Taiga's real free plan lives on your server, not on theirs

Taiga scores 65, in our Usable band, and the total is a blend that fits neither route exactly. Feature depth at 70 is the honest headline: real scrum ceremonies modelled properly, more than ClickUp or Trello give away free and roughly what Jira free offers for 10 users. Generosity at 64 is where the hosted plan drags on the self-hosted one, because 1 public and 1 private project is close to nothing.

Read the number as two numbers. If you are self-hosting, Taiga is better than 65 suggests, since nothing is capped and nothing is held back. If you were hoping for a free hosted account, it is worse, and the score would sit near the bottom of this category. The pillars below carry the split in full, including the honest note that development has slowed and the hosted service has been run by Taiga Cloud Services rather than the original Kaleidos team since March 2024.

On tree.taiga.io the free ceiling is projects, not people. 1 public project and 1 private project, unlimited users, and 10MB of storage across the account (as of July 2026). Unlimited users on two projects is a strange shape: you can invite the whole company and then run out of places to put them. The 10MB figure means attachments effectively live somewhere else from day one.

Self-hosting removes both caps and adds the usual obligations, stated plainly because free here means free if you can run a server:

• Installation and updates are yours, including security updates on a system holding project data
• Backups are yours, and nobody is taking them for you
• The hosted service is not a fallback, because its free tier is smaller than most teams need

Two product limits apply on both routes. There is no Gantt view and no native time tracking, which is a real gap next to OpenProject or Plane. And development has slowed compared with the project's peak years, so read the changelog before you build a process on it. That is a caution rather than a warning: Taiga is maintained, unlike Focalboard, just not fast-moving.

Taiga does something almost nothing else in this category does: it charges per instance rather than per user. Enthusiast is 5 euros a month for 5 public and 5 private projects with 100MB of storage, and Premium is 60 euros a month for unlimited projects with 3GB.

That structure rewards exactly the teams the per-seat model punishes. A 20-person department that would owe Asana over $2,600 a year at Starter prices pays 60 euros a month for unlimited Taiga projects, no matter how many people are in them. If your problem is headcount rather than features, this is one of the better-shaped price lists on the site.

The rung people actually buy is Enthusiast, since the jump from two projects to ten for 5 euros solves the free plan's only real problem. Whether you should buy it at all depends on the alternative sitting right there: the self-hosted build is free, uncapped, and the same software. Paying for hosted Taiga is paying for someone else to run it, which is a decision about your time rather than about the product.

Yes, within limits, and which limit applies depends entirely on where it runs. Self-host and Taiga is genuinely free: MPL-2.0, no seat cap, no quota, the full scrum toolset. Sign up at tree.taiga.io and free means two projects and 10MB, which is a demonstration account.

Who can live on the free version: a development team that actually runs scrum and has somebody to maintain a server, a university course using public project boards, an open source project that wants backlogs and burndown charts without a licence. Who cannot: a small team with no technical help, because the hosted free plan will not hold more than one project, and anyone who needs Gantt charts or native time tracking, since those are missing at every tier.

If self-hosting is not realistic, free Taiga alternatives lists the hosted options, and Plane's free plan is the better free hosted bet today with 12 members and cycles included. The whole category is ranked at best free project management tools.