Plane vs Teamwork.com

Plane is an open-source project management and issue tracking tool founded in 2022 that sits between Jira's flexibility and Linear's simplicity. Teams organise work into issues, cycles (sprints), modules for larger initiatives and saved views, and can switch between list, kanban, calendar, spreadsheet and Gantt layouts. Pages provide built-in documentation and Intake collects requests for triage.

The Community edition is free to self-host under the AGPL with Docker or Kubernetes. Plane Cloud has a free plan for small teams and paid Pro and Business tiers per user that add time tracking, custom workflows and work item types, bulk operations, dashboards, advanced permissions, SSO and Plane AI, while Enterprise covers self-managed deployments with support and audit logs. Importers from Jira, Linear, Asana and GitHub ease migration, and an API, webhooks and Slack and GitHub integrations connect it to the rest of the stack.

Plane fits engineering and product teams who want Linear-style workflows with data ownership, a self-host option or lower per-seat prices. It is less polished than Linear, its integration ecosystem is smaller than Jira's, self-hosting requires maintenance and reporting is still maturing. Linear remains the benchmark for speed and design, Jira for enterprise reporting and marketplace apps, and Huly or OpenProject are other open-source options. The project has grown quickly, with a large GitHub following and frequent releases.

Teamwork.com is a project management platform built for client work, made by Teamwork, a company founded in 2007 in Cork, Ireland, by Peter Coppinger and Dan Mackey. It began as Teamwork Projects and later took the Teamwork.com name after buying the domain. Its core job is helping agencies, consultancies and professional services teams deliver client projects on time and on budget, not just track tasks.

Beyond tasks in list, board, Gantt and table views, Teamwork.com includes native time tracking, billable rates, time budgets and retainers, workload and capacity planning, intake forms, invoicing from logged time, client users and profitability reporting. The free plan allows up to 5 users and 5 projects. Basics adds billable time and reporting, Accelerate adds workload, budgets and invoicing with HubSpot and QuickBooks sync, and the quoted Optimize and Enterprise plans add quotes, resource planning by role, profitability and SSO. Teamwork also sells a separate helpdesk, Teamwork Desk.

It fits agencies that bill by the hour or retainer and want time, budgets and resourcing in the same tool as tasks. Asana and monday.com are more flexible for internal teams but need add-ons for billing; Wrike and ClickUp cover more use cases with less agency focus. Minimum seat counts and the move of key features to Accelerate make it pricier for very small teams.

Recent change: in March 2026 Teamwork.com renamed its tiers, with Deliver becoming Basics and Grow becoming Accelerate, and raised the annual discount to about 29%, so older reviews quote different plan names and prices.