pylotik vs Jira: the real question is not choosing one against the other. Jira organizes the work of software and technical teams in issues, sprints and workflows. pylotik steers contracts, projects and maintenance with clients, and includes team management: milestones, committees, validated minutes, workload plan, weekly report. pylotik connects to Jira through a connector built to your needs: development stays in Jira, and the steering is no longer rebuilt on the side.
An operational commitment management software: steering of contracts, projects and maintenance, with clients and suppliers, and team management. It suits organizations that steer teams, internal and external, and report on their commitments in committee.
An issue tracking and agile project management tool, published by Atlassian. It suits development and technical teams, from the small team to the large enterprise, that work in Scrum or Kanban.
Jira follows execution, issue by issue. pylotik follows the commitment: the contract, the milestones, the decisions, what the client has validated. pylotik does not do project ticketing: it connects to Jira through a connector built to your needs, and steers on top, without re-entry.
According to Atlassian's public documentation, Jira stands out for the depth of its execution tooling.
Backlog, sprints, versions, issue workflows: this is Jira's ground. pylotik does not do project ticketing: it connects to Jira through a connector built to your needs; the technical work stays there.
Jira's Plans organize capacity and dependencies across several spaces; Jira Align, a separate product, covers the enterprise portfolio.
A team that tracks issues without team management or a commitment to keep does not need a steering layer: Jira is enough.
Jira relies on a public API and a vast marketplace. pylotik has neither a public API nor SSO; it connects to Jira and to the ERP through a connector built to your needs; these connectors are optional.
Each cell points to a public source. "Not documented" means the documentation does not mention it, not that the feature is absent. Several Jira features go through Confluence or third-party apps: the table says so.
| Feature | pylotik | JiraCloud Act |
|---|---|---|
| European sovereignty | France | Non-EUUnited States |
| Project management (tasks, milestones, schedule) | YesWork packages, tasks, phases, milestones, Gantt | YesIssues, boards, timeline, versions; agile-oriented. |
| Multi-project steering | YesPortfolio steering and arbitration | Via moduleMulti-space Plans reserved for Premium and Enterprise; enterprise portfolio through Jira Align, a separate product (https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/align). |
| Linked or nested projects | Via moduleLinked projects, one level (Extended Project) | Via moduleHierarchy levels above the epic (initiatives) in Plans, Premium and Enterprise; programs and value streams in Jira Align. |
| Dependencies between projects | Via moduleMonitored, without recalculating dates | YesLinks between work items; dependency management view, including outside the plan, in Plans (Premium and Enterprise). |
| Resources and assignments | Yes | Via moduleIndividual capacity planning (hours, days, percentages) in Premium and Enterprise. |
| Workload plan | Yes | Via moduleTeam capacity per iteration and individual capacity in Plans, Premium and Enterprise. |
| Time entry | YesWeekly, on web and mobile | YesNative time entry (worklogs) on work items; advanced timesheets through third-party apps such as Tempo (https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/6572/timesheets-by-tempo-jira-time-tracking). |
| Client contracts | YesA contract for each project | Not documented |
| Maintenance contracts | YesVolume, catalogue, committee | Not documented |
| Intervention scheduling | Via moduleInterventions module | Not documented |
| Fixed-price projects | YesPayment schedule on milestones | Via integrationProject budgets through third-party apps (e.g. Tempo's Financial Manager), third-party vendor source. |
| Time-and-materials projects | YesMonthly schedule, days × rate | Via integrationRevenue = billable hours x rate, through Tempo's Financial Manager (third-party app). |
| Invoice issuing | Via integrationBilling orders sent to the ERP; the invoice is issued by the ERP | Not documented |
| Financial tracking and margin | YesOrdered, invoiced, paid, margin | Via integrationCosts, revenue and budgets through third-party apps (Tempo); Jira Align (a separate product) links funding and costs (https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/align). |
| Calendars | YesPersonal, project, client | YesCalendar view of spaces (due dates, sprints, versions). |
| Meetings and minutes | YesAgenda, minutes | Via moduleMeeting minutes template in Confluence, a separate Atlassian product; nothing native in Jira. |
| Decision log | Yes | Via moduleDecision log template in Confluence, a separate product; no structured register in Jira. |
| Action tracking | Yes | Not documented |
| Risk register | YesShared or internal | Via moduleRisk assessment template in Confluence, a separate product; no native risk register in Jira. |
| Client access | Yes | PartialExternal guests limited to a single space per site; a real client portal exists in the separate product Jira Service Management (https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/service-management). |
| Client access without a license | YesExternal client organizations | YesFree guests up to 5 per paying user, Standard, Premium and Enterprise plans only, a single space per site, total capped by the site's user limit. In Jira Service Management, portal customers do not consume a license (https://confluence.atlassian.com/servicemanagement/jira-service-management-faq-827116269.html). |
| Client validation | YesMinutes, amendments, interventions | PartialApprovals in business spaces (Premium and Enterprise); validation by an external guest is not documented. |
| Dashboards | Yes | YesAgile dashboards and reports; guests do not have access to dashboards by default (https://support.atlassian.com/jira-cloud-administration/docs/manage-guest-access-in-jira/). |
| Mobile app | YesInstallable web app | YesiOS and Android. |
| Connectors and API | PartialProject ticketing (Jira) and ERP; optional connectors depending on needs; no public API | YesPublic REST API and Atlassian Marketplace. |
| French-language interface | YesAnd in English, chosen by each user | YesFrench available in the Atlassian account preferences. |
Information checked in October 2026, against the vendors' public documentation. It changes: see the sources. The flag shows the vendor's country; the Cloud Act badge flags a vendor under US law, or owned by a US group, subject to the CLOUD Act; Non-EU, a vendor established outside the European Union.
Not an alternative to project ticketing: an alternative to the steering rebuilt by hand on top of it.
According to Atlassian's documentation, Jira accepts free guests up to five per paying user, on the Standard, Premium and Enterprise plans only. A guest belongs to a single space per site, the total remains capped by the site's user limit, and guests do not have access to dashboards by default. Approvals exist in business spaces (Premium and Enterprise), but validation by an external guest is not documented. A real client portal exists in Jira Service Management, a separate product, whose customers do not consume a license.
In pylotik, access for the external client organization is free on every tier. The client follows its projects, validates the minutes and accepts the interventions, without seeing your margins, your workload or your internal steering.
No. pylotik does not do project ticketing. Developers stay in Jira; pylotik carries the milestones, the contract, the committees, team management and the relationship with the client.
Yes: pylotik connects to Jira through a connector built to your needs. Technical work and project ticketing stay in Jira, and pylotik steers without re-entering anything. It has no public API.
Jira tracks the time spent on issues very well. According to its documentation, a project's budgets and revenue go through third-party apps from the marketplace. pylotik ties the payment schedule directly to the contract milestones.
Jira's documentation does not describe validation by an external guest. In pylotik, the client validates, refuses with a reason or asks for a correction; if there is no answer, validation becomes tacit at the agreed deadline.
No. pylotik does neither IT service management nor SLA management. It steers maintenance contracts, not a queue of incidents.
A demo on a filled-in data set: milestones, contract, committees and validations, seen from the supplier side and from the client side.