PlanningPoker.com Alternatives - 6 Tools Compared for 2026

Let's get the awkward part out of the way: you searched for "PlanningPoker.com alternatives" and landed on a page written by a company that makes a planning poker tool.

You know how this genre usually goes. Five tools get a polite paragraph each, and then — plot twist nobody saw coming — the best one happens to be the tool whose website you're reading.

We're going to do it properly instead, including the bits where we're the wrong answer. Partly because that's more useful. Mostly because you'd spot the alternative from a mile off, and then you'd trust nothing else on the page.

So, with that established:

PlanningPoker.com is the best-known name in agile estimation. It carries the Planning Poker® trademark and Mike Cohn's endorsement, and it's been around longer than nearly everything else in the category. That pedigree is real. It's also why a lot of teams end up there by default rather than by decision.

The usual reasons people go shopping: the organizer needs an account before anything happens, the free tier runs out faster than you'd like, and pricing is per organizer — so a company with four scrum masters running their own sessions pays four times over.

Six alternatives below, what each is genuinely good at, and where each one falls over.

Quick comparison

Pricing and limits verified August 2026. These change often — check the vendor's own pricing page before you commit.

1. Pointing Poker — the no-frills free option

Pointing Poker does one thing and asks nothing of you. No account, no downloads, no credit card. You open a room, share the link, and vote. It stays free because it runs unobtrusive ads rather than a paywall.

Pros

• Genuinely free with no usage ceiling
• Zero friction — nothing to sign up for, ever
• Fast enough to spin up mid-meeting when someone says "let's just point these"

Cons

• No issue tracker integration at all; everything is typed in by hand
• Minimal feature set — no card set customization to speak of, limited session history
• Ad-supported, which some enterprise teams won't accept

Best for: teams who want estimation and nothing else, and who don't mind retyping ticket titles.

2. PlanITpoker — the closest like-for-like swap

PlanITpoker is the alternative that feels most similar to PlanningPoker.com. It has been around a long time, has a large user base, and supports the workflow most teams expect: import stories, vote, view distribution graphs.

Its pricing is where it differentiates. The free plan supports up to 7 participants with unlimited rooms and stories, and PlanIT Premium is a flat $20/month for unlimited participants. For a team of six or fewer, the free tier is often enough indefinitely.

Pros

• Quick play requires no signup
• Free tier is unusually generous for small teams
• Story import from Jira XML and CSV
• Flat pricing rather than per-organizer

Cons

• The 7-participant free cap bites as soon as you add stakeholders
• Interface is dated compared to newer tools
• CSV/XML import is clunkier than a live API integration

Best for: small teams who want a direct replacement without changing how they work.

3. Scrum Poker Online — the open-source choice

Scrum Poker Online is free, open source, and requires no account. Anyone can create a room, share it by link or QR code, and vote. There is no participant limit.

Pros

• Free with no limits and no ads
• Open source, so you can self-host if your security team requires it
• QR code sharing is genuinely useful for co-located teams

Cons

• No issue tracker integrations
• Feature development moves at open-source pace
• Less polished than commercial options

Best for: teams with data residency or self-hosting requirements, and anyone who prefers open source on principle.

4. Miro Estimations — if you already live in Miro

If your refinement already happens on a Miro board, the Estimations app keeps everything in one place. You estimate against the sticky notes you were already discussing, rather than context-switching to another tool.

Pros

• No context switch if Miro is already your refinement surface
• Estimates sit next to the actual conversation and diagrams
• Covered by an existing Miro subscription

Cons

• Only makes sense if you're already a Miro shop — a poor reason to adopt Miro
• Everyone needs Miro access, which is a harder ask than a browser link
• Heavier and slower than a purpose-built estimation tool

Best for: teams whose backlog refinement is already a Miro board.

5. Parabol — estimation as part of a bigger agile toolkit

Parabol bundles sprint poker with retrospectives and standups. If you're evaluating PlanningPoker.com alongside separate retro and standup tools, consolidating into one platform may be the better trade.

Pros

• Retros, standups, and estimation in one product
• Solid Jira, GitHub, and Linear integrations
• Strong async support

Cons

• More product than you need if you only want estimation
• Requires accounts for participants
• Free tier is limited by number of teams

Best for: teams looking to consolidate several agile ceremonies into one tool.

6. PlanningPoker.live — hello, it's us

Here's the entry you've been waiting for, placed sixth rather than first because we have some dignity.

We built PlanningPoker.live for teams who estimate inside a video call. It runs as an embedded app in Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, and Webex, so nobody alt-tabs out of the meeting to go vote and then quietly disappears for four minutes. It connects to Jira and Linear to pull issues in and push estimates back, and it exports session results to CSV.

Now the part these pages usually skip: we are not the free-forever option. Creating a room costs one credit. You get 5 credits at signup plus 1 free each month, and bundles are one-time purchases rather than a subscription — $9 for 7, $17 for 15, $50 for 50. Joining a room is always free and unlimited, so only the organizer ever pays.

Whether that beats PlanningPoker.com comes down to cadence. A scrum master running fortnightly sessions does well out of a one-time bundle instead of a recurring subscription. A team estimating daily should scroll back up to Pointing Poker or Scrum Poker Online, because we'd genuinely cost you more and we'd rather say so here than have you find out in month two.

Pros

• Embedded apps for Zoom, Teams, Meet, and Webex
• Two-way Jira and Linear integration
• One-time purchases instead of a subscription; participants never pay
• CSV export of session results

Cons

• Not free for unlimited use — room creation consumes credits
• Starter credits expire after two months and include ads
• No native Azure DevOps integration yet (there is a copy-and-paste workflow that works well)

Best for: distributed teams who estimate during a video call and want estimates flowing back into Jira or Linear.

The bottom line

If cost is why you're leaving, go to Pointing Poker or Scrum Poker Online. Both are free with no asterisk, and no, we don't get anything for saying so.

If you want a familiar like-for-like swap, PlanITpoker is the closest match and free for teams of seven or fewer.

If the actual problem is that estimation happens in a video call and your tool pretends otherwise, PlanningPoker.live is built for that specific annoyance.

And if you're already paying for Miro or Parabol, please use the thing you're already paying for before adding another subscription to the pile.

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