Best self-hosted project management for Mid-Market (2026)

OpenProject is a leading open-source project management platform that runs entirely on your own infrastructure. The free Community Edition gives unlimited users and projects work-package tracking, Gantt charts, agile boards (Scrum/Kanban), time and cost tracking, roadmaps, and per-project wikis. It began in 2012 as a fork of ChiliProject (itself a fork of Redmine) and is maintained by OpenProject GmbH in Berlin, which also sells Enterprise on-premises and cloud editions.

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Plane is a modern, fast open-source project management platform positioned as an alternative to Jira, Linear, and ClickUp. Its AGPL-3.0 Community Edition self-hosts on Docker or Kubernetes at full parity with Plane Cloud, offering issue tracking, sprints/cycles, Kanban and Gantt views, project wikis (Pages), and an AI workspace. Founded in 2022 with teams in San Francisco and Hyderabad, it is the most-starred open-source PM project on GitHub.

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Redmine is a long-running, free and open-source web-based project management and issue-tracking tool written in Ruby on Rails. Released in 2006 by Jean-Philippe Lang, it offers flexible issue tracking with custom workflows, Gantt charts, a calendar, time tracking, per-project wikis and forums, document management, and multi-project support, all extensible through a large plugin ecosystem (including agile boards). It is GPL-2.0 licensed and self-hosted on your own server.

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Tuleap is an open-source Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and project management platform that unifies agile planning, issue/tracker management, document management, Git/SVN code hosting, code review, CI/CD, and test management in one self-hosted system. The Community Edition is free under GPL-2.0; an Enterprise edition adds support and premium features. Originally built by Enalean in Saint-Alban-Leysse, France, Tuleap was acquired by Dassault Systèmes in April 2026.

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ZenTao is an open-source project management system built around Scrum, Waterfall, and Kanban, with a strong emphasis on software R&D workflows. Developed by EasyCorp (Easysoft), it covers product/backlog management, sprints and tasks, bug tracking, test/QA management, document management, CI, and to-do management in one tool. The free Community edition is dual-licensed under ZPL and AGPL and self-hosts on a PHP stack; paid Pro and Biz editions add advanced features and support.

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Phorge is a community-maintained open-source software development and project management platform, forked from Phabricator after its original maintainer discontinued it in 2021. Phorge picks up Phabricator's tooling: Maniphest (tasks/bug tracking and project management), Differential (code review), Diffusion (repository hosting), Phriction (wiki), and workboards (Kanban). It is Apache-2.0 licensed, self-hosted on a PHP stack, and actively developed by a non-profit community in 2026.

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Group-Office is a PHP-based, self-hosted groupware, CRM, and document-management platform developed by the Dutch company Intermesh since 2003. The open-source Group-Office Community edition is licensed under the AGPL and provides email, calendar, contacts, files, and notes; project management and time tracking are delivered through the commercial Group-Office Professional edition, which also runs on your own server. It integrates the Collabora Online office suite for in-browser document editing.

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