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JIRA Service Management vs LiveAgent comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 29, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

JIRA Service Management
Ranking in Help Desk Software
2nd
Ranking in IT Service Management (ITSM)
2nd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
88
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
LiveAgent
Ranking in Help Desk Software
40th
Ranking in IT Service Management (ITSM)
41st
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Knowledge Management Software (18th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Help Desk Software category, the mindshare of JIRA Service Management is 6.5%, down from 10.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of LiveAgent is 0.9%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Help Desk Software Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
JIRA Service Management6.5%
LiveAgent0.9%
Other92.6%
Help Desk Software
 

Featured Reviews

Sohaib Ahmad - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President Service Delivery at quixel
Comprehensive workflows and data views have supported complex teams but still need cost improvements
JIRA Service Management is costly. The pricing structure needs improvement. When I add some plugins, I have to pay the cost for every user whether they are using it or not. For smaller companies, the detailed workflow editing and the kind of details that JIRA Service Management provides would be complex. For startups and smaller companies, JIRA Service Management would be complex. The cloud offering is easier because I don't have to manage the infrastructure. There are two templates of the project: company-managed and team-managed. Team-managed is a newer feature, which is good for startup-kind companies where they don't need control over data from multiple projects displaying in one dashboard. For startups, JIRA Service Management is somewhat complex with its schemes and everything. Capacity management should be improved in terms of additional features in the next release of JIRA Service Management.
OO
Assistant customer support manager
Prioritizes tasks and easily organizes messages and responses
I've not really noticed anything that needs to be improved with the solution. Generally, I enjoyed everything. Every feature LiveAgent has was a seamless journey for me. Maybe there are others who might notice one or two flaws on LiveAgent. I use LiveAgent, but based on my position in the company as a live chat professional, there is a level that I am restricted to. There are other products that are more popular and effective than LiveAgent, like Zendesk and HubSpot. They are among the most popular live chat products, and they have more users. I will advise that LiveAgent should look at what these other people are doing and use it to improve themselves. LiveAgent should add more functionalities.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Reporting and easy export to Excel spreadsheets."
"Developing processes is easy and user-friendly."
"The customer portal allows users to register tickets themselves."
"The SLA, speed, the comments from agents' side, and the dashboard for agents are the most valuable features."
"A good organizational tool."
"In Jira Service Management, the most beneficial features are process improvement, workflows, and escalations."
"One of the main advantages of JIRA is that it can be customized for our solutions. I live in Iran and we translated some parts of it into Persian and customized it with extra features. We hid other features to customize it right to the point. We provide this solution for our customers."
"JIRA SD also helps for much better feedback on the work being done. All colleagues can see what is happening."
"The most valuable feature was how the solution helped us to prioritize tasks."
"Provides service level optimization."
 

Cons

"Jira Service Management is expensive and not worth the money compared to monday.com."
"When you raise a ticket with Jira, there's no ability to see your other JIRA tickets."
"It is pretty complex to move between the test environment and the production environment. There is potential for improvement."
"If JIRA were more of a substantial stand-alone product that covered more needs for project management, we wouldn't be using a suite of products."
"An improvement they could add is a better management dashboard. We only use the dashboard for the administration mode. We have a dashboard that reports the state of bugs or requirements. However, customers can only view requests that they made. We are not able to share a dashboard with our manager level customers to show them all of the requests in a quick dashboard."
"Instability happens sometimes - although not frequently."
"I don't think the program is very scalable."
"JIRA protects the end-user, but for the configuration, more rules could be added to improve the workflow."
"Connection to other softwares could be improved."
"There are other products that are more popular."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We may upgrade the license that we have. The license that we currently have is good for 500 agents, and it's not full yet."
"Do not forget to calculate add-on costs. These cost a percentage of the JIRA purchasing costs and are based on the number of JIRA users."
"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."
"Costs are about $50 per user per year. JIRA is sold in user tiers of 25, 50, 100, 250, 500, 2000, 10,000, and unlimited users. It is bad when you have 51 users then the price is based on that 100 user tier. Users at 100 will be the most cost effective."
"We need a license because we have a higher number than the free part."
"Jira Service Management has affordable license fees. It's $12 a month per person."
"JIRA Service Desk has different pricing as it is based on agents. On average, the price is about $300 per agent."
"The cost has recently increased. It might be around $20 to $25 per user license."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Educational Organization
8%
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Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business30
Midsize Enterprise24
Large Enterprise33
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Also Known As

JIRA Service Desk, Atlassian Jira Service Management
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Overview

 

Sample Customers

mgm technology partners, Telestream, Build.com, Zend Technologies, OfficeDrop, PGS Software, American Diabetes Association, NEPTUNE Canada
Orange, Huawei, T Mobile, eOn, Solid Trust Pay, G4S, Oxford University
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