PLANKA
by Planka · Self-hosted Kanban board with real-time collaboration
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Overview
PLANKA is a self-hosted Kanban board for project management, with real-time synchronisation, unlimited boards and cards, and 35+ interface languages. It can run on your own server or on PLANKA's managed cloud, where each customer gets a dedicated instance and isolated database. A free Community Edition and a paid Pro Edition are offered, with an upgrade path between them.
- Best for
- Teams that want a self-hosted Kanban board and full control over where their project data lives.
- Pricing
- Community Edition is free to self-host; hosted Community is €2.90 per user/month (€2.60 billed yearly, minimum 5 users), Pro self-hosted €7.90 per user/month (€7.20 yearly), Pro hosted €9.40 per user/month (€8.50 yearly, minimum 5 users), with Enterprise quoted for 1,000+ users.
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- Self-hosted
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- Community Edition is free to self-host under a Fair Use License
- Real-time sync, unlimited boards and cards, 35+ languages
- Pro adds calendar and map views, guest roles and custom branding
- Upgrade from Community to Pro without data loss
Trade-offs
- Community lacks calendar/map views, recurring cards and custom branding
- Community Fair Use License does not permit cross-company use
- Free tier support is the GitHub community only; paid packages are 'soon'
- The hosted Community plan is stated not to scale well for many users
How PLANKA markets itself
A structured read of the promise, proof and page design on PLANKA’s captured homepage.
Homepage capture
“Project Management. Reimagined. Battle-tested.”
- Angle: Open source / ownership
- Hero: Abstract graphic
Pricing
Published plans and prices from PLANKA’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
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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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