Atlassian moves Rovo toward usage billing

Atlassian will start metering Rovo credits, automation steps, and AI-agent resolutions on December 3, 2026, putting agent consumption alongside seat counts. In its usage-based pricing announcement, Atlassian says agents already make some reporting processes up to 40x faster and that its Teamwork Graph context delivers 44% better answer quality with 48% fewer tokens in internal benchmarking. Teams building on Jira and Confluence should inventory Rovo and automation usage before the deadline, then set admin limits; outcome-based agent pricing is becoming a budget-control problem, not merely a license-line change.