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Open-source alternatives to Jira
14 alternatives are compared by license, workflow, self-hosting, pricing, and fit for different use cases.
Written by Maxime DERAME
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Why look for a Jira alternative?
Jira is an issue tracking and project management platform for bugs, user stories, sprints, releases, backlogs, roadmaps, and complex development workflows. People look for alternatives when they want self-hosting, simpler workflows, lower operational complexity, transparent licensing, air-gapped deployment, or less dependence on Atlassian Cloud.
Plane is an AGPL-3.0 project management platform with issues, projects, cycles, modules, roadmaps, wikis, dashboards, AI workflows, GitHub integrations, and self-hosting.
Pricing: Free and self-hostable under AGPL-3.0; hosted and enterprise services may be paid.
- Very close to Linear's workflow
- Issues, cycles, modules, and roadmaps
- Multiple views, wikis, AI, and GitHub
- Younger than Jira or Redmine
- Self-hosting requires maintenance
- Smaller integration ecosystem
Huly is an EPL-2.0 collaborative engineering workspace combining project management, GitHub synchronization, team planning, documents, chat, audio/video, and a virtual office.
Pricing: Free and self-hostable under EPL-2.0; hosted services may be offered separately.
- Projects, chat, documents, and planning
- GitHub synchronization
- Self-hosted unified workspace
- Much broader than Linear
- More complex to deploy
- Less focused on minimal issue tracking
OpenProject is a GPL-3.0 project management platform with work packages, Scrum and Kanban, Gantt charts, time and cost tracking, roadmaps, meetings, portfolios, and permissions.
Pricing: Open-source Community edition is self-hostable; Enterprise features and support may be paid.
- Mature project
- Agile boards, Gantt, time, costs, and portfolios
- Strong permissions and organizational workflows
- Heavier than Linear
- Less minimalist
- Some Enterprise features are commercial
Vikunja is an AGPL-3.0 task platform supporting projects, Kanban, Gantt charts, labels, priorities, recurring tasks, sharing, mobile/desktop access, and CalDAV.
Pricing: Free and self-hostable under AGPL-3.0; hosted services may be available separately.
- Kanban and Gantt views
- Recurring tasks and CalDAV
- Flexible personal and team workflows
- Less engineering-specific than Linear
- Fewer developer integrations
- Roadmaps are less central
Taiga is an open-source agile platform with backlogs, sprints, user stories, epics, issues, swimlanes, estimation, burndown charts, wikis, permissions, and reporting.
Pricing: Open source and self-hostable; hosted services may be available separately.
- Strong Scrum support
- Backlogs, sprints, epics, and burndown charts
- Kanban, wiki, and reporting
- Smaller ecosystem than Jira
- Fewer third-party integrations
- Less enterprise-oriented
Macro Tasks is an AGPL-3.0 engineering task manager combining status and priority tracking with GitHub integration, documents, communication, email, and AI agents.
Pricing: Open source and self-hostable; hosted services may be offered separately.
- Engineering workflows
- GitHub integration and AI agents
- Documents and communication in one workspace
- Broader than a pure issue tracker
- Younger ecosystem
- Smaller integration ecosystem
Multica is a source-available project management platform where coding agents appear as team members, receive tasks, report blockers, and share skills alongside human developers.
Pricing: Source available with additional commercial, branding, and hosted-use restrictions.
- AI agents as team members
- Task queues and runtime monitoring
- Docker/Kubernetes and broad coding-agent support
- Not standard Apache-2.0
- Commercial restrictions apply
- Primarily for AI-heavy engineering teams
Kaneo is an MIT self-hosted project management platform focused on developers and visual task management through a modern, lightweight Kanban interface.
Pricing: Free and self-hostable under MIT.
- Lightweight and self-hosted
- Modern Kanban interface
- Simple developer-focused workflow
- Fewer roadmap features
- Smaller integration ecosystem
- Less comprehensive than Plane or Linear
Redmine is a GPL-2.0 Ruby on Rails issue and project tracker supporting multiple projects, workflows, role-based permissions, time tracking, Gantt charts, calendars, wikis, custom fields, and source-control integrations.
Pricing: Free and self-hostable under GPL-2.0.
- Very mature and flexible
- Custom workflows and plugins
- Time tracking, Gantt, wikis, and SCM integrations
- Older interface
- More configuration-heavy
- Less polished than Linear
Wekan is an MIT Kanban application with boards, lists, cards, swimlanes, labels, checklists, comments, permissions, and private deployment.
Pricing: Free and self-hostable under MIT.
- Mature and self-hosted
- Boards, swimlanes, cards, labels, and checklists
- Granular permissions
- No advanced Jira roadmaps
- Limited sprint analytics
- Board-centric rather than issue-hierarchy focused
Planka is a self-hosted Kanban application with boards, lists, cards, collaboration, notifications, attachments, labels, and user permissions. Current versions use a Fair Use License.
Pricing: Source available under the project Fair Use License; verify current commercial terms.
- Clean interface
- Real-time collaboration
- Easy Docker deployment and attachments
- Not OSI-approved open source
- Primarily Kanban-focused
- Limited roadmap and sprint functionality
Leantime is an AGPL-3.0-core project management system built around goals, projects, tasks, strategy, Kanban boards, timelines, time tracking, notes, and AI-assisted workflows.
Pricing: Open-source core is self-hostable; plugins and enterprise features may use separate licensing.
- Goals and strategy
- Kanban, timelines, and time tracking
- Self-hosting and AI assistance
- Less engineering-specific than Jira
- Plugin licensing varies
- Less advanced issue tracking
Kan is an AGPL-3.0 collaborative Kanban platform with boards, cards, team members, activity tracking, templates, comments, filters, and Trello import.
Pricing: Free and self-hostable under AGPL-3.0; verify current project hosting.
- Unlimited boards and cards
- Team collaboration and filters
- Templates, activity tracking, and self-hosting
- Primarily Kanban-focused
- Limited sprint analytics
- Smaller ecosystem
Kanri is a GPL-3.0 offline desktop Kanban application storing boards locally in JSON, with cards, subtasks, tags, due dates, export, and no account or cloud service.
Pricing: Free and open source under GPL-3.0; works locally without a server.
- Fully offline
- Local data ownership
- Simple boards, tags, subtasks, and export
- Primarily personal
- No real-time team collaboration
- No sprint planning or enterprise reporting
Compare Jira alternatives
| Tool | Stars | License | Self-hosted | Pricing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plane | 60.2K | AGPL-3.0 | Yes | Free and self-hostable under AGPL-3.0; hosted and enterprise services may be paid. |
| Huly | 27.8K | EPL-2.0 | Yes | Free and self-hostable under EPL-2.0; hosted services may be offered separately. |
| OpenProject | 16.3K | GPL-3.0 | Yes | Open-source Community edition is self-hostable; Enterprise features and support may be paid. |
| Vikunja | 5.6K | AGPL-3.0 | Yes | Free and self-hostable under AGPL-3.0; hosted services may be available separately. |
| Taiga | 854 | MPL-2.0 / AGPL-3.0 components | Yes | Open source and self-hostable; hosted services may be available separately. |
| Macro Tasks | — | AGPL-3.0 | Yes | Open source and self-hostable; hosted services may be offered separately. |
| Multica | — | Multica License | Yes | Source available with additional commercial, branding, and hosted-use restrictions. |
| Kaneo | — | MIT | Yes | Free and self-hostable under MIT. |
| Redmine | — | GPL-2.0 | Yes | Free and self-hostable under GPL-2.0. |
| Wekan | — | MIT | Yes | Free and self-hostable under MIT. |
| Planka | — | PLANKA Fair Use License | Yes | Source available under the project Fair Use License; verify current commercial terms. |
| Leantime | — | AGPL-3.0 core | Yes | Open-source core is self-hostable; plugins and enterprise features may use separate licensing. |
| Kan | — | AGPL-3.0 | Yes | Free and self-hostable under AGPL-3.0; verify current project hosting. |
| Kanri | — | GPL-3.0 | No | Free and open source under GPL-3.0; works locally without a server. |
Which one should you choose?
Want the closest modern open-source Jira replacement
Plane combines issues, sub-issues, cycles, modules, initiatives, roadmaps, documentation, dashboards, AI workflows, Git integrations, and self-hosting.
Want mature enterprise project management
OpenProject adds Scrum and Kanban, backlogs, Gantt charts, time and cost tracking, portfolios, permissions, and Jira migration tooling.
Want an established customizable issue tracker
Redmine provides mature workflows, roles, custom fields, time tracking, Gantt charts, wikis, SCM integrations, and plugins.
Want Scrum without Jira's complexity
Taiga focuses on backlogs, sprints, user stories, epics, estimation, burndown charts, Kanban, and agile reporting.
Want simple Kanban
Wekan provides mature self-hosted boards, lists, cards, swimlanes, labels, checklists, comments, and permissions without Jira's configuration overhead.
Want offline personal project boards
Kanri stores Kanban data locally in JSON with no account or server requirement.