Asana vs Plane
Asana and Plane are both project management software. Asana is a commercial product from Asana, Inc. Plane is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 62k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Asana when
- Marketing, operations or cross-functional teams want a clear project and task tool that non-technical staff use.
- Pick Plane when
- A product or engineering team wants a modern Jira alternative it can self-host.
Side by side
Work management for tasks, projects, timelines, portfolios and goals, with automations and AI features.
A project management tool for issues, cycles, modules, roadmaps, docs and intake, positioned against Jira and Linear.
Key features like portfolios and workload sit in expensive tiers.
Several features are reserved for paid editions, and self-hosting runs Postgres, Valkey, RabbitMQ and object storage.
Production-ready (both)
Cloud service, mobile app and desktop app
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Not published
TypeScript, React, Python, Django, PostgreSQL and RabbitMQ
Closed source, sold by Asana, Inc.
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
4.7k Wikipedia readers a month on phones
62k GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 4 years ago, latest release v1.4.3.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.