Plane Pricing in May 2026

Plane is genuinely free as open-source software (AGPL-3.0 license) for self-hosting. Plane Cloud (managed) free up to 10 members, Pro at $8/user/month, Enterprise custom-quote. Real-world Plane Cloud bills for managed deployment land at $80-500/month; teams self-hosting pay only their infrastructure costs.

The Free & Open Source offer covers self-hosted Plane indefinitely. The strategic decision: Plane's value is the open-source self-hostability combined with modern UX that competes with Linear's polish. For broader engineering project management, Linear is the dominant modern alternative for engineering-team PM and the strongest comparison — usually preferred for managed-SaaS with stronger UX and ecosystem. The Plane vs Linear decision often splits: Plane for self-hosted open-source with similar modern UX; Linear for managed velocity. Jira targets enterprise with deep customization and ecosystem. Shortcut competes with Linear on similar engineering-team PM. GitHub Projects bundles project management with code hosting at no extra cost. ClickUp targets all-in-one work management. Asana targets cross-functional. Notion bundles project management with docs. For specifically Kanban-only with similar simplicity, Trello and KanbanFlow target this niche. For specifically open-source PM alternatives, Plane competes with Taiga (open-source agile), Vikunja, and OpenProject (open-source enterprise). Self-hosted alternatives like Plane, Vikunja, and OpenProject target teams with infrastructure capacity who want PM under their control. Plane has gained meaningful adoption among teams who specifically value open-source self-hostability for compliance, cost, or philosophical reasons. For most teams, managed Linear or Jira often win on velocity and ecosystem.