Kaneo vs Plane

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.

Kaneo and Plane are closely matched on maintenance health (89 vs 86). Neither is the safer bet on activity alone, so choose on features, licence and the stack you already run.
KaneoPlane
Health score 89/100 86/100
Commits (11 mo) 2136 746
Commits (last 3 mo) 787 111
Stars 9.2k 60k
Latest release 27 Sept 2026 23 Aug 2026
Licence MIT AGPL-3.0
Built with K8S, Docker Docker
Typical RAM 1 GB 2 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

Plane

Track issues, epics, and product roadmaps in the simplest way possible (alternative to JIRA, Linear and Height).

86/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 30/40
Releases 25/25
Community 20/20
Momentum 12/15

Commit activity more than 74% of tracked projects; popularity more than 98%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 127 commits 2025-11: 108 commits 2025-12: 207 commits 2026-01: 22 commits 2026-02: 54 commits 2026-03: 65 commits 2026-04: 27 commits 2026-05: 25 commits 2026-06: 35 commits 2026-07: 37 commits 2026-08: 39 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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