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December, 2022

Jira Software vs. ClickUp

Jira Software is built for every member of your software team to plan, track, release, and support great software with confidence. See how it stacks up against ClickUp.

Jira Software provides the extensibility of an open, diverse toolchain and the ease of an all-in-one


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Unlike ClickUp, we believe there's no one app to rule them all. Customize Jira to match the exact needs of your team by combining flexible workflows with our thousands of apps and integrations.

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Fully-loaded free plan

Get started with more for free with Jira Software

Jira Software’s free plan gives you access to almost every feature for up to 10 users with no strings attached. Jira Software doesn’t rely on frustrating feature limitations to force you to upgrade.

“It’s easy to get started and spin up a solution.”

WENDY STOCKHOLM

Director of BizTech, Invision


Developer and agile expertise

Jira Software is designed with agile best practices in mind

Jira Software is purpose-built to help your dev teams establish a single source of truth so they can collaborate better and move faster. Jira Software is also an industry leader for agile teams with dozens of agile templates, reports, and best practices to help you be successful within our products and beyond.

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“Atlassian has changed the way [our] teams work and evolve. The products have especially helped the teams that are still growing their technical maturity. Departments that were struggling with technology and continuous improvement don’t now.”

CORNÉ DEN HOLLANDER

Product Owner, Air France-KLM


Products tailored

Products tailored to the needs of your team

ClickUp thinks one product can solve the needs of every team

Every great team needs tools specially crafted to their needs. That’s why we build custom-tailored versions of our products for every type of team. That’s why we have Jira Software for your software team, Jira Work Management for your business teams, and Jira Service Management for your IT Teams. Combined together, our platform connects the dots between work happening across your org on dev, IT, and business teams.

“With Atlassian, we have Dev and Ops on a single platform.”

Julian Dunn

Product Manager, Chef.io


Scale your way of working

Jira Software is designed to grow with your organization

Every organization needs software that can scale beyond a single team. Jira Software offers the flexibility to choose whether you standardize on a way of working across teams or give teams autonomy to design their own ways of working. Mix and match however your organization needs.

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“Atlassian solutions balance power and ease of use. There’s not many tools that do that well and continue to meet your needs as you grow.”

SKY FROSTENSON

Director of Program Management, VSCO

Why choose Jira Software over ClickUp?

Features

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Marketplace with apps and integrations

Our Marketplace includes thousands of apps and integrations so you can customize Jira for your exact way of working

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Products tailored for a specific use case

We offer versions of Jira for software, business and IT teams

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Comprehensive agile reporting

Jira Software comes with over a dozen agile reports out of the box

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Flexible permissions

Pick and mix between standardized ways of working across your org and giving teams the autonomy to design their own workflows

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Smart filtering and search

Jira Software’s filtering and search is backed by machine learning and JQL (Jira Query Language)

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Best practices playbook

Atlassian has 45+ plays to help inspire your teams with agile best practices inside our products and beyond

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Top-down visibility

Ladder up work across multiple teams into common goals with Plans

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Smart dev tool integrations

See the status of work in your dev tools right where your teams plan and track work

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Delegated administration

Empower teams you choose to administer their own projects so they can operate faster

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Enterprise admin capabilities

Ensure a great end-user experience with enterprise admin capabilities like a sandbox environment and controlled releases

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Mobile apps

Jira Software comes with mobile iOS and Android apps

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Board and backlog

Enable teams to plan and track, and visualize their work on a board and backlog

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Custom workflows

In Jira Software you can create workflows inspired by scrum, kanban, or anything in between

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Native roadmaps

Every team in Jira Software gets a roadmap to help plan the big picture

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Unlimited levels of hierarchy

Roll work into bigger picture goals with unlimited levels of hierarchy inside Jira Software

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