Atlassian Jira vs. Wrike

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
Wrike
Score 8.3 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Wrike is a project management and collaboration software. This solution connects tasks, discussions, and emails to the user’s project plan. Wrike is optimized for agile workflows and aims to help resolve data silos, poor visibility into work status, and missed deadlines and project failures.
$0
per month per user
Pricing
Atlassian JiraWrike
Editions & Modules
Standard
$9
per month per user
Premium
$17
per month per user
Enterprise
Contact Sales
per year
Wrike Free
$0
per month per user
Wrike Team
$10
per month (billed annually) per user (2-15 users)
Wrike Business
$25
per month (billed annually) per user (5-200 users)
Wrike Enterprise
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per month per user
Pinnacle
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per month per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Atlassian JiraWrike
Free Trial
YesYes
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.Every premium plan begins with a 14-day trial period.
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Community Pulse
Atlassian JiraWrike
Features
Atlassian JiraWrike
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Atlassian Jira
9.5
Ratings
22% above category average
Wrike
8.0
Ratings
4% above category average
Task Management9.70 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Resource Management9.40 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Gantt Charts9.40 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Scheduling10.00 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Workflow Automation10.00 Ratings8.40 Ratings
Team Collaboration10.00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology8.80 Ratings7.40 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology9.00 Ratings8.40 Ratings
Document Management8.90 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Email integration9.60 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Mobile Access9.10 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking10.00 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Change request and Case Management10.00 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Budget and Expense Management9.40 Ratings7.40 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
Wrike
7.8
Ratings
3% above category average
Quotes/estimates9.60 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Invoicing9.60 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Project & financial reporting10.00 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Integration with accounting software10.00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
User Ratings
Atlassian JiraWrike
Likelihood to Recommend
9.6
(0 ratings)
8.7
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(0 ratings)
8.3
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.3
(0 ratings)
8.4
(0 ratings)
Availability
5.3
(0 ratings)
7.9
(0 ratings)
Performance
8.0
(0 ratings)
7.5
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.8
(0 ratings)
7.0
(0 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(0 ratings)
Online Training
8.0
(0 ratings)
7.6
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.0
(0 ratings)
7.6
(0 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
7.7
(0 ratings)
6.9
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
7.8
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
5.9
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Atlassian JiraWrike
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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Negotiations often involve long timelines and multiple rounds of discussion. Wrike allows us to assign clear ownership, track due dates, and monitor progress so that nothing stalls or gets lost. Redlines, proposals, and finalized agreements can be stored and shared within Wrike, reducing reliance on scattered email chains and ensuring everyone is working from the most current version.
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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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  • different views to accommodate different users workflow
  • predecessors and successors to tie tasks together and adjust dates as a group
  • Being able to see other people's workloads so when I am planning my projects for the upcoming quarter, I can set a project delivery date that is better suited to workload and is more realistic
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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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  • Templating.
  • For example, let's say we are onboarding a new client. There are certain tasks that need to be done. It would be great to be able to create a new project and have certain tasks preloaded.
  • Importing.
  • Importing may seem easy, but there is so much nuance to it. The fact that you need to make sure the parent task comes before child tasks is very difficult to do without the help of AI. Also, I am not sure it is possible if you have a thousand tasks to import, to make sure that you have a folder structure and parent/child tasks.
  • I also find that the documentation is lacking and the 2 import methods lacking as well.
  • Customize my inbox. When I log into Wrike, my Inbox is the first thing I see, but this doesn't show the full picture of what I want it.
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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 wish that Wrike had more drag and drop functionality that would be connected to assignee and also I wish that the finish date of a task would update to the date where you checked completed. It does not do that. Also finishing a task doesn't move the start date of the next task it "protects your time in that way", but our management team wants us to quickly see what we have down the pipeline rather than having to scroll down the list of upcoming tasks.
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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 love the way task management is designed within Wrike. The full overview, followed by sequential updates, really works for us - this way, we don't need to go into individual people's work subtasks to find what's happening with a project. That's very useful from a project management perspective. The to-do feature also lets everyone access info in one place.
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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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Over two years of (almost) daily usage without outages. Don't remember any errors. I give it 9 only because some Wrike plugins (for online document edit) are based on NPAPI architecture. These types of plugins are being phased out in new browsers, and NPAPI plugins are disabled by default in recent versions of Chrome so you have to do some browser adjustments when you switch browsers or move to another computer.
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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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Wrike tasks loads fine, but I hate clicking files and wait for a bit of time since it is powerpoint or word, Wrike assumes I want to open those on Wrike. My suggestion is to link it to office 365 so we do not need Wrike based decoder for PPTX and DOCX
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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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We've had so many questions during the establishment of Wrike for our team, and the Wrike support team has exceeded our expectations. Our team is naturally curious, and the Wrike support team has always been willing to hold conversations about how we can make an idea work, to show us hidden features that delight us, and to help us plan ways to build out projects efficiently. They meet our questions with multiple solutions and best practices
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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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We had staff in person provide some training
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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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I love the Wrike training options. Wrike Discover has tons of courses, learning plans, certifications, etc. This is an area where Wrike definitely shines! I wish these resources were more in your face for new people, because it seems like a lot of coworkers didn't know all of this training was available to them.
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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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There are a lot of bells and whistles in Wrike, and not all of it is easy or intuitive to understand once it's plopped in your lap. It's easier when there are a few choice people who understand Wrike as a platform and articulate it in such a way where it makes it easy to pass it along to others in the group
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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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Jira did not at all help us get our work done as content creators. I think that was because Jira wasn't quite right for our uses. Wrike fits our needs so much better. I can't tell you enough the relief I felt when we adopted Wrike and I never had to use Jira again.
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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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Wrike has significantly enhanced our workflow and productivity, ensuring accuracy and efficiency meet high standards. Our work now reflects professionalism and top quality. Other departments have taken notice of how organized we are thanks to Wrike, and we take great pride in our work—all made possible by this platform
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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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  • Wrike has improved our resource management significantly.
  • Wrike has improved the request intake process for us.
  • One negative impact of using Wrike is that we had to include Workato for some customised automations, which were not supported by Unito, but this can be on a need-to basis.
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