Comparison

Planner.day vs Jira

Planner.day and Jira compared on price, setup weight, AI access and customer feedback, with rupee pricing and GST invoices against a dollar subscription.

  • Planner.day Basic₹500billed in INR
  • Jira Standard₹660$7.5

₹0 less per user each month than Jira Standard, and no forex markup on an Indian card.

Planner.day prices are current. Jira pricing was checked on 2 September 2026 and converted at roughly ₹85 to ₹90 to the dollar. Check their site before deciding, since published prices change.
Planner.day compared with Jira
Capability Planner.day Jira
Entry price per user ₹500 About $7.50, roughly ₹660 converted
MCP server for AI assistants Built in, 34 tools Not bundled
Customer feedback widget Built in A separate product in the suite
Public voting roadmap Built in Not bundled
GitHub issues, branches, pull requests Built in, per-member attribution Yes
Whiteboards Built in, with AI diagrams Through Confluence
Time to first task The same day Configuration is a project
Billing Rupees, GST invoice US dollars

Choose Planner.day when

  • Considerably lighter to adopt, with no scheme, permission or workflow configuration before use
  • An MCP server, so an assistant can operate the board under the same permissions as a person
  • Customer feedback, triage and a public voting roadmap in the same subscription
  • Rupee pricing with a GST invoice
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All of this, one subscription

MCP server, 34 tools
An assistant operates the board under your own permissions
Feedback widget and triage
Collect bug reports inside your product, without an account
Public roadmap with voting
The same submissions, published, never a second tool to sync
Whiteboards with AI diagrams
Realtime canvases that live beside the work
Time tracking
Billable hours on the task, measured against the estimate
Dashboards and people analytics
Every number drills through to the tasks behind it

Jira is built for a specific job: engineering delivery at scale, with configurable workflows and agile ceremony built in. Planner.day is a lighter tool aimed at a different team.

Why teams move to Planner.day

The most common reason is weight. Jira rewards configuration and punishes teams who will not do it, and many smaller teams inherit a Jira that somebody else set up, then spend a year working around it. Planner.day has per-list statuses, priorities, custom fields, subtasks five levels deep and initiatives above projects. That is enough structure to grow into, without a configuration project before the first task lands.

The second reason is the two capabilities Jira leaves to other products in the suite. An MCP server, so an assistant can create tasks, change status and read analytics through a real protocol. And a customer feedback loop in the same subscription, covering the embeddable widget, the triage queue, the public voting roadmap and an automatic email to the reporter when the work ships.

Engineering links remain first-class. Tasks connect to GitHub issues, branches and pull requests with commit and pull request tracking, and writes use each member’s own token, so an action is attributed to the person who took it rather than to a shared bot account.

Price

Jira Standard is around $7.50 per user per month, roughly ₹660 converted. Planner.day Basic is ₹500 and Pro is ₹1,000 with the full feature set, billed in rupees with a GST invoice.