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Basecamp vs Jira comparison

 

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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 May 2025, in the Project Management Software category, the mindshare of Basecamp is 0.9%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Jira is 9.2%, up from 8.6% 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 ease of use is valuable."
"The ability to network informally is great for communicating with colleagues."
"The most valuable feature is the Burndown Chart to see work that is outstanding."
"It is easy to deploy in the cloud and other environments. It is also easy to view the reports of the sprint review or the sprint plan and the relation between the backlog and the repositories."
"The solution's most valuable features revolve around the dashboard view, which has a burndown chart indicating progress."
"It is a good defect tracking tool. It has a lot of capabilities and functionalities. There are a lot of graphs and a lot of tracking. It can be sprint-driven if you want."
"Its visual display and ease of use are most valuable."
"I have found Jira to be stable."
"We love the bulk edit feature. Jira also integrates well with Bitbucket."
"I have found Jira to be scalable."
 

Cons

"The solution could be more user-friendly."
"The product isn't easy to use. It's not very intuitive."
"I would like to have a future-proof idea of the cost and the roadmap for my class."
"Pretty much 70% - 80% of the Next-Gen Projects features are still to be developed."
"Jira required a significant amount of system resources, particularly for larger organizations with extensive workflows and numerous projects."
"What I don't like is that perhaps there are not so many different apps that can add value over the management side of the product."
"I'm mostly focusing on the requirements traceability with my thesis, the integration could improve for other tools. The companies are not only using Jira. For example, for the test cases or for the documents templates, we are using Polarion and we have been having some integration issues."
"The performance and stability are visibly degrading since the database has been growing every year."
"Jira is a little bit old fashioned, it could be more user friendly."
"The filtration could be better."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The price seems reasonable to me. It's very similar to Splunk."
"It's not very cheap. It's also not very costly. I'd rate it a five out of ten in terms of pricing."
"The price at the moment for Jira is okay. I'm absolutely not amused with the plans to try to drive us to the cloud or to other licensing models. For the very simple reason that we are a company in the defense sector where cloud is problematic in a number of the domains. We are now approximately 60 users and the new policy will actually confront us with an upscale to approximately 500 users. I find it unacceptable, and may potentially lead us to look for another solution."
"To try this solution, use their cloud offering to get familiar. After that, it's in my view worth the money."
"The price of the solution could be less expensive. We pay annually for the solution."
"It is subscription-based, and we probably pay yearly. I would rate it a four out of five in terms of price."
"We are using the enterprise license which is nice because it ensures that we always have the latest versions of Jira software."
"It is not too expensive. It is just comparative to other tools like Microsoft Teams."
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Educational Organization
48%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Computer Software Company
6%
 

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