Kanba
by Kanba · Open-source Kanban project management for makers and teams
BenchRank score
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Overview
Kanba is an open-source project management tool built around Kanban boards, with tasks dragged and dropped between columns. Teams can invite members, assign tasks and work together in real time. It is offered as a hosted service on free and paid plans, or can be run on your own server with full access to the source code.
- Best for
- Makers and small teams wanting a simple Kanban tool, self-hosted or hosted from $4.90/month
- Pricing
- Free hosted plan at $0/month for 1 project, Pro at $4.90/month for unlimited projects, and free self-hosting; no annual rates shown.
- Runs on
- Self-hosted
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- Open-source, with full source access and self-hosting
- Kanban boards with drag-and-drop between columns
- Team invites, task assignment and real-time collaboration
- Pro plan is $4.90/month for unlimited projects
Trade-offs
- Free hosted plan is capped at one project
- Six Pro features are listed as "soon", not shipped
- Product is labelled Beta on its own site
- Self-hosting means running and maintaining your own server
How Kanba markets itself
A structured read of the promise, proof and page design on Kanba’s captured homepage.
Homepage capture
“Project Management”
- Angle: Open source / ownership
- Hero: Product screenshot
Pricing
Published plans and prices from Kanba’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.
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.
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 Kanba 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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