Manage
by Manage · Open-source, self-hostable project management
BenchRank score
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Overview
Manage is an open-source project management tool covering task lists with priorities and assignees, calendar events, files and docs, and full-text search across projects with filtering. It adds organisation and team management with roles and per-project permissions. It is AGPL-3.0 licensed and Docker-ready, and can be self-hosted or deployed on Railway.
- Best for
- Developer teams wanting a self-hosted, open-source tracker for tasks, docs and calendars
- Pricing
- No prices are shown; the site presents the product as open source under AGPL-3.0 for self-hosting, with no paid plans listed.
- Runs on
- Self-hosted
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- AGPL-3.0 licensed and self-hostable on your own infrastructure
- Tasks, calendar, files, docs and search in one app
- Docker-ready, built with TypeScript and Next.js
- One-click deployment path via Railway
Trade-offs
- Labelled beta, so features and stability may still change
- No pricing or hosted plan published; self-hosting is the stated route
- AGPL-3.0 imposes source-sharing duties on modified deployments
How Manage markets itself
A structured read of the promise, proof and page design on Manage’s captured homepage.
Homepage capture
“Tired of complex project tools?”
- Angle: Pain agitation
- Hero: Typography only
Pricing
Published plans and prices from Manage’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.
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 Manage 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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