Forge pricing for jira plugin that indexes properties

[Pierre Ibrahim]

Hello all,

I'm wondering if I can get some clarity around this topic as the Forge cost estimator assumes the developer knows the usage of their plugin.

I'm working on a very small plugin that would only index space attributes in JIRA so they can be JQL'd.

The entire plugin is just a manifest.yml file that declares the attributes so they be indexed. Over time we may add more attributes to the index.

The plugin itself does nothing else. It will not be deployed to the marketplace, it'll only be deployed on my employer's JIRA sites.

What would the forge cost be in this instance? The only close thing I can find on the estimator is the "Key Value Store", but I'm not sure of the storage needed for reads/writes to provide my employer an accurate estimate.

Any guidance here is appreciated.

Thank you

[Jean Horn]

Hi @Pierre Ibrahim !

Since your Forge app is purely declarative and only defines attributes in the manifest.yml for Jira JQL indexing, your monthly Forge cost will be $0.

Because the app doesn't execute any backend functions or use Forge Storage (Key-Value), it consumes no billable Forge resources. The entity properties themselves are stored directly on the Jira Cloud platform (updated externally via REST API), which is already included in your existing Jira subscription at no extra charge.

Here is a quick breakdown of how this works:

1. Current Usage ($0/month): Manifest-only declarations do not trigger function invocations or storage costs.
2. Jira Storage: Included in your company's active Jira Cloud plan.
3. Future Considerations: If you later add backend logic to write entity properties directly (e.g., via triggers, web triggers, or scheduled functions), those function executions will start consuming quotas and could affect billing based on invocation volume.

For more technical details on property indexing and platform quotas, you can check out the official docs:

• Forge Jira Entity Property Module
• Forge Platform Quotas and Limits

Hope this helps clear things up for your team!

[Aron Gombas _Midori_]

Forge offers a generous free usage allowance for each service. Even if you generated costs for Atlassian, it would very likely fit this free budget.

We have public apps with ~100 installation and fairly little (but more than zero) logic, they happily fit the free budget.