Atlassian Jira vs. Microsoft Project

Atlassian Jira

3,586 Reviews and Ratings

Microsoft Project

717 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Atlassian Jira	Score8.3 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
Microsoft Project	Score8.1 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft Project is a project management software. It provides core PM functionality, including agile workflow support and resource management. Project can be deployed in the cloud or on-premise.	$120 per year per user

Pricing

Atlassian Jira

Microsoft Project

Standard: $9
per month per user
Premium: $17
per month per user
Enterprise: Contact Sales
per year

Project Server: $0
Planner Plan 1: $10
per month per user
Planner and Project Plan 3: $30
per month per user
Planner and Project Plan 5: $55
per month per user
Project Standard 2024: $679.99
one-time fee per installation
Project Professional 2024: $1,129.99
one-time fee per installation

Pricing Offerings
Atlassian Jira	Microsoft Project
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

Higher volume teams may qualify buyers for a discount.

Plans are billed annually.

Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Atlassian Jira	Microsoft Project
Considered Both Products	Atlassian Verified User 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Tom Young Senior Front-End Developer in Research & Development at Vertic (Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees) Chose Atlassian Jira Jira had the full package and had a lot of options as a task management tool, good for tickets and a complex user management interface to split up permissions within our company and for our clients. We can integrate with Bitbucket and work through tickets development, design … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Atlassian Jira JIRA was already in place when I joined the company, but it is better and easier to work with than anything I have worked with in the past. My last shop used RALLY and it was a total pain to grasp. JIRA offers more flexibility and setup options with your configuration. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Atlassian Jira I wasn't the decisionmaker but knew JIRA was the latest in database technology and was glad to everyday user experience with its functionality and capabilities. Several industries and large organizations have chosen JIRA but again, it depends on how strong and aware your … Incentivized Helpful? Kyle Culpepper Project Manager in Product Management at FACTS Engineering (Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing, 11-50 employees) Chose Atlassian Jira I was not at the company when JIRA was chosen and we have been using the software for for long that it would be a large hurdle to overcome to switch to a different utility at this point in time. I have researched Trello and Asana and found them to offer many comparable features. Incentivized Helpful? Vivek Shah QA in Quality Assurance at Horizontal (Computer Software, 201-500 employees) Chose Atlassian Jira Firstly the community support and the help that the community it supports is amazing also the product which is designed simple but is perfect when it comes to execution and the ease of using the product and the extra features of the bug logging and resources management and … Incentivized Helpful?	Microsoft Edgar Garcia GCM Project manager in Product Management at Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLC. (Automotive, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Microsoft Project Jira and Miro are very visual, they provide us a very friendly interface (specially Miro), and in the case of Jira, it give us very customizable workflows that suit team needs. Incentivized Helpful? Suvit Ahuja Project Manager - Digital in Information Technology at SHL (E-Learning, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Microsoft Project Dependency tracking and automated task management helped its raking above other competitors in the usage. Microsoft support and updates are also reliable. Security is also good for this tool. UI is also good and task management is very effective. Integrations are also easy. Incentivized Helpful? Javier Silva SR MGR MFG & SC IT in Information Technology at Vyaire Inc (Information Technology & Services, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Microsoft Project Microsoft Project will continue to be my tool of choice for high stakes high complexity projects with over 100 tasks and many requirements to control costs and delivery but the assumption is that a dedicated PM is needed to keep the file updated and manage communication with … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Project Better suited for everyone in the team due to an existing partnership with Microsoft for access to other software suite provided by them. Incentivized Helpful? Fernanda Ministerio Especialista de Desenvolvimento Industrial in Information Technology at SENAI-DN (Non-profit Organization Management, 10,001+ employees) Chose Microsoft Project I can't remember because it was many years ago. But Microsoft Project was very affordable and had a much larger set of features. Also the stability of its technology, as well as the number of existing users, the abundant documentation and the possibility of having well-defined … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Project Project is comprehensive and many project professionals are familiar with it, however the other tools are more business user friendly. Little training needed, Airtable and Trello are more intuitive so anyone can make updates and understand progress. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Project Microsoft Project needs to do better job on the flexibility and user interface of the software. The colors used by monday.com and shortcuts they have provided are much smoother. However, Microsoft project is more compatible with other Microsoft products like excel which gives … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Project Microsoft Project was selected because it integrates well with other Microsoft products and has better tracking and visualization tools that can be used with different projects. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Project It has many advantages over Asana. It's cheaper but can still give effective presentations. Sharing information is easy and the support is great. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Project We did not consider other products as we are a Microsoft shop and went with Microsoft. Incentivized Helpful? Clancy Short Software Engineer in Information Technology at Cloudworks (Computer Software, 201-500 employees) Chose Microsoft Project Its almost similar to JIRA but as it is less used you get more focused support from their side. Incentivized Helpful? Joshua Melder Process Optimization Analyst in Corporate at Quad (Printing, 10,001+ employees) Chose Microsoft Project While many of the above tools are extremely well-versed, Microsoft Project's largest advantage comes from it being related to the largest business productivity company in the world. Project does have its sharing limitations - but regardless, offers one of the most robust tools … Incentivized Helpful? Litzi Saraí Gordils Ortuño Purchasing Coordinator in Corporate (Health, Wellness and Fitness, 11-50 employees) Chose Microsoft Project Microsoft Project (online version) gives you the chance to do native collaboration using other Microsoft Tools and gather around with all the resources available in your company to set up communications standards, commitments and quality assurance guidelines, and most of all to … Incentivized Helpful? David Lisauskas Service Engineer at David Lisauskas Voice Over (Medical Devices, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Microsoft Project MS Project is better at organizing a project from a timing standpoint. I feel that JIRA's strengths are in real time collaboration, assignment of tasks, and bringing to resolution. We had utilized both products together since they kind of fill these needs that the other product … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Project MS Project was superior to Proventia. Much more intuitive tool. MS Project was more robust, offered more functionality, and offered better reporting options. As noted earlier, MS Project was more flexible as it can manage the full portfolio of projects from small to large … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Project At the end of the day, Microsoft Project still is best in class overall. It isn't as specialized as some tools like Trello or JIRA, but especially with new integration with Planner and native support for Agile project management templates it becomes a lot closer. Microsoft … Incentivized Helpful? Daniel Blazquez Corporate Development and Strategic Product Management in Product Management at Belkin International, Inc (Consumer Electronics, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Microsoft Project Each project has different needs and we switch back and forth. We often find Microsoft Office to be too generic for specific purposes, in which case we gravitate towards domain-specific tools, such as JIRA for software project management. Incentivized Helpful? Fred Pilch Sr. Project Manager in Information Technology at ADT (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose Microsoft Project Selected Microsoft due to cost verses capabilities and ease of use. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Project After using other web-based project management tools, Project would not be my first choice. Incentivized Helpful?
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Features

Atlassian Jira

Microsoft Project

Comparison of Project Management features of Atlassian Jira and Microsoft Project
Feature	Atlassian Jira 9.5 3 Ratings	Microsoft Project 9.1 108 Ratings
Task Management	9.73 Ratings	10.0107 Ratings
Resource Management	9.43 Ratings	10.0104 Ratings
Gantt Charts	9.32 Ratings	10.0104 Ratings
Scheduling	10.02 Ratings	10.0106 Ratings
Workflow Automation	10.02 Ratings	10.083 Ratings
Team Collaboration	10.03 Ratings	8.096 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology	8.73 Ratings	6.080 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology	9.02 Ratings	10.080 Ratings
Document Management	8.93 Ratings	9.077 Ratings
Email integration	9.53 Ratings	5.082 Ratings
Mobile Access	9.03 Ratings	10.067 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking	10.03 Ratings	10.073 Ratings
Change request and Case Management	10.03 Ratings	10.063 Ratings
Budget and Expense Management	9.32 Ratings	10.083 Ratings

Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Atlassian Jira and Microsoft Project
Feature	Atlassian Jira 9.9 2 Ratings	Microsoft Project 10.0 77 Ratings
Quotes/estimates	9.72 Ratings	10.054 Ratings
Invoicing	9.72 Ratings	10.045 Ratings
Project & financial reporting	10.02 Ratings	10.074 Ratings
Integration with accounting software	10.02 Ratings	10.050 Ratings

User Ratings
	Atlassian Jira	Microsoft Project
Likelihood to Recommend	9.6 (190 ratings)	9.7 (108 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.0 (35 ratings)	10.0 (3 ratings)
Usability	9.4 (31 ratings)	10.0 (6 ratings)
Availability	5.3 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	8.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.8 (23 ratings)	8.2 (34 ratings)
Online Training	8.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.0 (1 ratings)	5.0 (1 ratings)
Ease of integration	7.7 (8 ratings)	- (0 ratings)