Issues, cycles and roadmaps on Plane Cloud or your own servers
Plane is a project management tool: you file work items, plan them in cycles (Plane's word for sprints) and track a product roadmap. The repository bills itself as an open-source alternative to Jira, Linear, Monday and ClickUp. Plane Cloud is the hosted version, with a free account; the code on GitHub installs on your own servers with Docker or Kubernetes. The front end is TypeScript on React Router, the API Python on Django.
Burn-down charts, a triage queue and saved views
- Work items written in a rich text editor that takes file uploads, with sub-properties and links to related issues.
- Cycles tracked with a burn-down chart, and modules to split a large project into smaller chunks.
- Filtered views that can be saved and shared; the pricing page lists five layouts and unlimited views on the free tier.
- Intake, a queue where the team sorts incoming requests and picks the ones that become work items.
- Project pages with a rich text editor, images and links, where notes can be turned into work items.
- Analytics across all the data in the instance, to spot trends and blockers.
- An instance admin panel called "God mode" that sets up SMTP, Google or GitHub sign-in and who may create workspaces.
Paid features in a closed edition, thirteen containers to self-host
The open-source edition stops at the free tier. The repository ships the Community Edition under AGPL v3. Plane's page on its editions says it matches the free cloud tier feature for feature, and that any paid plan requires switching to the Commercial Edition, which is closed source. The pricing page puts the workspace wiki, time tracking, dashboards and custom work item types in those paid plans, from $6 per user per month billed annually for Pro. The docs mark OIDC single sign-on as Pro and Business, and LDAP as Enterprise Grid.
New features reach the cloud first. Each edition has its own codebase and release cycle, and the docs describe the cloud as the test bed for features before they land in the self-hosted editions.
Plane aims the Community Edition at evaluation and code audits. The editions page recommends it to people who want to try Plane, audit the code for security or see how the services fit together. For self-hosting in general, Plane recommends the Commercial Edition, which includes 12 free seats per workspace.
Self-hosting Plane means running four infrastructure services next to it. The Community Edition's Docker Compose file starts thirteen services: nine Plane containers, including a proxy and a migration job, plus PostgreSQL 15.7, Valkey 7.2 (a Redis fork), RabbitMQ 3.13 and MinIO-style object storage. The all-in-one image folds the Plane containers into one but still expects an external PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ and S3-compatible store. The install guide asks for at least 2 vCPUs and 4 GB of RAM.
Plane has been on 1.x since September 2025. v1.0.0 shipped on 10 September 2025 and the latest stable release, v1.4.2, on 23 August 2026. v1.4.3 was at its second release candidate on 23 October 2026, and the last commit landed on 26 October. The README notes that Plane "is evolving every day".