Atlassian publishes Jira's pricing in the structured data on its own pricing page, which makes the numbers unambiguous. Free is $0 and described as free forever for 10 users. Standard is $8.48 per user per month, listed for organisations of up to 300 users. Premium is $15.56 per user per month on the same size band. Enterprise is aimed at 801 to 100,000 users and is priced by conversation. Atlassian's page description states that every paid plan includes AI agents for planning, tracking and moving work forward.
TL;DR
Jira is issue tracking first: a free tier for up to 10 users, Standard at $8.48 per user a month and Premium at $15.56 on Atlassian's published offers, with an Enterprise edition for 801 users and up. Wrike is work management first: Team at $10 per user a month for 2 to 15 users and Business at $25 for 5 to 200. Software teams that live in sprints, commits and service desks should read the Jira column first; teams running marketing, IT and professional services on the same platform should read the Wrike one.
Wrike's ladder starts lower on the entry and higher on the middle. Free covers essential task management at $0 with web, desktop and mobile apps. Team is $10 per user a month for 2 to 15 users, with AI Essentials, shareable dashboards and interactive Gantt charts. Business is $25 per user a month for 5 to 200 users, adding AI Elite features, templates and standard integrations. Pinnacle and Apex are quoted, and the page notes prices are annual per-user figures valid for purchases from January 21, 2026.
The difference is the object model, and it decides almost everything else. Jira's unit is the issue: work items with types, workflows, sprint boards, releases and a service-management layer on the same platform. That is why engineering organisations standardise on it and why non-technical teams often bounce off it. Wrike's unit is the task inside a project, with Gantt, workload, time tracking, budgets and request forms, which makes it comfortable for marketing, IT and services teams and shallower for release engineering.
| Feature | Jira | Wrike |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Free forever for up to 10 users | Free, essential task management, $0 |
| Entry paid plan | Standard, $8.48 per user/month | Team, $10 per user/month, 2-15 users |
| Mid tier | Premium, $15.56 per user/month | Business, $25 per user/month, 5-200 users |
| Top tier | Enterprise, 801 to 100,000 users, quoted | Pinnacle and Apex, quoted |
| Primary object | Issues with types, workflows and sprints | Tasks inside projects with Gantt and workload |
| Software delivery | Boards, backlogs, releases, roadmaps, service management | Not the focus; covered by custom fields at best |
| Resource planning | Advanced roadmaps and planning on Premium | Workload, capacity, time tracking and budgets |
| Included AI | AI agents included on paid plans | AI Essentials on Team, AI Elite starter on Business |
| Entry cost for 10 users | $84.80 a month on Standard | $100 a month on Team |
Pick Jira if
Choose Jira when the work is issues, sprints and releases, or when a service desk has to sit on the same platform as engineering. Ten users cost nothing on the free tier, and $8.48 per user a month on Standard is the lowest paid entry in this comparison. Premium at $15.56 is the tier that earns its keep for teams that need advanced planning and the fuller AI capacity.
Pick Wrike if
Choose Wrike when the work is campaigns, client delivery, IT requests and resource planning rather than software releases. Team at $10 per user a month includes the Gantt and dashboard tooling that Jira keeps in higher tiers or separate products, and Business at $25 covers up to 200 users with AI Elite features, templates and standard integrations.
We did not collect an independent review corpus for this pair, so nothing above reflects user sentiment. The prices come from the structured product data Atlassian publishes on its Jira pricing page and from Wrike's own pricing page, fetched on the date shown.
At the entry tier, yes. Jira Standard is $8.48 per user a month against Wrike Team at $10, and Jira's free tier covers ten users outright. At the middle, Jira Premium at $15.56 is still below Wrike Business at $25, though the two tiers are not feature-equivalent.
It can run boards and sprints as views over tasks, but it has no native release management, no backlog semantics and no commit or pull-request linking. Teams that need those end up integrating or moving to a tool built around issues.
Planning and roadmapping live in Premium, but Jira is not built around workload levelling, billable rates and budget burn the way Wrike is. That is the clearest reason teams buy Wrike alongside, or instead of, Jira.
Jira's free plan is free forever for up to 10 users with the full issue-tracking model. Wrike's free plan is essential task management with board and table views and no capacity or budget features. For a small software team, Jira's free tier is the more capable of the two.
Atlassian states that every paid Jira plan includes AI agents, with capacity stepping up by tier. Wrike includes AI Essentials on Team and an AI Elite starter pack on Business, then sells larger monthly action quotas on Pinnacle and Apex.
Both, differently. Jira's Enterprise edition is quoted for 801 to 100,000 users with advanced analytics, scale and security. Wrike's quoted tiers are Pinnacle and Apex, sized around complex workflows, deeper AI automation and enterprise controls rather than a published user band.
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