What is best for your team? – Daily Journal

Monday.com and Jira are popular project management software platforms that offer quite similar functionality. However, once you start digging deeper into each software platform, the differences become more obvious.

To help you decide between monday.com and Jira, I break down their pricing plans, features, pros, and cons in this in-depth review.

monday.com vs Jira: comparison

Features	monday.com	Jira
Project Views	11	6
Workload management	Yes	Limit
Automations	Yes	Yes
Security add-on	No	Yes
Free plan forever	Yes	Yes
Starting price (billed annually)	$9 per person per month	$8.15 per person per month

monday.com vs Jira: pricing

monday.com and Jira have very similar pricing structures, including annual and monthly billing options, although costs vary slightly between them. They both offer a free trial as well as a free forever plan for very small teams. Jira also offers volume discounts for companies with more than 100 employees. Use the calculator on the website to determine if your business qualifies for the discount.

monday.com prices

• Individual: Free forever for up to two places.
• Basic: $9 per seat per month billed annually, or $12 per seat per month billed monthly.
• Standard: $12 per seat per month billed annually, or $14 per seat per month billed monthly.
• Pro: $19 per seat per month billed annually, or $24 per seat per month billed monthly.
• Business: Price available on request.

Read the full Monday.com review for more information.

Jira pricing

• Free: $0 for up to 10 users.
• Standard: $8.15 per user per month, billed monthly, or $850 per year for 1-10 users.
• Prime: $16 per user per month, billed monthly, or $1,600 per year for 1-10 users.
• Business: Starting at $141,000 per year for 800+ users. Available only for companies with more than 800 employees. Annual billing only.

Read the full Jira review for more information.

Feature Comparison: monday.com vs Jira

Project views and templates

monday.com has over 10 project views to choose from, including board, calendar, (kanban) board, and Gantt charts. Meanwhile, Jira offers six project views: list, calendar, board, timeline, summary, and backlog. Although monday.com has more project views than Jira, the designs are less complex, so I recommend them for simpler projects. Jira templates are best suited to specific project management methodologies such as Scrum and Lean.

Monday.com and Jira also offer template libraries, which means I didn’t have to create new projects from scratch. The templates are categorized into easy-to-navigate categories such as project management, marketing, sales, and operations. Jira offers more templates for software development than Monday.

Resource management

Monday.com and Jira offer many features to support resource management. On each platform, tasks can be prioritized using a status column. I was also able to add a time estimate for each task and then later compare it to the actual time tracked to see how accurate your estimates were.

monday.com also offers a Workload view that allows managers to see the capacity of each team member at a glance so they can distribute tasks evenly. This view can also be used to allocate physical resources such as meeting rooms and equipment. Jira doesn’t offer an equivalent view, so you’ll need to find a third-party app on the Atlassian Marketplace if you want to add this functionality to Jira.

Workflows and Automations

Both monday.com and Jira come with a no-code automation builder that makes it easy to create automatic workflows in minutes. All I had to do was select an event trigger, add the necessary conditions and choose the action, then enable the automation. In addition to creating my own automations from scratch, I could also browse either platform’s library of automation templates to get started even faster.

Both platforms also offer a certain number of automations each month, but the limits are different for monday.com and Jira. monday.com doesn’t even support automations on the Free or Basic plans. The Standard plan benefits from 250 automations per month, the Pro plan from 25,000 automations per month and the Enterprise plan from 250,000 automations per month.

Meanwhile, Jira offers automations on all plans, even the free plan, which benefits from 100 automations per month. The Standard plan gets 1,700 automations per month, the Premium plan gets 1,000 automations per month per person, and the Business plan gets unlimited automations.

Integrations

monday.com and Jira both offer a very robust selection of integrations. monday.com has over 200 pre-built native integrations to choose from, and you can also connect monday.com to over 1,000 apps through Zapier. As for Jira, the Atlassian Marketplace has over 3,000 apps to choose from, which almost guarantees you’ll find the integrations you need. However, I always recommend double-checking either platform if you’re looking for a very specific or niche integration.

Security

Both monday.com and Jira are compliant with GDPR, CCPA, and other data privacy regulations, so either will likely suffice for the needs of most businesses. However, if you need more advanced security protocols than the usual offerings, I suggest you take a closer look at Jira. Indeed, Jira offers next-level security solutions for businesses and offers better administration and provisioning through Atlassian Access, an optional paid add-on. monday.com does not offer a similar security add-on.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Monday.com

Benefits of Lundi.com

• More project views to choose from than Jira.
• View dedicated to workload management.
• Friendly, colorful interface and reduced learning curve.
• Lots of customization options to choose from.

Disadvantages of Monday.com

• Free plan limited to only two users.
• Must upgrade to Standard plan to benefit from automations.
• No advanced security add-ons.

Advantages and disadvantages of Jira

Benefits of Jira

• Free plan more generous than that of monday.com.
• Automations available on all plans.
• Over 3,000 app integrations to choose from.
• Optional security add-on to improve data protection.

Disadvantages of Jira

• No workload management view.
• Fewer project views than monday.com.
• More technical to learn.

Should your organization use monday.com or Jira?

monday.com and Jira are both excellent project management platforms, but their slightly different feature sets mean they serve slightly different use cases. Since both platforms offer forever free accounts as well as free trials, I recommend testing them thoroughly before committing to a paid plan.

Use monday.com if:

• You need more project views to choose from.
• You want a dedicated view for workload management.
• You agree to lower limits on the number of automations per month.
• You are a small business and need a user-friendly platform with a shorter learning curve.

Use Jira if:

• You need more automations.
• You want to choose from more app integrations.
• You want a more advanced security add-on.
• You already use other Atlassian products.

FAQs

Is Jira or Monday better?

Whether Jira or Monday is better depends on the specific needs of your team and project types. Jira is a better choice for software development teams who need project management and issue tracking software, while monday.com is a great option for teams of all types who are looking for project management easy to use.

Does Monday connect to Jira?

Yes, Monday offers native integration with Jira. Once you connect the two platforms, they will sync information between them without the need for third-party middleware like Zapier. This means your software development team can continue to use Jira while the rest of your company works on monday.com, all without missing a thing.

Review methodology

To compare monday.com to Jira, I signed up for free trial accounts in addition to looking at product documentation and user reviews. I considered factors like price, user interface design, customer service, and learning curve. I also evaluated features like project views, project templates, resource management, workflows, automations, integrations, and security protocols.