Run Plane, the open-source project management tool for issues, sprints and roadmaps, from a pre-configured image in your own cloud account. Your whole team gets a modern issue tracker without per-seat billing.
Plane is an open-source, self-hostable project management platform built as an alternative to Jira. It gives engineering and product teams issue tracking, sprint planning and roadmaps without the licensing cost and the years of accumulated settings that come with legacy tools.
Custom states, priorities and labels for every piece of work.
Plan and run sprints, included free.
Group related issues into features or projects.
Plan product work across teams and timelines.
List, Kanban, calendar and Gantt-style layouts.
Bring issues across from common trackers, including Jira.
Self-hosting Plane by hand means PostgreSQL, a reverse proxy, SSL and email settings before anyone can log an issue. The marketplace image handles that setup.
Subscribe on AWS Marketplace or Google Cloud Marketplace, enter your domain, admin email and password, and deploy. The stack is ready in about 5-10 minutes.
Create a DNS A record for your Plane domain with the server's public IP, so the certificate can be issued.
Sign in to God Mode at /god-mode (on AWS, the InstanceAdminUrl) with the admin email and password you set.
Name your workspace, confirm its URL slug and click Make it live. Then invite your team and create your first project.
An AMI on AWS Marketplace, launched into your own AWS account with a CloudFormation stack.
Launch on AWS 
The same project management tool as a Google Cloud Marketplace image, deployed into your own GCP project.
Launch on Google Cloud | Plane by Meetrix | Jira | Linear | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hosting | Your AWS account or GCP project | Atlassian Cloud for new customers | Linear's cloud, no self-host option |
| Data control | Issues and roadmaps stay in your account | Data lives on Atlassian's infrastructure | Data lives on Linear's infrastructure |
| Pricing model | Cloud compute only, no per-seat fee | Per-user, rising with premium tiers | Per-user, higher tiers for advanced features |
| Licence | Open source (AGPL-3.0) | Proprietary | Proprietary |
Atlassian stopped selling new Jira Data Center licences in March 2026. Read the full Plane vs Jira comparison →
Plane is an open-source project management platform built as an alternative to Jira. It covers issues, cycles (sprints), modules and roadmaps, with list, Kanban, calendar and Gantt-style views.
For most teams, yes. It covers what people mainly use Jira for: issue tracking, sprint planning, grouping work and roadmaps. Jira still has deeper workflow customisation and a larger app marketplace.
Plane's Community Edition is open source under AGPL-3.0 with no per-user fee. On AWS or Google Cloud you pay for the server, plus any Meetrix software fee shown on the marketplace listing.
Open God Mode, Plane's instance admin, at /god-mode on your domain (the InstanceAdminUrl on AWS) and sign in with the admin email and password you set at deployment. Then create your workspace.
Inside your own AWS account or GCP project, on a dedicated server with its own PostgreSQL database. Nobody outside your organisation has access to your issues or roadmaps.
Plane includes import tooling for common trackers. Budget time to map custom fields and workflows, since no two trackers structure issues the same way. Meetrix can help plan the move.
t3.medium on AWS, or e2-medium (2 vCPU, 4 GB memory) on Google Cloud for small to mid-sized teams. Resize to a larger machine as usage grows.
When a new version is published on the marketplace, back up your server data, remove the old deployment and launch the new version.
Pricing, self-hosting, and what the end of Jira Data Center sales means for your team.
Plane's features, the pre-configured AMI and a comparison with Jira and OpenProject.
Project tracking on Google Cloud without the Jira tax.
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