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    Atlassian Jira

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AAtlassian 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

    Azure DevOps

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AAzure DevOps (formerly VSTS, Microsoft Visual Studio Team System) is an agile development product that is an extension of the Microsoft Visual Studio architecture. Azure DevOps includes software development, collaboration, and reporting capabilities.

    $2

    per GB (first 2GB free)

    Pricing
    Atlassian JiraAzure DevOps
    Editions & Modules
    Standard
    $9
    per month per user
    Premium
    $17
    per month per user
    Enterprise
    Contact Sales
    per year
    Azure Artifacts
    $2
    per GB (first 2GB free)
    Basic Plan
    $6
    per user per month (first 5 users free)
    Azure Pipelines - Self-Hosted
    $15
    per extra parallel job (1 free parallel job with unlimited minutes)
    Azure Pipelines - Microsoft Hosted
    $40
    per parallel job (1,800 minutes free with 1 free parallel job)
    Basic + Test Plan
    $52
    per user per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Atlassian JiraAzure DevOps
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsHigher volume teams may qualify buyers for a discount.—
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    Community Pulse
    Atlassian JiraAzure DevOps
    Considered Both Products
    Atlassian
    Chose Atlassian Jira
    From my point of view, the biggest difference between Jira Software and Azure DevOps Services is that Jira is way easier to use, Azure DevOps is not that friendly user, you need to do a lot of research to modify Azure boards or to move things around. Making changes in Jira is …
    Incentivized
    Chose Atlassian Jira
    Compared to GitLab, Jira offers a lot more features and details. The GitLab feature is nice for small projects or teams but we are multiple teams with multiple topics and projects even inside one team - so Jira is more applicable for our case. Azure DevOps offers a comparable …
    Incentivized
    Chose Atlassian Jira
    Atlassian Jira provides the greatest access to integrated tools, the most common/familiar interface and toolset for most development teams, and is competitively priced when compared to the level of customization required to outfit similar tools we've used.
    Incentivized
    Chose Atlassian Jira
    Jira was the application choose by the company that work for, was already part of the culture, it perform well for organizing and managing the software projects and the company, ClickUp its easier to configure projects and automations and Azure Dev Ops and Trello is simpler but …
    Incentivized
    Chose Atlassian Jira
    I have not used others
    Incentivized
    Chose Atlassian Jira
    Compared to Trello, Atlassian Jira offers more comprehensive tracking and complex workflows. Asana provides greater flexibility but lacks Atlassian Jira’s depth in handling technical projects. Azure DevOps excels in development pipelines, yet Atlassian Jira’s customization, …
    Incentivized
    Chose Atlassian Jira
    Jira is easy to use for less technical work professionals, while Azure and GitHub [take] more time to learn how to use effectively. For large firms with multiple business and technology teams collaborating, Jira Software is a great tool for first time Agile users and …
    Incentivized
    Chose Atlassian Jira
    TFS has a feature to put requirements on estimates, but it's really not visual (not for account managers or PMs). It's not easy to use whereas Jira in very easy to use.
    Incentivized
    Microsoft
    Chose Azure DevOps
    We love the multi-tier hierarchy in Azure DevOps for tasks, with epics, features, stories, bugs and tasks all available in a nice nested hierarchy. It's not as pretty as monday.com and doesn't work as well OOTB as ServiceNow SPM however.
    Incentivized
    Chose Azure DevOps
    Jira is fantastic for project management and customer facing portal. It is not good for pure development (no integration with Git, pipeline management, automated testing features). If DevOps were to integrate and adopt the project features of Jira as well as the customer facing …
    Incentivized
    Chose Azure DevOps
    Azure DevOps provides integrated environment vs Jira is dependent on third party for couple of features
    Incentivized
    Chose Azure DevOps
    ADO has better linking than Confluence and is adaptable for a specific need, whereas Confluence might be a bit more rigid, but it's also sort of along the same lines as to what can be done with both tools. ADO also had an ease of use to it and can do a bunch of stuff with it, …
    Incentivized
    Chose Azure DevOps
    Jira is super clunky and doesn't behave in a modern fashion. monday.com is too flexible and doesn't provide enough feature set. AWS is the most competitive, but it's hard to wrap your brain around all of the features and offerings provided by amazon. ADO does a better job of …
    Incentivized
    Chose Azure DevOps
    Trello is simple to use, but it's only for a Kanban board. Jira might be the same, but I don't really have enough experience with Jira to fully compare them. When I used it, it missed certain functionalities that I was used to in Azure DevOps. Visually it's a lot different too.
    Incentivized
    Chose Azure DevOps
    Azure DevOps Services have huge functionality and are well supported by Microsoft as well. You will get plenty of features in the marketplace and learning documentation.
    Incentivized
    Chose Azure DevOps
    Azure DevOps is widely used because of its collaboration and integration with various other tools. Here the assign of the sub task is quite easy compare to Jira. Also Azure Devops can we integrate easily with Git for better code representation and versioning. It reporting is …
    Incentivized
    Chose Azure DevOps
    Azure DevOps is a completed product and ecosystem. It offers a robust ecosystem that does everything that is needed. The above products do lack features like pipelines tasks, third-party integrations. Besides all cloud benefits, the main advantage of Azure DevOps Services …
    Incentivized
    Chose Azure DevOps
    Currently, we use both products, however, we use more the Atlassian suite. We have started recently using Azure DevOps for specific implementations and projects. We don't have any plan yet to migrate all our projects to Azure DevOps, we may in the next couple of years. …
    Incentivized
    Chose Azure DevOps
    One of the foremost reasons that acted in favor of Azure DevOps was its all-in-one packed web portal which enabled easy access to all the CI/CD tools and kits. Customizable screens, notifications via Teams/mails, project views, etc. Most other tools/products offer only part of …
    Incentivized
    Chose Azure DevOps
    They are really close. Azure DevOps is better because of the deep integration with Microsoft technologies. JIRA is better on the customization side. However, Azure DevOps is really improving on that front. They are releasing new features every other week now. Azure DevOps also …
    Incentivized
    Chose Azure DevOps
    The VSTS toolset can be cheaper - but it depends on the toolset that you use.
    Incentivized
    Chose Azure DevOps
    I much prefer VSTS over JIRA and/or Trello. A lot more functionality and more intuitive.
    Incentivized
    Chose Azure DevOps
    Being primarily Microsoft Developers and how VSTS integrates with Visual Studio it stood head and shoulders above other options for us at the time of making our initial decision.
    Incentivized
    Chose Azure DevOps
    Our TFS was dated and in some ways was quite crude. VSTS is thoroughly modern and I don't have to worry about updating it since MS is always updating VSTS. Also, VSTS has better integration with other products such as JIRA than our older TFS would. I am sure you could integrate …
    Incentivized
    Chose Azure DevOps
    With more functionality added, JIRA has become slow, whereas VSTS is a pleasure to use. Trac and JIRA do not show the entire health status of the pipeline like VSTS. Hygieia is open source and trying to achieve what VSTS does but it is not as mature yet.
    Incentivized
    Chose Azure DevOps
    VSTS is the best integrated tracking and deployment software for a pure Microsoft shop. It has some weaknesses, the builds aren't as easy to configure as TeamCity and the security setup is needlessly convoluted, but it is a solid offering.
    Incentivized
    Chose Azure DevOps
    JIRA is simpler; RTC answers a wider range of requirements.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    96%
    Would buy again
    138 Answers
    97%
    Would buy again
    38 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    121 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    37 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    136 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    39 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    71 Answers
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    23 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    98%
    Implementation went as expected
    91 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    32 Answers
    Features
    Atlassian JiraAzure DevOps
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Atlassian Jira and Azure DevOps
    Feature
    Atlassian Jira
    7.8
    66 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Azure DevOps
    -
    Ratings
    Task Management8.765 Ratings00 Ratings
    Resource Management7.963 Ratings00 Ratings
    Gantt Charts7.149 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scheduling7.858 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow Automation7.861 Ratings00 Ratings
    Team Collaboration8.564 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for Agile Methodology8.765 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for Waterfall Methodology7.950 Ratings00 Ratings
    Document Management6.954 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email integration7.855 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Access7.044 Ratings00 Ratings
    Timesheet Tracking7.744 Ratings00 Ratings
    Change request and Case Management8.149 Ratings00 Ratings
    Budget and Expense Management7.136 Ratings00 Ratings
    Professional Services Automation
    Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Atlassian Jira and Azure DevOps
    Feature
    Atlassian Jira
    7.7
    40 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Azure DevOps
    -
    Ratings
    Quotes/estimates7.632 Ratings00 Ratings
    Invoicing8.125 Ratings00 Ratings
    Project & financial reporting7.436 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with accounting software7.427 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Atlassian JiraAzure DevOps
    Small Businesses
    Any.do
    Score8 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    KanbanFlow
    Score7.3 out of 10
    Azure DevOps Server
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Microsoft To Do
    Score7.9 out of 10
    Azure DevOps Server
    Score8.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Atlassian JiraAzure DevOps
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (254 ratings)
    8.9
    (74 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.6
    (37 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    7.8
    (79 ratings)
    8.4
    (13 ratings)
    Availability
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (24 ratings)
    8.1
    (11 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.0
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Atlassian JiraAzure DevOps
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Atlassian
    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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    Microsoft
    Azure DevOps works well when you’ve got larger delivery efforts with multiple teams and a lot of moving parts, and you need one place to plan work, track it properly, and see how everything links together. It’s especially useful when delivery and development are closely tied and you want backlog items, code and releases connected rather than spread across tools. Where it’s less of a fit is for small teams or simple pieces of work, as it can feel like more setup and process than you really need, and non-technical users often struggle with the interface. It also isn’t great if you want instant, easy programme-level views or a very visual planning experience without putting time into configuration.
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    Pros
    Atlassian
    • Integration of tools like Bitbucket, Github, etc., has made it easier to track the code changes, pull requests, and branches linked to the respective ticket.
    • The detailed tracking system in JIRA has helped the teams prioritize and understand the project tasks and issues.
    • JIRA's project tracking board helps you keep track of the project, its flow, and expectations in a structured format.
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    Microsoft
    • Utilize Git as a repository to share work between multiple users
    • Ability to configure Pipelines to build containers to run virtual deployments and testing scripts.
    • Split individual tasks and relate to master documents for quick navigation and ability to see overall picture of project.
    • Track status of each task
    • Integrate with Git to utilize branches, merging, approvals, history, etc.
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    Cons
    Atlassian
    • 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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    Microsoft
    • I did mention it has good visibility in terms of linking, but sometimes items do get lost, so if there was a better way to manage that, that would be great.
    • The wiki is not the prettiest thing to look at, so it could have refinements there.
    • It could improve the search slightly better.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Atlassian
    This is because Jira Software generates a huge profit for an affordable price. Having a tool that makes team management transparent and effective is very valuable.
    In addition, the renewal of Jira Software and all Atlassian tools is predictable and clear, as the prices are published on the Atlassian website and there is no pyramid of intermediaries.
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    Microsoft
    I don't think our organization will stray from using VSTS/TFS as we are now looking to upgrade to the 2012 version. Since our business is software development and we want to meet the requirements of CMMI to deliver consistent and high quality software, this SDLC management tool is here to stay. In addition, our company uses a lot of Microsoft products, such as Office 365, Asp.net, etc, and since VSTS/TFS has proved itself invaluable to our own processes and is within the Microsoft family of products, we will continue to use VSTS/TFS for a long, long time.
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    Usability
    Atlassian
    The interface is simple and easy to use if you have some experience with it. Configuration is also logical most of the time. However, less experienced users tend to find themselves lost in some tasks - usually complex project configuration- but sometimes simple things, such as seeing why a user can't move issues in a workflow. Jira configuration requires a good amount of experience - and even experienced users often resort to documentation. It's a tool that's easy to use if you know what you're doing and where to find the proper documentation, but novice users tend to find it challenging.
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    Microsoft
    It's a great help to get more information about new feature release and stay updated on what the dev team is working on. I like how easy it is to just login and read through the work items. Each work item has basic details: Title, Description, Assigned to, State, Area (what it belongs to), and iteration (when it’s worked on). See image above.They move through different states (New → Discovery → Ready for Prod → etc.).
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    Reliability and Availability
    Atlassian
    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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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Atlassian
    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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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Atlassian
    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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    Microsoft
    When we've had issues, both Microsoft support and the user community have been very responsive. DevOps has an active developer community and frankly, you can find most of your questions already asked and answered there. Microsoft also does a better job than most software vendors I've worked with creating detailed and frequently updated documentation.
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    In-Person Training
    Atlassian
    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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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Atlassian
    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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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Atlassian
    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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    Microsoft
    Was not part of the process.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Atlassian
    monday.com cannot be integrated with CI/CD tools, whereas Atlassian Jira integrates with CI/CD tools seamlessly. Atlassian Jira has strong Agile and Scrum support. Coming to monday.com, it has basic agile functionality. But Atlassian Jira has a complex UI, and monday.com has an intuitive, drag-and-drop interface. Overall, Atlassian Jira provides features like Agile project management, DevOps integration, and customizable workflows.
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    Microsoft
    Microsoft Planner is used by project managers and IT service managers across our organization for task tracking and running their team meetings. Azure DevOps works better than Planner for software development teams but might possibly be too complex for non-software teams or more business-focused projects. We also use ServiceNow for IT service management and this tool provides better analysis and tracking of IT incidents, as Azure DevOps is more suited to development and project work for dev teams.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Atlassian
    Product is rellay good but pricing part I am not aware
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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    Atlassian
    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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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Atlassian
    • For our marketing team, Jira Work Management caused us to lose valuable work time due to manual updates that could have been automated.
    • Due to lack of creative review tools within Jira Work Management, our team had to pursue other tools that do not integrate with Jira Work Management, thus creating additional OpEx.
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    Microsoft
    • We have saved a ton of time not calculating metrics by hand.
    • We no longer spend time writing out cards during planning, it goes straight to the board.
    • We no longer track separate documents to track overall department goals. We were able to create customized icons at the department level that lets us track each team's progress against our dept goals.
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