Shaire vs Jira

Jira is a deep, configurable tracker, and writing docs means adding Confluence. Shaire gives you tasks and a wiki in one tool for €20 a month.

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Last updated 3 September 2026. Every price and figure below links to its source.

Is Shaire a good alternative to Jira?

Shaire is a Jira alternative for teams of five to twenty-five that want tasks and documentation in one product. Jira is free for up to ten users and pairs with Confluence, a separate product with its own bill, for documentation. Shaire costs €20 a month for a workspace of up to ten people, tracker and wiki included. Jira offers an automation engine, SLAs, JQL, a marketplace, SSO and a mobile app, which Shaire does not.

What ten people cost

Shaire

Team plan

€20 excl. VAT a month

for the whole workspace, up to 10 people

Free tier: up to 2 people, every feature, no card

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Jira

Free, then Standard plan

free

free up to 10 users; Standard is quoted from Atlassian's own sliding calculator

Free tier: up to 10 users

See Jira's pricing

At ten people, Jira's free plan costs less than Shaire. It does not include a document editor. Confluence is a separate product with its own per-user bill.

Jira's figures were read from their own pricing page on 3 September 2026. Prices change; ours are in euros and theirs are quoted in whatever currency their page shows, with no conversion applied.

Feature by feature

What each product offers today, row by row.

Feature	Shaire	Jira
Tracking work
List and board views	Yes	Yes
Sub-tasks and typed relations	Yes	Yes
Sprints or cycles with capacity	Yes	Yes
Estimates, priorities, labels, multiple assignees	Yes	Yes
Custom fields and custom work typesCustom fields: yes, added from the grid. Custom work types: no, every item is a task.	Partly	Yes
Enforced workflow transitionsWhich status may follow which, set per status group, with an escape hatch that writes to the audit log when somebody takes it.	Yes	Yes
Automation rulesRecurring tasks that create themselves on a schedule, and workflow rules that set which status may follow which. There is no trigger/condition/action builder.	Partly	Yes
Timeline, roadmap and calendar viewsTimeline and calendar are view modes on any list, the timeline with dependency arrows. A roadmap by quarter, for somebody who never opens a task, is not built.	Partly	Yes
A query languageShaire has filters, saved views, and search with quoted phrases, or and negation. There is no query language like JQL.	Partly	Yes
Documentation
Documentation in the same productJira's answer is Confluence, which is a separate product on a separate subscription.	Yes	No
Nested page tree with sub-pages and backlinks	Yes	No
Diagrams and maths in documents	Yes	No
Live task lists embedded in a page	Yes	No
Promote a checklist item into a task	Yes	No
Realtime collaborative editingTwo people can type in the same page, and presence avatars show who else is on a list, a task or a page. There is no comment or suggestion mode, and a task description is not a shared document.	Yes	Yes
Page version historyPeriodic snapshots, a diff against any of them, and a restore.	Yes	Yes
Share a page publicly	No	Yes
Access and administration
Per-folder and per-list permissions	Yes	Yes
Grant access to a team once	Yes	Yes
Usable on day one with no configuration	Yes	No
SSO and SAML	No	Yes
Audit log you can readSettings → Audit. Workspace-wide and filterable: tasks, pages, milestones, the trash lifecycle and the workspace itself all write to it.	Yes	Yes
Platform
GitHub and GitLab branch and pull-request linking	Yes	Yes
Mobile app	No	Yes
Public APIScoped personal access tokens and 152 documented endpoints, at developers.shairelabs.com.	Yes	Yes
WebhooksSigned, retried and logged. An admin registers the endpoint in Settings; a delivery names what changed and you call the API for the detail.	Yes	Yes
Third-party app marketplace	No	Yes
Email notificationsShaire sends a daily or weekly digest when you switch one on, plus the messages an account needs: address confirmation, password reset, invitations. Comments, mentions and assignments go to the inbox inside Shaire, not to email.	Partly	Yes
Import from another tool	No	Yes
Export your data	No	Yes
Price
Free for a team of tenShaire's free plan covers two people. Jira's covers ten.	No	Yes
Priced per workspace rather than per seat	Yes	No
One subscription covers tasks and documentation	Yes	No

What Jira does well

Free for a team of ten

Atlassian offers Jira at $0 for up to ten users, on a permanent free plan. A team of ten or fewer can run its tracker at no cost.

A full automation engine

Jira includes a rule builder with triggers, conditions and actions that reach across your tools. Teams use it to automate steps in a deployment pipeline.

Precise search with JQL

Jira Query Language lets you write exact queries and reports across many projects. It suits organisations that search large volumes of tickets.

What Shaire does well

The tracker and wiki are one product

Shaire has a page tree next to the tracker, with one search box and one permission model. You can promote a checklist item into a task, and the task links back to the line it came from.

Workflow rules without a project scheme

Transition rules set which status may follow which, per status group. You set them in the app, with no project scheme to maintain.

Timeline and calendar views built in

Every list has a timeline with dependency arrows and a calendar you can drag tasks on. Both are included on every plan, including the free one.

Shaire is a project tracker and a team wiki in one product, built for teams of five to twenty-five. Jira is a tracker, and Atlassian sells documentation separately as Confluence. This page compares the two on features and price.

One product or two

Jira does not include a document editor. Atlassian sells Confluence separately, with its own bill. Atlassian prices both from a sliding calculator, so the figure depends on your headcount. Read it on their pricing page. Either way, you run two products, with two bills and two permission models.

Shaire costs a flat €20 a month for a workspace of up to ten people, and €59 a month for up to twenty-five. The tracker and the wiki are the same application. Inviting a designer who only needs to read a brief does not change the bill. The price changes once, when the team grows past ten.

Tasks and documents in one place

When a spec lives in one product and its tasks in another, the link between them is a URL someone pasted. Shaire keeps both in one workspace, with one search box and one permission model.

A page can hold a live filtered task list. When someone closes a task, the list on the page stays current.
You can promote a checklist item in a spec into a task. The task links back to the line it came from.
A milestone spans several lists and carries the writing that explains it.

Configuration

Jira can model almost any process, with custom work types, compliance rules and trigger-based automation. Large organisations use that range, often with someone who administers it.

Shaire works on day one. You create a list and start. Six statuses exist as soon as the workspace does. Custom fields, transition rules, an audit log and timeline views are there when your team wants them. Recurring tasks handle repeat work.

Leaving Shaire

An owner can close a workspace from Settings. On day zero, Shaire cancels the subscription, removes its webhooks from your git provider and hides the workspace. On day thirty, the data is deleted permanently. Until then, you can restore the workspace yourself, without a support request.

How to choose

Choose Jira if

You need SLAs, custom work types and a trigger-based automation engine.
You need single sign-on, a native mobile app or a data export.
You are ten people or fewer, want a free tracker and do not need a wiki.

Choose Shaire if

You want a project tracker and a wiki on one bill.
Your specs live in a separate tool and drift from the tasks they describe.
You want custom fields, workflow rules and timeline views without configuring a project scheme.

Common questions

Is Jira free for ten people?

Yes. Atlassian's Jira Free plan covers up to ten users, and it is a permanent plan. Documentation lives in Confluence, a separate product with its own bill.

What does €20 a month cover in Shaire?

A workspace of up to ten people, with the tracker and the wiki together. Every feature is on every plan. The plan sets how many people the workspace holds and how much it stores: 10 GB at €20, and 50 GB at €59 for up to twenty-five people. The free plan covers two people and 512 MB.

What happens if we try Shaire and decide to leave?

An owner can close the workspace from Settings. On day zero, Shaire cancels your Stripe subscription, removes its webhooks from your git provider and hides the workspace. On day thirty, the data is deleted permanently. Until then, you can restore the workspace yourself.

How is Shaire different from Jira?

Jira is a configurable tracker for organisations of any size, extended by Confluence and the Atlassian Marketplace. Shaire is built for teams of five to twenty-five. It puts tasks and documentation in one product, works with its defaults on day one and is priced per workspace.