Leantime vs Taiga

Leantime

• People with ADHD, dyslexia or autism who find standard project tools overwhelming
• Teams that want to self-host an open-source project management tool
• Small businesses and agencies that track billable hours on projects

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

Leantime

• There is no free cloud plan: the hosted version is a single paid plan after a 14-day trial.
• AI features are not available when self-hosting, and whiteboards, custom fields, recurring tasks and program plans are paid plugins there.
• The iPhone and Android apps are in beta and act as companions for tasks, notes and timers; full project work stays on the web.
• Self-hosted instances need the paid Advanced Auth plugin before the mobile app can connect.

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.

Leantime

Kanban, table and list task views

To-dos can be viewed as a kanban board, a table or a list, with subtasks, dependencies, custom statuses, sprints and a backlog.

Milestones on a timeline

Milestones bundle tasks under a date and appear on a Gantt-style timeline. Program plans, a paid extra when self-hosting, give the same view across projects.

My Work dashboard

A personal dashboard gathers tasks from every project in customizable widgets, with time blocking around events imported from an iCal link.

Goals and strategy

Strategy boards, focus areas and goals connect project goals to a longer-term plan. Strategy management is in Leantime Pro or a plugin for the open-source version.

Time tracking and timesheets

Time is tracked from a task, the dashboard or a timesheet, and timesheets can be managed and exported in both the open-source and Pro versions.

AI assistant

The AI, called L.E.O., prioritizes tasks, breaks a task into subtasks, collects status updates from the team and compiles status reports. It is not in the open-source version.

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.

Leantime

• Community Edition$0

  Self-hosted on your own servers under AGPLv3 with the core features and community support. Advanced features are added as paid plugins.

• Leantime Pro$8

  per user / month, billed annually ($10 billed monthly)

  The hosted cloud plan: all features, unlimited to-dos and projects, AI-powered task management and 500 AI credits per month.

• Plugin bundle (self-hosted)$99

  one-time, perpetual licenses for 1 to 3 users

  Every paid plugin for the Community Edition with one year of updates. $149 for up to 10 users and $319 for up to 25. The AI is not sold as a plugin.

• EnterpriseCustom

  On-premise offering with single sign-on, audit logs, data residency, custom billing and custom integrations, arranged by call.

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.

Leantime

• Annual discount

  Two months free with annual billing

  Leantime Pro is $8 per user / month billed annually against $10 billed monthly. The pricing page describes this as 2 months free and a 17% discount.

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.