OpenProject
by OpenProject · Open source project management for classic, agile or hybrid teams
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Overview
OpenProject is open source project management software for classic, agile or hybrid working. It covers task management, Gantt-chart planning and scheduling, agile boards for Scrum and Kanban, a team planner, and time and cost reporting. It can be self-hosted as the free Community edition or as Enterprise on-premises, or run as the Enterprise cloud hosted by OpenProject.
- Best for
- Teams wanting self-hosted, open source project management with Gantt charts, boards and time tracking
- Pricing
- Free Community edition, then Basic at $7.25, Professional at $13.50 and Premium at $19.50 per user per month, with Corporate on request.
- Runs on
- Self-hosted
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- Community edition is free with no minimum number of users
- Can be installed on-premises on your own infrastructure
- Gantt charts, Scrum and Kanban boards, and a team planner
- Open source, with public roadmap, API and code on GitHub
Trade-offs
- Paid plans have a 25-user minimum; Premium 100 and Corporate 250
- Enterprise on-premises install requires Linux or Mac experience
- Single sign-on and MCP need the Professional plan or above
- Support is Mon-Fri only, within ET business hours
Pricing
Published plans and prices from OpenProject’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 OpenProject 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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