Kuayle vs Plane
Both products can run on your infrastructure, but they solve different-sized problems. Plane is a broad project-management suite with commercial plans; Kuayle is a focused issue tracker distributed as one Apache 2.0 edition.
License and editions
Both projects publish source, but their licenses and edition models differ.
- Plane’s public repository uses AGPL-3.0. Plane offers cloud and self-hosted products with paid feature plans.
- Kuayle uses Apache 2.0 and ships one self-hosted edition. It has no paid feature plan or enterprise repository.
Scope and focus
Plane covers more workflows; Kuayle deliberately covers fewer.
- Plane includes work items, cycles, modules, initiatives, pages, wiki, intake, dashboards and multiple layouts.
- Kuayle focuses on issues, cycles, projects, saved views, public sharing and GitHub activity. It has no wiki, modules or dashboard UI.
Core issue tracking
Both support structured work, but their ownership and customization models differ.
- Plane: documents multiple work-item views, properties, and project-management workflows.
- Kuayle includes multiple assignees, sub-issues, relations, hierarchical labels, issue templates, favorites and read-only public links.
Planning and visualization
Plane offers more layouts and planning layers. Kuayle keeps planning closer to issues.
- Plane: cycles, modules, multiple layout views (list, board, Gantt, calendar).
- Kuayle: cycles with burndown/velocity, projects with Gantt view, saved views with team/personal scoping.
Integrations
Plane documents a wider integration and migration catalog.
- Plane: GitHub, GitLab, Slack integrations. Importer for multiple platforms. API and webhooks.
- Kuayle: self-configuring GitHub App with auto-linking, auto-transitions, and real-time WebSocket events. Webhooks. Import/export not yet available.
How to choose
The relevant tradeoff is breadth versus a smaller, uniform edition.
- Choose Plane when pages, wiki, modules, dashboards, importers or its wider integration catalog are required.
- Choose Kuayle when a focused tracker, multiple assignees, Apache 2.0, and one ungated self-hosted edition matter more than breadth.
Sources
Review the first-party sources for the latest edition, licensing, and feature details.
Review Kuayle before you deploy it
Inspect the Apache 2.0 source, then follow the Docker Compose guide to run an instance on your infrastructure.