Plane

Plane is an open-source, AI-native project management platform and a direct alternative to Jira, Linear, Monday.com, and ClickUp. It combines three products in one workspace: Work (projects, work items, cycles, modules, intake, and dashboards), Wiki (a Notion-style knowledge base for specs and docs), and Plane AI (summaries, drafting, planning, web search, and agent hand-off). The source code is licensed under AGPL-3.0.

Yes, there are two free options. The Community Edition is free to self-host with no user limits and includes unlimited projects, work items, cycles, modules, pages, five layout views, intake, estimates, the REST API, and webhooks. Plane Cloud also has a free tier. Paid Cloud and self-managed plans start at around $6 per seat per month, and mobile apps require a commercial edition.

Yes. Plane is one of the few modern project management tools designed for on-premises and air-gapped deployments. You can install it with Docker Compose, Kubernetes using Helm charts, Podman, or one-click platforms such as Coolify and Portainer. A typical deployment needs about 2 CPU cores and 4 GB of RAM. The Prime CLI handles install, configuration, upgrades, backups, and monitoring, and you can bring your own PostgreSQL, Redis, and S3-compatible storage.

Plane runs in the browser, as a desktop app for macOS and Linux (it loads the full web app, adds tabs, multiple windows, and automatic updates), and as an iOS and Android app. The desktop app connects to both Plane Cloud and self-managed instances running Plane Commercial v3.0.0 or later. Mobile apps work with Cloud and commercial self-hosted plans, but not with the Community Edition.

Plane covers the core of Jira and Linear — work items, cycles/sprints, modules, custom states and properties, board/list/spreadsheet/Gantt views, and dashboards — while adding a built-in Wiki and AI features without extra tools. Unlike Jira and Linear, the Community Edition can be self-hosted for free under AGPL-3.0. Migration is supported through importers for Jira, Linear, Asana, ClickUp, Monday, and others in the Marketplace.

Yes. Plane offers an open API, webhooks, OAuth apps, and a native MCP server for building custom integrations and AI agents. The Marketplace includes integrations for GitHub, GitLab, Slack, and Sentry, among others, and there is a Slack integration that lets you create and assign work by mentioning @Plane in a channel.