Plane
92 · HealthyIssue tracking with cycles, modules and pages, aimed at software teams.
Directory / Project management
Open source Project management
OpenProject
88 · HealthyProject management suite with Gantt charts, agile boards, time tracking and wikis.
Huly
84 · HealthyAll-in-one workspace combining issue tracking, docs, chat and video calls.
Leantime
83 · HealthyGoal-oriented project management designed with neurodivergent users in mind.
Kanboard
73 · StableMinimal kanban board focused on simplicity and low resource use.
Vikunja
65 · StableTo-do and project app with list, kanban, Gantt and table views.
Focalboard
13 · At riskKanban-style boards for tasks and projects, originally from Mattermost.
Directory / Project management / Plane
Plane
Issue tracking with cycles, modules and pages, aimed at software teams.
Will it still be around?
Health 92/100 · Healthy
Activity, bus factor and issue responsiveness. Breakdown
Alternative to
Savings proposal
At 25 users, Jira costs about $198 a month and self-hosting Plane about $264, so Jira is cheaper at this size. Self-hosting pays off from 37 users.
List price: Jira Standard, billed monthly. Premium is $14.54 per user. Free for up to 10 users. Source, checked 2026-10-07.
Extra cost over 3 years
$3,585
Pays for itself
Not at this size
Extra cost in year one
$1,995
Each month
$198 → $264
Show as a table
| Month | Jira | Self-hosted | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Today | $0 | $1,200 | −$1,200 |
| Month 3 | $593 | $1,992 | −$1,399 |
| Month 6 | $1,187 | $2,784 | −$1,598 |
| Month 9 | $1,780 | $3,576 | −$1,796 |
| Month 12 | $2,373 | $4,368 | −$1,995 |
| Month 18 | $3,560 | $5,952 | −$2,393 |
| Month 24 | $4,746 | $7,536 | −$2,790 |
| Month 30 | $5,933 | $9,120 | −$3,188 |
| Month 36 | $7,119 | $10,704 | −$3,585 |
Assumptions you can change
Self-hosting Plane usually means an app server, a database and a cache or worker. Hours are for one engineer; the server cost is a typical cloud VPS with backups and grows with the number of people using it.
Not included: paid editions or features of Plane (see What's free?), large data migrations, and compliance work. All amounts in US dollars at list price; your negotiated price may differ.
Health score: 92/100
Activity45% weight
100/100
- Last commit today (100/100).
- 782 commits in the past 12 months (100/100).
- 16 releases in the past 12 months (100/100).
Bus factor30% weight
100/100
- Top contributor wrote 23% of the last 99 commits (past 12 months).
- 25 people authored those commits.
Responsiveness25% weight
67/100
- 61% of all issues are closed (771 open, 1209 closed) (52/100).
- 23 of 30 recent issues got a reply or were closed (77/100).
Score v2. How the health score works.
License
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 · Open source (copyleft)
OSI-approved license that requires sharing changes under the same license when you distribute (AGPL: also when you offer it over a network).
Detected by GitHub as AGPL-3.0.
What's free?
Enterprise features many open-core projects keep for paid plans.
| Feature | Self-hosted, free? |
|---|---|
| SSO (SAML) | Unknown |
| SSO (OIDC) | Unknown |
| SCIM provisioning | Unknown |
| Audit logs | Unknown |
| Role-based access control | Unknown |
| Multi-tenancy | Unknown |
We haven't verified which of these features are free for this project yet.
GitHub metrics
| Stars | 61k | Forks | 6.0k |
|---|---|---|---|
| Last commit | today | Commits, 12 months | 782 |
| Releases, 12 months | 16 | Last release | 2 months ago |
| Contributors | 173 | Active authors | 25 in last 99 commits |
| Open issues | 771 | Closed issues | 1.2k |
Snapshot from 2026-10-08.