Alternatives

Jira alternatives for growing teams paying for more Jira than they use

The seat count creeps up every quarter, and somewhere around the renewal you start asking whether the depth you are paying for still earns its keep. We built Taskora for exactly that moment. If you're comparing Jira alternatives, here is the honest version of that comparison. It's task management software and a wiki for growing teams: a kanban board per stream, sprints on custom cycles, docs with version history, subtasks, dependencies, and reporting, all in one workspace on one flat plan at $10/seat/mo billed yearly. Jira goes deeper than that in real places, and where it does we say so, because a switch that starts on a flattering page ends badly.

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The everyday part of Jira

Your team lives in scrum boards, a sprint with real dates, a backlog that catches whatever slips, and a place where the decisions get written down. If that is your week, Taskora was built to carry that part of Jira. The deeper parts are a different story, and we get to them below.

A kanban board for each stream, where you set the statuses and which ones can follow which. A stream is a project with its own board.
Sprints on custom cycles: you set the length, from a week to a month, and name each cycle what your team already calls it. Unfinished tasks land in the Backlog, and the next sprint picks them up.
Docs and a team wiki with version history, in the same workspace as the board, so the decision from Tuesday's standup lives next to the work it decided on.
Subtasks, dependencies, and comments that stay attached to the work, so an answer given once doesn't get lost in chat.
Burndown in reports, so the sprint's shape is visible without anyone compiling a spreadsheet. There's no velocity chart yet, and we won't pretend otherwise.

The price at 20 seats

At 20 seats Taskora bills $200 a month on yearly billing, or $260 monthly. In the figures we pulled from Atlassian's pricing page on October 2, 2026, Jira Standard bills $181 a month at the same size with monthly billing, and Jira Premium bills $366. Price alone is not where the flat plan wins at this size. What decides it is everything stacked around the seat.

Jira's wiki is Confluence, sold beside the tracker with its own per-user price. Price your real seat count on Confluence's own page, then stack that quote on top of Jira, because Taskora's docs and wiki are already inside the flat plan.
Jira's headline per-user rates, $7.91 and $14.54, are the rates Atlassian advertises in search results, and they are 300-user blended figures. A 20-seat quote never lands on them.
Jira's monthly invoice reflects the highest seat count assigned at any point in the cycle, so removing a member mid-month does not lower that month's bill.
One flat plan, no feature tiers, nothing to buy later. The twentieth seat costs the same as the fifth, so growth never changes what you pay per person.

Who should stay on Jira

Jira goes deeper in four places, and a fifth reason to stay is the history your team already wrote. If your team lives in any of the five, Taskora is not the product for you, and staying is the right call. Some of these are requirements your company set and the rest are archives nobody wants to lose, and neither kind moves for a price.

Complex workflows. Jira's workflow engine handles processes our per-stream workflows can't, and if your process depends on that depth, it outranks any price on this page.
Marketplace apps. If the week runs through Atlassian Marketplace add-ons, that ecosystem is real, and Taskora ships no integrations, so the plumbing ends at our boundary.
Portfolio planning. Plans, the Premium planning product, carries roadmaps, capacity management, and scenario modeling across projects. Taskora has no counterpart for it today.
Sandbox and compliance controls. Jira Premium is where the sandbox environments, IP allowlisting, and the 99.9 percent uptime SLA sit, and SSO comes through Atlassian Guard, a separately priced product, on Standard and Premium. When those are procurement requirements, a lower bill does not waive them.
An existing Confluence investment. Years of specs and decisions hold compound value, and our docs start empty. Run both side by side for a quarter before deciding anything about those pages.

What moving off Jira takes

Taskora's side of the exchange is export, and nothing else. There is no importer and no integrations, so nothing arrives automatically, and it belongs on the page, not on your switch day. The move is pulling your data out and rebuilding the live work by hand. There is no shortcut through it, and nothing clever in it either.

You can request a full export of your data at any time, and your work shouldn't be held hostage. On the way out, the exports you can reach from Jira are CSV files and, where your admin allows it, workspace backups.
The rebuild is manual, and it goes best when you move live work only. Create one stream per real project, set the statuses your team runs today, set the cycle length once, and move the current sprint's tasks by hand.
Let settled history rest in the export files. Keeping the old Jira workspace read-only for a couple of weeks makes the transition easier to walk back.
Taskora runs self-hosted on your own servers and fully air-gapped, on request at the same flat price, for teams whose data cannot leave the company network. That door closed on Jira's side when Atlassian ended Data Center sales on March 30, 2026. Email hello@taskora.ai.

Questions

What does Jira cost for 20 users, and what does Taskora cost?: The Jira figures here came from Atlassian's pricing page on October 2, 2026, so verify them there before you act. At 20 seats, Standard runs $181 a month on monthly billing, and the annual route works out to $187.50 a month on a $2,250 tier total, so paying yearly costs more than monthly at this size. Premium runs $366 a month at 20 seats. Taskora's flat plan is $10 per seat per month billed yearly, which saves 23% against the $13 monthly rate, so the same 20 seats come to $200 a month versus $260, and every feature is already in the plan. Seat bands move these figures, which is how band pricing works.
What does Taskora not carry that Jira does?: Jira has automations, a workload view, integrations, a velocity chart, and AI features today. Taskora does not. Jira caps automations at 400 steps per user per month on Standard, a generous allowance at 20 seats. AI assist is in development and rolls out to early members first. It's not live just yet.
Does Taskora import data from Jira?: No. There is no importer and no integrations, so the move is export and rebuild. The exports you can reach from Jira are CSV files and, where your admin allows it, workspace backups. You can request a full export of your Taskora data at any time, so the way out stays open once you're in.
Is Taskora free to start?: Free to start until November 1, no credit card. After that, there's a 14-day free trial. We don't offer a permanent free tier today.
Can we run Taskora on our own servers?: Yes, on request, at the same flat price. Email hello@taskora.ai and we'll walk you through what it takes. Atlassian ended Data Center sales on March 30, 2026, so Jira's self-managed edition is no longer sold to new customers, and Taskora also runs fully air-gapped for teams whose data cannot leave the company network.

Try Taskora.

Take one real project out of Jira, rebuild it as a stream with the statuses your team already says out loud, and run one cycle on the board. If the flat plan carries a real week of your work, that is your answer. If the workflow engine or the Marketplace pulls you back, that is your answer too, and we mean it the same way in both directions. A founder is on the other end while you decide.

No credit card, and early members lock in up to 70% off at launch.