Comparison · checked 14 October 2026
Ganttry and BigGantt, side by side.
Both draw your Jira issues on a Gantt chart with dependencies, a critical path, milestones and baselines, and both are free for small teams. They differ in where the plan lives, how a date reaches Jira, and what else comes with it. For a team of 25, Ganttry costs $32.25 a month and BigGantt $52.25.
Side by side
What each one does.
Where the plan lives
Ganttry
In Ganttry's own Forge storage. Dragging, scenarios and leveling change the plan, not Jira.
BigGantt
In BigGantt, with its task dates mapped to Jira fields. Appfire also documents a Not Synchronized strategy that plans without updating Jira.
How dates reach Jira
Ganttry
Publish lists every issue whose dates differ, with Jira's date and the plan's, and writes only the ones you tick, as you.
BigGantt
With date synchronization on, Appfire documents it as instant: moving a task updates its Jira start and end fields.
Dependencies
Ganttry
Finish-to-start, start-to-start, finish-to-finish and start-to-finish, with lag in working days, and the critical path.
BigGantt
Links drawn on the timeline, auto-scheduling and the critical path.
Forecasts and tracking
Ganttry
Every Jira release judged by the plan and by the team's pace, with P50, P80 and P95 dates.
BigGantt
Milestones, baselines and progress tracking.
Trust programmes
Ganttry
Runs on Atlassian: no vendor servers, data stays in Atlassian.
BigGantt
Cloud Fortified and the Marketplace Bug Bounty.
Hosting
Ganttry
Jira Cloud only, plus a Confluence macro.
BigGantt
Jira Cloud and Data Center.
Integrations
Ganttry
Exports to Excel, MS Project, CSV, calendar, PDF and PNG.
BigGantt
7pace Timetracker, and the path to BigPicture from the same vendor.
Price
Ganttry
Free for up to 10 users, then $1.29 per user a month for 11–100 users.
BigGantt
Free for up to 10 users, then $2.09 per user a month for 11–100 users.
BigGantt details are from its Marketplace listing and Appfire's documentation as of 14 October 2026; prices are read from Marketplace when this page is built. BigGantt is a product of Appfire.
Ganttry fits when
- You are a small team on Jira Cloud Standard and want dependencies that move dates without Premium.
- You want every date change reviewed before it reaches Jira.
- You need release forecasts, scenarios and a status report for people outside Jira.
- Price per user matters at your size.
BigGantt fits when
- You run Jira Data Center, or will for a while yet.
- You need the 7pace Timetracker integration or plan to grow into BigPicture.
- Your security review asks for Cloud Fortified or Bug Bounty participation today.
Trying Ganttry
Run both on the same project first.
- Install Ganttry next to BigGantt. It reads your Jira issues, dates and links directly, so there is nothing to import.
- Open the same project or board in both and compare the schedules side by side.
- Nothing changes in Jira until you publish from Ganttry, so the trial cannot disturb the plan your team uses today.
- Plans you made inside BigGantt, such as its baselines, stay in BigGantt.
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