Project tracking · head to head

Orbiz Cadence vs Jira

Zohaib KhalidPrices checked 24 September 2026

Jira is the most capable issue tracker there is, priced per user with a free tier that ends at ten. Cadence is the project tracker inside Orbiz: boards, sprints, issues, sub-tasks, custom fields, comments and reports, with no per-seat price and a live link to the hours and cost behind each project. Choose Jira if your process depends on Marketplace add-ons, automation rules or the Atlassian stack. Choose Cadence if you want a tracker the whole company can be on, connected to time tracking and profitability rather than to a marketplace.

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Head to head

Orbiz Cadence against Jira, row by row

Read from Jira's own product and pricing pages. 3 rows are ones Orbiz loses; they are left in.

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Capability comparison of Orbiz Cadence and Jira
	Orbiz Cadence	Jira
How it is priced	One flat price per organisation, unlimited members, all ten tools	Standard: $9.05 per user a month billed monthly for up to 100 users; flat annual tiers from $900 a year for 1–10 users.
No per-user charge	Yes	No
Scrum and kanban boards with configurable statuses	Yes	Yes
Sprints, sub-tasks and custom fields	Yes	Yes
Comments, mentions and activity history	Yes	Yes
Workload and delivery reports	Yes	Yes
Hours and cost per project from the same platform¹	Yes	No
Same people and roles as HR, attendance and payroll	Yes	No
Automation rules engine	No	Yes
Add-on marketplace	No	Yes
Cross-project roadmaps and plans²	Partly	Yes
Confluence, Bitbucket and service-desk integration	No	Yes
Connector for Claude and ChatGPT (MCP)³	Yes	Yes

¹Jira needs a time-tracking add-on and a separate cost source.
²Cadence sprints link to Trackline milestones; there is no roadmap view on the board.
³Atlassian’s Rovo MCP server is generally available for Jira and Confluence (read 2026-10-04).

Vendor prices are US list prices in USD as published on each vendor's own pricing page on 24 September 2026, annual billing where the vendor offers it, without first-year promotions. Each product name links to that page. Vendors change prices; if a figure here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it. Orbiz prices are on the pricing page, one flat figure per organisation by headcount band.

In their own words

What each one is good at

Orbiz Cadence

Projects, boards and configurable statuses
Sprints, issues, sub-tasks and custom fields
Comments, mentions and activity history
Team workload and delivery reports

Everything Cadence does

Jira

Scrum and kanban boards with backlog, sprints and configurable workflows
Roles, permissions and audit logs from Standard
Automation rules with per-plan run allowances
Cross-project plans and roadmaps on Premium
Dashboards and reports; Atlassian Analytics on Enterprise
Sandbox and release tracks on Premium

From Jira's own pages. Best for: Engineering organisations whose process depends on Marketplace add-ons and automation rules.

FAQ

Orbiz vs Jira: what people ask

What does Jira Standard cost against Cadence?

Jira Standard is about $9.05 per user a month billed monthly, or flat annual tiers from $900 a year for up to ten users, rising with headcount. Cadence has no price of its own: it is one of ten tools in the Orbiz flat price per organisation, so a forty-person company pays nothing extra to put all forty on the boards.

Will Cadence feel familiar to a Jira team?

Yes, in the parts most teams use daily — backlog, sprint, board, issue with sub-tasks and custom fields, comments. It will feel lighter where Jira is heavier: no workflow schemes, no permission schemes, no automation builder.

Can we keep Jira for engineering and use Orbiz for everything else?

Yes. Tools are switched on per organisation, so a company can run HRMS, AMS, Trackline and Ledgr on Orbiz and leave engineering on Jira. Hours logged in AMS against a Trackline project still reach the margin view; only the bug counts from the board would be missing.

Still deciding between Orbiz and Jira?

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