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Categories and Ranking

Basecamp
Ranking in Project Management Software
30th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Jira
Ranking in Project Management Software
2nd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
274
Ranking in other categories
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites (1st), Application Requirements Management (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2025, in the Project Management Software category, the mindshare of Basecamp is 0.8%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Jira is 8.9%, up from 9.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Abenazzer Tadesse - PeerSpot reviewer
An easy-to-use project management solution with good stability and scalability
The recent update on the solution has made it a little bit complex. For example, to create a team and a project, there is a separate button that you need to click. Recently they updated it with only one button making it difficult for us to create teams or supply teams other than a project. Hence the solution could be more user-friendly. Additionally, some additional features need to be integrated so it'll be easy for other companies or project managers to manage software projects.
Saroj Ekka - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers good repository integration, sprint board and easy to set up
There are some features and reports we need that are not there. For example, if I have to find out the capacity of the current sprint by user and compare it with the previous sprint, that visibility isn't there. We can know the capacity and what happened with the whole sprint, but not for an individual person to see where it's falling and how it's tracking. Report and analytics capabilities are important for a product manager. That visibility is important, so we use Jira. Some of the features are there, and I use my own Excels or other data things to compensate for that.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The ability to network informally is great for communicating with colleagues."
"The ease of use is valuable."
"A most valuable feature involves the ability to customize the entries and to update them quickly."
"Reporting: It gives a nice report of my backlog and what my team has currently spent its efforts on."
"The solution has been very stable overall."
"This is a user friendly solution."
"We love the bulk edit feature. Jira also integrates well with Bitbucket."
"Overall, the solution is very nice and has a variety of great features."
"I enjoy working with (and can recommend) Jira for a number of reasons. The best features are that it is friendly and provides good visibility. It's to the point and very effective."
"It is a complete solution. It has more features as compared to other tools, especially the open-source one that we use. It is also easy to administer."
 

Cons

"The solution could be more user-friendly."
"The product isn't easy to use. It's not very intuitive."
"The user interface and views on different devices should be improved."
"Jira could be more, for example, like Micro Focus, which is what I mostly work with currently."
"For a non-technical person to use, Jira is not intuitive."
"The CACD solutions on JIRA has some plugins, but they are not easily understandable or workable."
"From a very software-centric or a lead developer standpoint, there should be the ability to work at multiple levels. You have epic stories and use cases or epic stories and tasks. It would be nice to be able to have multiple levels of stories and multiple levels of epics work with it. It's lacking a little bit there, and this is the big thing for me because it makes it difficult to do a real sprint when you're limited to one story per epic. It's really hard to isolate tasks at multiple levels to match the type of use cases you normally do. That's the biggest difficulty. Other than that, they've been improving year to year, and every version seems to have a level of improvement."
"It would be ideal if the solution could be available as a mobile application."
"The performance and stability are visibly degrading since the database has been growing every year."
"From the project management perspective, I would say there are a lot of different issues that could be tweaked. There can be small improvements with traceability, for example."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Worth the extra cost."
"The cost is about $10 per user, per month."
"I understand JIRA is quite expensive."
"Almost everybody uses JIRA nowadays because it is the most cost-effective solution."
"The pricing is much higher than other similar solutions available in the market, and as such, the vendor should think about a price reduction to make this product more affordable."
"We currently have ten users, and it is free for ten users."
"When you get larger, the pricing becomes very, very steep."
"The tool is expensive."
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Educational Organization
53%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
6%
Computer Software Company
5%
 

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Jira?
We operate under a nonlimited license with Jira, allowing a number of users to access it with a single enterprise license.
 

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