What is Atlassian Forge? Why does it cost money?

Jira and Confluence are indispensable for modern teams. However, it is the applications and plugins we add from the Atlassian Marketplace that fully unlock the potential of these platforms. Well, have you ever thought about how these plugins that you put at the center of your workflows process your data and how secure an infrastructure they work on?

What are the Key Benefits of Atlassian Forge?

Developing a plugin with the Forge infrastructure offers many advantages that directly reflect on you as an end user:

Top Security: This is Forge’s biggest promise. With traditional plugins, your data can be transferred to the developer’s own servers. In Forge, the application runs within Atlassian’s own secure ecosystem. Your data does not leave Atlassian, which minimizes the risks of data leakage and compliance (GDPR, etc.). Since the application runs in an isolated environment called “sandbox”, unauthorized access to other applications or your data is prevented.
High Performance and Reliability: Because Atlassian manages the infrastructure directly, plugins are fully compatible with Jira and Confluence. This means faster load times, fewer errors and a seamless experience. Even with heavy usage, Atlassian automatically scales resources to prevent performance degradation.
Seamless Integration and User Experience: Applications developed with Forge look and feel like their own part of Atlassian products. The interface elements, menus and buttons are identical to the familiar Jira or Confluence design. This makes adapting to a new plugin much easier and more intuitive.

Why Snapbytes Prefers Atlassian Forge?

For us, the answer is clear: For your safety and comfort.

As the world of technology changes rapidly, data security has become more critical than ever. At Snapbytes, we aim to ensure that the plugins we develop are not only functional, but also protect your data with the most modern standards. With this vision, we proudly present two powerful applications that utilize the latest and most secure infrastructure:

SnapMetrics – Real Time Analytics: Helping teams effortlessly measure, analyze and optimize their workloads, this real-time performance monitoring tool keeps your data secure within the Atlassian ecosystem thanks to the Forge infrastructure. Time in Status custom KPIs on the fly, and delivers all your analytics in a seamless experience that feels like Jira’s own interface.
SnapAssign I’d like to announce the assignments at Jira load balance (load-based) or in-line (round-robin) SnapAssign works with the stability that Forge brings. It safely stores all assignment records and seamlessly integrates with your workflows while distributing tasks according to the project, priority or special rules you set with JQL.

Investing in the Future: Forge Infrastructure and Sustainability

In the spirit of transparency, we would like to share with you an important development in the Forge ecosystem. Atlassian, As of January 1, 2026, Forge announced that its platform will become a paid service. This is an important change that affects all partners who develop applications on Forge, including us.

From the beginning, we promised to keep SnapAssign and SnapMetrics – Real Time Analytics free as long as Forge remained free. This gave many teams the chance to try and adopt these tools without any cost barriers. We’re proud of what we’ve built with you.

However, Atlassian’s new policy brings changes that we cannot ignore. One of them is a new policy with stricter limitations for free apps. “usage limit” approach. This means that even if we want to keep our apps free their performance and reliability would be jeopardized that means. Compromising on the experience you rely on has never been an option for us.

Therefore, after careful consideration, we have decided to transition SnapAssign and SnapMetrics – Real Time Analytics to a paid model. This transition will allow us to

Keeping the service stable and uninterrupted.
Continue to develop new features and improvements.
Ensuring that your usage is not restricted by new limits.

We realize that this news may not be easy. That’s why we are making this transition that we won’t do it overnight we would like to emphasize.

👉 Both apps will remain completely free until the end of the first quarter of 2026, at our own expense.

We do it because:

We want to give you more time to adapt to change.
We aim to keep your teams using the apps without interruption.
We encourage you to assess the value of the practices before making a commitment.

Atlassian Forge sets a new standard of security, performance and integration for cloud plugins. Snapbytes’ adoption of this platform is a testament to our close pursuit of innovative technologies and our commitment to bringing the best to our users.

To experience these privileges offered by Atlassian Forge, you can check our Forge-based plugins on the Atlassian Marketplace.

For more detailed information, you can check Atlassian’s website where you can find frequently asked questions about Forge:

https://developer.atlassian.com/platform/forge/forge-platform-pricing/

https://developer.atlassian.com/platform/forge/

What is Atlassian Forge? Why does it cost money?

What are the Key Benefits of Atlassian Forge?

Why Snapbytes Prefers Atlassian Forge?

Investing in the Future: Forge Infrastructure and Sustainability

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