# Easy Redmine review (2026): is it worth €6.90 a month per user, billed yearly? > Project management on a Redmine base, now sold as Easy8 Checked Nov 13, 2026 · graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Easy Redmine has been rebranded as Easy8, a private project and work management platform that covers waterfall and agile planning, resource and cost management, time tracking and an optional help desk. It runs in the vendor's cloud or on a customer's own servers. Cloud plans are priced per user in euros with a 10-user minimum, and a 30-day trial is offered. - **Category:** Project Management - **Made by:** Easy8 Software Ltd - **Website:** https://www.easy8.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you work alone, as cloud plans need at least 10 users, and on-premises 25. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Easy Redmine is a paid product with a free trial, starting at €6.90 per user / month, billed annually. - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 30-day free trial; converting to a paid plan goes through the sales team. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Essentials | €6.90 per user / month, billed annually | Entry tier: unlimited projects, Gantt chart, time tracking, timesheets, WBS and mind maps, calendars and custom reports. | | Business | €13.90 per user / month, billed annually | Middle tier, marked most popular. The vendor's comparison table shows which of the agile, resource, cost and expert project tools it includes. | | Platform | €25.90 per user / month, billed annually | Top self-serve tier; see the vendor's comparison table for the full feature list. | | Enterprise | Custom | Adds a custom SLA, priority support, integrations, high-availability setups and customizations. Perpetual on-premises pricing is available. | Read from https://www.easy8.com/pricing on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Easy Redmine before buying. ## Key features - **Waterfall planning:** Gantt charts, work breakdown structures and mind maps for scheduled projects. - **Agile boards:** Scrum and Kanban boards, which can be combined with waterfall plans in a hybrid setup. - **Resource and cost management:** Visual resource planning and project cost and finance tracking. - **Time tracking and reports:** Timesheets and custom reports are listed from the entry plan up. - **Help desk and knowledge base:** HelpDesk and a wiki-based Knowledge Base are sold as add-ons for support teams. - **Cloud or own servers:** Runs in the vendor's cloud in 20+ locations, in a private cloud, or on-premises, including air-gapped installs. ## Good for - Organizations that want to run their own server or keep data in a chosen region - Teams moving off Redmine, Jira or Microsoft Project - Engineering and IT service teams that want a help desk next to project plans ## Worth knowing - Prices are listed in euros only. - Cloud subscriptions have a minimum of 10 users, and on-premises subscriptions a minimum of 25. - Plans are bought through the sales team. After the 30-day trial the account is locked, and trial data is kept two more weeks. - HelpDesk, Knowledge Base and Knowledge Assistant Pro are add-ons. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Easy Redmine, now sold as Easy8, is project management on a Redmine base with Gantt, time tracking, agile boards and resource and cost management, from 6.90 euros per user a month billed yearly. Cloud plans have a 10-user minimum, plans are bought through sales, and HelpDesk and Knowledge Base are add-ons. - **Value for money: C.** 6.90, 13.90 and 25.90 euros per user a month billed yearly, against a $9 category middle. The 10-user cloud minimum puts the floor near 69 euros a month. - **Free plan and trial: C.** A 30-day free trial, with the listing not saying a card is needed. Converting goes through sales, and then the account is locked. - **Features: B.** Waterfall planning, agile boards, resource and cost management, time tracking and a help desk, on cloud or your own servers. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating is on record. It is a large product with its own learning curve, and you buy it through sales. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, with GitLab, GitHub, n8n and Jira, and on-premises hosting. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Easy Redmine's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among project management tools - Easy Redmine's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 70 of the 149 other project management tools we grade, and level with 27. - It stands best on features (B, above 76 of 149) and worst on ease of use (C, above 7). - Its paid plans start at about $7.71 a month for each person, against a middle price of $9 for the category: 44 of the 121 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. 12 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/project-management ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** The plain part of Easy Redmine you could make: Gantt & timelines, kanban boards and time tracking. What surrounds it you could not. The 4 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. It costs $92.50 a year. - You could make: Gantt & timelines, kanban boards and time tracking: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: It is priced for each person, which means accounts and billing for a team. - You could not: It plugs into other products, GitLab, GitHub and n8n among them, and has an API. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with GitLab, GitHub, n8n, Jira **Tags:** Gantt & timelines, Kanban boards, Time tracking, Self-hostable, AI features, Public API ## Alternatives - [Redmine](https://toolgpa.com/tools/redmine): Free, self-hosted issue tracker and project management web app. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/easy-redmine-vs-redmine) - [OpenProject](https://toolgpa.com/tools/openproject): Open-source project management for classic and agile teams. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/easy-redmine-vs-openproject) - [Jira](https://toolgpa.com/tools/jira): Issue and project tracking for software and business teams. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/easy-redmine-vs-jira) - [Planio](https://toolgpa.com/tools/planio): Hosted Redmine with issue tracking, repositories, wiki and help desk. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/easy-redmine-vs-planio) - [Celoxis](https://toolgpa.com/tools/celoxis): Project and portfolio management with per-seat plans. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/celoxis-vs-easy-redmine) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://www.easy8.com/pricing - https://www.easy8.com Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/easy-redmine Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).