Instead of monday.com

Visual work management with boards and automations.

Partly

You can replace the boards. The automations are the product, and that is a different swap on this list.

You lose: The no-code automations and the dashboards executives like.

Start here

Plane

AGPL-3.0a weekendactive

Projects and issues. No marketing-friendly dashboards.

github.com/makeplane/plane plane.so

A database, object storage or mail config, plus backups.

Also worth a look

OpenProjectGPL-3.0a weekendactive
Heavy, thorough, and built for project managers rather than growth teams.
github.com/opf/openproject www.openproject.org
BaserowMIT (open core)an eveningactive
A database with views. You build the process yourself.
github.com/baserow/baserow baserow.io

Head to head

Plane vs OpenProjectPlane feels like a modern tool. OpenProject has the process depth a big team needs.

Facts checked 8 November 2026. Licences, activity and archive status come from each project's own repository; the verdict and the cost lines are the desk's.