Mehashi vs Jira
Mehashi is a lightweight Jira alternative for small teams: free for your first five people, then £1, $1 or €1 per seat per month. You get boards, lists, timelines and a calendar without JQL, custom workflow schemes or an admin certification. Jira still wins on enterprise governance — Mehashi wins on getting started today.
Jira is the default issue tracker for software organisations, and it earned that position: workflow schemes, permission schemes, JQL, sprints, an app marketplace, and the governance a 500-person engineering org needs. All of that is real value — for a 500-person engineering org.
Under about twenty people, most of it becomes configuration you maintain instead of work you ship. Mehashi is the other trade: four statuses, five priorities, five views, and a price you can approve without a procurement thread.
Mehashi vs Jira,
line by line.
Everything below is either a published price we looked up or behaviour that ships today. Where Jira wins, the row says so.
| Feature | Mehashi | Jira |
|---|---|---|
| £1 / $1 / €1 per seat, same number | Yes | From ~$8 |
| Free for first 5 people, forever | Yes | Up to 10 |
| Monthly bill for a team of 12 | £7 / $7 / €7 | ~$95 |
| Setup in under 15 minutes | Yes | No |
| Board, list, and timeline views | Yes | Yes |
| Calendar view included on the free plan | Yes | Paid plans |
| Per-project notes, links and files | Yes | Via Confluence |
| Custom workflows and custom fields | No | Yes |
| Live multiplayer updates without a refresh | No | Yes |
| App marketplace / third-party integrations | Slack shortcut only | Marketplace |
| Native mobile apps | Mobile web | Yes |
| Self-serve cancel, no annual commit | Yes | Yes |
| JQL-style query language | No | Yes |
| Sprints, story points and burndown | No | Yes |
| Admin work before your first task | None | Project + scheme setup |
| One task on several project boards | Yes | Via linked issues |
Competitor prices are approximate published per-user monthly rates as of August 2026 — check their sites for current numbers.
Where Jira is the better choice.
We would rather lose the signup than win a team that churns in a month. If any of these describe you, stay where you are.
Process you have to prove
Custom workflow schemes, required fields, approval gates and audit trails. If a regulator or a customer contract dictates how work moves, Jira models it and Mehashi does not.
Scale and the ecosystem
Thousands of Marketplace apps, Advanced Roadmaps for cross-team planning, and tight coupling to Confluence, Bitbucket and Jira Service Management.
Deep software workflows
Sprints, story points, velocity, release versions and JQL reporting are first-class in Jira. Mehashi has statuses, priorities, due dates and a timeline — deliberately less.
Switch to Mehashi if…
Free for your first five people, then £1, $1 or €1 per seat per month — the same number in every currency, not an exchange rate.
- Your team is under about twenty people and nobody's job title includes "Jira admin".
- You spend more time in the configuration screens than on the board.
- The per-seat bill is the reason half your team never got an account.
- You want new joiners productive on day one, not after a training session.
Is Mehashi cheaper than Jira?
For most small teams, yes. Jira Cloud's Free plan covers up to 10 users; its Standard plan is roughly $8 per user per month after that, so a team of 12 pays about $95 a month. Mehashi is free for your first 5 people and £1 / $1 / €1 per seat after that, so the same team of 12 pays for 7 seats — about £7 a month. Prices are approximate published rates as of August 2026.
Can Mehashi replace Jira for a software team?
For a small product team tracking features, bugs and releases on a board with a timeline: yes. For an org that depends on sprints with story points, JQL reporting, custom workflow schemes or Marketplace apps: no, and we would rather tell you that now than after a migration.
Does Mehashi support custom workflows like Jira?
Not today. Mehashi ships one fixed set of statuses — Todo, In progress, Check and Done — plus five priorities and per-project labels. That is a deliberate constraint, not a roadmap gap we are hiding: it is why setup takes minutes instead of a workshop.
How do we migrate our Jira issues to Mehashi?
There is no automated Jira importer yet. Teams that switch typically move only their open work by hand — usually an afternoon — and leave closed issues in Jira as an archive. If a bulk import would decide it for you, email hello@mehashi.com and tell us what your export looks like.
What does Mehashi not do that Jira does?
No JQL, no custom workflows or fields, no sprints or story points, no app marketplace, no native mobile apps, and no live multiplayer updates — the board refreshes when you act or navigate rather than pushing teammates' edits in real time.