Kollabe Alternatives: 6 Planning Poker Tools With More Headroom (2026)
Kollabe has made a name fast: a modern estimation and retro tool with a no-signup on-ramp and the cheapest paid plan in the category at $12/month. The fine print is where teams start looking around — free rooms hold 10 members with a monthly meeting allowance and 7-day history, every space is capped at 5 facilitators even on paid plans, and the AI-and-retros bundle that makes it shine costs $29/month, not $12.
If your team is bumping against a cap — members, meetings, facilitators, or history — these 6 tools trade differently.
STRAIGHT UP: Online Planning Poker publishes this page and ranks itself first. The limits and prices for every tool were checked against official sources on July 12, 2026 — the ranking is opinion, the numbers aren't.
The quick comparison
| Tool | Free plan | Paid pricing | Facilitator limits | Integrations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kollabe for reference | 10 members/room, limited meetings | $12/mo poker; $29/mo full | 5 per space | Jira, GitHub, AzDO, Linear |
| Online Planning Poker Our pick | Unlimited everything | $19/mo flat or $190/yr | None — anyone hosts | Jira two-way + native app |
| Parabol | 2 teams, 10 meetings/mo | $8/active user/mo | None | Jira, GitHub, GitLab, AzDO |
| Planning Poker Online | 9 rounds, 5 issues/game | $30/facilitator/mo | Pay per facilitator | Jira, Linear, GitHub, AzDO |
| Scrum Poker Online | Full flow, with ads | $40/yr | None | None |
| PlanningPoker.com | Small teams (<10 players) | From $14.95/organizer/mo | Pay per organizer | Jira import/export |
| Chpokify | 10 users, 1 team (card required) | From $11/mo annual | Per plan tier | Jira; video built in |
Where these Kollabe alternatives pull ahead
Kollabe's caps are sized for a textbook scrum team; real teams sprawl. An eleventh person — a designer, a stakeholder, the intern — hits the free-room limit. A sixth scrum master hits the facilitator ceiling. Sprint 3's retro falls out of 7-day history before anyone reads it. Each alternative below removes at least one of those walls: some by charging flat instead of per-cap, some by being uncapped and free, one by scaling per user instead.
Online Planning Poker
Our pickNo caps to bump: free sessions take unlimited participants, unlimited rounds, unlimited meetings, with no signup for hosts or players and no facilitator concept at all — whoever opens the room runs it. Decks (Fibonacci, T-shirt, Powers of 2, custom), timers, re-votes, and vote stats are all free. The $19/month flat Business plan ($190/year) adds two-way Jira sync, velocity tracking, session history with CSV export, persistent team rooms with roles and admin, and custom branding — one price however many people host or vote.
PROS
- + No member, meeting, or facilitator caps — free or paid
- + Unlimited roles/admin on Business, not 5 seats
- + Native Jira app on the Atlassian Marketplace
CONS
- − $7/month more than the cheapest rival plan
- − Jira-only sync — no GitHub, Azure DevOps, or Linear
- − No retrospectives or AI features
Best for: teams that outgrew the 10-member room and never want to count seats, hosts, or meetings again.
Parabol
The full suiteIf what you actually love is the poker-plus-retros combination, Parabol is the deeper version of that idea: Sprint Poker, retrospectives, and async standups with genuine two-way sync to Jira, GitHub, GitLab, and Azure DevOps — open source, self-hostable, and priced at $8 per active user per month after a free tier of 2 teams and 10 meetings monthly.
PROS
- + Full ceremony suite, more mature than any rival bundle
- + Open source with a self-host option
- + Only active users are billed
CONS
- − 10 people = $80/month
- − Accounts required for everyone
- − Free tier has its own meeting cap
Best for: teams that want the retro-and-poker bundle done maximally, and can carry per-user pricing.
Planning Poker Online
Interface benchmarkWe Agile You's tool matches the modern-interface appeal and raises it, with the category's slickest game table and plugins for Jira, Linear, GitHub, and Azure DevOps. Free games allow unlimited players but stop at 9 voting rounds and 5 issues; Premium is $30 per facilitator per month — a different cap philosophy: unlimited members, but every host is a line item.
PROS
- + Unlimited players on free — no 10-member wall
- + Best-polished UI in the category
- + Same four integrations
CONS
- − $30/facilitator/month — 2.5× the price for one host
- − Free games end at 9 rounds
- − Facilitators must register
Best for: teams with one fixed facilitator and a taste for polish.
Scrum Poker Online
Minimalist optionThe opposite trade: fewer features, zero walls. Scrum Poker Online runs uncapped rooms with no signup, QR joining, and six languages; the free tier is ad-supported and $40 a year removes ads and adds a timer, auto average/median, and a persistent room ID. No integrations, no meeting allowances, nothing to outgrow — and not much to grow into.
PROS
- + No member or meeting caps at all
- + Cheapest paid tier anywhere
- + QR joining for hybrid rooms
CONS
- − Ads on free
- − No integrations, ever
- − Minimal host controls and stats
Best for: teams that decided integrations aren't worth any monthly fee.
PlanningPoker.com
Enterprise nameThe safest logo to put in a procurement request. PlanningPoker.com brings anonymous voting, timers, custom scoring, and Jira import/export, with players joining free and organizers paying from about $14.95/month each. Less modern than the tool you're comparing it against, but with fifteen years of enterprise credibility.
PROS
- + Category's most established brand
- + Players never register or pay
- + Familiar to most agile coaches
CONS
- − Per-organizer subscription model
- − File-based Jira, not live sync
- − Free tier suits small teams only
Best for: bigger organizations where the brand matters as much as the tool.
Chpokify
Video built inThe closest like-for-like rival: planning poker with teams, spaces, and session history, from $11/month billed annually (3 teams, 15 users) — with built-in video calls as the differentiator, so estimation doesn't need a parallel Zoom. The free tier mirrors the 10-user shape but asks for payment details up front, and side features like kanban and retros have lingered in beta.
PROS
- + Video calls inside the poker session
- + Slightly cheaper entry ($11 vs $12)
- + Team/space organization with history
CONS
- − Free plan wants a card on file
- − Annual billing to get the low price
- − Beta features stay beta a long time
Best for: remote teams that would rather estimate and talk in one window.
How to choose
- →Hit the 10-member wall: Online Planning Poker or Scrum Poker Online — both uncapped free.
- →Hit the 5-facilitator wall: any flat-rate or no-account tool; hosts stop being a billing unit.
- →Want deeper retros too: Parabol, if the per-user math clears.
- →Need GitHub/Linear sync specifically: stay put, or use Parabol — that integration spread is genuinely rare.
Limits and prices verified July 12, 2026 against vendor sites and current reviews. Send corrections — we publish them.
Estimation with nothing to outgrow
Eleven people? Six hosts? Forty sessions a month? All fine. Free, no signup, no caps.