Kaneo vs OpenProject

Both are self-hosted software development - project management projects. This page compares how well each one is actually maintained — the part you cannot see from a feature list.

OpenProject scores 94 against Kaneo's 89, putting it slightly ahead. That measures project health, not feature fit — Kaneo may still be the right choice if it does what you need.
KaneoOpenProject
Health score 89/100 94/100
Commits (11 mo) 2136 14719
Commits (last 3 mo) 787 4762
Stars 9.2k 16k
Latest release 27 Sept 2026 2 Sept 2026
Licence MIT GPL-3.0
Built with K8S, Docker Ruby, deb, Docker
Typical RAM 1 GB 1 GB

Kaneo

Project management platform focused on simplicity and efficiency.

89/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 36/40
Releases 25/25
Community 16/20
Momentum 12/15

Commit activity more than 90% of tracked projects; popularity more than 78%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 9 commits 2025-11: 38 commits 2025-12: 270 commits 2026-01: 170 commits 2026-02: 160 commits 2026-03: 363 commits 2026-04: 216 commits 2026-05: 123 commits 2026-06: 78 commits 2026-07: 157 commits 2026-08: 552 commits

OpenProject

Manage your projects, tasks and goals. Collaborate via work packages and link them to your pull requests on Github.

94/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 40/40
Releases 25/25
Community 17/20
Momentum 12/15

Commit activity in the top 1% of tracked projects; popularity more than 86%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 1080 commits 2025-11: 1357 commits 2025-12: 761 commits 2026-01: 928 commits 2026-02: 1334 commits 2026-03: 1699 commits 2026-04: 1345 commits 2026-05: 1453 commits 2026-06: 1709 commits 2026-07: 1724 commits 2026-08: 1329 commits

How to read this

Everything above is measured, not opinion: commit counts and release dates come from the public repositories, and the health score ranks each project against all 1352 projects we track. Read the full method.

What this comparison deliberately does not do is tell you which has the better feature set. Maintenance health tells you which project will still be receiving security fixes in two years. Decide that first, then compare features on the projects that survive the filter.

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