Miro
8.1Innovation Workspace where retros happen on the same canvas as discovery and planning
Miro is the dominant online whiteboard, now repositioned as an AI-powered Innovation Workspace. It pairs an infinite canvas with 5,000+ retro templates, AI clustering by sentiment/keyword/author, Sidekicks (AI teammates) and Flows (multi-step AI workflows), real-time + async collaboration, and a 250+ app marketplace including Jira, Azure DevOps, Asana, Confluence, Slack and Microsoft Teams.
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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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Miro scores 8.1 overall and is best for large product, design and engineering orgs that already run discovery, planning and retros on one canvas and want AI clustering plus deep Jira/Azure DevOps/Asana sync. 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.
Miro leads on integrations and enterprise-grade. Parabol leads on ease of use, retro toolkit and value.
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 | Miro | Parabol |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Whiteboard | All-in-One Agile |
| Team size | Enterprise | Any |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Free limit | 3 editable boards, 10 AI credits/mo per team, 5,000+ templates, 160+ integrations | Unlimited users, 2 teams, 10 meetings/month, 30-day history, 2 custom templates |
| Starting price | $10/user/mo | $8/user/mo |
| Est. 3 teams × 8 people | $240/mo | $192/mo |
| Enterprise | Yes | Yes |
| Founded | 2011 | 2015 |
| HQ | Amsterdam, NL | Remote |
| Features | 37 | 42 |
| Integrations | 8 | 6 |
Feature & integration comparison
Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.
| Capability | Miro | Parabol |
|---|---|---|
| Features | ||
| AI Summaries | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI grouping/clustering | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI action items | — | — |
| Action tracking | ✓ note | ✓ |
| Team Insights | — | ✓ |
| Polling | ✓ note | ✓ note |
| Action dashboard | — | ✓ |
| Custom templates | ✓ | ✓ note |
| Anonymous input | ✓ note | ✓ |
| Independent voting | ✓ | ✓ |
| Async mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Agile Estimations | ✓ note | ✓ |
| Health Checks | — | ✓ note |
| Team Kudos | — | ✓ |
| Whiteboard | ✓ | — |
| Integrations | ||
| Asana | ✓ note | — |
| Azure DevOps | ✓ note | ✓ |
| Confluence | ✓ | — |
| GitHub | ✓ note | ✓ |
| Jira | ✓ note | ✓ |
| Linear | — | ✓ |
| Microsoft Teams | ✓ | ✓ |
| Slack | ✓ | ✓ |
| Trello | ✓ note | — |
| Security & Privacy | ||
| SOC 2 | ✓ | ✓ |
| GDPR | ✓ | ✓ |
| SSO/SAML/SCIM | ✓ note | ✓ note |
| ISO 27001 | ✓ | — |
| On-premises | — | ✓ note |
| Data residency (US/EU) | ✓ note | ✓ note |
Miro — Pros
- + Enormous template library (5,000+) and Miroverse community for retro formats
- + AI clustering groups sticky notes by sentiment, tag, author and keyword; Sidekicks and Flows extend AI deeper into the canvas
- + Best-in-class integration catalog (Jira, Azure DevOps, Asana, Confluence, Slack, Teams) with two-way sync
- + Enterprise-grade SSO, SCIM, audit logs, ISO 27001, ISO 42001 (AI governance) and EU/US/AU data residency
- + Same canvas works for discovery, planning and retros — no context switching
Miro — Cons
- − Per-seat pricing scales painfully if retros are the primary use case
- − No native health checks, mood tracking or longitudinal team-pulse
- − No recurring retros, scheduling, action carryover or cross-team rollup — facilitators rebuild structure each sprint
- − Jira/Azure DevOps/Asana sync and SSO sit behind the $20/user/mo Business tier; SCIM and audit logs only on Enterprise (30-seat min)
- − No built-in retro report or action-tracker dashboard
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