Platform vs Plane
Platform and Plane are both project management software. Platform is open source under EPL-2.0, with 28k GitHub stars. Plane is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 62k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Platform when
- Only for existing installs; new users should look at the Platform-Collective fork.
- Pick Plane when
- A product or engineering team wants a modern Jira alternative it can self-host.
Side by side
Huly, an all-in-one workspace combining issue tracking, chat, documents, HR, recruiting and CRM.
A project management tool for issues, cycles, modules, roadmaps, docs and intake, positioned against Jira and Linear.
This repository is frozen and no longer maintained, per its own notice.
Several features are reserved for paid editions, and self-hosting runs Postgres, Valkey, RabbitMQ and object storage.
Usable
Production-ready
Self-hosted server and cloud service (both)
TypeScript and Svelte
TypeScript, React, Python, Django, PostgreSQL and RabbitMQ
Open source, EPL-2.0 (weak copyleft)
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
You can use it inside a product you sell; changes you make to its own files must be shared.
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
28k GitHub stars
62k GitHub stars
Established: started 5 years ago, latest release v0.7.426.
Established: started 4 years ago, latest release v1.4.3.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from each project's README and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.