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As captured from atlassian.com on July 29, 2026: Free is $0 for up to 10 users and includes backlog, board, timeline, reports, and 2 GB of storage; Standard is listed at $7.91 per user/month and Premium at $14.54 per user/month, both for monthly billing; Enterprise has no published price — "Contact sales", annual subscriptions only. The Standard and Premium figures are the prices Atlassian publishes in the pricing page's machine-readable structured data — the on-page calculator did not render when we captured the page — and Atlassian states the current list price applies to instances with 1–100 users.

For an agile team of five, Jira Premium comes to $72.70 a month at that listed price. AgileHero Pro is $39 a month for the same five people — $12 base plus $9 for each seat beyond the two free ones — and the estimation, retrospective, whiteboard, and wiki modules are the point, not add-ons. Yearly billing is roughly two months cheaper, every Pro module has a 14-day trial without a card (Jira's published trial is 7 days, Standard or Premium, no payment information required), and if you ever cancel, your data stays — premium modules are paywalled on downgrade, never erased.

Story points are shorthand for one question: how big is this, according to the whole team? We can only report what Atlassian publishes — on the Jira product and pricing pages we track, no estimation or story-point feature is named (checked July 29, 2026) — so many teams run the ceremony beside the tracker: a side app, a spreadsheet, a long call.

In AgileHero the estimation session lives on the card itself: hidden votes, an instant reveal with min, max, and average, and one-click apply. It is free on every plan, including the two-seat free tier, because estimation is a habit — and habits stick when they cost nothing to start.

The tracking half of Jira sprint planning is covered by Jira's Free tier alone: its published list includes a backlog, board, timeline, and reports, with backlog, list, board, timeline, calendar, and summary views (captured July 29, 2026). The planning half is what usually sprawls across tools: sketching the scope, estimating it together, and checking who has capacity.

AgileHero keeps that half in the same product. Sketch the sprint on a whiteboard and turn the stickies into cards in one click; estimate them with estimation poker without leaving the card; place the work on a roadmap that switches between an initiative view and a per-person capacity view; then let velocity and flow analytics build themselves over the interval that matches your sprint length. For a startup or any small team, that is one planning hour instead of a toolchain.

This is where searches for a Jira retrospective tool usually begin: the ceremony needs a board of its own, a timer, and votes — and no retrospective feature appears in Jira's published feature list (checked July 29, 2026). The closest item on the pages we track is "Learn as you deliver", described there as Rovo AI trend-spotting rather than a facilitated session.

AgileHero retrospectives need zero setup: six ready-made columns, a shared synchronized timer, dot-voting, and last retro's action items carried forward to the next one. Retro boards are excluded from delivery metrics, so the ceremony never leaks into your velocity chart — and an agent connected over MCP can work the retrospective too, adding and organizing items as the team talks.

A whiteboard next to the tracker is a common wish, because plans start as sketches. On the Jira pages we track there is no whiteboard or infinite-canvas claim (checked July 29, 2026); Confluence appears on those pages only as a context source for planning.

AgileHero's whiteboard is an infinite canvas with sticky notes, shapes, mind maps, arrows, and live multiplayer cursors — and it is wired into the rest of the product: one click turns sticky notes into cards, frames into epics, and a whole mind map into an epic with cards and labels, on your own board. An AI assistant connected over MCP can draw diagrams on it too, then file the plan as real work on the same board.

Searches for a Jira Confluence integration describe a real need: the tracker and the team's knowledge want to live in one place. On the Jira pages we track, Atlassian's answer spans two products — Jira's features page plans "with context from Confluence, Figma, and third-party apps" (captured July 29, 2026), and our capture records no wiki or documentation claim for Jira itself.

AgileHero's wiki is part of the same product: nested rich pages, discussions pinned to the exact passage they are about, and full version history with preview and non-destructive revert. Because everything shares one product, global search spans cards, epics, wiki pages, and projects in a single query — there is no integration to configure and no second product to manage.

Atlassian's published billing model, as captured July 29, 2026: monthly subscriptions charge for the exact number of Jira users you have, annual subscriptions charge for the tier that most closely matches your user count, and Enterprise pricing is annual-only through sales. Our capture of Atlassian's pages records no cancellation walkthrough, so the honest guidance is generic: check your renewal date before it rolls over, and export what you need while your plan is active.

Starting on AgileHero takes minutes: a working workspace, project, and board exist the moment you sign up. There is no one-click Jira import today — we would rather say that plainly than surprise you. Recreate your columns and open cards as you go, or connect an AI assistant over MCP and let it create and organize the structure for you. Two seats are free forever, and the 14-day Pro trial needs no credit card.