Atlassian Jira vs. Trello

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Atlassian Jira
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
Atlassian Jira is a project management tool, featuring an interactive timeline for mapping work items, dependencies, and releases, Scrum boards for agile teams, and out-of-the-box reports and dashboards.
$9
per month per user
Trello
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Trello from Atlassian is a project management tool based on a Kanban framework. Trello is ideal for task-management in a to-do list format. It supports sharing boards and cards across users or teams. The product offers a free version, and paid versions add greater automation, collaboration, and administrative control.
$6
per month per user
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
Standard
$9
per month per user
Premium
$17
per month per user
Enterprise
Contact Sales
per year
Standard
$6
per month per user
Premium
$12.50
per month per user
Enterprise
$17.50
per month per user
Free
Forever Free
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Atlassian JiraTrello
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsHigher volume teams may qualify buyers for a discount.A discount is offered for annual billing and for larger numbers of users.
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Community Pulse
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Features
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Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Atlassian Jira
9.5
Ratings
22% above category average
Trello
9.5
Ratings
22% above category average
Task Management9.70 Ratings9.80 Ratings
Resource Management9.40 Ratings9.60 Ratings
Gantt Charts9.30 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Scheduling10.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Workflow Automation10.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Team Collaboration10.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology8.70 Ratings9.40 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology9.00 Ratings6.50 Ratings
Document Management8.90 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Email integration9.50 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Mobile Access9.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking10.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Change request and Case Management10.00 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Budget and Expense Management9.30 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Professional Services Automation
Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Product A and Product B
Atlassian Jira
9.8
Ratings
26% above category average
Trello
5.0
Ratings
41% below category average
Quotes/estimates9.70 Ratings5.00 Ratings
Invoicing9.70 Ratings5.00 Ratings
Project & financial reporting10.00 Ratings5.00 Ratings
Integration with accounting software10.00 Ratings5.00 Ratings
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Score 8.3 out of 10
Enterprises
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User Ratings
Atlassian JiraTrello
Likelihood to Recommend
9.6
(0 ratings)
9.8
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.4
(0 ratings)
9.6
(0 ratings)
Availability
5.3
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Performance
8.0
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.8
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Online Training
8.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.0
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
5.0
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
7.7
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Jira facilitates software development, bug tracking, and sprints. It's ideal for structured workflows, issue management, and customer communication. However, more straightforward tools might be more efficient for highly creative, unstructured tasks or tiny, agile teams with quick visual overviews. Jira's complexity can be overkill for basic task lists.
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Trello is great for cross-team communication and intra-team organization. It's simple to get setup, with flexible tools that give businesses control over how to make Trello work the best for them. It is an amazing platform for operations tracking, project management, and even organizing customer service requests for a smaller business.
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Pros
  • As a developer, it is easy to create, track and manage tickets efficiently.
  • Customizable issue types (eg: Bug, Task, Story, Epic) allow teams to categorize and priorizate work.
  • Great text editor and markdown support for detailed issue descriptions.
  • Assign issues to team members, set due dates and define priorities.
  • Integration with Jenkins, GitHub and other CI/CD tools to automate builds and deployments.
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  • Helps track employees "to do before hire", "to do after hired," and "to do when employee leaves"
  • Provides important information on each employee like personal information along with data collected during the time of hire and during employment time
  • Allows more than one person to be assigned to a task per employee and will remain open until everyone involved has completed their task
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Cons
  • The interface is not intuitive to learn for new users
  • JQL is similarly challenging for newbies
  • It's possible to accidentally move issues from one sprint to another without realizing your mistake
  • Certain issue attributes aren't available in certain view (e.g. story points from the epic overview)
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  • I use colour coding a lot so I would like a wider range of colour options.
  • Also as a visual thinker I would like to be able to easily add images to cards.
  • I would like to be able to attach a wider range of file formats to cards.
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Likelihood to Renew
JIRA is highly integrated into our organization. Nearly every department uses it, and many have multiple JIRA projects set up to track different types of work. We rolled out JIRA in a staged manner, but it continued to be adopted by more and more people and departments because it continues to show results. I expect we will continue to renew our JIRA license for years to come
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I am very likely to renew Trello, because it doesn't cost anything to do so. I am also very likely to use Trello's upgraded features in the future because a lot of my team's data is stored on there and they have already gotten used to the platform. Trello is very easy for new team members to pick up, making the onboarding and usability very streamlined.
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Usability
Atlassian Jira is relatively easy to use, but there are several ways to configure it, which can make it more complicated if you configure it incorrectly. Keeping the customizations and complexity limited to being the project would be suggested to ensure you don't lose in-built Atlassian Jira features, then change the configuration as you find things aren't meeting your exact needs.
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I am technology illiterate, it's my Achilles heel and this program is so easy to use. I have been utilizing it for a decade now. It makes organizing and prioritizing my life, my work, my business, my kids life, etc so much more manageable and without having to hold on to a bunch of into in my head. I can find it and locate it quickly and easily in Trello.
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Reliability and Availability
Did not face any issues and whenever they plan maintanance they update all of us very well in advance also so in that view we are good with the product stability.
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yes always support available when I need it!
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Performance
Performance is really good though it holds lot of data it loads quickly especially search operation also get the results very quickly as needed hence its good
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Never experienced issues with the above!
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Support Rating
I have not had a chance to contact JIRA's customer support. It does offer extensive documentation, although it often feels too technical for me. There is also a JIRA training app that lets you take little lessons and quizzes on different areas (e.g., JIRA basics, agile). I did find it a helpful way to teach myself.
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I haven't had much need to contact their support because the product is easy to use and pretty bug-free. I did reach out to them about swimlanes and I was able to find the information I needed very quickly and it was thorough and accurate information about current functionality. I love that they use their own product. That's always a good sign.
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In-Person Training
Had received training from our own internal user so it was good and also very easy to understand topics and many tasks in the UI are self explanatory and we can do by our own
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It was helpful and informative! It was back before the pandemic in 2019 so I'm not sure if they still do it but I really enjoyed the experience
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Online Training
One of their strong points i stheir documentation. Almost all of the basic set up needed within JIRA is available online through atlassian and its easy to find and very precise. The more critical issues need to be addressed as well and hence the rating of 8 instead of a 9.
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Implementation Rating
Take your time implementing Jira. Make sure you understand how you want to handle your projects and workflows. Investing more time in the implementation can pay off in a long run. It basically took us 5 days to define and implement correctly, but that meant smooth sailing later on.
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For our small business, getting a few of us started well on Trello was the key, I think. As long as a couple of us were really comfortable with the interface, we could lead others and help them with any questions. From now on, anyone who works with us just naturally uses Trello for information sharing - it's just part of what we do.
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Alternatives Considered
Jira is more feature-rich than Trello and also has better integration with other tools. Trello is a lot more focused on work tracking, while Jira can do a lot more than that. Both can also be combined, although they're often considered mutually exclusive alternatives—I've seen cases where companies choose to use either one or the other, but I haven't met an actual case of a company using both.
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Our business ended up using Monday due to the holistic nature of the tool. It allows us to collaborate amongst teams and see the project as a whole easier. Trello is for personal usage and task management. I use Monday to organize my overarching needs, and then put specific tasks into Trello to stay organized.
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Scalability
Atlassian Jira is highly stable and good with its performance and its has all the required scalability features as business needs
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Feels like anyone across the org (no matter their location) can use the tool easily!
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Return on Investment
  • JIRA has increased the teams' productivity and efficiency; the sprint timelines have improved by 15-20%.
  • JIRA's integration with tools like Bitbucket and Confluence has improved functional collaboration, leading to faster decision-making and issue resolution by approximately 10-15%.
  • Additional functionality requires additional third-party plugins, which require additional costs; the requirements of these plugins increase the costs by approximately 15%.
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  • It's been an essential tool for our onboarding team. We wouldn't be able to operate without it.
  • It's been a very affordable investment for our team as well since we still use the free version.
  • We have had a negative return in the fact that there aren't any reporting tools within the app. We have to spend time tracking certain elements manually.
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