Best Scrum Software for Software Teams

Azure DevOps bundles Azure Boards, Azure Repos, Azure Pipelines, and Azure Artifacts under one subscription, which makes it the cheapest full suite in this guide for teams already on Microsoft tools. Azure Boards supports scrum with backlogs, sprint planning, capacity views, and dashboards, while Repos gives unlimited private Git repositories and Pipelines adds one free Microsoft-hosted parallel job with 1,800 minutes a month.

The first 5 Basic users are free, then each Basic user costs $6 per month, so a 10-person team pays $30 a month for the whole suite. Basic plus Test Plans costs $52 per user per month and adds manual, exploratory, and user-acceptance testing, so only the people who run test cases need that tier. The trade-off is a dense interface, and setup assumes comfort with Microsoft accounts, Azure billing, and Git workflows.

Price: $6 per user/month (first 5 Basic users free)

Free plan: Yes, first 5 Basic users free

Website: azure.microsoft.com

ClickUp is a general work platform with sprint management built in, which suits software teams that also track docs, goals, and chat in the same workspace. The Free Forever plan costs nothing and includes unlimited tasks and members, sprint management, time tracking, kanban boards, and 60 MB of storage. Core costs $9 per user per month billed annually, or $12 billed monthly, and adds unlimited storage and spaces, Gantt charts, goals, custom fields, and 1,000 automations a month.

Business costs $17 per user per month billed annually, or $25 monthly, and adds sprint points, timesheets, advanced dashboards, resource management, and 10,000 automations a month. The breadth is both the strength and the risk: a team can run sprints, write specs in Docs, and track goals without leaving ClickUp, but the number of views and settings can slow down a new team.

Price: $9 per user/month (billed annually)

Free plan: Yes

Website: clickup.com

Monday.com sells work management as colorful, visual boards that non-technical teammates read at a glance, which helps when product, design, and engineering share one sprint board. Basic costs $9 per seat per month billed annually, or $12 billed monthly. Standard costs $12 per seat per month billed annually, or $14 monthly, and adds timeline and Gantt views, guest access, and 250 automation and integration actions a month.

Pro costs $19 per seat per month billed annually, or $24 monthly, and adds time tracking, private boards, and 25,000 automation and integration actions a month. Two limits shape the decision: Basic includes no automations and no integrations, so most software teams need Standard at least, and seats are sold in buckets with a 3-seat minimum.

Price: $9 per seat/month (billed annually)

Free plan: Yes, up to 2 seats

Website: monday.com

Asana is a work management platform that many software teams use for sprints alongside marketing, operations, and design work in the same account. The Personal plan is free for up to two users with unlimited tasks and projects. Starter costs $10.99 per user per month billed annually, or $13.49 billed monthly, and adds timeline and Gantt views, dashboards, forms, custom fields, dependencies, unlimited automations, and unlimited free guests.

Advanced costs $24.99 per user per month billed annually, or $30.49 monthly, and adds portfolios, goals, workload, approvals and proofing, native time tracking, and a two-way sync with Jira Cloud. Asana handles scrum through boards, lists, and dependencies, but it does not go as deep as Jira on sprint reports, story point rollups, or release planning.

Price: $10.99 per user/month (billed annually)

Free plan: Yes, up to 2 users

Website: asana.com

Zoho Sprints is built for agile teams first, not adapted from a general task manager, and it shows in the feature list: scrum and kanban boards, backlog management, sprint planning with an estimation planner, velocity and burndown reports, epics, meetings, and timesheets. The free plan covers 3 users and 3 projects with 500 MB of storage. Starter costs $1 per user per month billed annually for 12 to 100 users, with 50 projects and 20 GB of storage.

Elite costs $2.50 per user per month billed annually, or $3 monthly, and Premier costs $5 per user per month billed annually, or $6 monthly. Integrations cover GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Jenkins, and Azure DevOps pipelines. Release management and sprint capacity planning sit in Premier, so a growing team will move up the ladder sooner than with a flat-priced tool.

Price: $1 per user/month (billed annually)

Free plan: Yes, up to 3 users

Website: zoho.com

Taiga is an open-source agile tool with backlog management, sprint planning, burndown charts, kanban boards, epics, issue tracking, and a wiki, built for cross-functional agile teams. The hosted service runs at tree.taiga.io and charges per instance, not per user, which changes the maths for larger teams. The free hosted plan allows one public project and one private project with 10 MB of storage and unlimited users.

Enthusiast costs 5 euros a month, or 50 euros a year, for 5 public and 5 private projects with 100 MB of storage. Basic costs 20 euros a month, or 200 euros a year, for unlimited projects with 500 MB, and Premium costs 60 euros a month, or 600 euros a year, for unlimited projects with 3 GB. Self-hosting is free under the MPL-2.0 license with the full feature set and no user limit, for teams willing to run the server themselves.

Price: 5 euros per month (flat rate, unlimited users)

Free plan: Yes

Website: taiga.io

Shortcut, formerly Clubhouse, is project management built for software, product, and design teams, with work organized as stories, epics, iterations, and objectives. The free plan covers up to 10 users with one team, one workspace, and one workflow, plus kanban boards, roadmaps, iterations, docs, and GitHub, Slack, and Figma integrations. Team costs $8.50 per user per month billed annually, or about $10 billed monthly, and adds up to 5 teams and workflows, work-in-progress limits, automations, and 250 GB of storage.

Business costs $12 per user per month billed annually, or $16 monthly, and adds unlimited teams and workspaces, objectives and key results, advanced custom fields, and read-only seats. Setup is fast because Shortcut assumes a standard software workflow instead of asking the team to configure one from scratch. A 14-day full-access trial needs no card, and startups with fewer than 50 employees get 12 months free. Single sign-on and SCIM are add-ons on Business, and there is no built-in time tracking.

Price: $8.50 per user/month (billed annually)

Free plan: Yes, up to 10 users

Website: shortcut.com