Jira Cloud has a native calculated field now. It's called a Jira formula field. You create it like any other custom field, it's on all four editions, and it works in company-managed and team-managed spaces (spaces are what Jira used to call projects). We built five of them on our test site this week. Some parts surprised us: it can't read select fields or priority or other formulas, and an empty formula shows up in JQL as a zero.

The suggestion behind it, JRACLOUD-61966, "Calculated custom fields" , was opened on 22 April 2015 and closed as Fixed on 3 August 2026, 4,121 days later, with 542 votes. Until then the answer on the Community was an automation rule that wrote a sum into a number field, or an app.

A lot of the questions during the beta were confusion, and they didn't stop at GA. Mikel asked on the ticket the day it closed: "How come a system field like Created is supported but another one like Resolved/Updated is not supported?" Nobody from Atlassian answered him there.…