Atlassian Jira vs. Slack

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Atlassian Jira
Score 8.4 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
Slack
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Slack is a group messaging or team collaboration app that aims to simplify communication for businesses. Features include open discussions, private groups, and direct messaging, as well as deep contextual search and message archiving, and file sharing. Slack integrates with a number of other tools, such as MailChimp, Dropbox, and Google Drive. Slack was acquired by Salesforce in December 2020. The product is free to use, and also has paid plans with more features and greater controls. The…
$8.75
per month per user
Pricing
Atlassian JiraSlack
Editions & Modules
Standard
$9
per month per user
Premium
$17
per month per user
Enterprise
Contact Sales
per year
Free
$0
Pro
$7.25*
per month per user
Business+
$12.50*
per month per user
Enterprise
Contact Sales
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Atlassian JiraSlack
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.*Per active user, per month, when paying once a year. Pro is $8.75 USD per active user when paying month to month. Business+ is $15.00 USD per active user when paying month to month.
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Atlassian JiraSlack
Considered Both Products
Atlassian Jira
Chose Atlassian Jira
Although Slack is used a bit differently, we use Slack when it comes to quick fixes and issues that don't need to go through the Jira process. Jira is best used for larger-scale issues and projects where we need to keep track in a neater way and do more than just communicate …
Chose Atlassian Jira
JIRA has a great support and a heap of documentation to fast-forward users to learn the software. It also has agile development capability which is a must to have feature in our organization. Active directory integration is also very handy. Especially the capability for bugs …
Chose Atlassian Jira
Atlassian Jira is a very different tool than OpsGenie and Confluence. OpsGenie excellences in the current work in progress and visualizing the trends of how the work is getting done, but it really doesn't function as a longterm repository of a knowledgebase, instead that is Conf…
Chose Atlassian Jira
I haven't used other tools like Jira in my work career.
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, …
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 …
Chose Atlassian Jira
Jira Software was already the established enterprise standard supporting my clients’ globally distributed software teams. I feel strongly that no other product could deliver when compared to Jira Software.
Chose Atlassian Jira
Jira Software has more integrations and has more features than many of its competitors. While some of its competitors do have better UI/UX than Jira Software, they have improved this greatly over time. Atlassian also acquired Trello years ago, so that adds better user …
Chose Atlassian Jira
Redmine was used at the very beginning when we were a really small team.
Pivotal Tracker was next, and although it has a better UX features, it lacks the ability to manage big projects in parallel (at least back in the days).
Jira is far more flexible for adjustments to our …
Chose Atlassian Jira
The Jira software is really top-notch compared to other software programs. It has a better UI and it is more intuitive. The out-of-the-box features make it easy to implement and get started right away. The other software is either more focused on program/product/project …
Chose Atlassian Jira
After several years of using both of those, I very much prefer Jira. Customizability is much better, as well as compatibility with other solutions. Jira is also a lot more intuitive and makes more sense when it comes to configuration and building your own boards and instances.
Chose Atlassian Jira
Previously I have used TFS and Rally. JIRA is very simple to use and has lots of features compared to these two and other tools available in the market. The ability to integrate other tools is much easier in JIRA. It is also robust, scalable and has a good number of add-ons to …
Chose Atlassian Jira
JIRA is simply superb, it's easy to learn and start using this software.
Chose Atlassian Jira
Integration with 3rd party plugins works really well and improves the feature set of JIRA itself. We combine JIRA together with BigBrassBand's git module and bug reports from Usersnap, which help greatly, because of the attached screenshot.
Team Foundation Server was very hard …
Chose Atlassian Jira
Jira made sense for our checkbook as well as our needs. It's all about collaboration for us, it's our number one most important effort, and Jira does a lot in the way of collaboration. What we really love is that as we expand our teams, even our non-technical team members who …
Chose Atlassian Jira

Comparing JIRA with other products, JIRA has more features. It shows more information in each issue, it is easy to use when you have users of functional tests that must enter the application to update the issues in tests or when they must enter acceptance criteria, the …

Chose Atlassian Jira
Jira has more many features, more ways to customize and many more options for plugins and integrations. It works on a much larger scales to meet a greater variety of needs where other products specialize or focus on simplicity of features and easy of use. Jira is better for …
Chose Atlassian Jira
The main reason we chose JIRA over Trello was the ability to host on-premise. Security concerns with our data drove that requirement and is why we ultimately settled on JIRA. JIRA also provided us with integrations we needed to integrate with other tools that we use.
Chose Atlassian Jira
JIRA is simply a lot better suited to software development. While Trello is simple; JIRA does everything laser focused / tailored to the development process and software planning.
Chose Atlassian Jira
JIRA was already in place; there wasn't a good reason to switch to something else. We just needed to work on refining our processes and clean up the existing structure so that we could make progress on our SDLC while getting our MVP out the door. If you are really starting …
Chose Atlassian Jira
Jira provides the full agile model with a customization path. Moving from road-testing to driving it on the highway is a short learning curve. VersionOne is more complex.
Chose Atlassian Jira
I've used Microsoft Team Foundation Server and will never use it again. It does anything you would want if you have a century to configure it. It's also just not very friendly to agile project management or supporting Product Management needs.

Pivotal is a great simple tool for …
Slack
Chose Slack
The applications i have used earlier is not much user friendly, I can not do video calls in groups and tagging system is not available accross the company. Feedback and survey or process updated delivery feature makes Slack different than other companies. Slack is really time …
Chose Slack
Teams is better to schedule meetings with and integrates with Outlook well, but that leads to duplicate notifications for things, which is distracting and a waste of time. Messaging in Teams not great compared to Slack, and has the potential to have people outside your …
Chose Slack
To me, there is no competition between Slack and Microsoft Teams. In my opinion, Slack crushes MS Teams in every regard and is a pleasure to use. I think MS Teams on the surface looks like it has a comparable feature set, but when you actually USE the app, there's no question: …
Chose Slack
Partial to Slack due to longevity of using the platform.
Chose Slack
Slack and Microsoft Teams are probably the two best options of all the instant messaging systems I've used. I would rate both of them comparably.
Chose Slack
Slack has much better UI and search compared to Teams. Teams is much better as an integration into the Microsoft suite (if you use Teams for meetings or Office for email, it might be a better solution for your org).

Teams feature set might be comparable but it is difficult to …
Chose Slack
It's much better than Teams: faster, a better app, and better organization of threads and channels.
Chose Slack
The functionalities of this kind of platform are quite similar, as they have the same objective: a place where teams with multiple people can communicate. The big difference with Slack is that it has many little functionalities to help with planning, organization and …
Chose Slack
I think the most similar to Slack is Discord. The other ones are more chats in the old fashion way. I mean, for the messager and WhatsApp the communication is for particular people mainly, it's not planned/developed for a company. You need the contacts to start to communicate. …
Chose Slack
Slack offers a fresh look and feel, and has felt more natural and engaging when compared to Teams or Google Chat. Teams felt heavy and less intuitive while G Chat lacks integrations and community feel. Slack strikes a balance by being simple enough for everyday use while strong …
Chose Slack
Teams always crashes and the 2 steps authentication was really annoying to go through. I liked Google Chat but Slack is more user friendly
Chose Slack
I think obviously Slack is much much better than Google Chat, in my previous organisation, we used to communicate everything via Google Chat or email or Google meet, it was difficult to manage because those application combined had less options and features than Slack.
Chose Slack
Slack: It's easy to strike up a chat right away with one-click calls or huddles. By simply pressing the call button, both users are involved without the need to arrange a meeting. Microsoft Teams: With calendar invites, time slot choices, and numerous confirmation processes, …
Chose Slack
The UI is difficult to understand and also to find a particular chat it is difficult to search in Teams. Also Slack has cool features like Slack Workflows and To do lists and Slack Canvas which makes life more easier. Slack apps to integrate existing app and also I use Slack to …
Chose Slack
Slack complements our current technology stack. We use Microsoft products for most tasks, but we have found Teams and Slack to be more user-friendly and reliable than Microsoft Teams. It is easy to manage and add/remove users. It is easy to search and find answers to questions …
Chose Slack
Ease and usability. Although some have similar features, I find Slack easier and with a user-friendly design.
Chose Slack
Slack is a way better tool as compared to Google Chat or Google Hangout. Pumble gives a Slack alike feel and could be a good option. However, Microsoft Teams can be a tough competitor as Teams has good integrations with all Office products, Outlook, and web conferencing. And …
Chose Slack
Before Slack, I used to use Telegram and Whatsapp, but they both were also my personal platform to chat with friends and family. This mix between personal and professional life was very damaging because it felt like I was always working. Slack gave me the possibility to feel …
Chose Slack
Having used these 3 software, I believe Slack covers a much wider use case scenario, the user onboarding experience is seamless, the platform is very user friendly and intuitive, very well organized as compared to the other competing software that's out there in the market. …
Chose Slack
Slack has message history unlike Skype. Also Slack has the ability to share large files, have automations, remainders, schedule messages, integration with multiple tools etc. Whereas Skype does not have all these features. Teams takes up a lot of system resources. Whereas Slack …
Chose Slack
While teams is better for conference calls and telephony, Slack surpasses it with it's ease of use, integration possibilities and search capabilities. Having one place where all your collaboration takes place, together with notifications and alerts from all other portals is …
Chose Slack
Slack is much more modern and sleek compared to both Webex Chat and Microsoft Teams. Slack is specific for what the purpose is, and it doesn't over engineer too many other features.
Chose Slack
I think Slack is very straight to the point and a tool you can't live without. It is where you find light, info, share and build results as a team player.
Chose Slack
I used to like Slack better than teams for a long time. Only after using Teams for few years and returning back to Slack on another organization, I can see the main differences and between them. None of them is perfect, MS Team is more deeply connected to your SP sites and in …
Features
Atlassian JiraSlack
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Atlassian Jira
7.8
37 Ratings
1% above category average
Slack
7.9
626 Ratings
2% above category average
Task Management8.836 Ratings7.7428 Ratings
Resource Management7.735 Ratings00 Ratings
Gantt Charts7.226 Ratings6.961 Ratings
Scheduling7.734 Ratings7.8361 Ratings
Workflow Automation8.035 Ratings8.1394 Ratings
Team Collaboration8.536 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology8.937 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology7.930 Ratings00 Ratings
Document Management6.931 Ratings00 Ratings
Email integration7.932 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Access7.127 Ratings9.4599 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking7.527 Ratings00 Ratings
Change request and Case Management7.928 Ratings00 Ratings
Budget and Expense Management7.019 Ratings00 Ratings
Search00 Ratings8.2606 Ratings
Visual planning tools00 Ratings7.3273 Ratings
Professional Services Automation
Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Product A and Product B
Atlassian Jira
7.4
22 Ratings
5% below category average
Slack
-
Ratings
Quotes/estimates7.318 Ratings00 Ratings
Invoicing7.813 Ratings00 Ratings
Project & financial reporting7.220 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with accounting software7.417 Ratings00 Ratings
Communication
Comparison of Communication features of Product A and Product B
Atlassian Jira
-
Ratings
Slack
8.8
634 Ratings
10% above category average
Chat00 Ratings9.6633 Ratings
Notifications00 Ratings8.8630 Ratings
Discussions00 Ratings9.2618 Ratings
Surveys00 Ratings8.1411 Ratings
Internal knowledgebase00 Ratings7.8410 Ratings
Integrates with GoToMeeting00 Ratings8.9110 Ratings
Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts00 Ratings8.7182 Ratings
Integrates with Outlook00 Ratings8.9120 Ratings
File Sharing & Management
Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Product A and Product B
Atlassian Jira
-
Ratings
Slack
8.4
601 Ratings
4% above category average
Versioning00 Ratings8.2324 Ratings
Video files00 Ratings8.2539 Ratings
Audio files00 Ratings8.5525 Ratings
Document collaboration00 Ratings8.0427 Ratings
Access control00 Ratings8.3409 Ratings
Advanced security features00 Ratings8.3360 Ratings
Integrates with Google Drive00 Ratings9.0211 Ratings
Device sync00 Ratings9.0453 Ratings
User Ratings
Atlassian JiraSlack
Likelihood to Recommend
8.3
(225 ratings)
9.1
(637 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.6
(37 ratings)
10.0
(25 ratings)
Usability
7.8
(66 ratings)
9.0
(253 ratings)
Availability
8.0
(4 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Performance
8.0
(2 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(24 ratings)
10.0
(68 ratings)
In-Person Training
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
8.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.7
(5 ratings)
Configurability
8.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
8.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.0
(9 ratings)
9.5
(2 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
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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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Salesforce
Slack suites well for multiple scenarios. (1) table stacks 1-1 and group conversations. (2) Level of integrations with external systems like, Confluence, Google Docs, JIRA, etc. (3) Nice integration with Claude allows lots of automation possible. (4) Allows external people (outside the company) to participate. This is great for direct customer interactions.
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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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Salesforce
  • Huddles Run smoothly without any interferences.
  • Smooth individual calls quick and easy without any interruptions.
  • seamless notifications across multiple devices
  • The ability to easily tag a team member to urgently attend to a specific escalation.
  • Slack being user friendly and able to integrate easily with other platforms and apps.
  • How to easily open up different channels for different escalations and needs.
  • a safe direct messaging option.
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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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Salesforce
  • Would love a better integration with GitHub. For example, notifications when your PR is updated, when review is requested, @-mention in comments, etc.
  • Improved "Later" tab, for example the ability to create to-do lists or making the "Later" tab into a more powerful to-do list (annotate items with notes)
  • More powerful integrations, e.g. Google Calendar could render a calendar view within Slack, rather than sending the daily schedule
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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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Salesforce
To be more transparent, I give 10 because Slack serves our collaboration needs. It provide us a good platform for team communication relaying important update within the company, it has even mobile app where you can install in your phone to monitor any updates within that team that needs your immediate attention and intervention.
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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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Salesforce
Slack has good usability. Devs that are not familiar with the platform are able to jump into conversations and start sharing code and links within just minutes. Non developers are also able to understand the layout such as the Project Managers that are keeping the projects on track. We have not seen any tickets where employees are having trouble understanding Slack.
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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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Salesforce
Yes, the app works 24/7. I don't even recall having any period that we could not use since the implementation. Even the maintenance periods are barely noticeable and our work is not impacted by it when it happens.
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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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Salesforce
Slack is a soft app, we don't have many issues with it. I recall one or two people complaining about something during our usage period, but I didn't have a bad experience. When the app is slow, usually the problem is with my computer or my internet. The app works just fine.
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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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Salesforce
Whenever I've had to troubleshoot an issue with Slack (which, to be honest, has not happened very often), their online documentation has been easy to locate, easy to understand, and effective in resolving my issue. Slack's ever-growing popularity also means that there's a large community of practice out there that can be depended upon.
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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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Salesforce
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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Salesforce
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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Salesforce
I was not part of the implementation team, but I recall being 100% happy and excited to learn and use a new tool. I'm still am to be honest.
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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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Salesforce
I like Slack better than ClickUp, because I would spend 30-60 minutes a day updating my ClickUp tasks. The way ClickUp was used was very micromanaging. I billed by the hour, so I was willing to put in the time to alert the boss what tasks I was working on.
One of my jobs used Hive - I mostly just ran it in the background in case anyone messaged me. I did not use it often.
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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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Salesforce
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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Salesforce
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
Atlassian
  • Atlassian Jira's robust workflow automation has boosted team efficiency, shortening delivery cycles and driving a positive ROI through improved project management.
  • Its advanced reporting and integration capabilities have enabled data-driven decisions, aligning operations with key business objectives.
  • However, the steep learning curve can delay adoption, potentially hindering short-term ROI.
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Salesforce
  • Slack has been incredibly helpful in connecting various tech apps and ecosystems, creating a more streamlined and responsive process.
  • Slack has made it significantly easier to communicate with our team members across multiple time zones, creating a more engaging environment for our all-remote team.
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