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Plane: Self-Hosted Project Management That Doesn't Nickel-and-Dime You
Open-source alternative to Linear, Jira, and Monday.com. Host it yourself, customize it freely, skip the SaaS bills.
makeplane/plane ↗Plane is a project management tool—think task boards, sprint planning, docs, and bug triage in one place. The catch: you can run it on your own servers instead of paying a vendor monthly. If your team uses Linear or Jira today, Plane does the same job. Self-hosting means no recurring seat fees, full control over your data, and room to bolt on custom features. The trade-off is you manage the infrastructure. For bootstrapped teams or companies with privacy concerns, that's often worth it. For teams that want zero ops overhead, the hosted SaaS tools still win.
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Plane: Open-source PM tool (no SaaS fees)
Self-hosted alternative to Linear and Jira. Feature-complete boards, sprints, docs, and triage. Host it yourself, own your data, keep the budget. Trade-off: you run the servers.
Plane is Jira meets Linear, but open-source and self-hosted. No seat fees. No vendor lock-in. You run the servers, you own the data. For teams that already paid the Linear bill once too many.
Open-source project management that actually ships. Plane handles tasks, sprints, docs, and triage—and you can self-host it. Teams scaling past ClickUp's pricing or Jira's bloat are shipping with this. Worth a look if you're tired of SaaS seat costs.
Just spent the afternoon self-hosting Plane instead of paying Linear's monthly tax. Open-source project management that actually ships features. What landed for me: → Full sprint planning, task boards, docs in one place → Self-hosted option means zero recurring licensing → Built-in triage and sprint workflows (not bolted-on) → Postgres + Next.js stack, customizable without fighting the tool The honest take: PM tooling is crowded, and Plane isn't a new category. But it's well-executed enough that if you're a team tired of Jira's bloat or Linear's price tag, this actually works. Deployed mine in about 30 minutes. For builders running lean, this scratches the itch.
been running Plane (open-source Linear alternative) for a week now. no more $30/seat/month taxes. • full sprint + task board infrastructure • self-hosted on my own postgres • docs + triage baked in, not glued on • took 30min to deploy if you're a small team paying for Linear, worth a look. github.com/makeplane/plane