Plane

Plane is an open-source project management tool built as a self-hosted alternative to Jira and Linear. It covers the full agile workflow: issues with priorities, labels, and assignees; Cycles for sprint planning; Modules for grouping work across projects; Pages for team documentation; and Analytics for progress visibility.

The interface is clean and closer to Linear’s speed and polish than Jira’s density. For teams that have outgrown basic kanban boards but cannot justify Jira’s per-seat licensing, Plane covers most of what they actually use.

Self-hosting runs via Docker Compose and the AGPL-3.0 licence means the full codebase is open. Sony, Accenture, and several government agencies use Plane, which gives confidence in its production readiness beyond a hobby project.

The honest constraints: the free self-hosted tier has member limits, and some features are more polished in the cloud version than in self-hosted releases. For a small team under the member cap, the free tier is fully functional. Plane is also still maturing — it does not yet match Jira’s decade of refinement on edge cases like complex workflow automation, advanced reporting, or deep integrations with the Atlassian ecosystem.

For a team migrating away from Jira for cost or data sovereignty reasons, Plane is the most capable self-hosted replacement currently available.