Plane
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Open-source Project Management Software for all teams
How to Replace PlaneOverview
Features
84 features across 27 categories
AI(4)
Built-in agents that handle busywork by triaging incoming requests, assigning owners, tracking blockers, and shipping updates
Per-seat and workspace-level AI credits with rollover and admin controls for flexible AI usage
Ask Plane AI anything and get answers across your complete workspace about status, blockers, and changes
AI that knows your work context and can assign agents to work items, summarize progress across projects, and triage/draft/act using full workspace context
Access Control(2)
Control who sees what, when at the smallest level with granular permissions
Let some users see everything or just their work items in a project with pre-defined or custom roles using RBAC
Administration(3)
One admin panel for your entire instance to configure SMTP, authentication methods, SSO, workspace security, and telemetry
Install, configure, upgrade, back up, and monitor your instance with single commands with multi-instance support
Manage number of seats that can use project and work management features with unlimited seats on paid plans
Analytics(7)
Create your own dashboards with custom widgets and data types for advanced visualizations
See relevant details and progress charts for each module like Cycle Overviews
See who's viewing, sharing, and commenting on your pages along with other useful info
Track progress in cycles, modules, and overviews throughout Plane without switching to dashboards
See just-in-time snapshots of your project with essential metrics
See all projects laid across states that highlight those that need attention and those on track
Track cycle velocity, workload, blockers, and scope changes with dashboards that populate automatically without manual reports
Automation(3)
Transfer incomplete work items from a completed cycle to the next cycle or to the default project state
Schedule recurring work items to generate automatically at set intervals to automate cyclical work
Automate handoffs, reviews, and stage gates without plugins by setting workspace, project, and work item type approvals
Collaboration(5)
Respond to work items, @mention members, and brainstorm together without leaving Plane
Get an email address for reporting work items directly into a project's Intake
Take intake work items from externally accessible web forms
Get and customize dedicated spaces for your teams for noiseless collaboration with a noise-free customizable space
Capture all feedback and suggestions from viewers and guests before deciding to turn them into work items
Compliance(4)
CCPA compliance for California Consumer Privacy Act requirements
GDPR compliance out of the box for data protection and privacy
ISO 27001 certification for information security management
SOC 2 Type II certification for security and compliance standards
Core Functionality(2)
Project management that matches how your team works with initiatives, epics, and cycles that break down work and connect progress across every layer
Add work via work items, set properties for tracking, and add to cycles or modules
Customization(2)
Create your own properties and apply them to your workspace or project level
Create your own work item types with your own properties
Deployment(2)
Deploy with Docker for quick setup or Kubernetes with Helm charts for production scale with custom storage
Deploy Plane on your own servers with complete control and flexibility on Docker, Kubernetes, or custom infrastructure
Developer(3)
Native MCP server with an agent framework with @mention support and full Agent Run lifecycle tracking
Projects-as-Code to define projects in YAML, version in Git, and deploy from your terminal
REST API with OAuth 2.0, HMAC-signed webhooks, and typed SDKs in Node.js and Python for custom integrations
Documentation(6)
Pages inside a page to organize your pages as you see fit for the progressive disclosure with real-time collaboration
Use pages as templates for your project, team, or workspace
See restorable versions of edits to your pages
Build knowledge bases for your teams which are accessible and shareable with nested pages to organize content
Documentation built in for tribal knowledge with company knowledge in one place tied to the work that created it
Embed work items from any project you are a member of
Import(5)
Import your work items, users, and associated data from one Asana project at a time
Import your work items and data from ClickUp into Plane
Import your work items, users, and associated data from one Jira project at a time with full migration support
Import teams, projects, work items and cycles seamlessly mapped to Plane
Import your work items and data from Monday.com into Plane
Integration(7)
Extend Plane with apps, agents, and your own integrations using Open API, webhooks, OAuth apps, and native MCP server
Connect to Figma to sync design work with project management
Sync Plane work items and states to GitHub work items and states with automatic updates in both directions
Sync Plane work items and states to GitLab with automatic updates in both directions
Bring Plane AI into Teams and turn conversations into work items while getting updates
Connect to Sentry for error tracking and create work items from errors
AGI-like Slack integration to mention @Plane in any Slack channel to describe work and have it created and synced back
Integrations(1)
Browse and integrate GitHub, GitLab, Slack, Sentry, and more to sync issues, track PRs, and import from other tools
Linking(1)
Link pages in work items in a separate section in work item details
Planning(5)
Time-box work with velocity tracking and burndown charts built in to track work in timeboxes with differing frequency
Adjust timelines for dependent work items visually on the Gantt layout
Measure effort in points in a system that works for you to take the guesswork out of effort and deadlines
Align team-level work to org-level goals with rollup tracking to organize long-term work
Group replicable work in modules with their own leads
Platform(1)
Your entire workspace on your mobile on both Cloud and self-hosted instances
Productivity(5)
Add several work items to cycles or modules, transfer them, or edit their properties in bulk
Access a keyboard-first gateway to almost anything in Plane
Export page content into PDFs or Word-compatible docs
Save states, workflows, automation, and other project settings into templates to scale proven workflows across teams
Create project-level work item templates including custom properties to create new work items easily
Reliability(1)
Fully committed uptime SLA with automatic backups, real-time scaling, and multi-layer failovers
Reporting(1)
Get on-demand cycle reports during and after a cycle with permalinks to revisit anytime
Security(5)
Programmatically trace who did what and when with audit log APIs
Keep all your data, source code, and configurations entirely within your environment on self-hosted instances
Get official LDAP implementation to secure your Plane workspace with your LDAP directory and sync groups
Get the officially supported OIDC implementation to make Plane secure with any IdP
Get the officially supported SSO implementation and SAML with any IdP for secure authentication
Sharing(2)
Put your pages on the web for external users and let them comment without signing into your workspace
Put a view on the Internet and let your customers interact with them
Support(2)
Customer support that lives where your work does - turn requests into trackable work items and route to the right team automatically
White-glove migration and implementation services to switch to Plane from any project management software
Tracking(2)
Add markers to Projects, Epics and Initiatives to keep your team on track and report on progress
Track time per work items, see aggregated reports, and filter by need with historical worklogs and approvals
Visualization(2)
See all running cycles across all projects or within a single project
Board, Spreadsheet, List, Gantt, and Calendar layouts that switch instantly for every role to see the work that matters to them
Workflow(1)
Set SLA matrices for time-sensitive work items
Pricing
Free
- ✓Projects and Work Items
- ✓Cycles and Modules
- ✓Five layouts and unlimited views
- ✓Work Item Intake
- ✓Estimates
- ✓Project Pages
- ✓12 users
- ✓500 AI credits per seat
- ✓Comments and basic features
Pro
- ✓Everything in Free
- ✓1,000 AI credits per seat
- ✓Work Item Types and Properties
- ✓Workspace Wiki
- ✓Time Tracking and Work Logs
- ✓Work Item and Page Templates
- ✓Dashboards
- ✓Epics and Initiatives
- ✓Teamspaces
- ✓Integrations and Marketplace
- ✓Unlimited users
- ✓1:5 Guests per member
- ✓25% savings with annual billing
Business
- ✓Everything in Pro
- ✓2,000 AI credits per seat
- ✓Project Templates
- ✓Recurring Work Items
- ✓Intake Email and Forms
- ✓Nested Pages and Embeds
- ✓Workflows and Approvals
- ✓Customers module
- ✓Advanced Dashboards with Advanced Widgets
- ✓Bulk Operations
- ✓Active Cycles View
- ✓Custom Properties
- ✓Dependencies in Gantt
- ✓Auto-transfer Cycle Work Items
- ✓Publish Views
- ✓13% savings with annual billing
Enterprise
- ✓Everything in Business
- ✓Flexible AI credits with custom limits
- ✓Private and managed deployments
- ✓Plane as a fully managed service
- ✓Granular Access Control
- ✓LDAP support
- ✓API-enabled Audit Logs
- ✓SSO, SAML, LDAP authentication
- ✓SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, CCPA compliance
- ✓Priority support
- ✓Up to 12-month AI credit rollover
- ✓Migration and Implementation Services
Self-Hosted
- ✓All features available on Cloud
- ✓Deploy on your own servers
- ✓Complete control and flexibility
- ✓Full data ownership
- ✓Docker and Kubernetes deployment
- ✓Custom Postgres, Redis, S3 storage
- ✓Prime CLI for management
- ✓God Mode admin panel
- ✓Multi-instance support
- ✓Built for compliance and custom infrastructure
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Integrations
11 known integrations