Plane
Headquarters
New York, NYFounded
2022Employees
51-200Funding
Seed — $10.4MProducts
1 product listedAvg. AI Score
7.6/10Website
plane.so/
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About Plane
Plane is a project management software company founded in 2019 that builds an open-source alternative to tools like Jira and Linear. The company positions itself around flexibility of deployment, offering cloud-hosted, self-hosted, and air-gapped versions of its product for teams with varying data residency and security requirements.
The core product includes modules for issue tracking, project planning, cycles, and a wiki for documentation, aimed at software development teams. Plane has expanded its positioning to include AI-assisted workflows, marketing its platform as supporting both human teams and AI agents in planning, tracking, and shipping work. The product is distributed both as a hosted SaaS offering and as self-managed software that developers can deploy on their own infrastructure.
Plane's codebase is open source and available on GitHub, where it has attracted a large developer community. The company has raised early-stage venture funding to support product development and go-to-market efforts, though it has not disclosed later funding rounds publicly.
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Products by Plane
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Competitive Landscape
Who Plane competes with, and how they differ.
Linear is closed-source, cloud-only SaaS built for a fast, opinionated workflow aimed at software teams; Plane matches the developer-focused UX but ships as AGPL-licensed open-source software with self-hosted and air-gapped deployment options Linear does not offer.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
Jira is the closed-source, enterprise-standard issue tracker Plane was explicitly built to challenge ("Plane takes on Jira"); Plane undercuts it with a free, open-source self-hosted Community Edition versus Jira's cloud/Data Center licensing.
2 products reviewed on TopReviewed
ClickUp bundles project management with docs, chat and an all-in-one workspace on a closed-source SaaS stack; Plane keeps a narrower issue-tracking core but is open-source with self-hosted and air-gapped options ClickUp does not provide.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
monday.com is a broader closed-source Work OS sold mainly to non-technical teams via a visual, no-code interface; Plane stays focused on software/engineering issue tracking with an open-source, self-hostable core.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
OpenProject is Plane's closest ideological peer -- both are open-source, self-hostable Jira alternatives -- but OpenProject is GPL-licensed, older and more enterprise-PM-oriented (Gantt charts, budgeting) versus Plane's lighter, engineering-first tracker with a new AI feature suite.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedCompany Timeline
Key milestones in Plane's history, with sources.
- Milestone
Unveiled new brand identity and Plane Intelligence AI suite
Plane rebranded and launched Plane Intelligence (Pi), a beta AI feature suite that queries unstructured knowledge across connected tools and integrates with ChatGPT and Claude, alongside a new "Planes of Work" model for cross-functional teams. The company said it had surpassed 1 million users and 37,000+ GitHub stars on its open-source Community Edition.
indiantelevision.com - Acquisition
Acquired Sort to enter the US market
Plane acquired US-based Sort to build a stronger go-to-market presence in the United States; deal terms were not disclosed.
news.google.com - Funding
Seed round -- $4M led by OSS Capital
Plane raised $4 million in a seed round from sole investor OSS Capital, an open-source-focused VC firm; the announcement coincided with the launch of Plane One, a paid tier for self-managed instances. TechCrunch had already described the same $4M OSS Capital round as closed in a November 2023 profile.
entrackr.com - Launch
TechCrunch profiles Plane as an open-source Jira alternative
TechCrunch covered Plane's AGPL-licensed, open-source issue-tracking and sprint-planning platform for software teams, highlighting self-hosted, cloud and upcoming desktop clients plus bi-directional GitHub Issues sync.
techcrunch.com - Founded
Founded by brothers Vamsi and Vihar Kurama
Plane was founded in November 2022 by CEO Vamsi Kurama and COO Vihar Kurama; its open-source GitHub repository (makeplane/plane) was created November 19, 2022.
techcrunch.com
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