You won't find competitor names on our landing page — that space is for showing you the product. But if you're choosing a tracker, you deserve the comparison spelled out. Here it is, against the four tools we're most often weighed against, using their published list prices as of July 2026. Check them; they move.
Free tiers: who gives you a real team?
A free tier tells you how a vendor thinks about small teams:
- StrideP: 10 seats, unlimited projects, all nine views, the full AI project manager, MCP + API agent access, 2 GB storage.
- Jira: 10 users, unlimited projects, 2 GB storage — solid, but AI (Rovo) starts at paid tiers.
- Linear: unlimited members but capped at 2 teams and 250 issues — a taste, not a team home.
- Asana: up to 2 people. monday: up to 2 seats. Effectively trials.
Entry paid tier, per user per month
Published list prices for the first paid tier, normalized per user per month:
- StrideP Team: €5 billed annually, €7 month-to-month.
- Jira Standard: $7.91 (monthly billing).
- monday Basic: €9 (billed annually).
- Linear Basic: $10 (billed yearly).
- Asana Starter: €10.99 (billed annually).
- Second tiers, same story: StrideP Business €9/€12 vs Jira Premium $14.54, Linear Business $16, monday Pro €19, Asana Advanced €24.99.
What the sticker price hides
The bigger gap is what's included. Jira meters its AI through Rovo credits by tier. monday sells AI as credit packs from Basic up. Asana's AI Studio is an add-on with its own bill. Linear is the most generous of the four — agent features exist on its free tier — but it's an engineering tool by design; marketing, sales, and ops don't live there.
In StrideP the AI project manager — triage, standups, sprint proposals, forecasts, duplicate detection, plain-English automations — is included on every plan, on your choice of model: built-in, or bring your own Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini key (which also cuts paid seats 15%, because you're covering inference).
And agents never count as seats. Your Claude, Cursor, or custom agents connect over the built-in MCP server and REST API on every plan, attributed and audited like any teammate — while the per-seat incumbents are inventing discounted 'agent seats' to bill you for your own software.
Where they're genuinely strong
An honest comparison cuts both ways. Jira has two decades of engineering depth and the biggest marketplace; if you need a niche plugin, it exists there first. Linear is beautifully fast and its opinionated craft is real. Asana has brand trust in work management, and monday's template breadth across departments is impressive.
Our bet is simpler: one tracker with Jira-class depth, Linear-class speed ambitions, whole-company templates, the AI included instead of metered, open agent access instead of a catalog — at a price that undercuts all four. If any of those trade-offs matter to you, the free tier is a 10-seat, no-card way to check our claims.
Switching is the boring part
The Jira importer connects to your site, lists your projects, and brings issues across with statuses, assignees, and numbering intact. Trello and Asana importers plus CSV cover the rest. Most teams are dragging cards within the hour.