Plane

Overview

Plane is an open-source project management and knowledge platform, published under the AGPL-3.0 licence and positioned as an alternative to Jira, Linear, Monday and ClickUp. Work is tracked as work items that roll up into cycles, modules, epics and initiatives, viewed through five layouts including board, list, spreadsheet and Gantt, with intake forms, estimates and workflows with automated approvals. A wiki sits next to the projects so documentation lives in the same workspace, and Plane AI adds workspace-wide answers plus agents for triage, assignment and blocker tracking. It runs as a hosted cloud service or self-hosted on Docker and Kubernetes, including air-gapped deployments, with iOS and Android apps. Developers get a REST API of more than 180 endpoints, webhooks, OAuth apps, an MCP server and YAML-based projects-as-code, alongside 50-plus integrations such as GitHub, GitLab, Slack and Sentry and migration tools from Jira, Linear, Asana, ClickUp and Monday. The vendor lists SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR and CCPA compliance. Cloud pricing starts free for up to 12 users, with Pro at 6 dollars and Business at 13 dollars per seat and month.

Best for software teams that want a modern issue tracker they can self-host, including air-gapped.

Plane is aimed at teams that want the shape of a modern issue tracker without handing their data to a hosted service they cannot leave, and the self-hosting story is the reason to look at it rather than a footnote. The same codebase runs in the cloud and on your own cluster, so a move in either direction is a deployment question and not a migration project, which matters more to regulated and air-gapped shops than to anyone else. The trade-off is scope: it plans and documents software work well, and it does not staff people or bill clients, so a services business will still need a second system for hours and money. Teams under twelve people can settle the question for free before paying anything.

Key Facts

Features

Task planning

Yes, work items grouped into cycles, modules, epics and initiatives, across five layouts including board, list, spreadsheet and Gantt, with intake forms, estimates and approval workflows

Resource planning

Not a staffing planner; real-time dashboards track velocity, workload and blockers instead

Time tracking

Yes, from the Pro plan up

Reporting and controlling

Yes, real-time dashboards for velocity, workload and blockers, with advanced dashboard widgets on Business

Integrations and API

Yes, a REST API with more than 180 endpoints, webhooks, OAuth apps, an MCP server and YAML projects-as-code, plus 50-plus integrations and migration from Jira, Linear, Asana, ClickUp and Monday

Integrations

• GitHub
• GitLab
• Slack
• Microsoft Teams
• Sentry

Deployment and Support

Deployment

• Cloud (SaaS)
• Browser-based
• On-premise

Onboarding

• Documentation and knowledge base

Company size

• Small and mid-sized
• Enterprise

Suitability

The table combines the industries the vendor addresses with the company sizes the tool is aimed at. An empty cell means the combination is not stated, not that it is ruled out.

Pros and Cons

Pricing

• Free

  $0

  Per seat and month, up to 12 users. Includes 500 AI credits per seat, projects, work items, cycles, modules, five layouts, intake forms, estimates and project pages.

• Pro

  $6

  Per seat and month, unlimited seats. Adds 1,000 AI credits per seat, custom work item types, a workspace wiki, time tracking, templates, dashboards, initiatives and teamspaces.

• Business

  $13

  Per seat and month, unlimited seats. Adds 2,000 AI credits per seat, project templates, recurring work items, intake by email, nested pages, workflow control, customer profiles and advanced dashboard widgets.

• Enterprise Grid

  Not stated

  Custom quote. Adds flexible AI credit allocation, managed deployments, granular access controls, multiple workflows with approvals, LDAP and API-enabled audit logs.

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• Technology

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