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Competitive comparison
PlanMagnet vs Jira
The enterprise agile tracker — powerful, but fragmented.
Atlassian Jira is the dominant issue-tracking and agile project-management platform. Most teams run it alongside Confluence, Jira Product Discovery, and Advanced Roadmaps, turning a single purchase into a multi-product stack.
About Jira
High-level profile and where it fits.
Founded
2002 (Atlassian)
Headquarters
Sydney / San Francisco
Market
125,000+ customers; public company (NASDAQ: TEAM)
Strengths
- Industry benchmark for agile execution
- 4,000+ Marketplace apps and integrations
- Deep enterprise compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA BAA)
- Rovo AI deployed at scale
Weaknesses
- Roadmaps, feedback, specs, and docs live in separate products
- Real TCO is often 2–3× list price after add-ons
- Heavy configuration and admin overhead
- Roadmap UX trails purpose-built tools
Ideal for
- LLarge engineering orgs running formal Scrum/Kanban
- RRegulated enterprises needing deep audit/compliance
- TTeams already embedded in the Atlassian stack
Feature comparison
PlanMagnet capabilities marked Planned are spec-defined and on our committed roadmap — they do not ship today.
| Capability | PlanMagnet | Jira |
|---|---|---|
| Unified issues → sprints → roadmaps → releases | One workspaceOne workspace | Split across Jira, JPD, Confluence, Advanced RoadmapsSplit across Jira, JPD, Confluence, Advanced Roadmaps |
| Agile execution | StrongNative Scrum/Kanban | StrongIndustry benchmark |
| Roadmap live-link to tasks | StrongNative — partial live-link | Manual / Advanced RoadmapsManual / Advanced Roadmaps |
| Feedback inbox | Built-inBuilt-in | Jira Product Discovery (separate)Jira Product Discovery (separate) |
| Specs & docs | Planned — in-platformPlanned — in-platform | Confluence (separate)Confluence (separate) |
| Capacity planning | Available — CrewFoundry integration (sprint-level)Available — CrewFoundry integration (sprint-level) | Workload / 3rd-party appsWorkload / 3rd-party apps |
| AI assistance | Planned — scopedPlanned — scoped | Rovo / Atlassian IntelligenceRovo / Atlassian Intelligence |
| Compliance | Inherited RBAC/SSO; cert pendingInherited RBAC/SSO; cert pending | SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA BAASOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA BAA |
Pricing comparison
Public list prices as of 2026-07. Re-verify before publishing externally.
PlanMagnet
Viewers & commenters are always free.
Free$0
- 10 editors
- 3 projects
- 2 boards
- 1 sprint
- 1 roadmap
Pro$9/editor/mo
- Unlimited projects/boards/sprints
- Custom fields & workflows
- Automation (limited)
Business$16/editor/mo
- Portfolios & programs
- Dependencies & risk/quality
- Budgets & dashboards
EnterpriseCustom
- SSO/SCIM
- Audit & data residency
- Dedicated tenant / self-host
Jira
Confluence, Jira Product Discovery, Advanced Roadmaps, and Marketplace apps are commonly required for a full stack and significantly increase TCO.
Free$0
- Up to 10 users
- 2 GB storage
- 100 automation runs/user/mo
Standard~$8.15/user/mo
- 250 GB storage
- Audit logs
- Project-level automation
Premium~$14.54–$17.00/user/mo
- Advanced Roadmaps
- Unlimited storage
- 99.9% SLA
- Atlassian Intelligence
EnterpriseCustom
- Multi-instance governance
- SAML/SSO
- 99.95% SLA
Why teams choose PlanMagnet
How PlanMagnet wins vs Jira
- One connected workspace instead of Jira + Confluence + JPD + Advanced Roadmaps
- Roadmap items link directly to the epics and tasks that deliver them (shipped); automatic roll-up on the roadmap is on the way
- Delivery-ops depth already shipped in one workspace: portfolios, programs, risk register, quality gates, budgets, time tracking, and automation rules
- One-click import of existing issues from Jira — also Linear, Asana, GitHub, and Trello (shipped)
- Free viewers and per-editor pricing
- GraphQL API is live today; the CLI, MCP server, and SDKs are in early development. Sprint-level capacity planning via CrewFoundry is now live
Where we are still catching up
Honest concessions
- Cannot match Jira’s 4,000-app Marketplace breadth today
- No SOC 2 / ISO certification yet
- Newly launched, without Jira’s proven enterprise scale
Stop stitching Jira, Confluence, and a roadmap tool together.
Plan, build, and ship in one connected workspace — start on the free plan today.