A comparison for teams under about fifteen people, written by the people who make Kevta. Jira does far more than Kevta does. This page is about whether you need it to.
You are three to fifteen people. You are probably already on Jira’s Free plan, or you are about to cross the ten-user line where it stops being free, and you are working out whether to pay or move.
We make Kevta, so treat this the way you would treat any comparison written by one of the two parties. What we can do is be specific: every claim about Jira on this page links to Atlassian’s own documentation with the date we checked it, and every claim about Kevta describes something the product does today rather than something on our roadmap.
The short version. Jira is a bigger, older, more capable tool with an ecosystem Kevta does not have and will not have for years. If you need permission schemes, sprint reports, a marketplace, SSO or a compliance answer, Jira is the correct choice and we would rather you knew that now. Kevta is a smaller tool for teams whose main complaint about Jira is that configuring it is a job. If that is you, the rest of this page is worth reading.
Kevta is in Beta. Some of the rows below are blank on our side.
Blank means the product does not do it. Not “not yet” — today.
| Feature | Kevta | Jira Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan ceiling | 10 members per workspace, 2 workspaces, 5 boards each | 10 users, 2 GB storage, community supportJ1 |
| How paid plans are priced | Flat $10 per month per workspace, whatever the headcount | Per user, with volume discounts as seats are addedJ2 |
| Largest paid team | 50 members per workspace | Tens of thousands of usersJ1 |
| Views | Board, list, table, calendar | Boards, lists, timeline, calendars, backlogJ3 |
| Saved views | Per board, with filters, grouping and multi-level sort; shared or private | Boards, filters and dashboards, configured globally and per projectJ3 |
| Custom fields | Seven types: text, number, date, person, select, multi-select, checkbox | Customisable fieldsJ3 |
| Custom workflows | Not available | Customisable workflows, global and project-level configurationJ3 |
| Reports and dashboards | Not available | Burn-down charts, cycle time, out-of-the-box reportsJ3 |
| Cross-team roadmap | Not available | Timeline view; multi-team Advanced Roadmaps on Premium and aboveJ1, J3 |
| Git workflow | GitHub built in: sign-in, board-to-repo link, branch names, PR linking by issue key, review queue | GitHub among 3,000+ Marketplace integrationsJ3 |
| Automation | 15 triggers, 10 conditions, 12 actions — all fired by GitHub events, scoped to one board | Automation on every plan; usage limits vary by planJ1 |
| Third-party apps | Not available | “over 3000+ integrations available in the Atlassian Marketplace”J3 |
| Import from another tool | Not available | CSV, plus direct importers for Trello, Asana and mondayJ4 |
| Public REST API | Not available (API tokens exist, but only for the MCP server) | Documented Jira Cloud REST APIJ8 |
| MCP server for AI assistants | Built in — 9 tools, token auth, included on both plans | Atlassian Rovo MCP Server, generally available, OAuthJ9 |
| File attachments | Not available | Yes; storage 2 GB Free, 250 GB Standard, more aboveJ1 |
| Native mobile apps | Not available (the web app runs in a mobile browser) | iOS and AndroidJ5 |
| SSO / SAML / SCIM | Not available | Via Atlassian Guard, a separate subscriptionJ6 |
| Uptime SLA | Not available (none published) | 99.9% Premium, 99.95% EnterpriseJ1 |
| Compliance certifications | Not available | SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, FedRAMPJ7 |
| Support | Email, no response-time commitment | Community (Free), business hours (Standard), 24/7 (Premium and above)J1 |
Jira facts checked against Atlassian’s own documentation on 3 August 2026 — sources at the foot of this page. Atlassian ships continuously; if you spot something out of date, tell us and we will fix it.
The two products price on different axes, which makes a headline number comparison misleading in both directions. The honest framing is the shape.
Jira charges per user. The Free plan covers up to 10 users. Above that you pay for every person, with volume discounts as seats are added — the per-user rate falls as the team grows.J1, J2 On monthly billing Atlassian charges on the highest seat count reached at any point in the cycle, so adding someone mid-month is billed pro rata but removing them does not reduce that month’s invoice.J2 Enterprise is annual only.J2 Single sign-on is not part of the Jira subscription; it comes with Atlassian Guard, which is priced separately.J6
Atlassian does not publish a flat per-user figure — the price depends on your seat count and is quoted by their calculator. Rather than print a number here that goes stale, we link it: Atlassian’s Jira pricing page. Work out your own number there and compare it with ours.
Kevta charges per workspace. Free is $0 — 2 workspaces, 5 boards in each, 10 members. Pro is $10 per month for a workspace, and that is the whole bill: 10 workspaces, 10 boards each, up to 50 members. Three people or thirty, the workspace costs the same. No annual commitment, no per-seat maths, cancel whenever and keep Pro until the period you have paid for ends.
Two things worth being straight about. Our member cap is 50, and it is a real number rather than an open seat count — a flat rate with no ceiling would price a 500-person company the same as a team of five, and we would rather set a number we can honour and raise later than quietly change the deal. And a flat rate is only cheaper past a certain headcount; below it, per-user pricing can win. Do the arithmetic for your own team.
This is not a courtesy section. There are teams for whom moving to Kevta would be a mistake, and it is cheaper for everyone if you find that out here rather than three weeks in.
Jira’s custom workflows and global-and-project-level configuration exist because real organisations have approval steps, QA gates and issue types that differ by team.J3 Kevta has no workflow engine. A Kevta status is a select column on a board — you choose the options and their order, and that is the extent of it. Nothing enforces which status can follow which.
Kevta has five roles — owner, admin, editor, commenter, viewer — applied at workspace or board level. That is a reasonable model for a dozen people who mostly trust each other. It is not permission schemes. Jira offers permission and privacy controlsJ3 and audit logging built for administrators who have to answer for who changed what. Kevta records activity on a task; it has no organisation-level security audit log.
Kevta has no SAML, no SCIM, no enforced 2FA. If your IT policy requires identity-provider login, we cannot meet it and there is no workaround. Jira supports SAML SSO and SCIM provisioning through Atlassian Guard.J6
Atlassian holds SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, PCI DSS and FedRAMP.J7 Kevta holds none of these and has no certification in progress. If procurement is involved, that is usually the end of the conversation, and fairly so.
Burn-down charts, cycle time, velocity, sprint reports, dashboards.J3 Kevta has none of this — no charts, no dashboards, nothing to show a stakeholder at the end of a quarter. If someone asks you for a burndown, Kevta cannot produce one.
Over three thousand integrations in the Atlassian Marketplace.J3 Time tracking, test management, capacity planning, Slack, Teams, Figma, Salesforce. Kevta integrates with GitHub. That is the list. If a tool your team depends on has a Jira app and no Kevta one, Jira wins that argument outright.
Jira’s Advanced Roadmaps is built for exactly that.J1 Kevta has no roadmap, no timeline view and no concept of a sprint or a backlog.
99.9% on Premium, 99.95% on Enterprise, 24/7 support.J1 Kevta publishes no SLA and answers email during working hours, when it can.
Jira has iOS and Android apps.J5 Kevta has a web app that opens in a mobile browser and has not been designed for it. Boards in particular are awkward on a small screen.
Jira imports from CSV and directly from Trello, Asana and monday.J4 Kevta has no importer of any kind. The import screen in the app says so on its face. Today, moving to Kevta means retyping, or scripting it against an API we have not published yet. For a live backlog of any size, that alone may settle it.
The case for Kevta is not that it does more. It is that for a small team the configuration Jira offers is a cost as well as a capability — someone owns it, and on a team of eight that someone is a developer who would rather be writing code.
A board comes with sensible columns and you start filing issues. There are no schemes, no issue-type hierarchies, no screens and no board configuration to inherit from whoever set it up last year. The cost of that is real and stated above: you cannot model a process Kevta does not already assume.
$10 a month for a workspace, whether that is three people or thirty. Nobody has to decide whether the new contractor is worth a seat, and nobody has to reconcile a per-user invoice.
Sign in with GitHub, link a board to a repo, copy a ready-made branch name off an issue, and pull requests attach themselves to issues by key from the branch, title or body. There is a review queue that shows what is waiting on you. The automation rules that ship by default move an issue to In progress when you push the branch, to In review when the PR opens, and to Done when it merges — and you can edit all of them. This is the part of Kevta that is genuinely finished.
Board, list, table and calendar, each with its own filters, grouping and sort, saved as a tab. Keep a private view without imposing it on anyone else.
Changes appear for everyone on the board as they happen. Keyboard navigation throughout, a command palette on Cmd-K.
Kevta ships an MCP server on both plans, so Claude or another MCP client can read boards and file, update and close issues with a scoped token. Atlassian has a GA MCP server too, so this is not something only we do — but ours is included rather than an addition.
No file attachments. No @mentions. No email notifications for task activity — the inbox is in-app. No global search across workspaces. No importer, no export. No public REST API. No mobile app. No reporting. No SSO. If none of those are load-bearing for you, Kevta is probably enough. If two or three are, it is not, and Jira’s Free plan is a perfectly good place to stay.
Do not migrate anything. Take the next piece of work your team picks up, put it in a Kevta board alongside whatever you use now, and see whether anyone asks to go back. Free is $0, needs no card, and covers 2 workspaces and 10 people for as long as you want it to.
Still weighing it up? Atlassian’s pricing page will tell you what Jira costs your team. That is a fair number to compare against ours.
Every claim about Jira on this page is taken from Atlassian’s own documentation. All of it was fetched on 3 August 2026.
Explore Jira Cloud plans, Atlassian Support. Checked 3 August 2026.
https://support.atlassian.com/jira-cloud-administration/docs/explore-jira-cloud-plans/Jira Licensing, Atlassian. Checked 3 August 2026.
https://www.atlassian.com/licensing/jiraJira Software Features, Atlassian. Checked 3 August 2026.
https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/featuresImport data into Jira, Atlassian Support. Checked 3 August 2026.
https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/import-data-into-jira/Jira Mobile, Atlassian. Checked 3 August 2026.
https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/mobile-appConfigure SAML single sign-on, Atlassian Support. Checked 3 August 2026.
https://support.atlassian.com/security-and-access-policies/docs/configure-saml-single-sign-on/Compliance, Atlassian Trust Center. Checked 3 August 2026.
https://www.atlassian.com/trust/complianceJira Cloud platform REST API, Atlassian Developer. Checked 3 August 2026.
https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/rest/v3/intro/Getting started with the Atlassian Rovo MCP Server, Atlassian Support, and the Atlassian blog. Checked 3 August 2026.
https://support.atlassian.com/atlassian-rovo-mcp-server/docs/getting-started-with-the-atlassian-remote-mcp-server/https://www.atlassian.com/blog/announcements/atlassian-rovo-mcp-gaJira and Atlassian are trademarks of Atlassian Pty Ltd. Kevta is not affiliated with Atlassian.