Free alternatives to Taiga
Taiga does textbook scrum, but two things push teams off it. Its hosted free plan shrank to a single public and single private project with 10MB of storage, and development has slowed enough that self-hosting is now the real free offer (as of July 2026). These tools keep the sprints and boards while giving you a larger free plan or a more active project behind it.
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Plane
Best Free Alternative ToTaigaActively developed open source scrum, self-hosted or free for 12 cloud members
Plane is the tracker Taiga users tend to land on: open source under AGPL-3.0, actively developed, with cycles for sprints and modules for grouping work. Unlike Taiga's shrunken hosted plan, Plane's free cloud tier covers 12 members, and the Community Edition self-hosts with no cap (as of July 2026).
- Free plan, paid from $6/month (as of July 2026)
- Open source (AGPL-3.0)
- Best for:
- Scrum teams who want an open source tracker that is still moving fast
- The catch:
- Younger than Taiga, and self-hosting wants Docker familiarity
Compared to Taiga
- Advantage: Free cloud tier for 12 members; Taiga's hosted free plan is 2 projects total
- Advantage: Active development; Taiga's pace has slowed
- Worth knowing: Both are open source and self-host free with no user cap
- Worth knowing: Cycles and modules cover sprints; Taiga's story points and burndown are more scrum-specific
- Tradeoff: Self-hosting needs Docker familiarity
Unlimited free members with sprints, against Taiga's 2-project hosted free plan
ClickUp gives you agile sprints, boards, and docs on a hosted plan with no user cap and no task cap (as of July 2026). Where Taiga's free cloud is down to two projects, ClickUp lets a whole team run as many as they like. The catch is storage, not seats.
- Free plan, paid from $7/month (as of July 2026)
- United States
United States- Best for:
- Teams that want scrum without hosting anything or counting seats
- The catch:
- 60MB of total free storage, and sprint reporting proper needs a paid plan
Compared to Taiga
- Advantage: Unlimited members and tasks; Taiga's hosted free plan is 2 projects
- Advantage: Sprints, boards, and docs in one hosted app, nothing to self-host
- Advantage: Actively developed with frequent releases
- Tradeoff: Cloud-only; Taiga can be self-hosted for data ownership
- Tradeoff: 60MB total free storage; attachments go to Drive or Dropbox
Native scrum with backlogs and agile reports, free for up to 10 users
Jira is the most scrum-native option here: sprints, backlogs, and agile reports, free for up to 10 users with 2GB storage (as of July 2026). If Taiga's ceremonies were the whole appeal, Jira models them at least as thoroughly, from a vendor that is not slowing down.
- Free plan, paid from $7.91/month (as of July 2026)
- Australia
Australia- Best for:
- Software teams of 10 or fewer who want scrum reporting that keeps improving
- The catch:
- The 10-user free ceiling and Jira's admin overhead are the usual complaints
Compared to Taiga
- Advantage: Backlogs, sprints, and agile reports out of the box
- Advantage: Actively maintained by Atlassian; Taiga's pace has slowed
- Advantage: 2GB free storage against Taiga hosted free's 10MB
- Tradeoff: Free plan caps at 10 users; Taiga self-hosted has no cap
- Tradeoff: Configuration and admin overhead Taiga does not impose
Self-hosted open source like Taiga, adding Gantt charts and time tracking
OpenProject covers agile boards but leans further into classic planning: Gantt charts with dependencies, time and cost tracking, and work packages, free to self-host with no user limit under GPL-3.0 (as of July 2026). Choose it over Taiga if you want sprints and timelines in the same open source tool.
- Free plan, paid from €5.95/month (as of July 2026)
- Germany
- Open source (GPL-3.0)
Germany- Best for:
- Self-hosting teams that want scrum boards plus dependency-aware Gantt planning
- The catch:
- No free cloud tier, only a 14-day trial, and a heavier install than Taiga
Compared to Taiga
- Advantage: Gantt charts with dependencies alongside agile boards
- Advantage: Time and cost tracking built in
- Worth knowing: Both self-host free with no user limit
- Tradeoff: No free cloud tier, only a 14-day trial
- Tradeoff: The interface is functional but dated
A simple hosted board with 10 free collaborators and no ceremonies to configure
If your team used Taiga more for its kanban board than its full scrum apparatus, Trello does that hosted, with unlimited cards and 10 collaborators per workspace free (as of July 2026). You lose backlogs, story points, and burndown charts, but there is nothing to install or maintain.
- Free plan, paid from $5/month (as of July 2026)
- Australia
- Best for:
- Teams who want a shared board without the scrum overhead or a server
- The catch:
- No backlog, story points, or reports, and 10 collaborators per workspace
Compared to Taiga
- Advantage: Hosted free with nothing to install; Taiga's free offer is really self-hosting now
- Advantage: Almost nothing to learn or configure
- Tradeoff: No backlogs, story points, or burndown charts like Taiga's
- Tradeoff: 10 collaborators per workspace; Taiga self-hosted has no cap
- Worth knowing: Owned by Atlassian and cloud-only
A hosted database you can shape into a board, free for individuals
Notion can model a backlog and sprint board from a database, with docs and specs on the same page. Free is unlimited for one person with 10 guests (as of July 2026); a second full member hits the block limit. It has no built-in scrum reporting, so burndown charts are not part of the deal.
- Free plan, paid from $10/month (as of July 2026)
- United States
- Best for:
- Solo scrum masters or tiny teams who want tasks beside their docs
- The catch:
- Effectively single-player free, and no native story points or burndown
Compared to Taiga
- Advantage: Docs, specs, and tasks in one hosted workspace
- Advantage: Hosted free for one person, nothing to self-host
- Tradeoff: No native story points, burndown, or velocity like Taiga's
- Tradeoff: Free workspaces with 2 or more members hit a block limit
- Worth knowing: Cloud-only; Taiga can be self-hosted
A lighter open source self-hosted option if scrum was more than you needed
Vikunja is the pick if Taiga's scrum machinery was overkill. It is a small AGPL-licensed app with list, kanban, table, and Gantt views, free to self-host and light enough for a Raspberry Pi (as of July 2026). You give up story points and burndown charts for something far simpler to run.
- Free plan, paid from €4/month (as of July 2026)
- Open source (AGPL-3.0)
- Best for:
- Self-hosters who wanted a board and due dates, not full scrum
- The catch:
- No sprints, story points, or reporting, and no free hosted plan
Compared to Taiga
- Advantage: Much lighter to self-host than Taiga
- Advantage: List, kanban, table, and Gantt views for simple tracking
- Worth knowing: Both open source and self-host free with no user cap
- Tradeoff: No sprints, story points, or burndown charts
- Tradeoff: Vikunja Cloud has no free tier; hosted starts at 4 euros a month
How to choose
Start with where you want it to run. If you are happy self-hosting, Plane and OpenProject are open source and actively developed, with sprints and Gantt planning respectively. If you would rather sign up and go, ClickUp and Jira both run agile boards on free hosted plans, ClickUp with no seat cap and Jira with real scrum reports for up to 10 users. Whatever you choose, export your Taiga projects first, since its own future is the reason you are moving.