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Plane

★ 55k

Open-source project management with issues, cycles, and product roadmaps

Plane does the job of Jira and Linear, self-hosted. It is AGPL-licensed, so a hosted fork has to publish its changes, and setting it up is an afternoon, not a weekend. Jira bills $8-10/user for it. 55k stars on GitHub.

Open-source replacement for Jira, Linear.

Licence
AGPL-3.0
Self-hosting
Medium
The paid one costs
$8-10/user
GitHub stars
55k
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Is it actually a replacement?

We have written a verdict on what it replaces — what you lose, and why people still pay:

How Plane runs

Where it runs

Plane runs on your machine or their cloud.

Installing it

Hosted signup, or the official Docker/Kubernetes self-hosting stack.

Where your data lives

Self-hosted Plane keeps workspaces, projects, work items, users, comments, and settings in PostgreSQL; attachments, images, and exports live in MinIO or another S3-compatible object store, with RabbitMQ and optional OpenSearch alongside them. Plane Cloud stores the equivalent data in Plane's infrastructure.

What setup takes

Self-hosting is a multi-service deployment: Docker or Kubernetes plus PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, object storage, a domain, TLS, and usually email configuration.

The catch compared with Asana

Plane is built around software-style work items and lacks Asana's mature goals, portfolios, workload planning, forms, rules, and broad cross-functional template ecosystem.

Plane questions

Is Plane open source?

Yes — it is released under AGPL-3.0.

Can Plane replace Jira?

Our verdict on Jira is YES. Plane (56k stars), Focalboard (26k stars), OpenProject (15k stars) are mature open-source replacements for Jira — self-host with real ops work and stop paying $7.91/mo.

Can I self-host Plane?

Yes — we rate it medium to self-host, and it runs on your machine or their cloud. Hosted signup, or the official Docker/Kubernetes self-hosting stack.

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