Jira vs Plane
Jira and Plane are both project management software. Jira is a commercial product from Atlassian. Plane is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 62k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Jira when
- A software team wants the industry-standard tracker with deep integrations and configurable workflows.
- Pick Plane when
- A product or engineering team wants a modern Jira alternative it can self-host.
Side by side
Issue and project tracking for software and business teams with boards, backlogs, sprints, workflows and reporting.
A project management tool for issues, cycles, modules, roadmaps, docs and intake, positioned against Jira and Linear.
It becomes slow and cluttered without careful administration.
Several features are reserved for paid editions, and self-hosting runs Postgres, Valkey, RabbitMQ and object storage.
Production-ready (both)
Cloud service, self-hosted server and mobile app
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Not published
TypeScript, React, Python, Django, PostgreSQL and RabbitMQ
Closed source, sold by Atlassian
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.
3.7k 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.