Rovo Dev

Rovo Dev is Atlassian's coding agent for the terminal, IDE, and pull-request review. Rechecked 2026-08-25: atlassian.com/software/rovo-dev/pricing sells Rovo Dev Standard at $20 per developer per month, including 2,000 Rovo Dev credits per developer per month. Extra usage is $0.01 per credit. There is no free tier. A 30-day trial exists, but Use Rovo Dev CLI says the CLI is not available during a Rovo Dev Standard trial. You need a paid subscription. Install is via ACLI: acli rovodev auth login then acli rovodev run. The yolo-class flag is --yolo on the ACLI surface.

Compare Claude Code if you wanted Anthropic's CLI, GitHub Copilot if you wanted GitHub-native completions plus a cloud agent, and Cursor if you wanted a local IDE seat.

Key Features

• Terminal agent: natural-language generate, review, refactor, test, and debug inside acli rovodev run.
• Atlassian graph: act on Jira work items and write Confluence from the same CLI. That is the product difference, not a generic BYOK harness.
• PR review: Bitbucket and/or GitHub reviews against common errors and Jira acceptance criteria.
• Sessions, memory, MCP, skills, subagents, worktrees: first-party docs cover each. Recheck the live command list.
• Credits: CLI turns and PR reviews spend Rovo Dev credits. Default extra usage of another 2,000 credits/user/month is auto-enabled unless admins cap it.

Limitation: the CLI needs a paid Rovo Dev Standard seat and a scoped API token. A Jira Cloud plan with Rovo chat is not enough. Trial users cannot use the CLI.

Use Cases

• Teams already in Jira / Confluence / Bitbucket who want the agent to see that graph.
• Orgs that will buy $20 seats and watch the $0.01 overage.
• People comparing enterprise CLIs who do not want a BYOK toy.

Pricing

Public table on 2026-08-25 from rovo-dev/pricing and Rovo licensing FAQs.

Rovo (chat/search) is packaged with Jira/Confluence Cloud. Rovo Dev is a separate $20 product.

Getting Started

1. Buy or convert to paid Rovo Dev Standard. The CLI will not start on a trial.
2. Install ACLI for macOS, Linux, or Windows.
3. Create a scoped API token, then acli rovodev auth login.
4. In a repo, run acli rovodev run. Do not pass --yolo on a machine you do not trust.

First-party start: Install and run Rovo Dev CLI.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I use the CLI on the 30-day trial?

No. First-party docs say you need a paid Rovo Dev Standard subscription.

Is this included with Jira Cloud?

Rovo chat/search can be. Rovo Dev CLI is the $20 Rovo Dev product.

Same as GitHub Copilot?

No. Copilot is GitHub-native. This page is Atlassian's Jira-aware agent.

Alternatives

• Claude Code: Anthropic first-party CLI.
• GitHub Copilot: GitHub-native completions plus cloud agent.
• Cursor: local IDE seat.

Tips

1. Quote $20 / 2,000 credits / $0.01 from the pricing page.
2. Do not send trial users to acli rovodev.
3. Ask an admin to lower the default extra-credit cap before a noisy weekend run.

Conclusion

Rovo Dev is Atlassian's $20/dev coding agent with a Jira/Confluence graph, not a free ACLI add-on. Start at atlassian.com/software/rovo-dev, pay the seat, then decide whether Claude Code already covers the workflow you need.