Plane

What it is for

Plane is an open-source project desk: work items sit on a board, cycles time-box them, and you can start Cloud at $0 (12 users) or self-host. Use it when the job is issues you start at $0, not when you need a $20 chat seat.

What makes it unique: the cover is the official Plane work items board (Blocked / Planning / Permit awaited cards) from the GitHub product still — not a pricing card. The board itself is ops of Work items.

Key features

• Work items — issues with states, assignees, and five layouts (pricing Projects and Work Items). One issue. Layouts and views are ops of this. The cover board is ops.
• Cycles — a time-box that holds work items (pricing Cycles and Modules). A sprint, not an issue. Burndown sits here.
• Modules — a repeatable block of work you group issues into. A package, not a cycle. Module overview charts sit on Pro+.
• Pages — docs next to the issue, not in another wiki (pricing Project Pages). A page, not a work item. Workspace Wiki is Pro+.
• Intake — a triage inbox that turns feedback into work items (pricing Work Item Intake). A request, not an issue you filed. Email / form intake sits on Business.

Users are the Cloud meter. AI credits (500/seat on Pro, 1,000 on Business) are SKU of Cloud. Self-host of the OSS app is $0 license. Dashboards and time tracking sit on Pro+.

Who it's for

Best fit: eng teams who will stay on Free $0 (12 users, work items / cycles / modules / pages / intake, no card) while they file a first issue, then buy Pro at $8/user/month ($6 annual) when they need types, wiki, time tracking, and 500 AI credits.

Pricing

Verified 2026-10-22 (Asia/Shanghai) from plane.so/pricing. Cloud is seats. Self-host of the OSS app is $0.

• Free — $0. 12 users. Projects, work items, cycles, modules, layouts, intake, estimates, project pages. Basic views. Jira / Linear / Asana / ClickUp / CSV importers.
• Pro — $8/user/month ($6 annual). Unlimited seats. 500 AI credits/seat (Cloud). Work-item types & properties, workspace wiki, time tracking, templates, dashboards, initiatives, teamspaces, integrations. Guests 1:5.
• Business — $15/user/month ($13 annual). 1,000 AI credits/seat. Project templates, recurring items, intake email/forms, nested pages, single workflow, customers, advanced dashboards. SAML/OIDC on Cloud.
• Enterprise Grid — custom (coming soon on the page). Flexible AI credits, private/managed deploy, GAC, multiple workflows, LDAP, API audit logs.
• Self-host — $0 for the public app. You run it. Pro/Business feature gates still apply per the Cloud-vs-self-host table (SAML/OIDC land earlier on self-host Pro).

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Limitations / costs

• Free is 12 users. The 13th seat is Pro at $8/user/month.
• A project desk, not a wiki-only. For a knowledge base see GitBook. For a notes canvas see Affine.

Alternatives

• GitBook — product docs when you will not run cycles and modules.
• Affine — a notes / whiteboard canvas when the job is pages, not work items.
• Notion AI — a docs seat when you already live in Notion.

Official tutorial

Official docs / GitHub path only. No first-party Plane YouTube channel was listed in a form we could verify by oEmbed on 2026-10-22 — do not embed a third-party walkthrough.

Written path: plane.so/pricing plus the official work-items still on GitHub.

Website

https://plane.so

Repository

https://github.com/makeplane/plane

Source

Catalog row curated for AI Tools Nav. Cover is the official Plane work-items board from the GitHub product still. Dollars checked on plane.so/pricing (Free $0 / 12 users; Pro $8/$6 yr; Business $15/$13 yr; self-host license $0).

Last verified

2026-10-22 (Asia/Shanghai) editorial check.