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Agiloft Service Desk Suite vs JIRA Service Management comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 1, 2024

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

Categories and Ranking

Agiloft Service Desk Suite
Ranking in Help Desk Software
45th
Average Rating
9.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
JIRA Service Management
Ranking in Help Desk Software
2nd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
86
Ranking in other categories
IT Service Management (ITSM) (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Help Desk Software category, the mindshare of Agiloft Service Desk Suite is 0.4%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of JIRA Service Management is 8.7%, down from 12.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

MG
Our customer service and productivity have increased in quality and quantity since using this product
Agiloft has a great support team to help the process along. They are affordable, friendly, and knowledgeable. The tech support team acts like walking encyclopedias. They know databases and programming. After all these years, we hardly need to speak to Agiloft anymore. However, they have great customer support. Every time we need something from them, they make our small troubles go away quickly.
Karim Yousef - PeerSpot reviewer
Efficiently track and document projects with seamless tool integration
We are a management warehouse that provides services to different customers in different sectors. Primarily, we serve the banking sector and the military sector. We manage all the software delivery projects through tools such as JIRA Service Management or TFS Confluence is a great tool for…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Our customer service and productivity have increased in quality and quantity since using this product."
"Transparency of the system helps both internal and external persons involved."
"This is the most complete and versatile enterprise task management product and issue tracker."
"The tool is scalable."
"It helps with time management and team management of the new tasks."
"Jira lets us customize the workflow to meet our requirements. The email and alert features are also handy."
"The links between the help desk and Jira issues and between Confluence and Jira issues are most valuable. I can write requirements in Confluence and link them to user stories in Jira and test cases. I can see my test coverage and all that kind of stuff. The integration between these three is very useful. It is pretty customizable, and it integrates well. There are a lot of add-ins and a lot of connectors to third-party products. In my last company, we used Test Royal for managing all the tests, and it integrated perfectly with that. For any issue or bug, we could see what tests have been run and the complete history of the tests."
"The automations will really help the company by delegating work the way your company operates."
"It is much more controlled and allows for different kinds of customization that we can plan and implement based on the project requirements."
 

Cons

"We have found the documentation a bit confusing at times. This area could use some improvement."
"JSM's ability to handle large volumes of emails isn't great."
"As a consultant, I have used the support. Some of the support I have received has been good and other times it could improve."
"I would like to see improvement in the ability to filter completed tasks."
"The initial setup of JIRA Service Management can be complex for new users. There is a lot of configuration."
"The way it handles subtasks can be improved. We would really like the ability to have different types of subtasks. If we have a user story for a feature, we would like to have a subtask for documentation, a subtask for requirements, a subtask for development, and a subtask for testing. Right now, we just make four subtasks, but there is no way to specify their type, so we have to add a custom field to specify what type of work is this. It just means you've got to look at more data. For logging time or time tracking, we would like to have something using which we can define the work type we're doing. We would like to log whether we're working on a bug, a new development, scope change, or rework. We've got a user story for which we do the dev, and then we have to do more dev. It is the same story, but some of it could have been a scope change, and some of it could be a rework because we either screwed up the first time or missed something obvious. Currently, we have to have a custom field and track that separately. It would be nice to have some kind of work type for logging time."
"The product does not have the capability to sort queued tickets by product. This would be useful in making workflows more efficient."
"The reporting function of this solution, particularly the filters in the portal, could be improved."
"The support we received was not fully provided at that time."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Agiloft has by far the best entry point for both cost and learning curve."
"After about six months, we started making a return on our investment at more than 300%."
"For the people like us, the lower the price, the better. But when compared to other competitors, I think it's Jira's price is okay."
"Jira Service Management has affordable license fees. It's $12 a month per person."
"The pricing is very competitive and I think that it is okay."
"JIRA Service Desk has different pricing as it is based on agents. On average, the price is about $300 per agent."
"It costs around $150 to $200 per user."
"Buying a software solution is only a half part of the solution (or even less). You need to optimize usage of the software by hiring professionals who will help you to make the most of the software, especially in the beginning."
"The pricing is free for us because we are an associate partner for the product."
"I am using the free version, but my clients are paying for it. When they start, they evaluate it for 30 days, and after seeing the value, they move to its paid version."
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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company
19%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
6%
 

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Also Known As

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JIRA Service Desk
 

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Sample Customers

EMC, ArcaTech Systems, Idera Pharmaceuticals, RBC, Affinity Service Group, Atrenta, DCG systems, ENKI, Hopkins County Board of Education, MVTS Technologies
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