Most Jira apps don't need a server, a database you babysit, or a five-figure budget. Here's exactly what two thousand dollars (USD) builds on Atlassian Forge - and why the number is real, not a teaser.

Why a Jira app costs a fraction of a normal MVP

A typical SaaS MVP starts around $8,000 - and most of that price has nothing to do with your product. It pays for the boring, expensive scaffolding: hosting, user accounts and login, a database to provision and secure, deployment pipelines, and payment plumbing. That's the cost of getting any software online, before it does a single useful thing.

Forge removes that entire layer. Your app runs on Atlassian's own infrastructure - so there's no server to rent, no login to build (Jira already knows who the user is), no database to stand up (Forge hands you storage), and no billing to wire (the Marketplace handles licensing and payments).

What's left is the only part that ever mattered: the thing your app actually does. That's why $2,000 is a real number, not a loss leader.

What $2,000 builds

For two thousand dollars, we build your app across two of the most-used surfaces in Jira - the two places your team already spends its day:

• The work item view - your app appears right inside a Jira issue. Open a work item and your panel is there, tied to that issue's context, working with its data.
• The project & board view - a full-page view at the project level, where the whole team sees and works with everything across the project in one place.

Each surface comes with real, working functionality - create, view, edit, and organise your data, with search and filtering. The interface uses Jira's native design system: the same buttons, tables, and forms your users already know. It looks like a part of Jira, because it is. And you get production-ready code that you own.

Your data never leaves Jira

This is the part most teams care about most - and it needs no extra budget. Your app uses Forge's built-in storage, which means every piece of data it creates stays inside your own Atlassian instance.

Nothing is shipped to an external server. There's no third-party API in the loop, no data leaving your environment, and nothing new for your security or compliance team to vet. For the buyers who'd otherwise lose weeks to a vendor security review, the answer is simple: there's no vendor to review. The data lives where Jira lives.

What this looks like for a real team

Say you want a Test Management app inside Jira - somewhere to keep test cases that isn't another spreadsheet nobody updates.

• Work item view: a tester opens a Jira issue and sees the test cases linked to it - steps, expected result, status - right next to the work.
• Project view: a lead opens one page and sees every test case across the project, and edits them in place - no exporting, no hunting.

That's a working test management tool, living inside Jira, for $2,000. No spreadsheet, no separate login, no data leaving the building.

Want test runs, dashboard gadgets, or an interface designed beyond Jira's native look? That's a short conversation - tell us what you need and we'll scope it.

Tell us the one workflow you wish lived inside Jira

We'll tell you, honestly, whether $2,000 covers it - and exactly what you'd get.

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