PI planning tools, side by side.

Capabilities only, from a side-by-side evaluation and the vendors' public pages. Products change; check each vendor. Prices are not listed because most are quotes; what each price is counted by is, because that is what decides the bill.

ToolHostingPI planningART and team boardsBeyond planningIntegrationPriced by
TrainyardSelf-hosted, open source; hosted; Jira app and Azure DevOps extensionIntegrated: PI planning, team breakouts, PI objectives, confidence voteART and team boards, PI planning board with milestones and dependency strings, ROAM, WSJF, retrospectivesPortfolio Kanban, roadmaps, SAFe canvases, value stream identification and mapping, AI portfolio, dashboardsJira and Azure DevOps, two ways; imports from iObeya, Miro, Mural, monday.comTrainer or train; people in the room are free
iObeyaOn premises or separate serverIntegrated web interfaceART board, ROAM, WSJF, retrospectivesPortfolio and moreFull integration through API and iFrameRoom, with a minimum number of rooms
Easy AgileJira pluginWithin JiraART and team boardsNoneJira onlyEvery Jira user on the site
Agile HiveJira pluginWithin JiraART board, ROAM, WSJF, team executionPortfolio Kanban, roadmap, reportingJira onlyUser, by quote
BigPictureJira pluginWithin JiraART board, ROAM, WSJF, team executionProject planning and reporting, OKR and risk widgetsJira onlyEvery Jira user on the site
PIPlanning.ioOn premises or separate serverDedicated toolART and ROAM boardsNoneJiraTeam
MiroPublic cloudNot integrated; templatesLimited ART boardNoneNone for planning dataEvery member

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Trainyard vs iObeya

iObeya is the better pick when your organisation already runs its visual management on it beyond PI planning (obeya rooms, lean boards across plants) and wants one vendor for all of it.

Trainyard vs Easy Agile

Easy Agile is the better pick when every participant already lives in Jira, planning never leaves Jira, and you want nothing to host.

Trainyard vs Agile Hive

Agile Hive is the better pick when you want SAFe modelled strictly inside Jira with reporting by the same vendor.

Trainyard vs BigPicture

BigPicture is the better pick when project portfolio reporting inside Jira (Gantt, resources) matters more than the planning room itself.

Trainyard vs PIPlanning.io

PIPlanning.io is the better pick when you want a dedicated PI planning board with little else around it and a per-team price.

Trainyard vs Miro

Miro is the better pick when the whiteboard is used for everything and PI planning is a template among many, with no need for planning data to flow back to a tracker.

Want the reasoning in one place? Read the guide PI planning tools compared.