{
    "title": "Jira Alternatives 2027: 10 Paid, Free & Open-Source",
    "url": "https://zekaiwork.com/alternatives/jira/",
    "summary": "The best Jira alternatives in 2027 are Asana (best overall, $10.99/user/mo), ClickUp (best free plan: Unlimited free members, 60 MB storage, 5 Spaces) and Plane (best open source, AGPL-3.0). Jira itself starts at $8.48/user/mo. Zekai checked these prices on vendor pages on 11 Nov 2026; 7 more are compared below, including 5 with a free plan and 2 open source.",
    "tool": {
        "name": "Jira",
        "starting_price": "$8.48/user/mo",
        "free_plan": "Up to 10 users, 2 GB storage",
        "price_checked": "2026-11-11",
        "pricing_url": "https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/pricing"
    },
    "task": "project management tool",
    "prices_checked": "2026-11-11",
    "date_modified": "2026-11-11",
    "alternatives": [
        {
            "name": "Asana",
            "type": "Free plan + paid",
            "starting_price": "$10.99/user/mo",
            "free_plan_limit": "2 users, unlimited tasks and projects",
            "best_for": "Business teams tracking cross-team projects",
            "difference": "Asana organises work as tasks, projects and portfolios for cross-team business work; its free Personal plan caps at 2 users, where Jira's free plan allows 10.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-11",
            "pricing_url": "https://asana.com/pricing",
            "website": "https://asana.com",
            "zekai_score": 8.4,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/asana/"
        },
        {
            "name": "monday.com",
            "type": "Free plan + paid",
            "starting_price": "$9/seat/mo",
            "free_plan_limit": "2 seats, 3 boards, 3 Docs",
            "best_for": "Customisable boards for mixed teams",
            "difference": "monday's paid plans start at 3 seats and $9 per seat billed yearly, and its free plan stops at 2 seats and 3 boards.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-11",
            "pricing_url": "https://monday.com/pricing",
            "website": "https://monday.com",
            "zekai_score": 7.8,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/monday-com-ai-project-tracking/"
        },
        {
            "name": "ClickUp",
            "type": "Free plan + paid",
            "starting_price": "$9/user/mo",
            "free_plan_limit": "Unlimited free members, 60 MB storage, 5 Spaces",
            "best_for": "Free tier with unlimited members",
            "difference": "ClickUp's free plan has unlimited members and tasks but 60 MB storage and 100 automation actions a month, while Jira's free plan limits users to 10 with 2 GB.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-11",
            "pricing_url": "https://clickup.com/pricing",
            "website": "https://clickup.com",
            "zekai_score": 7.8,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/clickup/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Linear",
            "type": "Free plan + paid",
            "starting_price": "$10/user/mo",
            "free_plan_limit": "Unlimited members, 250 issues, 2 teams",
            "best_for": "Software teams wanting issue tracking with cycles",
            "difference": "Linear's free plan allows unlimited members but 250 issues across 2 teams, so its cap falls on issues, where Jira's free plan caps users at 10.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-11",
            "pricing_url": "https://linear.app/pricing",
            "website": "https://linear.app",
            "zekai_score": 9.3,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/linear/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Wrike",
            "type": "Free plan + paid",
            "starting_price": "$10/user/mo",
            "free_plan_limit": "Task management with board and table views",
            "best_for": "Mid-size teams needing Gantt and dashboards",
            "difference": "Wrike sells by user range: Team covers 2 to 15 users and Business 5 to 200, with Gantt charts and shareable dashboards on paid plans.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-11",
            "pricing_url": "https://www.wrike.com/price/",
            "website": "https://www.wrike.com",
            "zekai_score": 7.5,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/wrike/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Zoho Sprints",
            "type": "Free",
            "starting_price": "Free plan; paid price not published",
            "free_plan_limit": "3 users, 3 projects, 500 MB storage",
            "best_for": "Small agile teams with Scrum boards",
            "difference": "Zoho Sprints' free plan covers 3 users, 3 projects and 500 MB storage with Scrum and Kanban boards, against Jira's 10 users and 2 GB.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-11",
            "pricing_url": "https://www.zoho.com/sprints/pricing.html",
            "website": "https://www.zoho.com/sprints/",
            "zekai_score": 5.9,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/zoho-sprints-ai-agile-platform/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Trello",
            "type": "Free plan + paid",
            "starting_price": "$5/user/mo",
            "free_plan_limit": "10 boards, 10 collaborators per Workspace",
            "best_for": "Simple kanban boards for small teams",
            "difference": "Trello is a board-first tool: Standard costs $6 per user billed monthly, against $8.48 for Jira Standard, and its free plan allows 10 boards per Workspace.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-11",
            "pricing_url": "https://trello.com/pricing",
            "website": "https://trello.com",
            "zekai_score": 7.6,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/trello/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Plane",
            "type": "Open source",
            "starting_price": "$6/seat/mo (hosted)",
            "free_plan_limit": "No limit (self-hosted)",
            "licence": "AGPL-3.0",
            "best_for": "Teams wanting a self-hostable Jira rival",
            "difference": "Plane is AGPL-3.0 and can be self-hosted with Docker; its cloud free plan allows up to 12 users, against Jira's 10.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-11",
            "pricing_url": "https://plane.so/pricing",
            "website": "https://plane.so",
            "repository": "https://github.com/makeplane/plane",
            "zekai_score": 8.7,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/plane/"
        },
        {
            "name": "OpenProject",
            "type": "Open source",
            "starting_price": "€5.95/user/mo (hosted)",
            "free_plan_limit": "No limit (self-hosted)",
            "licence": "GPL-3.0",
            "best_for": "Self-hosted project and bug tracking",
            "difference": "OpenProject Community is GPL-3.0 with no minimum user count; paid Basic support starts at 25 users and is priced in euros.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-11",
            "pricing_url": "https://www.openproject.org/pricing/",
            "website": "https://www.openproject.org",
            "repository": "https://github.com/opf/openproject",
            "zekai_open_source_page": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/openproject/",
            "last_release": "2026-10-22",
            "zekai_score": 7.8,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/openproject/"
        },
        {
            "name": "WeKan",
            "type": "Open source",
            "starting_price": "Free (self-hosted)",
            "free_plan_limit": "No limit (self-hosted)",
            "licence": "MIT",
            "best_for": "Free self-hosted kanban boards",
            "difference": "WeKan is an MIT-licensed kanban board built with Meteor, so it covers boards and cards rather than a full issue tracker.",
            "repository": "https://github.com/wekan/wekan",
            "zekai_open_source_page": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/wekan/",
            "last_release": "2026-09-06",
            "zekai_score": 7.9,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/wekan/"
        }
    ],
    "faq": [
        {
            "q": "What is the best alternative to Jira in 2027?",
            "a": "Asana is the best overall Jira alternative on this page ($10.99/user/mo). For no cost, ClickUp has a free plan (Unlimited free members, 60 MB storage, 5 Spaces). To self-host, Plane is open source (AGPL-3.0)."
        },
        {
            "q": "Is there a free version of Jira?",
            "a": "Yes. Jira has a free plan: Up to 10 users, 2 GB storage. Paid plans start at $8.48/user/mo, checked on 11 Nov 2026."
        },
        {
            "q": "Is there a 100% free alternative to Jira?",
            "a": "Yes. Plane, OpenProject, WeKan are open source and free to self-host. Asana, monday.com, ClickUp, Linear, Wrike, Zoho Sprints, Trello have a free plan with limits, shown in the table."
        },
        {
            "q": "What is cheaper than Jira?",
            "a": "monday.com starts at $9/seat/mo, against $8.48/user/mo for Jira, as listed on each vendor's pricing page on 11 Nov 2026."
        },
        {
            "q": "How much do Jira alternatives cost for a team of 5?",
            "a": "If each of 5 people buys the entry paid plan, at the prices Zekai checked on 11 Nov 2026, the monthly cost is Trello $25/mo, Plane $30/mo, monday.com $45/mo, against Jira $42.40/mo for Jira. Team and business plans can cost more per seat. The Zekai Cost Finder on this page recalculates for any team size."
        },
        {
            "q": "Which is better, Asana or Jira?",
            "a": "Asana organises work as tasks, projects and portfolios for cross-team business work; its free Personal plan caps at 2 users, where Jira's free plan allows 10. Choose Asana if your work spans marketing, operations and product rather than software issues and sprints. Stay with Jira if your developers already live in Jira issues and want a free tier for up to 10 users."
        },
        {
            "q": "Why are people leaving Jira?",
            "a": "The documented reasons are: Atlassian announced that allowance limits and billing for AI meters, including Rovo credits, automation steps and AI agent resolutions, take effect on 3 December 2026 (1 Sep 2026); Jira's pricing page lists a Free plan limit of 10 users and 2 GB of storage; adding more users requires a paid plan (11 Nov 2026). Each is sourced in the section above."
        },
        {
            "q": "What is better than Jira?",
            "a": "It depends on the team. Linear and Zoho Sprints suit software teams, Asana and monday.com suit mixed business teams, and Plane or OpenProject suit teams that want to self-host."
        }
    ],
    "publisher": "Zekai (zekaiwork.com) — independently reviewed; prices read on vendor pages on the dates shown.",
    "licence": "Free to quote with a link to https://zekaiwork.com/alternatives/jira/. Bulk copying or republishing the dataset is not permitted."
}