Complete comparison
See how Plane and ClickUp compare across project management, AI agents, planning, reporting, and pricing. Explore deployment options from cloud to airgapped, along with what it takes to move your work.
50,000+ teams run on Plane, from startups to the Fortune 500
Alignment from plan to delivery
For us, the biggest benefit is visibility and alignment. Product requirements can move into design, pass through approval gates, and then flow into engineering without losing context. It reduces coordination overhead, makes ownership clearer, and gives the team a reliable view of what is planned, what is blocked, and what is ready for delivery.
CIO, Fortune 500 financial services company
Where Plane goes further than ClickUp
One workspace for every team
Plane runs every team in one workspace, with cycles, epics, and releases built into one model. ClickUp calls itself the everything app, adding a feature for each job, with epics left as ordinary tasks.
Built for the agentic era
Plane Agents take assignments and mentions, run on schedules or when work items change, and act only in the projects you grant them. ClickUp's Super Agents need a paid AI add-on on top of seats.
Runs where you need it
Run Plane in Plane Cloud, on your infrastructure, or fully airgapped, with the Commercial and Airgapped editions at full parity with Cloud. ClickUp is cloud-only, and its AI processing runs outside the chosen data region.
Enterprise controls, included
SAML and OIDC from Business, plus LDAP, custom roles, approval flows, and API-enabled audit logs on Enterprise Grid. On ClickUp, SAML, SCIM, custom roles, and the audit log need Enterprise.
Let agents run your busywork
Agents take the work nobody wants: triage, status updates, and spec drafts. The team reviews everything in the activity trail.
Cycles with burn-down charts, Epics, and dashboards in one place.
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Plane vs ClickUp, feature by feature
Compare twenty-two capabilities across execution, planning, governance, collaboration, AI, and deployment.
Capability | ClickUp |  |
Run the work | ||
Work models and custom properties How different kinds of work are structured | Custom task types, limited to 20 uses on Free. Epics are ordinary tasks with a type label. | Work item types with custom properties, required fields, defaults, visual identity, and activity history. |
Cycles Timeboxes, progress, and unfinished work | Sprints on every plan. Burndown, velocity, and automatic roll-over only on Business and above. | Project-based cycles with manual start and stop, burn-down charts, and unfinished-work transfer. An active-cycles view spans projects. Business adds automatic scheduling. |
Dependencies What blocks what when plans change | Waiting-on and blocking links only. No start-to-start or finish-to-finish types. Critical path not on Free. | Finish-to-start, start-to-start, and finish-to-finish dependencies, with dates that move when upstream work changes. Critical path shows on the Timeline. |
Keyboard-first execution The speed people feel every day | Keyboard shortcuts, off by default, and an AI command bar. | Power K and shortcuts for navigation, search, filters, and common work-item actions. |
Time tracking Hours logged against the work | Native time tracking, capped at 100 entries on Free. Timesheets only on Business and above. | Log time on work items and review worklogs across the workspace, from Pro. |
See the whole picture | ||
Cross-project planning How work rolls up across the organization | Goals and Portfolios, capped or trial-only on Free. | Initiatives connect projects across teams with owners, states, dates, and updates. Teamspaces show each team’s work across projects. |
Project updates How leaders see progress and risk | No project health status. Updates come from AI summaries or report templates. | On-track, at-risk, and off-track updates with ownership, dates, and progress, rolled up to initiatives. |
Dashboards Reporting people can open themselves | Dashboards capped on Free and Unlimited. Chart cards only on Business and above. | Dashboards start on Pro. Business adds advanced widgets for analysis across projects and teams. |
Keep control | ||
Custom workflows Rules for how work moves | Custom statuses per List, Folder, or Space. No transition rules. | Control who moves work between states, with type-specific workflows and designated approvers. |
Approval gates Required sign-off before work moves | No approval gate on status changes. Required fields don’t block status moves. | Designated approvers sign off before work moves, with a fallback state for rejected work. |
Roles and permissions Who can see, manage, and change work | Custom roles only on Enterprise. On Free, guests get full edit rights with no permission control. | Admin, Contributor, Commenter, and Guest roles per project. 5 free Guests per paid seat on Pro and Business. Custom roles and granular permissions on Enterprise Grid. |
Configuration as code Review project structure in Git | No native config as code. | Plane Compose defines states, workflows, types, labels, and custom fields in YAML for Git review, versioning, and reuse. |
One workspace | ||
Cross-functional work Every team in one workspace | General-purpose tasks for every team. Software work runs without epics or releases. | Engineering, product, operations, marketing, and support run their own projects and workflows in one workspace. |
Docs and wiki Long-form context beside the work | Docs on every plan. One wiki per workspace below Enterprise. | Project Pages plus a workspace Wiki with nested pages, collections, page locking, external publishing, and Notion/Confluence imports. |
Request intake Turn outside requests into trackable work | Forms, limited to one on Free. Login-required forms only on Enterprise. | In-app Intake starts on Free. Business adds email intake and public forms that need no account. |
Git hosting Pull requests linked to work | GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket links. No GitHub Enterprise Server support. | GitHub (including Enterprise Server) and GitLab (including self-managed) with two-way sync. Bitbucket Cloud and Data Center for pull request automation. |
AI in the work | ||
Assignable agents AI teammates that take work | Super Agents need a paid AI add-on on top of seats. Cloud only. | Plane Agents take assignments and mentions, run on schedules or work item events, and show up in the same activity trail as people. |
MCP server Use AI clients with your workspace | Hosted by ClickUp only, in public beta. Not self-hostable. | MIT-licensed MCP server, hosted by Plane or run on your infrastructure. |
Bring your own model Your provider and your keys | No customer keys. Brain picks from Claude, GPT, and Gemini in ClickUp’s cloud. | Self-hosted Plane (Commercial Edition) uses your OpenAI or Anthropic keys, AWS Bedrock, Ollama, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. |
Yours to run | ||
Self-hosted deployment Run in your infrastructure | No. Cloud only. | Deploy Plane on your infrastructure using Docker or Kubernetes. |
Airgapped deployment Run without external network access | No | Yes. Run Plane fully isolated, with no external network dependencies. Updates come from your own registry. |
Identity and audit Controls procurement expects | SAML, SCIM, Microsoft SSO, and the audit log only on Enterprise. No LDAP. | SAML and OIDC with any identity provider, from Business (Pro on self-hosted). LDAP, granular access controls, and API-enabled audit logs on Enterprise Grid, plus IdP group sync on self-hosted. |
Your ClickUp history comes with you
Plane’s ClickUp importer brings folders in as projects, lists as modules, and tasks as work items, with custom task types, custom fields, comments, and attachments.
Lower price, fewer upgrade walls
Pro is $6 per seat per month vs ClickUp Unlimited at $7, both billed annually. ClickUp’s AI is a separate add-on from $9 per user per month, charged for every member.
Run Plane anywhere
Choose Plane Cloud, deploy with Docker or Kubernetes, or go airgapped with zero external calls and offline updates. Self-hosted deployments support your models and keep logs local.
Ready for procurement
Plane is ISO 27001 certified and SOC 2 Type II audited, with support for GDPR and HIPAA requirements. Data is encrypted with AES-256 at rest and TLS 1.3 in transit. Self-hosted, your data never leaves your infrastructure.
Ready to switch from ClickUp?
Bring your ClickUp work into Plane, rebuild the workflows your team needs, and move at your own pace. Enterprise Grid adds hands-on migration services.
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