Plane: Self-Hosted Project Management

Plane is a full-featured, open-source project management platform designed as a modern alternative to Jira, Linear, and Asana. With over 45,000 GitHub stars, Plane offers issue tracking, sprint planning, kanban boards, gantt charts, and project wikis — all in a clean, fast interface that teams actually enjoy using.

Self-hosting Plane means your project data, team workflows, and internal discussions remain on your own infrastructure without sending proprietary planning data to external services.

Key Features

• Issue tracking with custom properties, labels, priorities, and assignees
• Multiple views including kanban boards, spreadsheets, gantt charts, and calendar
• Sprint cycles with planning, tracking, and velocity analytics
• Project modules for grouping related issues into larger feature sets
• Built-in wiki pages for project documentation alongside your issues
• Custom workflows with configurable issue states and transition rules
• Time tracking and estimation for effort planning and reporting
• GitHub and GitLab integration for linking commits, branches, and pull requests to issues

Why Self-Host Plane?

Project data sovereignty. Your project plans, sprint boards, and internal discussions contain sensitive business information — product roadmaps, security priorities, revenue targets. Self-hosting keeps this data on your servers, not on a SaaS vendor's infrastructure.

No per-seat costs. Jira, Linear, and Asana charge per user, which gets expensive as your team grows. Self-hosted Plane has no user limits — invite your entire organization, contractors, and stakeholders without per-seat math.

Customization without limits. Self-hosting gives you full control over Plane's configuration, custom fields, workflows, and integrations. Modify the platform to fit your team's process rather than adapting your process to a vendor's product decisions.

Performance and availability. A self-hosted instance on your VPS responds to your team's needs without depending on a third-party service's uptime, server locations, or performance during peak hours. Your project management tool is as reliable as your own infrastructure.

System Requirements

Resource	Minimum	Recommended
CPU	2 vCPUs	4+ vCPUs
RAM	4 GB	8 GB
Storage	20 GB SSD	40 GB SSD
OS	Ubuntu 22.04+	Ubuntu 24.04

Plane runs a full-stack application with PostgreSQL, Redis, and background workers. For teams of 20-50 active users, 4 vCPUs and 8 GB RAM ensures responsive boards, search, and real-time updates.

Getting Started

The fastest way to deploy Plane on your VPS is with Docker Compose through Dokploy. Our step-by-step deployment guide walks you through the full setup, including persistent storage, environment configuration, and SSL.

Deploy Plane with Dokploy →

Alternatives

• Taiga — Open-source project management for agile teams with Scrum and Kanban support
• Leantime — Open-source project management for non-project-managers with strategy alignment
• Focalboard — Open-source alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana for project tracking
• Vikunja — Open-source to-do and project management app with lists, kanban, and gantt views

FAQ

How does Plane compare to Jira? Plane covers the core project management features most teams need — issues, sprints, kanban, gantt charts, and documentation. Jira has a larger ecosystem of plugins and enterprise features. Plane's advantage is a cleaner UI, faster performance, open-source flexibility, and no per-seat licensing.

Can Plane handle large teams? Yes. Plane supports workspaces with multiple projects, team roles, and custom workflows. For organizations with 50+ users and many active projects, ensure adequate server resources and use PostgreSQL for the database backend.

Does Plane integrate with GitHub? Yes. Plane integrates with GitHub and GitLab, allowing you to link issues to pull requests, automate issue status changes based on branch activity, and reference Plane issues from commit messages.

Is Plane ready for production use? Plane is actively developed and used in production by thousands of teams. The self-hosted community edition is feature-rich and stable. New features are shipped regularly, and the project has strong community support and a responsive development team.

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