# Plane vs Redmine (slim)

> Plane scores 67.6 (B) to Redmine's 50.2 (D) for issues and tasks. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Plane scores 67.6 (B) on agent readiness against Redmine's 50.2 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Redmine leads on payments & pricing. Both do issues and tasks.

- Plane: B 67.6, rank #248 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/plane.min.md
- Redmine: D 50.2, rank #777 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/redmine.min.md
- 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 69; Schema & documentation, 80 against 32; Agent ergonomics, 78 against 51; Security & auth, 68 against 51; Maintenance & community, 80 against 73; Transparency & trust, 74 against 47. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Runs on your own machine.
- Redmine, good for Teams that already run Redmine or want a free, self-hosted tracker with issues, time entries and wikis under their own control. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 60 against 30.

| Category | Plane | Redmine |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 89 | 69 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 32 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 78 | 51 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 68 | 51 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 80 | 73 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 74 | 47 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Plane | Redmine |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Plane Software, Inc. | Redmine project |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.plane.so` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP |
| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| Licence | 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 | GPL-2.0-or-later |
| Tools exposed | 30 | none |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-09-30 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-04-09 | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-04-09 | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes |  |
| Popularity | 61k stars, 2.6k npm/wk, 7.5k PyPI/wk | none |