NASDAQ-listed (TEAM), now US-headquartered.

ALTERNATIVES
5
CLOUD-ACT · NONE
4
WITH BSI C5
0
FREE TIER
4

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TOP PICKS

Which are the closest Jira alternatives?

Ordered by feature parity and migration friction, which is weighted higher than feature breadth.

Taiga
Spain · Founded 2014
EU-SOVEREIGN
★ #1 PICK

Spanish open-source agile PM (Taiga by Kaleidos, Madrid, 2014), MPL-2.0, Scrum + Kanban; self-hostable + tree.taiga.io managed cloud.

Public DPA Sub-processors Open source
FROM
—
CLOUD ACT
NONE
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MeisterTask
Germany · Founded 2015
EU-SOVEREIGN
★ #2 PICK

German Kanban + tasks + docs (MeisterLabs, Munich-area, since 2006), DE hosting, ISO 27001, 10k+ companies including Allianz / LBBW.

Public DPA Sub-processors Open source
FROM
€14/mo
CLOUD ACT
NONE
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Teamwork.com
Ireland · Founded 2007
EU-BASED
★ #3 PICK

Irish project-management + time tracking (Cork, 2007), agency-focused, 16k+ businesses, SOC 2 Type 2, Bregal-PE-funded.

Public DPA Sub-processors Open source
FROM
€10/mo
CLOUD ACT
MINOR
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SIDE-BY-SIDE

How do the 5 European alternatives to Jira compare?

All 5 alternatives, benchmarked against Jira.

Feature comparison

Beyond compliance: how these alternatives compare on the capabilities you actually use day to day.

Feature Taiga MeisterTask Teamwork.com Kantree factro
Workflow automation Yes Yes Yes No
Kanban boards Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Gantt / timeline No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Time tracking No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Sprints / agile Yes Yes
Task dependencies Yes Yes Yes Yes
Guest / client access Yes Yes Yes Yes
Free tier Yes Yes Yes No Yes
WHAT YOU'RE LEAVING
What are you leaving behind with Jira?

Listed for transparency. Every product on this page is benchmarked against this baseline.

Jira US-incorporated

Atlassian-owned issue tracker. Australian-founded, NASDAQ-listed (TEAM), now US-headquartered.

US-based
OWNERSHIP
US-OWNED
CLOUD ACT
DIRECT
HOSTING
Likely AWS · US
SCHREMS II
Default SCC + supp.
METHODOLOGY

How we verified each row above.

For every product we read the public DPA, sub-processors document, hosting region declaration, and corporate ownership records. Each is timestamped. Signals are editorial, re-verified quarterly. We never accept self-attestation.

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