# PLANKA

> Self-hosted kanban boards with a free Community edition

PLANKA is a kanban board tool from PLANKA Software GmbH in Germany, designed to run on your own server. The free Community edition covers projects, boards, lists and cards with real-time sync, and its source code is published under a Fair Use License. The paid Pro edition, self-hosted or hosted in Germany, adds worker and guest roles, single sign-on, templates, and calendar, timeline and map views.

- **Category:** Project Management
- **Made by:** PLANKA Software GmbH (since 2019)
- **Website:** https://planka.app
- **Runs on:** Web
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 9, 2026

## Pricing

PLANKA has a free plan. Paid plans start at €7.20 per user / month, billed yearly (self-hosted Pro).

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** Community edition: free to self-host under a Fair Use License, with boards, lists, cards, comments, attachments, real-time sync and 3 board views. There is no free hosted plan.
- **Free trial:** 30-day free trial of self-hosted Pro with 10 users and 50 guests, no credit card.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Community | €0 | Free self-hosted edition under a Fair Use License: boards, lists, cards, custom fields, a stopwatch, webhooks, a REST API and two-factor authentication. |
| Pro Self-Hosted | €7.20 per user / month, billed yearly (€7.90 billed monthly) | Minimum 1 user, 5 guests per user. Adds worker and guest roles, OIDC single sign-on, templates, calendar and map views, and support replies within 24 hours on business days. |
| Pro Hosted | €8.50 per user / month, billed yearly (€9.40 billed monthly) | Minimum 5 users. A dedicated instance hosted in Germany with 5 GB of pooled storage and 5 guests per user; 10 GB per user costs €1.60 more. |
| Enterprise | Custom | From 500 users hosted or 1,000 self-hosted. Custom licensing, SLA agreements, dedicated servers, custom development and an included installation service. |

Read from https://planka.app/pricing on Oct 9, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with PLANKA before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Lower per-user price with yearly billing** (Annual discount): Self-hosted Pro is €7.20 per user / month billed yearly against €7.90 billed monthly, and hosted Pro is €8.50 against €9.40: about 9% to 10% less. Source: https://planka.app/pricing
- **Lower per-user price from 250 users** (Other savings): The pricing calculator charges €5.80 per user / month billed yearly from 250 self-hosted users and €5.10 from 500. Hosted Pro drops to €7.60 from 250 users. Source: https://planka.app/pricing

## Key features

- **Projects, boards, lists and cards:** Cards are dragged between lists and hold Markdown descriptions, checklists with assignable tasks, labels, custom fields, due dates, attachments and a stopwatch.
- **Real-time sync:** Changes reach every connected user over WebSockets without a page refresh. Pro adds live presence and collaborative editing of card descriptions.
- **Board views:** The Community edition has 3 board views and Pro has 6, adding calendar, timeline and map views plus views across every board of a project.
- **Worker and guest roles:** Pro adds workers, who can edit only the cards they are assigned, and read-only guests who see what is shared with them. Each Pro user includes a quota of 5 guests.
- **Templates and recurring cards:** Board templates, card templates and recurring cards are part of Pro. The comparison table marks automated workflows as coming soon.
- **REST API and webhooks:** Both editions include a documented REST API, personal API keys, webhooks for more than 50 events, and notifications through more than 100 providers.

## Good for

- Teams that must keep project data on their own servers
- Organizations that want a kanban tool hosted in Germany
- Home labs and clubs, which the free Community edition is aimed at

## Worth knowing

- The Community edition is source-available under a Fair Use License and has no single sign-on, guest roles, templates or calendar view.
- Hosted Pro has a 5-user minimum. Prices are in euros, exclude VAT, and are offered to organizations rather than private individuals.
- Moving a Community installation to Pro is one-way: the vendor says the only route back is a backup made before the upgrade.
- The apps page lists only a community-built quick-add app. PLANKA runs in the browser, and full phone and tablet support is a Pro feature.

## Works with

Trello, Google Workspace, Microsoft Entra ID, Okta

**Tags:** Self-hostable, Kanban boards, Real-time collaboration, Time tracking, Templates, Public API

## Alternatives

- [Trello](https://toolgpa.com/tools/trello): Kanban boards with an inbox, planner and built-in automation. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/planka-vs-trello)
- [WeKan](https://toolgpa.com/tools/wekan): Open-source kanban boards with swimlanes, self-hosted or hosted. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/planka-vs-wekan)
- [Kanboard](https://toolgpa.com/tools/kanboard): Free, self-hosted kanban board software under the MIT License. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/kanboard-vs-planka)
- [Kan](https://toolgpa.com/tools/kan): Open-source kanban boards, built as an alternative to Trello. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/kan-vs-planka)
- [Fizzy](https://toolgpa.com/tools/fizzy): Free kanban tracker for bugs, issues and ideas from 37signals. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/fizzy-vs-planka)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 9, 2026:

- https://planka.app/pricing
- https://planka.app/
- https://planka.app/community
- https://planka.app/features
- https://planka.app/apps
- https://planka.app/trial
- https://planka.app/about
- https://planka.app/faq/general
- https://planka.app/faq/pricing
- https://planka.app/faq/technical
- https://github.com/plankanban/planka

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