OpenProject 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.

OpenProject scores 94 against Plane's 86, putting it slightly ahead on the strength of a higher commit volume. That measures project health, not feature fit — Plane may still be the right choice if it does what you need.
OpenProjectPlane
Health score 94/100 86/100
Commits (11 mo) 14719 746
Commits (last 3 mo) 4762 111
Stars 16k 60k
Latest release 2 Sept 2026 23 Aug 2026
Licence GPL-3.0 AGPL-3.0
Built with Ruby, deb, Docker Docker
Typical RAM 1 GB 2 GB

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

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.

See every option in this category: self-hosted software development - project management.