Non-EU vendorProject ManagementHeadquarters: IN

Plane: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Plane is a project and knowledge management platform for product teams. It combines work items, cycles (sprints), modules, initiatives and epics with board, list, spreadsheet and Gantt views, complemented by a wiki and Plane AI. It integrates with tools such as GitHub, Slack and Figma, supports migration from Jira, Linear, Asana and ClickUp, and offers an open API and mobile apps. You can use Plane as a cloud service or host it yourself with Docker or Kubernetes.

The software is open source under the GNU AGPL v3. According to a company directory, the business is based in Hyderabad, India, outside the EU. The sources consulted do not say where Plane Cloud stores its data. Self-hosting, including on-premises or in an air-gapped environment, lets a European organisation choose the location itself, as well as the database and storage; Plane mentions bringing your own PostgreSQL, Redis and S3-compatible storage.

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Sovereignty score

57 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-250
Headquartered outside the EU (IN)
Data residency SOV-30
No hosting in Europe (US)
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-390
Self-hostable: encryption keys under your own control
Freedom from lock-in SOV-680
Open source: low switching costs
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-665
Source code auditable, forkable and self-hostable

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked July 2, 2026

Headquarters	IN (OTHER)	Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision	No — no adequacy decision	Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (non-EU)	Verified by hand
Data hosting	US	Verified by hand
Open-source	Yes	Verified by hand
GDPR-compliant	Yes	Vendor-stated
Hosting signal	AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US (US)	Technically measured
Category	Project Management
Type	Product
Website	plane.so ↗

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Plane

The European alternatives to Plane come from our knowledge base of over 6,200 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Plane

Plane is headquartered in IN, outside the EU. Contracts and data therefore also fall under non-European law. The GDPR applies through contractual terms, but in a conflict with local legislation you have less certainty than with a European vendor.

Plane hosts data outside the EU (US). Personal data therefore leaves the EU, which requires a transfer mechanism under the GDPR and pulls the data residency score down.

Plane is open source. You can audit the source code, self-host the software and keep the encryption keys under your own control. Switching is easier because data and software are not tied to a single party.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Plane together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Plane?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Plane include Kanboard, OpenProject and Planka. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Plane?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Plane include Kanboard, OpenProject, Redmine (self-host), Taiga, Tuleap, WeKan and Wiki.js. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Plane GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Plane is headquartered in IN (OTHER) and hosts data in US. The vendor states it is GDPR-compliant, but the data falls under non-EU jurisdiction. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on July 2, 2026.

Sources

This record was checked via the vendor's website and legal notice during the full audit of June and July 2026. Source links have been recorded per record since 20 September 2026.

Compliance evidence

The links below point to the vendor's own public documents. We only record what we found: a missing link means "not found publicly", not "not compliant".

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Digital sovereignty in Project Management

Project Management: Project planning, issue tracking, knowledge management, team collaboration. In this category the choice of vendor determines who has legal access to your data, where that data lives and how easily you can switch later.

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