Kan vs WeKan

Kan

• Individuals who want a free, minimal kanban board
• Teams leaving Trello that want to bring their boards along
• Organizations that prefer to self-host open-source software

WeKan

• Organizations that want a kanban board on their own server
• Teams moving from Trello, Jira or Kanboard with boards to import
• Small teams that want low-cost hosting on servers in the EU

Kan

• The free cloud plan is for one user; workspace members, assignees and mentions need Teams at $8 per user / month billed yearly.
• Free cloud workspaces are limited to 10 MB file uploads and limited API access.
• No mobile or desktop apps are listed; Kan runs in the browser.
• SAML SSO, an SLA and an account manager are Enterprise only.

WeKan

• The free hosted app gives Normal User access only; the Admin Panel needs the €50 per year SaaS or a self-hosted server.
• The Android and Windows store apps are full-screen web browsers with no native functions, and iOS users are pointed to a browser.
• Prices are listed in euros only, and paid services are sold business-to-business as final, non-refundable purchases.
• The install page says only the newest release is supported and asks self-hosters to keep at least daily backups.

Kan

Kanban boards

Drag-and-drop boards made of lists and cards. Boards, lists and cards are unlimited on every plan, including the free one.

Card details

Cards carry labels, checklists and a comment thread, and an activity log records every change. Filters and search help find cards on a board.

Board visibility and templates

Each board has a visibility setting that controls who can view and edit it, and custom board templates can be saved for reuse.

Trello import

Existing Trello boards can be imported on every plan, following a step-by-step guide in the documentation.

REST API and MCP server

A REST API covers boards, lists, cards and workspaces. An MCP server lets AI clients such as Claude Desktop control boards; its hosted endpoint needs a paid workspace.

Self-hosting

The AGPL-3.0 code can be run on your own infrastructure with Docker Compose and PostgreSQL, or deployed from an official Railway template.

WeKan

Boards, lists and swimlanes

Cards sit in lists that run across swimlanes, with work-in-progress limits, collapsible lists and multi-selection for moving or recoloring many cards at once.

Board views

Besides the swimlane and list layouts, a board can be shown as a table, a calendar, a Gantt chart or a statistics view.

Detailed cards

Cards carry checklists, subtasks, custom fields, attachments, received, start, due and end dates, card-to-card dependencies and templates.

Rules and webhooks

Rules pair a trigger with an action, board buttons run a rule on demand, and outgoing webhooks can be set globally or per board.

Import and export

Boards can be imported from Trello, Jira, Kanboard, CSV, TSV and Excel files with imported members mapped to real accounts, and exported as JSON, Excel or CSV.

Sign-in and roles

Sign-in works with passwords, LDAP, CAS and OIDC or OAuth2. Each board has nine roles, from admin to read-only, and boards can be limited to an organization or team.

Kan

• Free$0

  1 user with unlimited boards and cards, checklists, labels and filters, board templates and Trello import. 10 MB file uploads.

• Teams$8

  per user / month, billed yearly; $10 billed monthly

  Adds workspace members, assignees, mentions with email notifications, invite links, a custom workspace URL, unlimited file uploads and full API access.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Adds SAML SSO, advanced admin controls, a dedicated account manager, a custom SLA and an on-premise deployment option.

WeKan

• On-PremiseFree

  The MIT-licensed server, installed from a Snap, a Docker image or a Windows, Mac and Linux bundle. The first registered user gets the Admin Panel.

• WeKan Free AppFree

  Hosted on WeKan Cloud in Finland with Normal User permission only and no Admin Panel.

• Official SaaS with Admin Panel€50

  per year

  Hosted on WeKan Cloud in Finland with the Admin Panel, a custom domain and what the vendor calls unlimited everything.

• Yearly Support€500

  per year, includes 5 support hours

  Prepaid private priority support. Also €1,000 for 10 hours or €2,000 for 20 hours a year, and multi-year plans up to €5,000 for 3 years with 50 hours.

Kan

• Annual discount

  20% less with yearly billing

  Teams costs $8 per user a month on yearly billing against $10 per user billed monthly, which works out to a 20% saving.

• Other savings

  Free to self-host

  Kan's FAQ says the software can be self-hosted on your own infrastructure free of charge; the paid cloud plans fund the project.

WeKan

No public discounts listed.