Anakin vs Plane (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Anakin if

• Fits if you run a small team and want to hand tasks to coding agents
• Works for groups of up to 5 who want a free planning board

Look elsewhere if

• Skip it if you want a tool that builds an app from a prompt, as this is a planning workspace
• Not for you if you have no coding agent, as it sells no model usage
• Watch out: the docs are marked coming soon and no monthly price for Team is shown
• Too light on phones, as only Mac, Windows and Linux apps are named

Pick Plane if

• Fits if you want to self-host your project management tool
• Works for teams of up to 12 moving off Jira, Linear, Asana or ClickUp with the built-in importers

Look elsewhere if

• Tight if you're staying free and need time tracking, dashboards or the workspace wiki, which start at Pro
• Tight if your free team passes 12 users, as every seat then costs $6 a month billed annually
• Skip it if you want a Windows desktop app today, as it's listed as coming soon
• Not for you if you self-host the Community Edition and want the phone apps, because they don't work with it
• Pricey if you need LDAP, granular access control or approval workflows, which are Enterprise Grid only, priced by quote

Anakin

• Anakin does not sell model usage; agent runs use your own coding plans or API accounts.
• It is a planning and delegation workspace, not a prompt-to-app builder like most of this category.
• The site's docs are marked as coming soon, and the pricing page does not show a monthly-billing price for Team.
• The download dialog lists macOS, Windows and Linux desktop apps; no iOS or Android app is named.

Plane

• The Free plan is capped at 12 users; time tracking, the workspace wiki, dashboards and work item types start at Pro.
• The download page lists the Windows desktop app as coming soon; macOS and Linux desktop apps are available.
• The mobile apps work with Cloud and the commercial self-hosted editions, not with the open-source Community Edition.
• LDAP, granular access control and multiple workflows with approvals are limited to Enterprise Grid, which is priced by quote.

Anakin

Agents as teammates

Work can be assigned to a person, an agent or a crew, and agents and skills are shared across the team.

Agile planning

Issues, projects, sprints, backlog and triage, with board, list, table, dashboard and Gantt views.

Parallel agent runs

Each agent can work in its own isolated worktree so parallel changes stay separate until reviewed.

Import and sync

The site lists migration or two-way sync with Jira, Linear, Asana, GitHub Issues, GitLab Issues and Shortcut.

Bring your own agents

Runs go through a connected computer and the Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or other plan the team already pays for.

Plane

Work items, cycles and modules

Projects hold work items, which are planned into time-boxed cycles and grouped into modules. Cycles come with velocity tracking and burndown charts.

Five layouts and saved views

Work items can be shown as a list, board, calendar, Gantt chart or spreadsheet, and a set of sort, filter and display options can be saved as a view.

Pages and wiki

Project pages are included on Free. Pro adds a workspace wiki for company-wide knowledge, and Business adds nested pages and embeds.

Plane AI and agents

Plane AI answers questions from across the workspace, and agents run on mentions, assignments and schedules. Pro includes 500 AI credits per seat a month and Business 1,000.

Intake

Intake collects feedback and requests for triage before they become work items. Business adds a dedicated intake email address and public web forms.

Self-hosting

Plane deploys on your own servers with Docker or Kubernetes, and an air-gapped edition covers isolated networks. The core is open source under AGPL v3.0.

Anakin

• Free$0

  for up to 5 people

  The full product for organizations of up to 5 people; guests, agents and computers do not count as people.

• Team$7

  per user / month, billed yearly

  The same product for organizations larger than 5 people, with unlimited people.

• Self-hostedCustom

  A private deployment on your own infrastructure; priced through a demo call.

Plane

• Free$0

  Up to 12 users. Projects and work items, cycles and modules, five layouts with unlimited views, work item intake, estimates and project pages.

• Pro$6

  per seat / month, billed annually ($8 billed monthly)

  Unlimited seats, 500 AI credits per seat, work item types, workspace wiki, time tracking, dashboards, initiatives, teamspaces and integrations.

• Business$13

  per seat / month, billed annually ($15 billed monthly)

  1,000 AI credits per seat, project templates, recurring work items, intake email and forms, a workflow per project and customer profiles.

• Enterprise GridCustom

  Quote on request. Private and managed deployments, granular access control, multiple workflows with approvals, LDAP and audit logs.

Anakin

No public discounts listed.

Plane

• Annual discount

  Save up to 25% with annual billing

  Pro is $6 per seat / month billed annually against $8 billed monthly, a 25% saving. Business is $13 against $15, about 13%.

• Startups

  Startup discounts on request

  Plane's startups page says startup discounts are reviewed on demand: applicants send their company stage, team size and needs through the sales form.