Last checked October 15, 2026

Plane

Plane is a project tracker aimed at software teams leaving Jira. Community Edition is AGPL-3.0 and free to self-host, with no user cap. Commercial cloud plans start lower than a typical Jira seat.

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Free tier

Community Edition is free to self-host with no user limit. Cloud has a free tier.

Hosted

Commercial cloud starts at $6 per seat/month.

Self-host

Moderate. Docker Compose or Kubernetes. More containers than a single binary, documented for a team install. About $15–30/mo. Unverified estimate.

Drop-in scores

Replacing Jira100% of the checklist checked.

Sources checked

https://plane.so/open-source