Kan.bn
by Kan · Open source kanban boards, hosted or self-hosted
BenchRank score
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Overview
Kan.bn is an open source kanban app for organising work on boards, lists and cards. Boards carry labels and filters, checklists, comments, assignees, activity logs and reusable templates, with board visibility settings and workspace members for collaboration. It runs as a hosted cloud service or can be self-hosted from GitHub, and imports existing Trello boards.
- Best for
- Small teams wanting a Trello-style kanban board they can use hosted or self-host themselves
- Pricing
- Free for one user, then $8 per user/month for Teams and $24/month for Pro (a launch offer shown against $79), with Enterprise on contact sales.
- Runs on
- WebSelf-hosted
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- Open source, with a self-hosting option via GitHub
- Imports existing Trello boards
- Free plan gives one user unlimited boards, lists and cards
- 14-day free trial on paid plans
Trade-offs
- Integrations are listed as coming soon, not yet available
- Free plan is one user only, with 10mb file uploads
- Full API access requires a paid plan
- SAML SSO and on-premise deployment are Enterprise-only
How Kan.bn markets itself
A structured read of the promise, proof and page design on Kan.bn’s captured homepage.
Homepage capture
“The open source alternative to Trello”
- Angle: Contrarian / anti-incumbent
- Hero: Product screenshot
Pricing
Published plans and prices from Kan.bn’s own pricing page.
How this score is made up
Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.
MCP support
Whether an agent can drive the product through the Model Context Protocol, and how much setup that takes.
API quality
Public API surface: machine-readable spec, official SDKs, documented auth, errors, rate limits and versioning.
Documentation
Publicly reachable docs — coverage, freshness, code samples and machine readability.
Agent friendliness
How readable the site is to an automated client: llms.txt, structured data, server-rendered content, crawler access.
Pricing transparency
Whether real prices are published, self-serve signup exists, and usage costs are knowable without a sales call.
Changelog
A public, dated record of what shipped and when — the clearest signal that a product is still alive.
Marketing site structure
Whether the site answers a buyer's questions: clear positioning, the pages that matter, and accessibility.
Page speed
How fast the site loads for real visitors: Chrome UX Report 75th-percentile LCP, INP and CLS, with a Lighthouse mobile run standing in where a site has too little traffic for field data.
Operational trust
Status page and incident history, security disclosure, compliance and data-processing documentation.
Measured, but not part of the score
Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.
Openness
Source availability, self-hosting, data export and open standards. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — paid SaaS is not worse for being paid SaaS.
Maintenance
Release cadence and repository activity. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — it is only measurable for open repositories.
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Where this comes from
The Kan.bn pages BenchRank reads when it scores the product — its documentation, release notes, status and security pages, and its repository where there is one.
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