Comparison Hosting: Server/Data Center - Cloud

Feature	OnPrem (Server/Data Center)	Cloud

Feature	OnPrem (Server/Data Center)	Cloud
Manage Jira native ‘Labels’ field globally		Rename, Merge, Delete label items inside Jira native ‘Labels’ field globally. Updates influence issues globally
Manage Jira native ‘Labels’ field project specific		Rename, Merge, Delete label items inside Jira native ‘Labels’ field that are used inside a specific project. Updates only influence issues inside the project
Create Customfield Type	Jira native custom field creation (“Advanced Fields”)	Jira native custom field creation (“Advanced Fields”)
Global Admin Overview	Global Settings Page Allows selection of "Label Manager Type custom fields" Allows Creation, Editing and Deletion of global label items for the customfield	Global Settings Page Allows selection of "Label Manager Type custom fields" Allows Creation, Editing and Deletion of global label items for the customfield Allows Merging of Labels Allows Bulk Creation of global label items
Project Settings Page	Project Settings Page Allows "Activation of coloring" inside the project Allows "Minimize label field" inside the project Allows selection of Label Manager Type custom fields Allows overwriting the global label items with project specific Allows Creation, Editing and Deletion of project specific label items for the customfield Allows mapping of label manager custom field to progress fields in the board No support to maintain label switching back from project specific to global configuration	Project Settings Page Allows "Activation of coloring" for specific customfields inside the project Allows selection of Label Manager Type custom fields Allows overwriting the global label items with project specific Allows Creation, Editing and Deletion of project specific label items for the customfield Allows Merging of project specific Labels Allows Bulk Creation of project specific label items Supports maintaining selected label that also exist in global config while switching back from project specific config to global config
Display CF as Labels	Clicking on individual label redirects to issue navigator. Filtering for the individual label selected.	Clicking on 🔍 redirects to issue navigator. Filtering for all selected labels from the issue.
Coloring	Allows that clicking on the label in edit view changes the color (Red→ Green→ Orange→ Grey) Allows JQL support for colored label	Allows that clicking on the label in edit view changes the color (Grey → Red→ Orange→ Green) Allows JQL support for colored label Notes: Labels need to be added and saved first in edit view before you can edit colors JQL support is limited, (allows to search for color inside customfield but not color of specific values inside customfield)
Disable labels		Label Manager Labels can be disabled in the global or project-specific settings. Disabled labels cannot be added to Issues, but remain selected until they removed from a label.
Minimize label field	Supported, allows to use the “show more” button that hides additional labels initially.	Not Supported
JQL Bulk Support	Supported	Supported
Display support inside Issue navigator table		No colors or links, only comma seperated list.
REST API	Label Manager REST API Getting Labels Creating Labels Deleting Labels	Not Supported
Performance	Recommendation not more than 100.000 Labels per custom field	1000 global label items for each customfield 1000 project specific label items for each project and for each customfields
Progress Custom Field	Allows to display the progress of label manager (color) in the board	Not Supported
Post Function	Add Label Manager items trough a workflow transition Delete Label Manager items trough a workflow transition	Not Supported (Likely to be supported within 6 months) Workaround: Jira Cloud native Jira Automation (Examples)