A Troopr alternative for Slack standups that doesn't assume Jira
asyncmate runs the same async standups by Slack DM at $2.50 a month per person who answers. Troopr's Standard seat is $8 on monthly billing, and much of that seat is its Jira suite: two-way sync, poker, retros. If your standup is people typing what they did, you are paying for the part you don't use.
Free for up to 10 people who answer, against their 3 seats. No credit card.
What a seat pays for
Troopr Standard
$8/ mo
per seat
- The standup answer itself
- Two-way Jira sync in the thread
- Planning poker, retros, team mood
- Confluence answers in Slack
asyncmate Pro
$2.50/ mo
per person who answers
- The standup answer itself
- An AI digest of progress and blockers
- Hours logging and anonymous surveys
- Polls, reminders and kudos, free anyway
If the Jira machinery is what your team opens every day, their seat is money well spent. If you only ever wanted the standup, it is $5.50 a seat of tooling nobody uses.
Troopr pricing and asyncmate pricing, line by line
Both tools bill activity rather than raw headcount. What differs is the rate, the size of the free plan, and how easily someone becomes a billable seat.
| asyncmate | Troopr | |
|---|---|---|
| Standups, billed monthly | $2.50 / person who answers | $8 / seat (Standard) |
| Annual plan | None, $2.50 monthly with no commitment | $6 / seat, committed for a year |
| Who counts as a seat | Only people who answer a check-in or log hours | Anyone who answers a standup, files or updates a Jira issue, or clicks an action on a nudge (their FAQ) |
| Free plan | Up to 10 people who answer, polls and reminders on top | Up to 3 seats, 3 synced channels and 3 scheduled reports |
| Jira | Not required and not integrated; answers live in Slack | The core of the product: two-way sync, standups drafted from Jira and GitHub activity |
Only people who answer a check-in or log hours are billed. How our billing count works
10 people who answer, billed monthly
A team this size fits our free plan. Troopr's free plan stops at 3 seats, so a team of 10 is on Standard at $8 a seat.
25 people who answer, billed monthly
You keep $137.50 a month. Their annual commitment brings it to $150 a month, still more than double ours.
Troopr's $6 rate is their annual price; on monthly billing every seat is $8 against our $2.50.
What the standup keeps, and what stays behind
The daily habit survives the switch untouched. The Jira machinery does not come along, and whether that is a loss is the whole decision.
Comes with you
- The questions arrive as a Slack DM, and answers go back from the same place
- Each person is asked at your chosen time in their own timezone
- The digest posts to the channel you pick and shows who answered
- Time off and holidays skip someone without breaking their streak
- Polls and reminders, free and off the bill entirely
- History and CSV export for every run
Stays with Troopr
- Two-way Jira sync, with answers updating issues from the thread
- Standup drafts pre-filled from Jira and GitHub activity
- Planning poker tied to Jira estimates
- Retro action items written back to the board
- Confluence answers in Slack
If several of these are load-bearing for your team, stay put. The comparison below is for teams that pay for this column and live in the other one.
Where Troopr may still fit you better
A fair comparison cuts both ways. Troopr's standups draft themselves from Jira, GitHub and Slack activity, and an answer can update Jira from inside the thread; it also ships planning poker on every plan, retrospectives whose action items land in Jira, and Confluence answers in Slack. asyncmate has none of that machinery — answers are typed into a Slack modal and the digest posts to a channel. If your standup exists to keep the Jira board honest, or estimation sessions are part of the routine, Troopr is the better fit. asyncmate's case is the rate, the bigger free plan, month-to-month billing and a standup that does not assume Jira.
Moving a standup off Troopr
Install alongside Troopr
Both bots can sit in one Slack workspace. Nothing about your current standup or your Jira board changes while you look around.
Retype one standup
Questions, schedule, participants, digest channel — a few minutes. The Jira sync does not come across, so this is the week you find out whether anyone misses it.
Run them in parallel
Compare the digests side by side for a week, then turn one off. If the team keeps opening the Jira-drafted answers, stay with Troopr; the bill is only an argument when the standup is the same either way.
Troopr alternative FAQ
- Is asyncmate cheaper than Troopr?
- Above both free plans, yes, by some distance. asyncmate is $2.50 a month for each person who answers; Troopr's Standard plan is $8 per seat on monthly billing, or $6 committed for a year. For 25 people that is $62.50 / mo against $200. Part of what their seat buys is the Jira machinery — two-way sync, poker, retros — so the honest question is whether your standup uses it.
- Do I need Jira to run standups with asyncmate?
- No, and there is nothing to connect. Questions arrive as a Slack DM, answers go into a Slack modal, and the digest posts to the channel you pick. No Jira account, licence or board is involved anywhere. Troopr is built the other way: its standups draft themselves from Jira and GitHub activity and write updates back, which is exactly what you want if the standup exists to keep the board honest, and dead weight if it doesn't.
- Is there a free Troopr alternative for Slack standups?
- asyncmate's free plan runs async standups for up to 10 people who answer, with polls, reminders and kudos (up to 20 a month) free on top of that. Troopr's free plan covers 3 seats, 3 synced channels and 3 scheduled reports. Behind our paid plan sit the AI digest, anonymous surveys, anonymous polls and blocker insights; the standups themselves are free.
- Who counts as billable on asyncmate compared with Troopr?
- Both tools bill activity rather than raw headcount, so neither charges for someone who only reads the digest. The difference is how broad active is. On asyncmate, only answering a check-in or logging hours makes someone billable; poll voters, kudos and reminder recipients never do. Troopr's FAQ counts answering a standup, creating or updating a Jira issue, and clicking an action on a nudge, so a seat can appear on their bill without anyone answering a standup.
- Does asyncmate integrate with Jira or GitHub?
- No. There is no issue sync, no drafting answers from commit activity, and no writing back to a board. If answers must land in Jira, Troopr does that well and asyncmate does not do it at all. What asyncmate ships instead is the AI digest that reads the answers themselves: what shipped, who is blocked, what needs a decision.
- Can asyncmate run retrospectives or planning poker?
- Retrospectives, yes: a retro is a check-in with your own questions on your own schedule, and anonymous surveys cover the mood-check and eNPS side. Planning poker, no — there is no estimation feature, and if poker sessions are part of your routine, Troopr has it on every plan including free.
Run your first async standup free, with up to 10 people
No credit card, no Jira to connect, no trial clock on the free plan. Pro adds the AI digest when you want it, with a 14-day trial you can cancel from the billing page.
Troopr pricing as of August 7, 2026, from troopr.ai/pricing. Their $6 rate is billed annually; the monthly rate is $8. Troopr is a trademark of its owner; asyncmate is not affiliated with or endorsed by Troopr. Spotted something out of date? Email support@asyncmate.com and we will correct it.