JIRA vs Redmine Comparison With Respect to Features and Specs

In this post, I will compare these two project issue tracker and team planner systems. Only, differences are detailed. Whole standard features which an issue tracker needs to perform is dismissed to see the exact discrepancies. Redmine and Jira supports many of the issue tracking requirements but you should decide one of them. This decision is a little bit tricky; using an opensource software or giving a licence fee.

First of all your requirements should be taken into account. The table below describes many of the features by comparing these systems. The feature details may help you to decide whether you need or not.



Another comparison with magic quadrant is prepared by Gartner;

Updated: 08 July 2014 with the help of Ebrahim Mohammadi. Thanks for his contribution.
Updated: 12 December 2017 Recent Magic Quadrant for Application Life Cycle Management Image Uploaded

Group	Feature	JIRA	Redmine
Access & Notifications	Mobile	Blackberry, iPhone, Android or Windows Mobile	iPhone, Android or Windows Mobile (not official)
	IDE	Eclipse, IntelliJ, Visual Studio, Netbeans, Jdeveloper, Zend Studio	Eclipse, Netbeans, Visual Studio
Dashboards	Dashboards	Multiple Dashboards, Wallboards, Drag'n Drop, Flexible Layout, Gadgets	None (Except Plugins)
Configuration & Installation	Price	10 users = $10/month plus extension prices (if needed)	Open Source but there are some commercially supported versions, e.g. RedmineCRM and Easy Redmine
	Database	SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, HSQLDB	MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, SQLite
Integration	VCS	CVS, Subversion, Perforce, Git, ClearCase, and many more via either native or plugin integration	SVN, CVS, Git, Mercurial, Bazaar and Darcs
	Plug-ins	Over 100 plug-ins highly integrated with other famous tools	365 plug-ins but a little bit crowdy
	Link issue  to source code	Integrate source code directly into your issues and projects.	Issue association and referencing issues in commit messages are available.
	Remote APIs	JIRA provides a full set of remote APIs - including REST, SOAP, XML-RPC	Redmine exposes some of its data through a REST API.
Issues	Issue Level Security	Available	None
	Rich Text Comments	Available	Available through redmine_ckeditor plugin
	Comment Level Security	Available	None
	Create Issues and Comments Via Email	Available	Available
	Create Issues Remotely	Create issues remotely using a variety of methods including links, email and programmatic end-points.	Possible through email, REST API, and various plugins such as Mylyn connector
	Image Gallery	Available	None
Projects	Agile	GreenHopper JIRA Agile provides an extensive coverage of agile processes.	AgileDwarf or Redmine Backlogs provides most of agile processes but not stable. Redmine Backlogs seems to be a mature and stable plugin.
	Builds	View build plan status and recent build activity for any project with the JIRA Bamboo integration.	Some plug-ins available but not stable.
	Review	View recent code review activity for any project if you are using a source-code repository together with Atlassian Crucible.	Code Review is a plugin which lets you annotate source code within the repository browser.
Reports & Charts	Workload	Workload pie chart report, user workload report, version workload report and other workload estimations.	keeps only issue based workload record
	Time Reports	Resolution time and version time tracking reports	Redmine timelog report provides a log of spent time on issues
Work Flows	Workflow Process	Workflow is the movement (or transition) of an issue through various Statuses during its lifecycle.	The workflow lets you define status transitions that the various project members are allowed to make on the issues according to their type.
	Conditions	Supports to change who can perform a transition.	Supports to change who can perform a transition.
	Validator	Supports to check that any user-supplied input is valid before performing the transition	None
	Post Functions	Enables to perform particular actions after the transition is complete, e.g.: Assign the issue to a particular user. Send an email notification. Update a field in the issue.	None
	Visual Workflow Designer	Exists	None