Kollabe
7.5Agile meetings made easy — retros, standups and planning poker
Kollabe is a focused agile-meetings platform bundling sprint retrospectives, daily standups, planning poker and 600+ icebreakers in a single lightweight workspace. Anonymous voting, async contributions, AI-generated summaries and sync-back to Jira, GitHub, Linear and Azure DevOps come standard, on a flat <strong>per-space</strong> rather than per-seat price.
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Parabol
8.4Open-source agile meetings for retros, poker, standups and check-ins
Parabol is an <strong>open-source agile meeting platform</strong> spanning retrospectives, sprint poker, async standups, team check-ins and lightweight team health, with deep backlog sync to Jira, GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps and Linear and AI-assisted grouping, summaries, icebreakers and discussion prompts.
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Kollabe scores 7.5 overall and is best for small to mid-size agile teams that want retros, standups and planning poker in one clean tool — without per-seat pricing. It offers a free tier.
Parabol scores 8.4 overall and is best for distributed agile teams that want one open-source tool for retros, poker, standups and lightweight team health. It offers a free tier.
Kollabe leads on ease of use. Parabol leads on retro toolkit, fun factor, AI & insights, integrations and enterprise-grade.
Across our seven scoring dimensions, Parabol edges ahead with an overall score of 8.4. That said, the right pick depends on your team — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown below.
Scores compared
| Detail | Kollabe | Parabol |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Retrospectives | All-in-One Agile |
| Team size | Small | Any |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Free limit | 10 members per room, ~4 meetings/month, 7-day history | Unlimited users, 2 teams, 10 meetings/month, 30-day history, 2 custom templates |
| Starting price | $29/mo | $8/user/mo |
| Est. 3 teams × 8 people | $29/mo | $192/mo |
| Enterprise | Yes | Yes |
| Founded | 2023 | 2015 |
| HQ | Sydney, Australia | Remote |
| Features | 22 | 42 |
| Integrations | 4 | 6 |
Feature & integration comparison
Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.
| Capability | Kollabe | Parabol |
|---|---|---|
| Features | ||
| AI Summaries | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI grouping/clustering | — | ✓ |
| AI action items | — | — |
| Action tracking | ✓ | ✓ |
| Team Insights | — | ✓ |
| Polling | ✓ | ✓ note |
| Action dashboard | — | ✓ |
| Custom templates | ✓ | ✓ note |
| Anonymous input | ✓ | ✓ |
| Independent voting | — | ✓ |
| Async mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Agile Estimations | ✓ | ✓ |
| Health Checks | — | ✓ note |
| Team Kudos | — | ✓ |
| Whiteboard | — | — |
| Integrations | ||
| Asana | — | — |
| Azure DevOps | ✓ | ✓ |
| Confluence | — | — |
| GitHub | ✓ | ✓ |
| Jira | ✓ | ✓ |
| Linear | ✓ | ✓ |
| Microsoft Teams | — | ✓ |
| Slack | — | ✓ |
| Trello | — | — |
| Security & Privacy | ||
| SOC 2 | — | ✓ |
| GDPR | — | ✓ |
| SSO/SAML/SCIM | ✓ note | ✓ note |
| ISO 27001 | — | — |
| On-premises | — | ✓ note |
| Data residency (US/EU) | — | ✓ note |
Kollabe — Pros
- + Flat per-space pricing — unlimited team members on Premium ($29/mo)
- + Bundles retros, standups, planning poker and icebreakers in one tool
- + No-signup join links lower friction for ad-hoc participants
- + Direct sync-back to Jira, GitHub, Linear and Azure DevOps
- + Public API and MCP server access on Premium
Kollabe — Cons
- − No Slack or Microsoft Teams integration
- − No SOC 2 / no advertised GDPR posture — weak for enterprise procurement
- − No dedicated health-check, team-radar or longitudinal pulse feature
- − Solo-founder operation; SSO/SAML and SLA gated behind Enterprise contact-sales
- − Free tier capped at ~4 meetings/month with 7-day history
Parabol — Pros
- + Open source (AGPL-3.0) with self-host and on-prem options
- + 40+ retro templates plus poker, standups, check-ins and team health in one tool
- + Strong backlog write-back to Jira, GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps and Linear
- + AI summaries, suggested groupings and discussion prompts that surface real themes
- + Anonymous reflections and lightweight team health check built in
Parabol — Cons
- − Free tier capped at 10 meetings/month and 30-day history
- − No native whiteboard, presentation mode or screen-share mode
- − Health-check is a single emoji poll — no custom radars or trend dashboards
- − SSO, SCIM, audit-grade controls and uptime SLA gated to Enterprise
- − No Confluence, Trello or multi-language support