The two products share an owner, an account system and a billing page, which is where the similarity ends.
TL;DR
Both belong to Atlassian, but Jira is issue tracking for software and IT work: Free for up to 10 users, Standard at $7.91 per user a month, Premium at $14.54, Enterprise quoted annually. Trello is a board: Free for up to 10 collaborators with unlimited cards, Standard at $5 per user a month billed yearly, Premium at $10, Enterprise at $17.50. Pick Jira when work needs workflows, automation steps and releases; pick Trello when work needs a card in a column that anyone can read at a glance.
Jira's pricing page sells delivery machinery. Free covers up to 10 users with 2 GB of storage, 150 automation steps a subscription a month and community support. Standard at $7.91 per user a month lifts storage to 250 GB, adds 400 automation steps per user a month, external collaboration, multi-region data residency and 9/5 regional support with a two-hour response on critical issues. Premium at $14.54 per user a month brings cross-team planning with dependency management, approval processes and 750 automation steps per user a month under 24/7 support. Enterprise is quoted annually and bundles Atlassian Guard Standard for SSO and SCIM. Atlassian computes these rates with a team-size control, so the per-user figure shifts with headcount.
Trello's page sells simplicity. Free is $0 for up to 10 collaborators in a Workspace and includes unlimited cards with up to 10 boards per Workspace, plus the iOS and Android apps and two-factor authentication. Standard at $5 per user a month billed yearly, or $6 billed monthly, lifts the board cap and lists AI features. Premium at $10 yearly, or $12.50 monthly, adds admin controls, collections, observers and simple data export. Enterprise is $17.50 per user a month billed annually, shown on the page as $210.00 per user for the year, with organization-wide security and controls.
| Feature | Jira | Trello |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | Up to 10 users, 2 GB, 150 automation steps a subscription a month | Up to 10 collaborators, unlimited cards, 10 boards per Workspace |
| Entry paid plan | Standard at $7.91 per user/month, 250 GB | Standard at $5 per user/month yearly, $6 monthly |
| Mid tier | Premium at $14.54 per user/month, 750 automation steps per user a month | Premium at $10 per user/month yearly, $12.50 monthly |
| Enterprise | Quoted annually, SSO and SCIM via Atlassian Guard Standard | $17.50 per user/month billed annually, shown as $210.00 a year per user |
| Unit of work | Issues with workflows, statuses and releases | Cards on boards in lists |
| Planning depth | Backlogs, dependencies, approvals and cross-team planning on Premium | Views, collections and observers on Premium |
| Automation | Published per tier: 150 free, 400 per user Standard, 750 Premium | Automations scale with the paid tiers; limits published per plan |
| Platform | Web app, mobile apps for iOS and Android | Web app, mobile apps for iOS and Android |
| Offline mode | Not covered on Atlassian's Jira pricing page | Not covered on trello.com/pricing |
| Support | Community free, 9/5 regional on Standard, 24/7 on Premium | Standard support channels, with priority handling on paid tiers |
Pick Jira if
Jira prices the process around the code: automation steps per user, data residency, dependency boards and approvals, all published tier by tier. Teams shipping software usually need the release history and the permission model more than they need a board anyone can rearrange.
Pick Trello if
Trello asks nothing of the people using it: a card is created, dragged and closed, and the free plan already handles 10 collaborators with unlimited cards. Standard at $5 per user a month billed yearly unlocks unlimited boards, which is often the whole budget a small team wants to spend on coordination.
No independent reviews or user ratings were collected for Jira or Trello on this page; the bullets are each vendor's own plan wording from Atlassian's Jira pricing page and trello.com/pricing. Jira's page renders dynamically, so its figures were cross-checked against Atlassian's published feature tables and independent 2026 pricing breakdowns.
Yes at every paid step: Trello Standard is $5 per user a month billed yearly against Jira Standard at $7.91, and Trello Premium is $10 yearly against Jira Premium at $14.54. The order reverses for enterprise buyers only — Trello Enterprise is $17.50 per user a month billed annually while Jira Enterprise is quoted.
They share an Atlassian account and billing system, so a team can hold a Jira site and a Trello Workspace under one company. The usual pattern is Jira for engineering issues and Trello for cross-functional boards that non-engineers need to read without learning Jira's workflow model.
Jira: backlogs, dependency management, approvals and 750 automation steps per user a month on Premium are built for sprints and releases. Trello keeps boards deliberately flat, adding collections, observers and data export at its $10 Premium tier instead of release planning.
Jira's free plan covers up to 10 users with 2 GB of storage, 150 automation steps a subscription a month and community-only support. Trello's free plan covers up to 10 collaborators per Workspace with unlimited cards and up to 10 boards.
The Jira pricing page includes a team-size control, and the per-user rate for Standard and Premium is calculated for the selected headcount, with annual billing advertised at up to 17% below monthly. The figures here are the rates shown at the page's default setting.
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