Plane vs Taiga

Plane

• Teams that want to self-host their project management tool
• Small teams of up to 12 people who fit the Free plan
• Teams moving off Jira, Linear, Asana or ClickUp using the built-in importers

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.