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monday.com vs Jira

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.

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monday.com

Free plan · from $9/seat/mo

Jira

Free plan · from $9.70/user/mo

What it isBoard-based work management with AI agents and credits on every paid plan, sold in seat buckets from 3 seatsAtlassian's project and issue tracker with Rovo AI agents on paid plans and a free plan for 10 users
Free planUp to 2 seats, up to 3 boards, up to 3 Docs, 200+ templates, 8 column types, iOS and Android apps; the help centre adds a 200-item limit and 500 MB storage. No AI features.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.
Cheapest paid plan$9/seat/mo billed annually (Basic)monday.com pricing$9.70/user/mo (Standard)Jira pricing
What it covers$9 per seat a month billed yearly, $12 billed monthly. Sold in seat buckets (3, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 40, 50, 100, 200+) with a 3-seat minimum, so the lowest Basic bill is $27 a month billed yearly or $36 monthly. Includes 1,000 AI credits a month, unlimited items and free viewers; no automation or integration actions.$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.
Free trial14-day free trial of the Pro plan; trials cannot be extended7-day free trial of Standard or Premium; no payment information required
PlatformsWeb, iOS, Android, APIWeb, iOS, Android, CLI, API
Integrations (vendor's figure)850+ integrations and apps3,000+ integrations in the Atlassian Marketplace
Open sourceNoNo
Good for
  • Teams that want to build their own boards and workflows without code
  • Running projects with AI agents and an AI assistant on the same boards
  • Departments such as marketing, operations or a PMO standardising work across teams
  • Software teams planning sprints and tracking work items
  • Organisations already using Confluence and other Atlassian products
  • Coordinating dependencies across many teams on Premium
Watch out for
  • Seats are sold in buckets (3, 5, 10, 15, 20 and up) with a 3-seat minimum, so a team of 4 pays for 5
  • The free plan allows 2 seats, 3 boards and 3 docs, with no AI features
  • Basic includes no automation or integration actions, and Standard is capped at 250 of each a month
  • 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
Made bymonday.comAtlassian

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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