Redmine
by Redmine · Self-hosted open source project management and issue tracking
BenchRank score
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Overview
Redmine is a project management web application written in Ruby on Rails, and is cross-platform and cross-database. It covers multiple projects with role-based access control, issue tracking, Gantt charts and calendars, time tracking, custom fields, and news, document and file management. Each project can have its own wiki and forums, and it integrates with SVN, CVS, Git, Mercurial and Bazaar.
- Best for
- Teams wanting a self-hosted, open source tracker for issues and multiple projects at once.
- Pricing
- No prices are shown; the software is open source and released under the GNU General Public License v2.
- Runs on
- Web
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- Open source under the GNU GPL v2
- Issue tracking with Gantt chart and calendar views
- SCM integration with SVN, CVS, Git, Mercurial and Bazaar
- Per-project wikis and forums, time tracking, custom fields
Trade-offs
- Self-hosted Ruby on Rails application that you install and maintain
- The only demo site is an unofficial third party one, not run by the project
- Support is community forums, an IRC channel and an unofficial Slack
- Built and maintained by community volunteers
How Redmine markets itself
A structured read of the promise, proof and page design on Redmine’s captured homepage.
Homepage capture
“Redmine”
- Angle: Open source / ownership
- Hero: Typography only
Pricing
Published plans and prices from Redmine’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.
Customer sentiment
Third-party ratings, shrunk toward the catalogue mean by review volume and corroborated across independent sources.
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 Redmine 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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