TeamRetro
USD 16.66/month per team with annual discount
Unlimited team members
Annual cost$600
vs
The Parabol alternative that charges per team, not per user
See why agile teams and their leaders choose TeamRetro over Parabol.
Why choose TeamRetro over Parabol?
Intuitive and easy to use
Get ready to go templates, guided steps and user first design that lets you facilitate with ease.
Focus on actions
Run smarter meetings that stay on track, stay efficient, and finish with a clear set of actions.
Data driven insights
Boost team performance and support ongoing improvement with meaningful insights.
TeamRetro is a leading Parabol alternative built for agile retrospectives, health checks and estimation. Instead of Parabol’s per-user pricing and limited free tier, TeamRetro charges per team for unlimited users, with health-check models and radars, 275+ templates and SOC 2 Type 2 security.
Teams usually move off Parabol for one of two reasons. The first is pricing that climbs with headcount: a Parabol retrospective is billed at $8 per active user per month, so the bill grows every time the team does, and the free tier caps you at two teams. The second is measurement. Parabol’s team health asks five Likert questions per cycle across five fixed categories, shows a streak rather than a trend line, and has no cross-team rollup or export. TeamRetro gives you 45+ health models or your own, then a heat map and a trend line per dimension, so you can see whether things are actually improving from one check to the next.
Switching is low-friction. There’s nothing you have to migrate: start your next retro from one of 275+ templates, invite the team by link, and carry any open actions forward so nothing gets dropped. Pricing is flat per team with unlimited members, so you stop doing per-seat math as people join. And it’s ready for a security review when you need one: TeamRetro is SOC 2 Type 2 and GDPR compliant.
TeamRetro is not for every team. There is no free-forever plan and it cannot be self-hosted, so a team with no budget, or one under an on-premise mandate, should look elsewhere. And if nobody will ever ask you for SOC 2 Type 2, SAML SSO or a choice of US or EU data residency, a good part of what you would be paying for goes unused. TeamRetro is the better fit when retrospectives are a recurring ritual you want structured, measured and actioned, and when someone will eventually ask how the data is governed.
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See how TeamRetro compares to Parabol
TeamRetro is a safe, reliable and easy to use agile retrospective, health check and estimation tool. With simple to use features, facilitated meetings and a UI that makes meetings flow with ease. Capture actions that you can track over time. Create continuous improvements and build great teams.
| Feature area | TeamRetro | Parabol |
|---|---|---|
| Free forever plan | No free plan. 30-day trial with every feature | Unlimited users across 2 teams, 10 meetings a month, 30-day history |
| Self-hosting | Not available | AGPL-3.0. Docker or Kubernetes, on-prem and air-gapped on Enterprise |
| Open source | Closed source | AGPL-3.0 on GitHub |
| Retrospective templates | 275+ templates / Organization and team wide / User first design | 50+ templates |
| Schedule future / recurring retros | Set recurring schedule for future retros | Recurring meeting series with Google Calendar sync |
| Planning poker / agile estimation | Free tool and in-app | In-app only |
| Customizable estimation decks | Preset decks plus your own, reused across sessions | Custom scales supported |
| Health checks survey / radars | 45+ models, heat map, trend lines & summaries | Likert survey across 5 fixed categories, streak instead of a trend line |
| SOC 2 Type 2 | SOC 2 Type 2 certified | SOC 2 Type 2 certified |
| Action dashboard | Action dashboard and insights | Kanban task board |
| Quick polling | Multiple poll options | Basic poll options |
| Icebreakers, check in/out questions | Built in for quick pulse checks | Basic functionality |
| Facilitated workflow | Highly customizable | Limited customization |
| Propose/suggest actions | Get buy-in before committing actions | Separate polling option |
| Team sentiment analysis | Drill down word clouds, time line annotations & executive summaries | Partially supported |
| Presentation / screen share mode | Hide facilitator contributions | Not supported |
| Whiteboards | Sketch diagrams and map frameworks in session | Not supported |
| Track return on time invested (ROTI) | Track historical ratings | Not supported |
| Team agreements | Create team bonds | Not supported |
| Music / gifs / live reactions / multiple languages | Create fun and engagement | Partially supported |
| In-meeting AI assistant | Ask trAI to summarize, capture actions and look up past meetings | AI meeting summaries only |
| MCP server | Ask Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot or Gemini about your teams | Not supported |
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References: Parabol pricing · Parabol features · Parabol team health check tool · Parabol GitHub (open source, AGPL-3.0) · Parabol custom estimation scales
Get from idea to action faster than Parabol
Get TeamRetro's toolkit designed to help you run effective, action-driven retrospectives, health checks and estimations.
Create your perfect retro
Start from 275+ templates or build your own.
Set the stage
Warm up with an icebreaker or check-in question.
Rich facilitation at your fingertips
Guide every step with timers, prompts and presentation mode.
Vote privately and discuss openly
Independent dot voting surfaces what matters most.
Propose, capture and track actions
Turn discussion into owned, trackable next steps.
Generate and share summaries instantly
AI-written summaries ready to share the moment you wrap up.
Discover insights, trends and patterns
Track team sentiment and agile metrics over time.
Survey team health
Run health checks and radars to see how the team is really doing.
Save time and gain focus
Automatically group ideas, highlight key themes, suggest next steps and generate clear summaries. Then ask trAI, your in-meeting assistant, for anything else you need.
Explore our retrospective template gallery
A sample of the 275+ ready-to-run formats your team can start with: classic columns, illustrated and themed boards, and dark mode for late-day retros.
Agile retrospective
Scrum values retrospective
Psychological safety retrospective
Rollercoaster retrospective
Energy levels in dark mode
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Case Study:Based on 3 teams with 10 people each over 1 year on a standard plan.
Parabol
USD 8/month per active user
Billed per user
Annual cost$2,880
Enterprise-grade security, compliance, and control
TeamRetro is SOC 2 Type 2 accredited by an independent auditor who has evaluated our policies, product, platform, and infrastructure in accordance with the Standard on Assurance Engagements (ASAE 3150).
GDPR compliance and regional hosting (US & EU)
Single Sign-On (SSO) via SAML
SCIM for scalable user provisioning
Audit logs available on request
We maintain 99.99% uptime, with fast-response SLAs to ensure your teams stay productive and supported.Status dashboard
Frequently asked questions
What is Parabol, and what kind of meetings is it for?
Parabol is designed for agile meetings like retrospectives, sprint poker (estimation), stand-ups, and check-ins. It's useful for teams that want to structure their agile ceremonies. TeamRetro, the alternative to Parabol, is a cloud-based retrospective tool that offers a wide array of retrospective templates and health checks (along with statistical information) and insights into trends and patterns over time. It also has built in ice breakers, pulse checks and uses AI to improve productivity and insight for action planning and exploring hot topics and team sentiment. It features an intuitive interface that enables retrospectives to run smoothly and integrates seamlessly with a wide range of workflow tools. TeamRetro is also SOC 2 Type 2 and GDPR compliant.
How easy is it to run a meeting in Parabol?
Parabol guides users through meeting phases like reflecting, grouping, voting, and discussion, depending on your meeting type. TeamRetro also uses guided facilitation steps with the added capability of customizing steps, presentation mode, and provides suggestions for grouping, actions, and instant summaries. It has an intuitive interface and built-in mechanics to help promote psychological safety.
What tools does Parabol integrate with?
Parabol works with Jira, GitHub, Slack, and Azure DevOps. TeamRetro offers deep integrations with Jira, Trello, Confluence, MS Teams, and more.
Does Parabol allow for anonymous feedback?
Yes, Parabol lets team members submit reflections and vote anonymously, which helps encourage open feedback. TeamRetro allows for anonymous, named, and alias feedback, allowing flexibility and trust building for both emerging and mature agile teams.
How much does Parabol cost?
Parabol offers a usable free plan: unlimited users across 2 teams, 10 meetings a month, 30 days of history and 3 AI summaries a month. Team health checks are not part of it. Parabol lists Team Health Check on the Team and Enterprise plans only, so measuring team health starts at $8 per active user per month, and that bill grows every time the team does. In contrast, TeamRetro charges per team, not per user, allowing you to add an unlimited number of users at no extra cost. With flat-rate pricing and full access to all features (including unlimited meeting history, integrations, AI summaries, and team health tools), TeamRetro offers a clearer, more scalable solution that's easier to manage as your team expands.
Can I migrate my data from Parabol to TeamRetro?
Yes, retrospective data can be migrated to TeamRetro.
What TeamRetro users say
The interface is clean and super intuitive and the flow was easy to navigate. I love the different options for retro types and the sticky note and dot voting experience was great. And finally, the ability to create actions was a fantastic finish. Your team should be SO PROUD.
In software development and consultancy, human factors can be the difference between ‘okay’ and ‘awesome.’ That’s why we hold weekly check-ins, and TeamRetro lets team members share their thoughts before meetings.
TeamRetro is a product where every detail is considered – simple usage, and good design. different flows for different needs, highly customizable, real-time features. It allows you to enter a retrospective or health check meeting comfortably and be ready for the meeting as a team leader.
It is intuitive, easy to use, and helps the team tremendously to perform a constructive retrospective. Also, the health check fully meets our requirements.
I love TeamRetro because it allows my team and me to focus on our topics without worrying about security or the tools we use, thanks to its amazing UI/UX. I started using it for retrospectives and health checks at my previous company, and now I also use it for planning poker.
TeamRetro’s Team Health Check feature allowed us to run quick surveys, providing a pulse on how our teams felt about aspects like communication and workload.
Probably one of the best applications we’ve used to conduct a retrospective. Seeing everyone interact with the board and share their opinions was awesome! The integrations with our Jira board is great. Allows us to track our goals and ensure they’re owned. Thank You, thumbs up from me👍
TeamRetro helped our teams effectively manage retrospective meetings, even in a remote setup, saving time and increasing productivity.
With the step-by-step framework TeamRetro provides, it enables small teams to hold regular retrospectives with alternating team members in the facilitating role.
Excellent, it’s exactly what we expected and even more, we liked very much the idea of incorporating in the report not only the current retro actions but also the pending ones from earlier retros.
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