Jira vs Trello

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.

Written head to head: Trello vs Jira, with when to choose each side.

Compared on	Jira Free plan · from $9.70/user/mo Visit Remove	Trello Free plan · from $5/user/mo Visit Remove
What it is	Atlassian's project and issue tracker with Rovo AI agents on paid plans and a free plan for 10 users	Kanban boards with built-in automation and an Inbox for to-dos from email and chat, free for 10 collaborators
Free plan	Up 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 10 collaborators per Workspace, up to 10 boards per Workspace, unlimited cards, unlimited Power-Ups per board, unlimited storage (10MB per file), 250 Workspace command runs per month, Inbox, iOS and Android apps
Cheapest paid plan	$9.70/user/mo (Standard)Jira pricing	$5/user/mo billed annually (Standard)Trello 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.	$5 per user a month billed annually, $6 billed monthly. Unlimited boards, AI features, 1,000 Workspace command runs a month, 250MB per file. Every Workspace member is billable, and multi-board guests are billed at the member rate.
Free trial	7-day free trial of Standard or Premium; no payment information required	Free trial of Trello Premium for any Workspace (length not stated on the pricing page)
Platforms	Web, iOS, Android, CLI, API	Web, iOS, Android, macOS, Windows
Integrations (vendor's figure)	3,000+ integrations in the Atlassian Marketplace	200+ apps through Power-Ups, including Slack, Google Drive and Salesforce
Open source	No	No
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	Individuals and small teams organising work on simple Kanban boards Capturing to-dos from email and chat and scheduling them on a calendar Teams that want light automation without a complex setup
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	Free plan: 10 collaborators and 10 boards per Workspace, 250 command runs a month and 10MB per file, with no AI features listed Timeline, Table, Calendar, Dashboard and Map views need Premium SAML SSO needs Atlassian Guard, a separate subscription from $4 per user a month, unless on Enterprise
Made by	Atlassian	Atlassian

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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