Atlassian Rovo Alternatives for Product Teams (2026)

If your company already pays for Jira or Confluence Cloud on a Standard plan or higher, try Rovo first, because it is included. Look at an alternative when your team's work and discussions live mostly outside Atlassian, or when you need one place where the team works on an item, not only a place to search for it.

By The Quely Team, Quely editorial team

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Rovo and Quely logos above two bookends with information and work context.

Which Atlassian Rovo alternative fits your team?

Last checked: October 29, 2026.

Here are five alternatives and who each one suits:

  • Glean: company-wide search and AI across many departments.
  • Microsoft 365 Copilot: teams that work in Teams, Outlook and Word.
  • Notion AI: teams whose docs and wiki already live in Notion.
  • ClickUp Brain: teams that run their tasks in ClickUp.
  • Quely: product teams that want each work item, its discussion, documents and meetings in one shared Space, with AI that answers from that context.

Atlassian Rovo alternatives at a glance

Tool Price (checked Oct 29, 2026) Best for Main limit
Atlassian Rovo Included in Standard, Premium and Enterprise Cloud plans of Jira and Confluence. Usage credits apply. Teams already on paid Atlassian Cloud Standard plans include 25 AI credits per user per month. Extra use is billed from December 3, 2026.
Glean Not published. Sold through a demo and sales process. Large companies that want one search across many departments No public price. Rollout usually involves IT.
Microsoft 365 Copilot Enterprise: $30 per user per month, paid yearly. Business: $21 per user per month, paid yearly (promotional $18 until December 31, 2026, for eligible organizations with 1 to 300 users). Teams that work mainly in Microsoft 365 Needs a qualifying Microsoft 365 license. Admins set up connectors to tools like Jira.
Notion AI Full AI and Enterprise Search on the Business plan, $20 per member per month, paid yearly Teams whose docs live in Notion Enterprise Search needs the Business plan or higher.
ClickUp Brain Core starts at $9 per user per month with a Brain² trial. Business starts at $17 with Brain², paid yearly. Teams that run tasks in ClickUp Search across other apps needs the Enterprise or Max plan.
Quely Free pilot access. Paid plans will be shared before they start. Product teams that need the work and its context in one shared Space Access is by invitation. You book a walkthrough to start.

Prices change often. Check each vendor's pricing page before you decide.

What Rovo does well

Rovo is Atlassian's AI. It includes search across Atlassian products and connected apps, a chat assistant, agents and a Studio for building your own agents. Agents can act on work, for example by updating a Jira item.

The main reason to keep Rovo is cost. It comes with paid Jira and Confluence Cloud plans, so you do not buy a separate license. Search and summaries do not use credits. Chat and agents do. On Standard plans each user gets 25 credits a month, and a basic AI action uses 10. From December 3, 2026, extra use costs $0.01 per credit, with a spending cap that admins control.

So Rovo works best when most of your team's work already lives in Jira and Confluence.

Why product teams look for a Rovo alternative

Teams usually start looking for one of three reasons:

  1. The work lives in many tools. The ticket is in Jira. The discussion is in Slack. The decision is in a Google Doc or a meeting. To answer one question, someone opens four tabs. Rovo can search connected apps, but the team still works in separate places.
  2. Search is not the hard part. A product manager may find the right document and still need to message several people to learn what changed since.
  3. Credits run out. Heavy chat and agent use on Standard plans can become a paid line item.

Match the alternative to the reason.

Glean

Glean is an enterprise AI platform. It offers search, an assistant and agents across more than 250 connectors, including Jira, Confluence, Slack, GitHub and Google Drive. It respects the permissions set in each source tool.

Choose Glean if you need one permission-aware search for the whole company, and IT will own the rollout.

Skip it if you are one product team that needs a quick start. Glean does not publish a price, and you buy it through sales.

Microsoft 365 Copilot

Copilot works inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams. It can recap Teams meetings and answer questions from your work files. Admins can add connectors for Jira, Confluence and GitHub.

Choose Copilot if your team already writes, meets and chats in Microsoft 365.

Skip it if your team works mostly in Slack, Google Workspace or Linear. Copilot is an add-on to a Microsoft 365 license, and its strengths are inside Microsoft apps.

Notion AI

Notion AI includes an agent, AI meeting notes and Enterprise Search. On the Business plan or higher it can search Slack, Google Drive, GitHub, Jira (beta), Linear and Microsoft Teams.

Choose Notion AI if your specs, roadmaps and wiki already live in Notion.

Skip it if Confluence is your main wiki. Notion's AI connectors do not list Confluence.

ClickUp Brain

ClickUp Brain is the AI inside ClickUp. It searches your ClickUp workspace, runs AI agents and takes meeting notes. On Enterprise and Max plans it can also search connected apps such as Google Drive, Slack and GitHub.

Choose ClickUp Brain if your team is ready to run its tasks and docs in ClickUp.

Skip it if you plan to keep Jira as the main place for tasks. You would pay for a second task tool to get the AI.

Quely

Quely suits a product team whose work is spread across Jira, Slack, docs and meetings. You bring your work items into a Space. You can bring them in from Jira, Azure DevOps, GitHub, Linear, monday.com, Trello, Todoist or Wrike. The team then works on each item in one place: threads, documents, diagrams, meetings and estimates sit next to the item.

Here is what that looks like before sprint planning. In our product walkthrough, a work item called PD-25 comes from Jira. In Quely it has a thread with the team's discussion, a planning document and a diagram. The product manager asks Orbit, Quely's AI: "Summarize what this work is trying to achieve and the most important context I should understand before planning it." Orbit answers from the item, the thread, the document and the diagram. The product manager then asks a follow-up question: "What are the biggest risks and unsolved questions we should deal with before committing to this work?"

Compare where your team will work. Rovo supports search, chat and agents that can act across connected tools. Quely gives the team one Space where the work and its discussion stay together, so the answer does not depend on finding the right Slack thread later.

An Orbit answer with its source records.
An Orbit answer with its source records. Captured Quely interface with illustrative example content.

Choose Quely if your team uses several tools besides Atlassian, and people spend time asking colleagues what changed on an item.

Skip it if your team works almost fully inside Jira and Confluence and Rovo's included credits cover your use.

Quely offers a free pilot. You start with one sprint, release or initiative. Book a walkthrough to set it up.

How to choose in one week

  1. Pick one active release that has a recent decision and an open question.
  2. Write down the question a teammate could not answer last week.
  3. Ask that question in Rovo and in one alternative, using the same source material.
  4. Check each answer against the original ticket, discussion and document.
  5. Ask someone who missed the last meeting to explain the next step from each answer.

The tool that lets that person act without messaging anyone is the one to keep.

How we compared

The Quely team wrote this comparison. We used each vendor's public pricing and product pages, checked on October 29, 2026. We did not run hands-on tests of the other products. Features and prices vary by plan, so confirm them with each vendor.

Frequently asked questions

Is Atlassian Rovo free?

Rovo is included at no extra cost with Standard, Premium and Enterprise Cloud plans of Jira, Confluence and some Atlassian collections. Chat and agents use monthly AI credits. From December 3, 2026, use above the included credits is billed at $0.01 per credit.

What is the best Rovo alternative for a product team?

It depends on where your work lives. Choose Glean for company-wide search, Copilot for Microsoft 365 teams, Notion AI for Notion-based teams and ClickUp Brain for ClickUp teams. Choose Quely if you want each work item, its discussion, documents and meetings in one shared Space.

Can I use Quely with Jira?

Yes. Quely brings in work items from Jira, Azure DevOps, GitHub, Linear, monday.com, Trello, Todoist and Wrike. It also connects with Slack, Confluence, Notion, Google Docs, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Zoom.

Does Quely integrate with Rovo?

No. Quely does not connect to Rovo. You can use both: Rovo for search across Atlassian, and Quely for the team's work on specific items.

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