Jira vs Polarion Requirements comparison

Atlassian and Siemens are both solutions in the Application Requirements Management category. Atlassian is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.5, while Siemens is ranked #4 with an average rating of 7.8. Atlassian holds a 11.2% mindshare in ARM, compared to Siemens’s 16.9% mindshare. Additionally, 91% of Atlassian users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 80% of Siemens users who would recommend it.

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80% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Apr 6, 2025

Polarion Requirements and Jira are project management and requirement tracking tools. While Polarion shines in structured requirement management, Jira is preferred for its flexible, agile project management features, giving it an edge due to its extensive integrations.

Features: Polarion emphasizes traceability, customizable workflows, and linked work items, making it suitable for regulated industries. Key features include link tracing, sequence training, and book entry. Jira excels with agile boards, third-party integrations, and customizable dashboards. Key features include issue and bug tracking, powerful API integrations, and agile boards.

Room for Improvement: Polarion could improve its integration ease with third-party tools and enhance its user interface for more intuitive navigation. It could also benefit from a wider range of pre-configured templates. Jira could improve in handling large datasets without performance issues and enhance support for complex project setups. It lacks automatic capacity planning and advanced workload forecasting.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Polarion offers an on-premises deployment option with dedicated customer support, ideal for controlled environments. Jira is cloud-based, backed by extensive online resources and community support, aligning well with teams needing scalable access.

Pricing and ROI: Polarion involves a higher initial setup cost, justified by its depth in requirements management. Jira's subscription model is cost-effective, allowing quick deployment and ROI, making it appealing to startups and agile teams.

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Categories and Ranking

Jira

Ranking in Application Requirements Management

2nd

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

280

Ranking in other categories

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites (1st), Project Management Software (1st)

Polarion Requirements

Ranking in Application Requirements Management

4th

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Application Requirements Management category, the mindshare of Jira is 11.2%, down from 15.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Polarion Requirements is 16.9%, up from 15.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Requirements Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Jira	11.2%
Polarion Requirements	16.9%
Other	71.9%

Application Requirements Management

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Akhil Viswam

Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

Agile workflows have streamlined sprint planning and tracking for faster feature delivery

Jira has a very good interface and it is very easy to manage sprints, tasks, and epics. The main feature is the hierarchy, as features can be converted into epics and topics, allowing bigger tasks to be partitioned into smaller ones. The hierarchy feature in Jira helps the team significantly compared to other tools that have been used, such as Trello, which is mainly useful only for a waterfall model. For modern Agile practices, Jira is the most adapted tool in the industry. Another valuable feature is that Jira APIs have been used for data science projects to analyze tasks and get insights. This has also been very helpful in the project.

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reviewer2798628

Project Manager at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees

Comprehensive traceability has supported regulated projects but review workflows still need improvement

The ability to manage requirements through the whole project life is somewhat unclear. We are not using the ability to track all requirements through the whole project life for analytics very much. We have a way to easily find all the requirements of a complex product, even if they are spread over different Polarion Requirements projects. We do not have any issues in that area, but we are not really using the analytics part of Polarion Requirements. I am satisfied with the integration capabilities for Polarion Requirements, but it depends. We encountered a lot of issues with the integration with Enterprise Architect. We were in contact with Lemon Tree company, which provides support for that integration, but we eventually decided to develop our own plugins for Polarion Requirements. That is unfortunate, but we are not really happy with their implementation. There are things that are going really well, but alongside this, there are also things that are not yet implemented, which is quite annoying for us. The main point for improvement or lack of functions that I would like to address in Polarion Requirements is really about the review process, which is a bit too limited. When we are developing complex products, we have to review big life documents or a set of work items, but there are a lot of issues with that. For example, very simple things: if you select a word and not a space in the document, you are not able to add comments, and it is not user-friendly. If you know that you have to put the cursor and not select the word, that is something people can live with, but for newcomers, it is frustrating. They will ask questions such as 'I cannot add a comment about this word' or for a selection of text. That is something annoying. You can do that in a simple Word document, but not in Polarion Requirements. Also, the ability to review a table or generated dynamic content is not possible in Polarion Requirements. For example, if you generate automatically a list of tests, you cannot click on the second one; you can only click at the beginning of the generated sections. I am somewhat satisfied with Polarion Requirements' functionality, but I feel a lack of certain functions regarding the review, which is a bit too limited. The review process is the main pain point for me, especially since we are in a highly regulated environment where reviews are crucial for us.

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Pros

"The solution is stable and reliable."

"I like that all of the team members on an agile team can use it. No one is in a separate application."

"Our Premier Support engineer was extremely helpful with deployment."

"It is easy to integrate Jira within our current IT environment. Jira has connectors and supports various integration."

"It has improved the Agile process in our company."

"Reporting: It gives a nice report of my backlog and what my team has currently spent its efforts on."

"The biggest advantage Jira offers is flexibility because it's very flexible, and you can build your own workflows and make it work exactly the way your team needs and integrate it with almost every third-party software."

"The agile framework works well, and I pretty much live by that. Everything, such as sprint management, is laid out."

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"The most beneficial features of Polarion Requirements for traceability include the traceability function and also the historical and matchmaking or cross-referencing, which was very good."

"The solution is especially great for organizing folders effectively."

"We use the product to review and assign requirements we receive from customers."

"The most beneficial features of Polarion Requirements for traceability include the traceability function and also the historical and matchmaking or cross-referencing, which was very good."

"I would say there is value in how powerful, configurable, and user-friendly it is."

"In my opinion, Polarion Requirements' most beneficial feature is the ability to manage specifications within a work-like document that functions as a work item. Its collaboration features have worked very well and have been very useful. We can easily exchange information with the testing team, the business, and with DevOps."

"It is easier to produce documents using the platform."

"The biggest improvement would be in the transparency we have now. We have very complex products. We make whole systems with difficult and diverse areas such as hardware, software, mechanical and printing, etc. To get the overview of all the requirements into a system, at that sizing, is the main advantage we have in the organization now."

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Cons

"There should be a way to look for specific comments. When we have thousands of comments on a Jira ticket, there is no way to look at the comments of a specific type. In the comments, if there is a way to put a tag, it would be helpful. For example, when there are a lot of lengthy discussions happening on a particular ticket, there could be a conclusion tag or something like that to indicate a conclusion. It would help in sorting the comments based on a certain category, such as conclusion."

"The solution needs more integrations with Azure DevOps OnPrem."

"Improvements in Jira for the next release could include adding AI tools for dashboarding, making it easier to report insights, and enhancing business intelligence capabilities. It should also improve on-prem support. As far as I know, Jira's on-premise support is being discontinued. From last year onward, they stopped providing on-premise licenses and now only offer cloud support. This shift happened gradually, and I believe they now only offer cloud licenses."

"There should be a way to integrate the mobile application or in some way, make it more clear because at first instance, I didn't understand how to use it."

"It would be very practical if you can more freely reach the information that is already inside the system. Currently, we have to buy add-ons for it. There is a lot of information in the Jira system that you can handle only through add-ons. You cannot reach such information on your own. If you want to use this information, which is already in the system, you have to buy some add-on to use. For example, information about how much time an assignee is spending on a ticket is there in the system, but you cannot access it without an add-on. JQL is a very good way to reach the data inside Jira. If we can reach more objects, even through JQL, it would be great."

"The solution lacks integration with visualization tools like Power BI or Tableau, which would be beneficial for better insights."

"Backlog pruning and visualization are poor."

"A more organized hierarchy is important. Reporting and JQL create issues for me. They do not completely cover the reporting part that I need to report in terms of my capacity to plan. In the same token, there is no record at this very moment to provide me with one export with epics story points, tasks, or issues and their sub-tasks at the same time."

More Jira cons

"Its user interface could be more user friendly. In addition, a lot of features are missing for test management. It should have the test case ordering feature."

"The one thing I would mention is the license policy is a little bit difficult. For different roles, you will need different license models. That seems a little bit difficult for us. Especially when you introduce such a complex system, you want to know the right way is to do licensing. It's not clear what that best way would be. The solution will be here for a long time, and I just think it could be more clear."

"The usability of the solution should also be improved."

"If we have more than one thousand work items in one live-book then it becomes almost unusable."

"It is stable enough but if you would like to work with more requirement objects, then you will get timeouts."

"The platform's review process for the documents could be better."

"One thing to consider is increased flexibility in terms of workflow configuration."

"Polarion Requirement needs to have a feature where we can track changes and compare documents. Currently, we do it manually."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We make use of the solution free of charge."

"The price is quite competitive."

"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."

"There is a monthly license required for this solution and it is expensive."

"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 of Jira could be lower."

"Our client handles the licensing aspect. They have not yet purchased the premium version."

"It is very cheap if you forego the local instance and stick to the cloud."

More Jira pricing and cost advice

"It is expensive but not for what it is. It is just the right price for what it is. Its price is also similar to other solutions."

"The pricing model is flexible. You don't have to pay for the full functionalities. And it's a one-time investment for the licenses. You purchase what you need and then can work with that."

"I rate the solution's pricing a seven out of ten."

"The product's price is high."

"Polarion Requirements is a little pricey."

"I believe the cost is subjective. It seems a bit pricey, but it depends on your perspective. To provide some context, I compared the prices with GitLab and Jira. Unfortunately, I couldn't find Jira's prices. However, GitLab costs around 40 euros, and DeepLab, which I recently discovered, also falls in a similar price range. I'm not sure about DeepLab's features or interface improvements, as they might have been implementing requirements management over the past six months. In contrast, Polarion costs around 50 to 60 euros based on the 2021 prices I have. While it may seem a bit expensive, it's worth considering whether the additional investment, perhaps around 68 euros per user, is justified. It might appear costly at first glance, but it's essential to acknowledge that it can greatly streamline your work processes."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

18%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Computer Software Company

Government

Manufacturing Company

28%

Healthcare Company

Computer Software Company

Transportation Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	107
Midsize Enterprise	57
Large Enterprise	150

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	5

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What do you like most about Polarion Requirements?

In my opinion, Polarion Requirements' most beneficial feature is the ability to manage specifications within a work-like document that functions as a work item. Its collaboration features have work...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Polarion Requirements?

I purchased Polarion Requirements directly from Siemens Benelux, but if you have any ideas to get a license at a better price, we are quite interested in discussing that.

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Overview

Jira is a powerful cloud- and subscription-based application lifecycle and issue management solution. It is designed to aid users both in project management and in resolving any issues that arise at any point in the software development process. It is especially concerned with easing the ability of developers to collaborate.

Jira Benefits

Some of the ways that organizations can benefit by choosing to deploy Jira include:

DevOps lifecycle visibility and planning. Jira provides application developers with tools that enable them to track and visualize where they are in the development process. This means that a DevOps team can measure their progress at all times. Jira’s roadmapping feature also enables a DevOps team to work more efficiently by setting goals for their projects, keeping them on track. Additionally, they are able to track whether they are meeting the goals that they set for their projects.

Regular product updates. Atlassian is constantly updating Jira so that it is continuously evolving into an ever more powerful and user-friendly solution. Users can be sure that the product that they are using is always being tweaked so as to provide them with the best possible project management solution.

Flexibility. Jira enables users to customize their workflows and dashboard so that the solution is operating in a way that best matches their needs. Jira can also integrate with more than 3,000 other applications and integrations. Organizations can use it to expand their project management and DevOps capabilities in many different ways.

Jira Features

Security capabilities. Jira is equipped with a number of useful security features. It gives administrators the ability to restrict access to certain tools so that only users who are authorized to complete certain tasks have access to the tools related to the completion of that task. Users can also set default permissions so that only particular users can work on new projects or particular projects.

Real-time notification feature. Users can set Jira so that it offers them notifications that contain critical information in real time. It can send users email notifications when pressing issues have been updated. They can also set it to notify them about tasks that may be due, or other similar events.
Activity log. Jira has the ability to track any and all changes that are taking place within the software framework. Users can keep a close eye on everything that is going on. This promotes a high level of visibility and can be leveraged to aid developers in their collaboration efforts.

Reviews from Real Users

Jira is a powerful solution that stands out when compared to many of its competitors. Two major advantages it offers are its workflow engine and its highly customizable dashboard.

Bharath R., the tool implementation and project management lead at a financial services firm, writes, “I feel the strongest feature of Jira is its workflow engine. It empowers us to automate our workflows within our organization. It's the one characteristic of Jira which I think can help any organization, be it in any domain.”

Uday J., a staff engineer at a computer company, says, “Another thing that I like a lot about Jira is that in the dashboard, you can plug the modules that you want. You can enable certain sections. For example, you can show trend history, open Jira tickets, etc. Some of the managers have created a dashboard for each engineer.”

Atlassian

Polarion REQUIREMENTS is designed from the ground for highly effective, transparent and secure collaboration, while teams have the option to work in their familiar environments.

Siemens

Sample Customers

Square, Nasa, eBay, Cisco, SalesForce, Adobe, BNP Paribas, BMW and LinkedIn, Pfizer, Citi.

NetSuite, Ottobock, Zumtobel Group, Kªster Automotive GmbH, Sirona Dental Systems, LifeWatch, U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), PHOENIX CONTACT Electronics GmbH, Metso Corporation

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