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Berg vs Jira

Jira is the standard tool for software teams that run Scrum or Kanban at scale, with deep workflow configuration and a large app marketplace. Berg covers sprints, boards and reports too, and adds team chat, docs, goals and a shared inbox in the same workspace, so everyday work does not need three more tools.

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Which one fits your team

Jira is a great fit when you need

  • Highly configurable workflows, issue types and permission schemes for large engineering organizations.
  • A query language and a very large marketplace of apps and integrations.
  • Deep links with the rest of the Atlassian suite, such as Confluence and Bitbucket.

Berg is the better fit when you want

  • Discussion happens next to the work: channels and threads link task keys like WEB-142 both ways.
  • One workspace for engineering, marketing and operations, without separate products for docs and chat.
  • Sprints, burndown and velocity without a configuration project to get started.

Feature by feature

Berg compared with Jira
Capability Berg Jira
Tasks with subtasks at any depth Built in Built in
List, board, calendar, timeline and table views Built in Built in Some views depend on plan
Sprints with burndown and velocity Built in Built in
Rule-based automations Built in Status, priority and assignment triggers Built in
Custom fields Built in Eight field types Built in
Team chat: channels, threads, direct messages Built in Separate tool Usually Slack or Microsoft Teams
Docs and wikis Built in Separate tool Confluence, a separate product
Goals and key results Built in Partly
Shared inbox for company email Built in Google, Microsoft or any IMAP / POP3 mailbox Separate tool Service desk email channels
Workload, throughput and cycle-time reports Built in Built in
REST API with personal tokens Built in Built in

Based on publicly available information about Jira, checked October 2026. Features vary by plan and change over time; see Jira's own site for current details. Jira is a trademark of its owner.

Moving from Jira

Most teams move one active project first, keep Jira read-only for a while, and bring the rest over once the team is settled.

  1. 1

    Export your issues from Jira as CSV.

  2. 2

    Create a project in Berg for each Jira project and set up matching statuses in project settings.

  3. 3

    Recreate custom fields, then bring tasks in through the REST API or by adding them in bulk.

  4. 4

    Invite the team and move the related Slack channel into a Berg channel for that project.

Berg and Jira: common questions

Can Berg run Scrum the way we do in Jira?

Yes. Plan sprints, start one per project, track story points on a burndown chart and see velocity across completed sprints. Unfinished work moves to the next sprint or back to the backlog when a sprint ends.

Does Berg have custom workflows?

Every project has its own statuses, grouped into backlog, not started, in progress, completed and cancelled. Automations can change status, priority, assignees, labels, due dates and sprints when something happens.

Is Berg a replacement for Confluence as well?

Berg includes docs with nested pages, version history and comments. Teams with very large Confluence spaces may want to keep them while moving day-to-day work into Berg.

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Try Berg alongside Jira

Set up a project in a few minutes and run it in Berg for a sprint. No credit card, and your data stays exportable.

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