Plane vs WeKan
Plane and WeKan are both project management software. Plane is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 62k GitHub stars. WeKan is open source under MIT, with 21k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Plane when
- A product or engineering team wants a modern Jira alternative it can self-host.
- Pick WeKan when
- You want a free self-hosted Trello replacement and are comfortable with MongoDB.
Side by side
A project management tool for issues, cycles, modules, roadmaps, docs and intake, positioned against Jira and Linear.
A Trello-style kanban board with cards, checklists, swimlanes and real-time collaboration.
Several features are reserved for paid editions, and self-hosting runs Postgres, Valkey, RabbitMQ and object storage.
Essentially one maintainer, and the Meteor stack is aging.
Production-ready (both)
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Self-hosted server
TypeScript, React, Python, Django, PostgreSQL and RabbitMQ
JavaScript, Meteor and MongoDB
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Open source, MIT (permissive)
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
62k GitHub stars
21k GitHub stars
Established: started 4 years ago, latest release v1.4.3.
Established: started 12 years ago, latest release v12.87.
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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.