WeKan
by Wekan · Open-source, self-hostable kanban boards
BenchRank score
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Overview
WeKan is an open-source kanban tool for tracking work on boards. Each board holds lists such as "To Do", "Doing" and "Done", with cards carrying titles, descriptions, due dates, labels, checklists, files and comments that you drag between lists as work progresses. It can be self-hosted, and access can be limited at board or user level.
- Best for
- Teams wanting a self-hosted, MIT-licensed kanban board that keeps task data on their own servers.
- Pricing
- No prices are shown; WeKan is MIT-licensed and self-hostable, with a SaaS app and paid commercial support mentioned but no figures published.
- Runs on
- Self-hosted
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- MIT-licensed; source can be inspected and audited by anyone
- Self-hosting keeps board data under your own control
- Boards, lists and cards with labels, checklists, files and comments
- Access controls can be set per board or per individual user
Trade-offs
- Meets only 8 of 16 Standard for Public Code criteria (2023 assessment)
- No prices published for the SaaS app or for commercial support
- Self-hosting means you run, secure and upgrade the server yourself
- Pages describe core kanban only; no integrations or automation stated
How WeKan markets itself
A structured read of the promise, proof and page design on WeKan’s captured homepage.
Homepage capture
“WeKan ® Open-Source Kanban”
- Angle: Open source / ownership
- Hero: Product screenshot
Pricing
Published plans and prices from WeKan’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 WeKan 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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