Marketplace apps
The features competitors ship in the box — time tracking, real roadmaps, structured hierarchies — are paid Marketplace add-ons.
What people actually say
✕Tempo for time tracking is the de facto standard but is expensive at scale, with a heavy UI and complex setup — most Jira customers end up paying for it on top of their seats.
Source: Tempo — Jira time tracking ↗✕Roadmaps, hierarchies and portfolio views push teams to Structure, BigPicture or Tempo's acquired Roadmunk — each a per-user bill on top of Jira.
Source: Reliex — Resource planning Jira apps ↗✕Confluence is licensed separately from Jira — there's no included docs/wiki and bundles only nudge ~10-15% off list.
Source: Monetizely — Jira and Confluence pricing ↗
Time tracking, roadmaps and parent/child hierarchies are first-class tables in your Postgres schema, not bolted-on apps. Markdown docs live in a Next.js workspace next to your issues, so you don't pay another vendor for the wiki your engineers already use.