We switched from Jira to Kuberns and Over costs reduced by 90%🫨


If you’ve ever used Jira, you know how the story goes.
You start out thinking, “Okay, this is the standard, let’s roll with it.”
But after a few months, you’re drowning in workflows, trying to customize boards, dealing with weird permissions and then you look at the invoice and go:
“Wait, why are we paying this much... just to manage tasks?”
So like every dev team trying to be smart about costs, we went on the usual hunt:
Tried Notion.
Dabbled with Trello.
Looked at some open-source tool that promised to replace Jira.
But nothing felt just right.
And Then We Discovered Kuberns
Now hear me out!
Kuberns is known as a cloud deployment platform (and a great one at that), but they recently did something interesting...
They integrated Plane.so, a lightweight, open-source Jira alternative that’s honestly super clean, easy to use, and built with devs in mind.
But here’s where it gets cool:
Plane comes bundled with your Kuberns dashboard. No need to set up separate tools, mess with APIs, or create 10 different accounts. You get:
âś… Issue tracking
âś… Sprints & roadmaps
âś… Team collaboration
âś… All in one place
✅ And yeah… 90% cheaper than Jira.
Wait, There's More (Yeah, like a real one more thing)
While Jira charges you just to manage tasks, Kuberns gives you actual cloud deployment on top of it.
So now, in the same place where we track bugs and plan sprints, we also:
Deploy code with Git
Manage staging and prod environments
Track logs and infra metrics
Assign tasks directly from deploys
One tool. One dashboard. Zero context switching.
It’s honestly the one extra feature every developer actually wants, but Jira could never give.
If You’re Still Paying for Jira, Read This Twice
We switched from Jira to Kuberns + Plane, and cut down our tool stack and our bill by over 90%.
Now, we manage deployments and product tasks in one place. No fluff. No bloat. Just what dev teams actually need.
👉 Check out Kuberns and see how it can save you money and sanity.
Trust me, your dev team will be happier.
And whoever’s handling your billing? Even more.
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