# OpenProject vs Plane (slim)

> Plane scores 67.6 (B) on agent readiness against OpenProject's 57.4 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. OpenProject leads on transparency & trust. Both do tasks create. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Plane scores 67.6 (B) on agent readiness against OpenProject's 57.4 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. OpenProject leads on transparency & trust. Both do tasks create.

- OpenProject: C 57.4, rank #550 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openproject.min.md
- Plane: B 67.6, rank #229 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/plane.min.md
- OpenProject, good for Teams that want a self-hostable or EU-hosted project tool with Gantt, time tracking and budgets, and an agent working through a documented REST API. Ahead on Transparency & trust, 87 against 74.
- Plane, good for Teams that want an issue tracker they can also self-host, with an agent creating and updating work items, cycles, modules and pages over MCP. Ahead on Reliability, 89 against 52; Agent ergonomics, 78 against 70; Security & auth, 68 against 59; Maintenance & community, 80 against 75. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Runs on your own machine.

| Category | OpenProject | Plane |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 52 | 89 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 76 | 80 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 70 | 78 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 59 | 68 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 75 | 80 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 87 | 74 |

| Fact (where they differ) | OpenProject | Plane |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | OpenProject GmbH | Plane Software, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.plane.so` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |
| Licence | GPL-3.0 for the OpenProject source. Enterprise add-ons need a paid token, and OpenProject Enterprise cloud runs under OpenProject's Terms of Service | Plane Community Edition is AGPL-3.0, and the MCP server and the Python and Node SDKs are MIT. Plane Cloud and the Commercial Edition are proprietary under Plane's Terms of Service |
| Tools exposed | none | 30 |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-08 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-08-06 | 2026-04-09 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-04-09 |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 16k stars | 61k stars, 2.6k npm/wk, 7.5k PyPI/wk |