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IT service management · November 2026 Edition

Freshservice vs Jira Service Management

Eleven of fourteen models named Freshservice first on the direct prompt; two named Jira Service Management. Both were named by all fourteen models and Freshservice carries 70 labels and Jira Service Management 67, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Freshservice

endorsed leader

Named in ten categories this edition.

Jira Service Management

accepted challenger

Named in six categories this edition.

First-choice share52%23%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate6%6%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#1#2A position in a field of 12; printed, not drawn.
Labels7067A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Freshservice reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus was named alongside these two in nine of the fourteen direct answers. Freshservice vs ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus · Freshservice vs InvGate Service Management · Freshservice vs TeamDynamix

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the IT service management page.

By framing

How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
FreshserviceFirst choices, of fourteen modelsJira Service Management
Direct112
Paraphrase132
Comparative00
Budget-constrained48
Scale-constrained32
Negative104 against Freshservice · 4 against Jira Service Management
Bars are first choices, 0 to 14 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to fourteen.

Across every category in the November 2026 Edition, Freshservice and Jira Service Management were named in the same answer 237 times, of the 465 answers naming Freshservice and the 386 naming Jira Service Management. In those answers Jira Service Management took the first choice eighteen times and Freshservice seventy-nine.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Freshservice and Jira Service Management stood in it.
ModelDirectParaphraseComparativeBudget-constrainedScale-constrainedNegative
Claude Haiku 4.5
GPT-5.4 mini
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Perplexity Sonar
Grok 4.20
Mistral Small
DeepSeek V4 Flash
Llama 4 Maverick
Qwen 3.7 Flash
Kimi K2
GLM 4.7 FlashX
MiniMax M2.5
GPT-6 Luna
Muse Glimmer 30B
Freshservice Jira Service Management first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Freshservice on the left and Jira Service Management on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Freshservice and Jira Service Management stood in it.

Freshservice first, Jira Service Management an alternative

11 of 14 modelsJira Service Management was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Claude Haiku 4.5Freshservice alternatives: HaloITSM, InvGate Service Management, Jira Service Management, ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus, TOPdesk, TeamDynamix
GPT-5.4 miniFreshservice alternatives: Jira Service Management
Gemini 3.5 FlashFreshservice alternatives: HaloITSM, Jira Service Management, TeamDynamix
Perplexity SonarFreshservice alternatives: InvGate Service Management, Jira Service Management, ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus
Grok 4.20Freshservice alternatives: Jira Service Management, ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus, Zendesk ITSM
DeepSeek V4 FlashFreshservice alternatives: HaloITSM, InvGate Service Management, Jira Service Management, ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus
Llama 4 MaverickFreshservice alternatives: InvGate Service Management, ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus, Zendesk ITSM
Qwen 3.7 FlashFreshservice alternatives: Ivanti Neurons for ITSM, Jira Service Management
GLM 4.7 FlashXFreshservice, InvGate Service Management alternatives: HaloITSM, Jira Service Management, ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus, SysAid
GPT-6 LunaFreshservice alternatives: Jira Service Management, ServiceNow ITSM
Muse Glimmer 30BFreshservice alternatives: Jira Service Management, TeamDynamix

Jira Service Management first, Freshservice an alternative

2 of 14 modelsFreshservice was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Mistral SmallJira Service Management, TeamDynamix alternatives: Freshservice, ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus
Kimi K2InvGate Service Management, Jira Service Management alternatives: Freshservice, ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus, TeamDynamix

Neither was the first choice, one was named

1 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
MiniMax M2.5InvGate Service Management, TeamDynamix alternatives: Freshservice, Jira Service Management, ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus

Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.
Small business
Freshservice leads by thirty-five points.
Freshservice51%#1 of 17
Jira Service Management16%#2 of 17
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
Freshservice leads by twenty-eight points.
Freshservice52%#1 of 12
Jira Service Management23%#2 of 12
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Level: the same share of first choices.
Freshservice9%#3 of 8
Jira Service Management9%#2 of 8
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Freshservice

No label in this category carried a quote.

What the models said about Jira Service Management

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Four of four in this category shown.

“Can feel overly developer-centric, and teams without Atlassian experience often find the initial configuration steep” Claude Haiku 4.5 · negative prompt · soft negative
“TeamDynamix ITSM and JIRA Service Management stand out for their balance of ease of use, scalability, and strong mid-market support.” Mistral Small · direct prompt · first choice
“InvGate Service Management or Jira Service Management offer the best balance of capability, scalability, and total cost of ownership” Kimi K2 · direct prompt · first choice
“1–3 IT Agents (Cloud) | Jira Service Management | Free for 3 agents, modern interface, highly scalable.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · budget prompt · first choice
Also compared

Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.