Bitbucket Server & Data Center pricing
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Bitbucket Server is discontinued (Atlassian ended support on 15 February 2024). The self-managed product you actually buy today is Bitbucket Data Center: an annual term license, tiered by user count with a 25-user minimum, starting at $2,300/year for 25 users. Unlike Atlassian's other Data Center products, Bitbucket Data Center is not being end-of-lifed in 2029; it moves to a new Bitbucket Hybrid License from mid-2026. The license is only part of the bill: you also pay for your own servers, database, backups and admin time.
Server is gone; Data Center is the on-premise product
If you are searching for "Bitbucket Server pricing" you are almost certainly looking at the older single-node self-managed edition. Atlassian stopped selling new Server licenses on 2 February 2021 and ended Server support completely on 15 February 2024. Anyone still on Server is running unsupported software with no security patches. The only on-premise Bitbucket product Atlassian sells now is Bitbucket Data Center, the clustered, high-availability self-managed edition.
| Edition | Hosting | License model | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bitbucket Cloud | Atlassian SaaS | Per user / month | Active |
| Bitbucket Server | Self-managed, single node | Perpetual + maintenance | Discontinued (EOS Feb 2024) |
| Bitbucket Data Center | Self-managed, clustered HA | Annual term, by user tier | Active |
Source: atlassian.com licensing & Server end-of-support notices, verified June 2026.
What Bitbucket Data Center actually costs
Data Center is sold as an annual term license priced by user tier, with a 25-user minimum. The entry tier lists at $2,300 per year. Atlassian has stopped publishing a full public per-tier price list, so anything above the minimum is quoted on request and scales broadly with user count. The figures below are list-price anchors; treat larger tiers as "contact sales".
| User tier | Annual license | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 25 users (minimum) | $2,300 / yr | Published entry tier |
| 50 - 500 users | Quote | Rises with user count; not publicly listed |
| 500+ users | Quote | Enterprise agreement / partner pricing |
Entry-tier list price per Atlassian pricing references, verified June 2026. Atlassian no longer publishes the full tier ladder publicly.
Self-managed means you run the infrastructure. On top of the license you pay for application and database servers, storage and backups, network and high-availability redundancy, and the administrator time to patch and upgrade it. For a 100-user deployment those operational costs commonly add tens of thousands of dollars a year, frequently exceeding the license fee itself. Budget the license and the running cost together, not the license alone.
The lifecycle: Bitbucket is the Data Center exception
Atlassian is winding down most of its Data Center line, but Bitbucket Data Center is explicitly carved out. Where Jira, Confluence, Bamboo and Crowd Data Center all reach end of life in 2029, Bitbucket Data Center continues, transitioning to a new Hybrid License. The dates that matter:
| Date | Other DC products (Jira, Confluence, Bamboo, Crowd) | Bitbucket Data Center |
|---|---|---|
| 30 Mar 2026 | New-customer sales close | Excluded from end-of-life |
| Mid-2026 | n/a | Bitbucket Hybrid License arrives |
| 30 Mar 2028 | Existing-customer tier expansions close | Continues |
| 28 Mar 2029 | End of life; products go read-only | Sold exclusively via Hybrid License |
Source: atlassian.com Data Center end-of-life and Bitbucket Hybrid License pages, verified June 2026.
Practically: if you need self-managed Bitbucket for data-residency or security-review reasons, the product has a future. But Atlassian is steering everyone toward the Hybrid License, so plan licensing decisions around the hybrid model rather than a standalone Data Center subscription, and confirm current new-purchase availability with Atlassian before you commit.
Self-hosted vs Bitbucket Cloud
For most teams the cloud is lower total cost. Bitbucket Cloud Standard is $3.65 per user per month (roughly $4,380/year for 100 users) and Premium is $7.25, both with included build minutes for Pipelines and a $10 pack per extra 1,000 minutes. Self-managed Bitbucket earns its keep on control, not price: data residency, air-gapped networks, and strict internal security review. If those are not hard requirements, Cloud is almost always cheaper once you count the running cost of self-hosting.
- Source code cannot leave your network (compliance, air-gap)
- You need data residency in a specific jurisdiction
- Security review forbids third-party SaaS for code
- You already run the infra and admin capacity to operate it
- Cost is the main driver below a few hundred users
- You do not want to patch, back up and upgrade servers
- You want Pipelines CI built in without running runners
- You are under ~25 users (the DC minimum tier)
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