Kanboard vs Taiga
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Taiga
Open-source agile project management with Scrum and Kanban
Where they differ
- Kanboard is free. Taiga starts at €5 per month for unlimited users (€50 billed annually).
- Kanboard also covers workflow automation, time tracking and reports.
- Taiga also covers wiki and issue tracking.
At a glance
| Kanboard | Taiga | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free | Free plan |
| Starts at | Free | €5 per month for unlimited users (€50 billed annually) |
| Free plan | Free and open source under the MIT License. The software is downloaded and run on your own server; the site lists no hosted version and no paid plan, and asks companies that use it for donations. | Free hosted plan: 1 public and 1 private project, up to 10 MB of storage, unlimited users and community support. The open-source software can also be self-hosted. |
| Free trial | None listed | None listed |
| Web | ||
| Made by | Frédéric Guillot and contributors | Taiga Cloud Services, S.L. |
| Price read from | kanboard.org | taiga.io |
| Checked | Oct 9, 2026 | Oct 5, 2026 |
Who each one suits
Kanboard
- Teams that want a kanban board on a server they control
- Organizations that sign in through LDAP, Active Directory or OAuth2
- People who prefer a deliberately small feature set
Taiga
- Agile teams running Scrum or Kanban, or moving between the two
- Growing teams on a fixed budget, since hosted plans are flat-rate with unlimited users
- Organizations that want to self-host an open-source tool
Worth knowing
Kanboard
- There is no hosted version: you install and maintain it yourself, which needs PHP 8.1 or later, a web server and a database.
- The project is in maintenance mode; the main developer makes only small fixes, and releases depend on community contributions.
- There is no official mobile app. The web interface is responsive, but the docs say the board is not practical on small screens.
- Gantt charts, a calendar and Slack or GitHub connections come from separately installed plugins, which the project does not review.
Taiga
- Hosted plans are limited by projects and storage rather than users: Free allows 1 public and 1 private project with 10 MB of storage.
- The largest self-serve hosted plan, Premium, stops at 3 GB of storage. A dedicated instance or on-premise support is quoted by sales.
- Prices are listed in euros only.
- The vendor's site mentions no desktop or mobile apps; Taiga is used in a web browser.
Key features
Kanboard
- Kanban board with WIP limits
- Tasks are dragged between columns that can be added, renamed or removed at any time. A column that goes over its task limit is highlighted.
- Tasks and subtasks
- Tasks are described in Markdown and carry comments, attachments, a category, a color, an assignee and a due date. Subtasks hold time or complexity estimates.
- Search and filters
- A query language finds tasks by assignee, description, category or due date, and custom filters can be applied to the board.
- Automatic actions
- Per-project rules react to events such as a task moving to a column, then close the task or change its assignee, color or category.
- Time tracking
- Tasks and subtasks record estimated and spent hours. A subtask timer logs the time between status changes and adds it to the task's total.
- Project analytics
- Each project has a cumulative flow diagram, a burndown chart based on story points, and reports on average lead and cycle time.
Taiga
- Kanban boards
- Boards support multiple workflows with swimlanes, WIP limits, epics and sub-tasks, plus filters, search and an archive for finished user stories.
- Scrum backlog and sprints
- Backlog and sprint planning with epics, estimations that can be set per role, a sprint task board, and burndown charts at project and sprint level.
- Issue tracking
- Issue types, priorities and severities are customizable. An issue can be added to a sprint or promoted to a user story.
- Dashboards, wiki and reports
- A team performance dashboard, project timeline, personal dashboard and wiki are included, and project data can be exported as CSV for custom reports.
- Self-hosting
- The open-source software can be installed with Docker, the recommended route, or from source code. Projects can be exported and imported between instances.
- API, webhooks and integrations
- A public REST API and outgoing webhooks are available, with built-in integrations for Slack, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and Gogs, and a Zapier connector.
Plans
Kanboard
Kanboard$0
The complete application, installed on your own Linux, FreeBSD or Windows server with SQLite, MySQL, MariaDB or PostgreSQL.
Taiga
Free€0
1 public project and 1 private project, up to 10 MB of storage, unlimited users and community support.
Enthusiast€5
per month, not per user (€50 when billed annually)
5 public and 5 private projects, up to 100 MB of storage, unlimited users and community support.
Basic€20
per month, not per user (€200 when billed annually)
Unlimited projects, up to 500 MB of storage, unlimited users and Basic support.
Premium€60
per month, not per user (€600 when billed annually)
Unlimited projects, up to 3 GB of storage, unlimited users and Premium support.
Taiga Private CloudCustom
A dedicated instance hosted and managed by Taiga, starting from 8 GB RAM, 2 vCPU and 100 GB of SSD storage, with unlimited projects and users. Quoted by sales.
On premiseCustom
Taiga behind your own firewall or VPN with installation support, managed updates and priority support under an SLA. Quoted by sales.
Ways to pay less
Kanboard
No public discounts listed.
Taiga
- Annual discount
Two months free with annual billing
Annual billing costs ten times the monthly price: €50 instead of €60 a year for Enthusiast, €200 instead of €240 for Basic and €600 instead of €720 for Premium.
