Reference
Editions
What Standard and Advanced each include, how trials work, and what happens on a downgrade.
Permission Audit is sold through Atlassian in two editions. Billing, trials, and licensing are handled entirely by Atlassian alongside the rest of your Marketplace apps.
What each includes
| Standard | Advanced | |
|---|---|---|
| People report with full derivation | ✓ | ✓ |
| Accounts with no access reported | ✓ | ✓ |
| Findings and coverage reporting | ✓ | ✓ |
| CSV export | People | People and apps |
| Manual scans | One per rolling week | Unlimited |
| Installed-app review | Counts only | Full |
| Continuous scanning | — | ✓ |
| Permission history | — | ✓ |
| Change comparison between scans | — | ✓ |
Trying it
Atlassian’s 30-day trial applies. A trial gives you the Advanced experience regardless of which edition it is attached to — a vendor cannot scope Atlassian’s trial to one edition, so the app treats every trial as an Advanced trial rather than showing you a restricted product and calling it an evaluation.
Sites with 10 users or fewer are free, under Atlassian’s own Marketplace pricing rule. That is the try-before-you-buy path for a small site, and it is a real installation rather than a demo.
What Standard is for
Standard is a recurring manual access review: run it, read it, export it, sign it. One scan per rolling week is enough for a quarterly or monthly review cycle, which is how most access reviews actually run.
The app-principal counts are visible on Standard even though the list is not, so you can see how many installed apps hold permissions on your site before deciding whether that is worth Advanced to you.
What Advanced is for
Advanced is a permission record that maintains itself. The report is current because it rescans on its own, and because it rescans on its own it can tell you what changed — which is the difference between an access review and an audit trail.
If your answer to “when did this person get admin?” needs to be better than “sometime between the last two reviews”, that is what Advanced is.
Changing edition
Edition changes take effect on your next visit to the app; there is nothing to reconfigure.
On an upgrade to Advanced, continuous scanning is enabled by default the first time the app observes the new edition — unless you previously turned it off, which is treated as a decision and never overridden.
On a downgrade to Standard, recorded history is kept, not deleted. It is not viewable until the site is on Advanced again. Deleting an audit trail because a subscription changed would be a hostile default.
How gating is enforced
On the server, not in the interface. Locked features are refused at the point of work, not merely hidden from the screen — which is the difference between a paywall and a suggestion.