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The Best Jira Alternatives in 2026: Prices and Features Compared

The Coavon team · 20 October 2026 · 14 min read

The best Jira alternative for business teams is Coavon. Jira was built for software teams, with backlogs, work item types and a lot of configuration. Marketing, operations, client services and agency teams often end up in it anyway, then pay separately for a wiki, a CRM and somewhere to keep files. Coavon is made for that work: Flow for projects, Scope for clients (a real CRM), Docs, Drive, Chat, Notes and Calendar, on one account and one price, from $8 a person a month, with approvals and time tracking on every plan.

If your team writes software and runs sprints, we say so honestly below: Linear, ClickUp and monday dev are built for that, and Coavon does not have sprints yet. We go through seven alternatives with what each one includes and costs, so you can pick the right one for your team.

Every price and plan detail for other companies on this page was read from their own pricing pages on October 20, 2026. Jira's prices depend on how many users you have; we used a team of 10. Other prices are per person a month, billed annually, in US dollars, unless we say otherwise. They change often, so check before you buy.

Why teams look for a Jira alternative

• It was designed around software work. Backlogs, work item types and workflows that suit engineering teams can feel heavy for a marketing calendar, a client project or an onboarding checklist.
• Automation is counted in steps. On Jira's pricing page, Free includes 150 automation steps a month for the whole subscription, Standard 400 steps a user a month and Premium 750.
• Some team features are on Premium. Customizable approval processes, cross-project dependency management and capacity management are listed on Premium, at $19.60 a user a month paid monthly for a team of 10 ($1,950 a year paid annually).
• The wiki is another product. Confluence is sold separately; Atlassian offers Jira, Confluence, Loom and Rovo together as its Teamwork Collection.
• Single sign-on is an extra subscription. Below Enterprise, SSO through Atlassian Guard Standard needs its own subscription.
• The price changes with team size. Jira prices by user tier, so the price a user moves as you grow.

Jira alternatives at a glance

1. Coavon: the best Jira alternative for business teams

Coavon is a suite of connected apps under one sign-in. Flow is the project app that replaces Jira for business work; Scope, Docs, Drive, Chat, Notes and Calendar sit beside it. Every plan includes every app, the Free plan included, and each one opens ready to use.

Project management in Flow

• Board, list and calendar views on every plan, and a Gantt chart with task dependencies on Pro.
• Your own statuses and fields. Add stages such as Triage, In review or Client approval as board columns, and custom fields for anything you track, on Pro.
• Subtasks and milestones. A subtask is a real task with its own assignee, dates and comments, and a milestone marks a key date.
• Approvals with a separate approver, on every plan. The task cannot be marked done until it is approved or rejected, and the approver can request changes or be a guest, such as a client. Jira lists customizable approvals on Premium.
• Forms whose responses become tasks, for requests, bug reports or briefs: 1 form and 20 responses a month on Free and Starter, unlimited from Pro.
• Automations that run as often as you need: when a task is created or moves to a status, assign it, create the next task, notify someone or post in Chat, with waits, “only if” conditions and yes-or-otherwise paths. Plans limit how many automations you have, never how often they run.
• Recurring tasks and time tracking on every plan.
• Status updates, dashboards, goals and portfolios: project status updates and dashboards from Pro, goals and portfolios on Business.

A wiki without a second product

Flow's Library is a team wiki: spaces for the whole organization and for each workspace, with pages nested in a tree, written in the Docs editor and linked to the projects and tasks they explain. It is on Pro and Business, so there is no separate wiki to buy. Docs on its own is a full document editor with comments, suggested edits and Word or PDF download, on every plan.

A CRM, files and chat in the same place

Scope keeps companies, people and deals in pipelines, and a won deal can start its project in Flow from your own template. Drive holds files, with 30 GB a person on Starter, pooled across the team, and Chat has channels, group chats and direct messages. For agencies and client teams, free guests (unlimited on every paid plan) see only the projects they are invited to.

Works with Claude and other AI tools

The Coavon connector lets Claude and other AI assistants read and update your work across the apps: tasks, clients, notes, documents and your calendar. It is listed in Claude's connector directory and included from Starter, with no credits to count.

Price

Starter is $8 a person a month billed annually ($10 month to month), Pro is $16 and Business is $24. For 10 people, a year of Coavon Starter is $960, against $950 for Jira Standard: about the same, except Coavon's price also includes the CRM, document editor, file storage and chat. Coavon is free for one person, and every new workspace starts with a free trial. See pricing.

What Coavon does not do yet

We would rather you hear it from us. Flow has no sprints, backlog view or story points, and does not link tasks to code in GitHub or Bitbucket, so a software team that works in sprints is better served by Linear, ClickUp or monday dev today. Coavon runs in a web browser and has no phone apps yet. It does not connect to Slack or Microsoft Teams, has no single sign-on through an identity provider, and cannot turn an email into a task. Flow has no workload view, and a task belongs to one project at a time. Jira's free plan also covers up to 10 users, where Coavon's covers one person.

2. Linear

Linear is an issue tracker built for software teams.

• Issues, projects, cycles and initiatives on every plan, with import and export and API access.
• Unlimited issues and file uploads, and up to 5 teams on Basic.
• Unlimited teams, private teams and guests, plus Linear Insights, dashboards and support integrations (Zendesk and Intercom), on Business.
• AI and agent features, including Linear Agent on every plan and Code Intelligence and Triage Intelligence on Business.
• SAML, SCIM and audit logs on Enterprise.
• Price: Free with unlimited members, 2 teams and 250 issues; Basic $10 and Business $16 a user a month billed yearly; Enterprise priced on request.

3. ClickUp

ClickUp is an all-in-one work app with tasks, docs, chat and sprints in one place. Its plans changed recently: Core and Business now include AI credits.

• Kanban boards, calendar view, sprint management and time tracking on Free Forever.
• Custom fields and task types, unlimited storage, forms and Gantt charts, ClickUp Chat, goals and 1,000 automations a month on Core.
• Advanced dashboards, 10,000 automations a month, resource management, timesheets and Google sign-in on Business.
• AI credits on every paid plan (1,000 a user a month pooled on Core, 1,500 on Business).
• Price: Free Forever with 60 MB of storage; Core $9 and Business $17 a user a month billed yearly ($12 and $25 month to month); Enterprise priced on request.

Compare in detail: Coavon vs ClickUp, or read our ClickUp alternatives guide.

4. monday dev

monday dev is monday.com's product for software and product teams, built on its boards.

• Templates for development, unlimited workdocs, capacity planning and daily stand-ups on Basic.
• Sprint management with story points, roadmap planning, timeline and Gantt views, guest access and a two-way GitHub integration on Standard, with 250 automation actions a month.
• Epics, tasks and subtasks, time tracking, agile reporting and cross-team roadmaps on Pro, with 25,000 automation actions a month.
• iPhone and Android apps.
• Price: Basic $9, Standard $12 and Pro $20 a seat a month billed annually, shown for 3 seats.

Compare in detail: Coavon vs monday.com, or read our monday.com alternatives guide.

5. Asana

Asana is a work management tool for planning and tracking projects across teams.

• List, board and calendar views on every plan, with timeline and Gantt views and task dependencies from Starter.
• Forms, reporting dashboards, custom fields and unlimited automations from Starter.
• Unlimited free guests from Starter, and status updates on every plan.
• Portfolios, goals, resource management, approvals and built-in time tracking on Advanced.
• Price: Personal is free for up to 2 users; Starter $10.99 and Advanced $24.99 a user a month billed annually ($13.49 and $30.49 month to month). AI requests are charged separately.

Compare in detail: Coavon vs Asana, or read our Asana alternatives guide.

6. Wrike

Wrike is a project management tool built for larger teams and detailed planning.

• Board and table views on Free, with interactive Gantt charts and shareable dashboards from Team.
• Templates and standard integrations on Business.
• Advanced resource and capacity planning and budgeting on Pinnacle.
• Web, desktop and phone apps on every plan.
• Price: Free; Team $10 a user a month for 2 to 15 people; Business $25 a user for 5 to 200 people, billed annually. Pinnacle and Apex are priced on request.

Compare in detail: Coavon vs Wrike.

7. Trello

Trello, also made by Atlassian, is a simple board tool: boards, lists and cards. Teams that find Jira too much sometimes move here.

• Boards with built-in automation and unlimited Power-Ups on every plan.
• Quick capture of to-dos from email, Slack and Microsoft Teams.
• Unlimited boards, custom fields and card mirroring from Standard.
• Calendar, timeline, table, dashboard and map views on Premium.
• Price: free for up to 10 collaborators and 10 boards per Workspace; Standard $5 and Premium $10 a user a month billed annually ($6 and $12.50 month to month).

Jira vs Coavon, feature by feature

How to choose a Jira alternative

1. Decide what kind of work you track. Code, sprints and bugs point to Linear, ClickUp or monday dev. Campaigns, client projects, operations and requests point to a business tool such as Coavon.
2. List what you pay for around Jira. A wiki, a CRM, file storage and chat add up; a suite that includes them can cost less overall.
3. Price the plan with the features you need, such as approvals, dependencies across projects or a timeline, not the cheapest plan.
4. Check the limits: automation steps or actions, storage, teams, issues and user tiers.
5. Count the people outside your team. Clients, freelancers and stakeholders cost different amounts on each tool.
6. Try it with one real project for a couple of weeks before you move everything.

How to move from Jira to Coavon

1. Export your work items from Jira to a CSV file.
2. In Flow, open Settings and import the file. Match its columns to Flow's fields and check the preview before anything is added.
3. Move your wiki pages into the Library or Docs, and your files into Drive.
4. Invite your team, and add clients or freelancers as guests on their projects.

Comments, automations and integrations do not come across in the file, so set those up again in Coavon.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best alternative to Jira?

For business teams such as marketing, operations, agencies and client services, Coavon: projects, a CRM, documents, a wiki, files and chat on one account, from $8 a person a month billed annually, with approvals and time tracking on every plan. For software teams that run sprints, Linear, ClickUp and monday dev are built for that work.

Is there a free alternative to Jira?

Jira itself is free for up to 10 users. Free alternatives include Linear (unlimited members, up to 250 issues), ClickUp Free Forever (with sprints and 60 MB of storage), Trello (up to 10 collaborators) and Asana Personal (up to 2 users). Coavon is free for one person, with every app.

Is there a cheaper alternative to Jira?

On October 20, 2026, Jira Standard was $950 a year for up to 10 users. Trello Standard is $5 a user a month and ClickUp Core $9, both billed annually. Coavon Starter for 10 people is $960 a year, about the same as Jira Standard, and includes a CRM, a document editor, file storage and chat.

What is a simpler alternative to Jira?

Trello is the simplest: boards, lists and cards, and it is made by the same company. For a business team that needs more than boards, Coavon keeps projects simple in Flow while documents, files, clients and chat have their own apps beside it.

Does Coavon have sprints like Jira?

Not yet. Flow has board, list and calendar views, custom statuses, subtasks, milestones, a Gantt chart with dependencies and automations, but no sprints, backlog view or story points, and it does not link tasks to code.

What is an alternative to Jira and Confluence together?

Coavon covers both jobs for business teams: Flow for projects and the Library (on Pro and Business) for the wiki, with pages linked to the projects and tasks they explain, plus Docs for documents on every plan.

Can I import my Jira work items into Coavon?

Yes. Export your work items from Jira to a CSV file and import it into Flow, matching its columns to Flow’s fields. Comments, automations and integrations do not carry over and are set up again.

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