Retrospective Tools

Kollabe vs Miro

A side-by-side look at scores, pricing, features and integrations to help you pick the right retrospective tool.

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Kollabe

6.8

Agile meetings made easy — retros, standups and planning poker

Kollabe began life as a planning poker tool and now runs four rituals from one workspace: estimation, sprint retrospectives, async standups and icebreakers. The retro board is deeper than its marketing suggests — drag-to-group with optional AI clustering, dot voting configurable per board or per column, a phase timer with audio alerts, a guided workflow with auto-advance, and action items carrying owner, due date, priority and a link back to the feedback card. Exports run to PDF, CSV, JSON, Markdown, HTML, JPEG and Confluence, with action items pushed to Jira, GitHub or Linear. Billing is flat per team space rather than per seat. There are no recurring retros, no health-check instrument and no compliance certifications.

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Miro

7.1

Innovation Workspace where retros happen on the same canvas as discovery and planning

Miro is the dominant online whiteboard, now sold as an AI Innovation Workspace. It pairs an infinite canvas with a 7,000+ template library (300+ retro formats among them), AI clustering by sentiment/keyword/author, Engage live polls and word clouds (included with Business since June 2026), Blueprints for reusable multi-board workflows, real-time and async collaboration, and a 250+ app marketplace with first-party two-way card sync to Jira, Azure DevOps, Asana, Linear and ClickUp. An official MCP server runs on every plan under per-tier daily call quotas.

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Summary

Kollabe scores 6.8 overall and is best for small to mid-size agile teams running poker, retros and standups who want one cheap, playful tool — and don't need health checks, recurring retros or a compliance story. It offers a free tier.

Miro scores 7.1 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.

Kollabe leads on ease of use, retro toolkit, value and fun factor. Miro leads on integrations, open platform and enterprise-grade.

Across our eight scoring dimensions, Miro edges ahead with an overall score of 7.1. That said, the right pick depends on your team — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown below.

Scores compared

Kollabe
Ease of Use8.5
Retro Toolkit7.5
Value8.0
Fun Factor8.5
AI & Insights7.0
Integrations6.0
Open Platform6.0
Enterprise-grade3.0
Miro
Ease of Use7.0
Retro Toolkit5.0
Value5.0
Fun Factor7.5
AI & Insights7.0
Integrations9.0
Open Platform6.5
Enterprise-grade9.5
DetailKollabeMiro
CategoryRetrospectivesWhiteboard
Team sizeSmallEnterprise
Free tierYesYes
Free limit10 participants per meeting, 4 retrospectives/month, 7-day board history, 1 survey per board; no AI, exports, API or MCP3 editable boards, limited AI credits, 100 MCP calls/day, full 7,000+ template library, 250+ app marketplace; no private boards, SSO, guests, Blueprints or two-way integrations
Starting price$29/mo per space (unlimited members)$8/user/mo
Est. 3 teams × 8 people$87/mo (3 Premium spaces × $29; each space allows unlimited members)$192/mo billed annually (Starter, 24 seats)
EnterpriseYesYes
Founded20232011
HQSydney, AustraliaAmsterdam, NL
Data residencyAustraliaUnited States · European Union · Australia · JP
Languages6 (English, German, Spanish, …)8 (English, Spanish, German, …)
Export formatsCSV · PDF · Markdown · Image · JSON · HTML · Confluence · JiraImage · PDF · CSV
Features5040
Integrations612

Feature & integration comparison

Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.

CapabilityKollabeMiro
Features
Custom templates
Anonymous inputnote
Health Checksnote
Action trackingnote
Async mode
Whiteboardnote
Independent voting
Pollingnote
Icebreaker gamesnote
Agile Estimationsnote
Team Kudos
AI grouping/clustering
AI action itemsnote
AI Summaries
Team Insights
In-meeting AI assistantnotenote
Action dashboard
Integrations
Asananote
Azure DevOpsnotenote
Basecamp
ClickUpnote
Confluencenote
GitHubnote
GitLab
Jiranote
Linearnote
Microsoft Teams
Monday.comnote
Notionnote
Shortcut
Slacknote
Trellonote
Security & Privacy
SOC 2
GDPR
SSO / SAMLnotenote
SCIM provisioningnote
ISO 27001
On-premises
Public APInote
Webhooks
MCP servernotenote

Kollabe — pros

  • + Flat per-space pricing — $29/mo buys unlimited members, so three teams of eight cost $87/mo total
  • + Deeper retro board than the marketing implies: drag-to-group plus AI clustering, dot voting per board or per column, a phase timer with audio alerts, and a guided workflow that auto-advances when everyone marks ready
  • + Action items carry owner, due date, priority, comments and a link back to the feedback card — and push one-click to Jira, GitHub or Linear
  • + Official OAuth MCP server (vendor states 46 tools) and a documented REST API on every paid plan; exports to PDF, CSV, JSON, Markdown, HTML, JPEG and Confluence
  • + Unusually playful: synchronised meeting music, AI-generated backgrounds, kudos with confetti, drawings and stickers, and a 1,100-strong themed template library

Kollabe — cons

  • No recurring or scheduled retros — every session is created by hand
  • No health-check instrument: a Spotify-style board template and a handful of 1–5 pulse polls, but no radar, custom model or trend chart. The vendor advertises a 1–10 Team Health Score inside its weekly Team Insights email; the report is generated server-side and we could not verify it
  • Both paid tiers cap a space at <strong>5 facilitators/admins</strong> however many members it has; lifting it means an Enterprise contract
  • Slack is standup-only (no retro summaries or actions to a channel); no Microsoft Teams
  • No SOC 2, ISO 27001 or published GDPR posture, and all data sits in Australia with no EU or US option; SSO and SLAs are Enterprise contact-sales
  • Effectively a one-person company, and the changelog has been silent since 31 May 2026

Miro — pros

  • + Enormous template library (7,000+ board templates, 300+ retro formats) plus the Miroverse community gallery
  • + AI clustering groups sticky notes by colour, tag, author, keyword and sentiment — real time saved on a 60-sticky board
  • + First-party two-way card sync to Jira, Azure DevOps, Asana, Linear and ClickUp, so a sticky becomes tracked work in one click
  • + <strong>Engage</strong> activities — live polls, word clouds, scales, ranking — are included with Business; participants join by QR code with no Miro account
  • + Enterprise-grade SSO, SCIM, audit logs, SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001:2022, ISO 42001 and US/EU/AU/Japan data residency; official MCP server on every plan

Miro — cons

  • Per-seat pricing: 24 people cost $192/mo on Starter (annual). The tier that actually matters for retros — Business, with two-way Jira sync, SSO, guests and Engage — is $480/mo
  • Recent G2 reviewers' loudest complaint is billing, not the canvas: guests converted to paid licences and prorated mid-cycle seat charges
  • No health checks, mood tracking or longitudinal team pulse; Engage Scales reads the room once, it doesn't draw a trend line
  • No recurring retros, scheduling, action carryover, cross-team rollup or action dashboard — facilitators rebuild structure each sprint, and actions only persist as Jira/Azure DevOps/Linear cards
  • SCIM, audit logs, domain control and data residency are Enterprise-only, and Enterprise starts at 30 seats

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