Can we use Compass for free?

[Michael Karl]

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/DevOps-articles/Compass-components-in-Jira-Software/ba-p/2605453

states:

The Compass component catalog is free for all Atlassian Cloud users, so all Jira Software users on company-managed projects can benefit from Compass components, even if they aren’t already a Compass user.

When I navigated to a project, clicked on "project settings" and then on "Components (New)" I encountered a banner saying "TRY compass for free". That suggests that we can't use Compass for free an a long term basis - though we are cloud users.

I'd like to find out wether Compass is free to use for us before we put in any effort in re-organizing our projects this way.

[Walter Buggenhout]

Hi @Michael Karl,

Check out the Compass pricing and user/role definitions to fully understand pricing. There is a free and a standard plan, with major differences the number of full users and templates you can use.

Hope this helps! 

[Michael Karl]

Yes! Thanks for the quick answer and pointing me in the right direction, @Walter Buggenhout 

[Janne Jaula]

Be wary, this was not trustworthy. What began as bait to be possible and extremely welcome improvement to Jira, offering global components that was always missing suddenly and without waning was changed to be read only for the free tier.

Documentation on-line (and seemingly support also) was updated AFTER the change to practically paid feature to use was applied.

So, unless you can administrate the application and create/edit the components with 2 users with full license, you de-facto can not use this for free and are in trouble if you started adopting this with the information available previously.