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Jira vs Plane

Pick up to 4 tools and see their free plans, entry prices, platforms and limits in one table. Every fact comes from each vendor's own pages, checked 21 October 2026.

Compared on
Jira

Free plan · from $9.70/user/mo

Plane

Free plan · from $6/seat/mo

What it isAtlassian's project and issue tracker with Rovo AI agents on paid plans and a free plan for 10 usersOpen-source project management and wiki with AI agents, on Plane's cloud or self-hosted, including air-gapped
Free planUp to 10 users, unlimited goals, projects, tasks and forms, backlog, list, board, timeline, calendar and summary views, 150 automation steps per subscription per month, 2 GB storage, 100 email notifications a day, community support. No Rovo AI.Up to 12 users; projects and work items, cycles and modules, five layouts, intake, estimates and project pages; available on cloud or self-hosted
Cheapest paid plan$9.70/user/mo (Standard)Jira pricing$6/seat/mo billed annually (Pro)Plane pricing
What it covers$9.70 per user a month on monthly billing for users 1 to 100; lower graduated rates above 100 users (the page shows an average of $8.48 at its default of 300 users). Annual billing is priced by user tier instead, for example $2,450 a year for 16 to 25 users. Includes 25 Rovo credits and 400 automation steps per user a month, 250 GB storage.$6 per seat a month billed yearly or $8 billed monthly, on cloud or self-hosted. Includes 500 AI credits per seat a month (reset monthly, no rollover) and 5 guests per paid member.
Free trial7-day free trial of Standard or Premium; no payment information requiredTwo-week free trial of Pro or Business
PlatformsWeb, iOS, Android, CLI, APIWeb, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android
Integrations (vendor's figure)3,000+ integrations in the Atlassian Marketplace50+ tools, including Slack, GitHub and Figma
Open sourceNoYes, self-hostable
Good for
  • Software teams planning sprints and tracking work items
  • Organisations already using Confluence and other Atlassian products
  • Coordinating dependencies across many teams on Premium
  • Teams moving off Jira that want an open-source or self-hosted option
  • Software teams running sprints with docs next to the work
  • Regulated organisations that need on-premises or air-gapped deployment
Watch out for
  • Free plan: 10 users, 2 GB storage, 150 automation steps a month for the whole subscription and no Rovo AI
  • Annual billing is sold in user tiers, and Enterprise is annual only and priced from 801 users
  • Cross-project dependencies, approvals and the 99.9% uptime SLA need Premium
  • The free plan is limited to 12 users
  • Paid features on a self-hosted instance need a licence key bought from Plane's Prime portal
  • AI credits are per seat, reset monthly and do not roll over
Made byAtlassianPlane Software, Inc.

Entry prices are the cheapest paid plan, as each vendor publishes it; “What it covers” says what that price is per (a user, a channel, a brand, a number of contacts). The sources are listed on each tool's page.

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