Our team currently uses Jira Cloud and we have access to Jira Plans, Jira Product Discovery, and Confluence. We also use Miro for our whiteboarding needs. Recently, another department in our organization has been using AHA alongside Jira and they want to convince everyone to switch to AHA. They claim it’s “more streamlined and easier for product managers to use”.
The problem I see is that AHA comes with a hefty price tag for other departments, and from what I can tell, most of AHA’s features are already built into Jira. The main benefits I notice are better reporting capabilities and a cleaner interface. The idea management features in AHA seem slightly better too.
Has anyone here worked with both platforms and can share their thoughts? Would love to hear both positive and negative experiences.
I’ve used AHA for two years after switching from Jira. Your choice depends on how mature your product management is. AHA’s strategic planning is genuinely better - the goal hierarchy and initiative tracking helped us align our roadmap with business objectives way better than Jira alone. But the learning curve was steeper than expected, and our engineering team still prefers Jira for sprint planning. The reporting is excellent for executive presentations, but you need to consider if your PMs will actually use the advanced features. Integration with existing tools can be problematic and needs ongoing maintenance. If your current Jira setup works and your team’s comfortable with it, AHA’s ROI might not justify the cost unless you’re specifically struggling with strategic roadmap communication.
we switched from jira to aha 8 mths ago - results mixed. roadmapping visuals are way better and stakeholders love the presentations, but our devs r not happy jumping btwn systems. integration isn’t as seamless as advertised either. we’re constantly doing manual syncs.
Honestly, you might not need to switch to AHA if Jira Premium’s working for you. We went through the same evaluation and stuck with Jira. Managing two systems was our biggest worry - keeping data consistent between them gets messy fast. Sure, AHA’s got nice reporting and a cleaner interface, but the cost wasn’t worth it. We’d only use maybe 20% of AHA’s features while paying full price. If what you’ve got works, don’t forget about all the hidden transition costs.