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PointHuddle vs Async Poker
Async Poker is built for estimating without a meeting: people vote in Jira in their own time and explain their card. PointHuddle is built for the live session, with voting windows when the team can’t meet.
Price and limits
| PointHuddle | Async Poker | |
|---|---|---|
| Main mode | Live rounds, plus voting windows with a deadline | Async first, with written reasoning |
| Who can vote | Anyone with the room link, no account | People signed in to your Jira site |
| Free tier | Everything, up to 200 people per room | Up to 10 Jira users |
| Paid price | None | $0.85 per user a month for 11–100 users; about $850 a year for 100 users, through Atlassian |
| Reasons for a card | “Why so far apart?”: the lowest and highest voters write one line after a live reveal | Written reasoning with each async vote |
| Nudges | Slack and Microsoft Teams channel posts: window opened, one reminder, results ready | Slack and email nudges |
| AI | Experimental suggestion from a model on our own server | Rovo AI insight |
| Security | Password rooms stored encrypted; no accounts, so no SSO; no SOC 2 (details) | SOC 2 Type 2 |
Async Poker details from its Marketplace listing and the Marketplace pricing API, checked on 12 October 2026.
What PointHuddle adds after the reveal
- The spread, not just an average. Cards line up along your deck with the median marked and the lowest and highest voters highlighted. See when estimates disagree.
- Revote only the extremes on a short timer, and a confidence vote that catches “everyone agreed, nobody was sure”.
- Estimate vs actual. Record what stories really took and see how each card held up.
- Slack and Microsoft Teams posts for each accepted estimate, free.
Where Async Poker is stronger
- Async is the whole product. Every vote carries a written reason, not only the extremes after a live reveal.
- SOC 2 Type 2. PointHuddle has no certification.
- Jira-native, with Rovo AI and very few complaints in its 45 reviews (rated 4.9).
Which one fits
- Choose PointHuddle if your team mostly estimates together on a call, wants guests without Jira accounts, or doesn’t want a per-user bill. Voting windows cover the weeks you can’t meet.
- Choose Async Poker if your team rarely meets, wants every vote explained in writing, or needs a SOC 2 Type 2 vendor.
Try it with your team
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