[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":235},["ShallowReactive",2],{"seo-verification":3,"blog-asana-pricing-2026-migrate-to-plane-kaneo-en":6},{"google":4,"bing":5},"EycwPY2XMyTkVzas3n1ygeNJFGAH513qrMjfDljzsMQ","",{"key":7,"data":8},"blog-asana-pricing-2026-migrate-to-plane-kaneo-en",{"id":9,"slug":10,"slugs":11,"title":15,"excerpt":16,"readTime":17,"views":18,"isPinned":19,"publishedAt":20,"updatedAt":21,"category":22,"categories":27,"featuredImage":29,"bgImage":30,"posterImage":31,"relatedSolution":32,"intro":35,"sections":36,"ctaTitle":150,"ctaBody":151,"ctaButton":152,"ctaUrl":153,"relatedPosts":154},403,"asana-pricing-2026-migrate-to-plane-kaneo",{"fr":12,"en":10,"ar":13,"es":14},"asana-pricing-2026-migration-plane-kaneo","asana-pricing-2026-plane-kaneo","asana-precio-2026-migrar-plane-kaneo","Asana Pricing Hike 2026: Migrate to Plane or Kaneo on VPS","Asana raised prices 27 % in 2026 (Advanced $85\u002Fseat\u002Fmonth). Switch to Plane or Kaneo on a ServOrbit VPS: data control, no per-seat fees.",11,0,false,"2026-10-01T00:00:00+00:00","2026-10-02T14:03:19+00:00",{"id":23,"name":24,"slug":25,"color":26,"icon":25},5,"Comparison","comparatif","bg-info\u002F10 text-info",[28],{"id":23,"name":24,"slug":25,"color":26,"icon":25},null,"\u002Fblog\u002Fcovers\u002Fbg.svg","\u002Fblog\u002Fcovers\u002Fasana-pricing-2026-migration-plane-kaneo-poster.svg",{"categorySlug":33,"appSlug":34},"collaboration-productivity","plane","In 2026, Asana raised its pricing for the third time in four years. The Advanced plan jumped from $67 to $85 per seat per month — a 27% increase in one move. The Standard plan followed (+$2), and even Basic moved (+$2). For a five-person agency on the Advanced plan, the annual bill now exceeds $5,100.\n\nBut this is not just a pricing issue. Asana remains cloud-only: your client project data — deadlines, budgets, assignees, internal comments — lives on Asana's servers, with no self-hosted option. For agencies subject to GDPR, working with clients in regulated sectors (finance, healthcare, legal), or bound by strict confidentiality agreements, this is a structural problem that the price hike makes even harder to overlook.\n\nTwo mature open source alternatives have emerged to address exactly this use case. Plane (30,000+ GitHub stars, AGPL-3.0 license) covers sprints, roadmaps, cycles, reporting, and multi-project portfolio management — the exact scope of an agency. Kaneo (MIT license) takes the opposite approach: lightweightweight kanban, 256 MB RAM, deployable in under ten minutes. Both run on a ServOrbit VPS 4 vCPU \u002F 8 GB RAM at around $20–25\u002Fmonth — ten times less than Asana for a five-person team.\n\nThis article walks you through the ROI calculation, installing Plane in 30 minutes, and the export-import process from Asana. Whether you manage three clients or thirty, the migration is simpler than it looks.",[37,41,50,53,97,100,103,125,128,143,147],{"type":38,"title":39,"body":40},"h2","Asana 2026 Pricing Hike by the Numbers","Here is the official Asana pricing grid as of early 2026 (per seat per month, annual billing):\n\n- **Basic**: $10 → $12\u002Fseat\u002Fmonth\n- **Standard**: $23 → $25\u002Fseat\u002Fmonth\n- **Advanced**: $67 → $85\u002Fseat\u002Fmonth (+27%)\n- **Enterprise**: custom pricing (increase not officially disclosed)\n\nFor a five-person agency on the Advanced plan — the only one that includes portfolios, goals, and advanced reporting that project managers actually need — the math is brutal:\n\n- **Before**: 5 × $67 × 12 months = **$4,020\u002Fyear**\n- **After**: 5 × $85 × 12 months = **$5,100\u002Fyear**\n- **Extra cost**: +$1,080\u002Fyear, equivalent to 43 months of a ServOrbit 4 vCPU VPS at $25\u002Fmonth\n\nBy comparison, a ServOrbit VPS 4 vCPU \u002F 8 GB RAM running Plane costs around $20–25\u002Fmonth, or **$240–300\u002Fyear** for an any team size. The return on investment is positive from the first month if your team has more than two people on the Advanced plan.",{"type":42,"title":43,"items":44,"body":5},"ul","Five Reasons Agencies Are Leaving Asana",[45,46,47,48,49],"**Cloud-only with no alternative.** Asana offers no on-premise or self-hosted option. Your client project data is on their servers, full stop. For agencies with contractual confidentiality clauses or GDPR obligations on their clients' data, this is permanent exposure.","**Pricing scales with your team growth.** Every new project manager, designer, or developer you bring on increases the bill. At $85\u002Fseat\u002Fmonth, hiring a fifth collaborator costs an extra $1,020\u002Fyear in software alone.","**Vendor dependency and lock-in risk.** Three price hikes in four years. Data export is possible but limited to CSV format — you lose metadata on task relationships, automations, and workflow rules.","**GDPR and client data sovereignty.** Storing budgets, deadlines, and internal discussions on Asana servers (hosted in the US) complicates compliance for European agencies processing personal data from their own clients.","**Portfolio and multi-project limitations.** Portfolio management (multi-project view, overall workload tracking) is reserved for the Advanced plan. If your agency manages 10 clients simultaneously, you pay the maximum rate for a feature that open source alternatives include natively, at no extra cost.",{"type":38,"title":51,"body":52},"Plane and Kaneo: Two Open Source Alternatives for Agencies","Plane and Kaneo address different agency profiles. Plane is the full-featured solution for agencies that want functional parity close to Asana: sprints, roadmaps, cycles, reporting, GitHub and Slack integrations. Kaneo is the minimalist option for smaller teams that only need a clean, fast kanban board with no configuration overhead. Both run on the same ServOrbit VPS.",{"type":54,"title":55,"headers":56,"rows":61,"body":5},"comparison","Asana vs Plane vs Kaneo — Feature Comparison",[57,58,59,60],"Criteria","Asana","Plane","Kaneo",[62,67,71,75,79,81,85,88,92],[63,64,65,66],"License","Proprietary SaaS","AGPL-3.0","MIT",[68,69,70,70],"Self-hosted","No","Yes (Docker)",[72,73,74,74],"Price for 5-person team","$5,100\u002Fyear (Advanced)","~$240\u002Fyear (VPS)",[76,77,78,69],"Sprints and cycles","Yes (Advanced)","Yes (native)",[80,77,78,69],"Multi-project portfolio",[82,77,83,84],"Reporting and analytics","Yes (built-in)","Basic",[86,87,87,69],"Slack\u002FGitHub integrations","Yes",[89,87,90,91],"Clean client-facing interface","Yes (Board view)","Yes (pure kanban)",[93,94,95,96],"Minimum RAM required","N\u002FA (cloud)","2 GB recommended","256 MB sufficient",{"type":38,"title":98,"body":99},"ROI Calculation: A 5-Person Agency Over 12 Months","Here is the detailed breakdown for a five-person agency migrating from the Asana Advanced plan to Plane on a ServOrbit VPS.\n\n**Asana Advanced cost (5 seats, 12 months):**\n- 5 × $85 × 12 = **$5,100\u002Fyear**\n\n**Plane on ServOrbit VPS cost (12 months):**\n- VPS 4 vCPU \u002F 8 GB RAM: $25\u002Fmonth × 12 = **$300\u002Fyear** (any team size)\n- Initial migration (agent time): 2–4 hours, one-time\n- Total: **$300\u002Fyear**\n\n**Net savings over 12 months: $4,800** — a 94% cost reduction.\n\nIf your agency grows to 10 people, the gap widens further: Asana would charge $10,200\u002Fyear while your ServOrbit VPS stays at $300\u002Fyear regardless of team size.\n\nAnother way to read the math: with $4,800\u002Fyear in savings, a ServOrbit VPS 4 vCPU ($300\u002Fyear) pays for itself in **under one month** of savings on the annual Asana bill.",{"type":38,"title":101,"body":102},"Install Plane for Your Agency in 30 Minutes","Plane ships an official docker-compose maintained by the core team. Installation on a fresh ServOrbit VPS takes around 30 minutes, most of which is wait time (pulling Docker images).",{"type":104,"title":105,"steps":106,"body":5},"steps","Step-by-Step Plane Deployment",[107,110,113,116,119,122],{"title":108,"body":109},"Create your ServOrbit VPS and connect via SSH","From the ServOrbit marketplace, pick a 4 vCPU \u002F 8 GB RAM VPS running Debian 12 or Ubuntu 22.04. Once the VM is up (2–3 minutes), connect: `ssh root@YOUR_IP`. Update the system: `apt update && apt upgrade -y`, then install Docker and Docker Compose: `curl -fsSL https:\u002F\u002Fget.docker.com | sh`.",{"title":111,"body":112},"Download the official Plane docker-compose","Plane provides a quick-start script. Create a dedicated directory and fetch the configuration: `mkdir -p \u002Fopt\u002Fplane && cd \u002Fopt\u002Fplane && curl -fsSL https:\u002F\u002Fraw.githubusercontent.com\u002Fmakeplane\u002Fplane\u002Fmaster\u002Fdeploy\u002Fselfhost\u002Finstall.sh | bash`. The script generates a `.env` file with default values and downloads the `docker-compose.yaml`.",{"title":114,"body":115},"Configure the .env file (domain, SMTP, secret key)","Open `\u002Fopt\u002Fplane\u002F.env` and adjust the key values: `WEB_URL=https:\u002F\u002Fplane.youragency.com` (your domain pointing to the VPS), `SECRET_KEY` (generate a random key: `openssl rand -hex 32`), and SMTP parameters for team email notifications. If you have a mail server (or use Mailgun \u002F Brevo), fill in `EMAIL_HOST`, `EMAIL_HOST_USER`, `EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD`.",{"title":117,"body":118},"Start the containers and wait for startup","From `\u002Fopt\u002Fplane`, run: `docker compose up -d`. The first startup takes 3–5 minutes to pull images (plane-frontend, plane-backend, plane-worker, PostgreSQL, Redis, Minio). Check everything is green: `docker compose ps`. All services should show `Up` or `healthy`.",{"title":120,"body":121},"Access the admin interface and create client workspaces","Open `https:\u002F\u002Fplane.youragency.com` in your browser. Plane guides you through creating the administrator account. From the dashboard, create one workspace per client (or one agency workspace with separate projects per client). The \"Board\" view (kanban) is what your non-tech clients will recognize immediately — it looks visually similar to what Asana offers on its Standard plan.",{"title":123,"body":124},"Configure the reverse proxy and TLS certificate","If your VPS doesn't have a reverse proxy yet, install nginx and Certbot: `apt install -y nginx certbot python3-certbot-nginx`. Create a vhost pointing port 80 to Plane's port 3000, then obtain your certificate: `certbot --nginx -d plane.youragency.com`. Automatic renewal is configured by Certbot.",{"type":38,"title":126,"body":127},"Export from Asana and Import into Plane","Migrating existing data is the step that worries teams most. In practice, it is straightforward for active projects.",{"type":104,"title":129,"steps":130,"body":5},"Asana → Plane Migration",[131,134,137,140],{"title":132,"body":133},"Export your projects from Asana as CSV","In Asana, open each project, click the three dots in the top right → \"Export\u002FPrint\" → \"CSV\". Asana generates one CSV file per project with tasks, assignees, due dates, sections, and subtasks. For a full workspace export, use the \"Admin Console\" → \"Export\" menu (available on paid plans) to get a complete JSON.",{"title":135,"body":136},"Convert to the JSON format expected by Plane","Plane accepts a structured JSON format for imports. If you exported CSV, a simple conversion script (Python or Node.js) is enough. For native Asana JSON exports, the Plane team maintains a command-line converter in the `makeplane\u002Fplane-tools` repository. Clone it and run: `python asana_to_plane.py --input asana_export.json --output plane_import.json`.",{"title":138,"body":139},"Import into Plane via the interface or API","From your self-hosted Plane, navigate to the target project → \"Settings\" → \"Imports\" → \"Asana\". Plane offers a native connector that reads your Asana JSON export directly. Select the file, map team members (Asana email → Plane email), and start the import. Tasks, sections, and basic metadata are preserved.",{"title":141,"body":142},"Review and clean up after import","After the import, browse a few projects to check critical points: correctly mapped assignees, preserved due dates, matching statuses. Asana automations and rules do not migrate (they are proprietary) — recreate them using Plane's native Cycles and automations. Allow 30 to 60 minutes of cleanup per complex project.",{"type":144,"title":145,"body":146},"tip","For teams with non-tech clients","The main objection you will hear from your team: \"Plane is less well-known, my clients won't know how to use it.\" In practice, Plane's \"Board\" view is a standard kanban — columns, cards, drag-and-drop — that everyone recognizes immediately. For clients who accessed Asana only to check project progress, create a Plane guest account with a filtered view on their project. They see exactly what they saw before, with no training needed. Plane is available in 15 languages and its interface is noticeably cleaner than Asana Advanced, which has accumulated many complex features over successive updates.",{"type":38,"title":148,"body":149},"Kaneo: The Lightweightweight Alternative for Small Agencies","If your agency doesn't need sprints or advanced reporting — you manage projects with a simple kanban, custom columns, tags, and assignments — Kaneo is probably the right choice. It is a pure kanban task management tool, open source (MIT license), running in 256 MB of RAM. On the same ServOrbit VPS, you can host Kaneo alongside other services with no noticeable performance impact.\n\nKaneo deploys with a single Docker Compose command, with no external database (built-in SQLite for small teams). Its interface is intentionally minimalist: no sprints, no roadmaps, no Gantt charts. What you gain in return: zero learning curve, near-instant loading times, and maintenance reduced to updating the Docker image.\n\n**Typical Kaneo use case for an agency:** a small 2–5 person team managing short missions, client support tickets, or creative projects (design, content, campaigns) with no need for sprint tracking or workload reporting. If you were only using 30% of Asana's capabilities, Kaneo covers that scope at a fraction of the cost and complexity.\n\nTo install Kaneo on your ServOrbit VPS: grab the `docker-compose.yml` from the official GitHub repository (github.com\u002Fheykaneo\u002Fkaneo), configure the environment variables (port, domain, admin email), and run `docker compose up -d`. The interface is accessible in under two minutes.","Deploy Plane on Your ServOrbit VPS","Find Plane in our marketplace with a pre-optimized configuration for agencies: ready-to-use docker-compose, configured nginx, automatic TLS certificate. Deploy in 30 minutes and cut your Asana bill starting this month.","Deploy Plane Now","\u002Fmarketplace\u002Fcollaboration-productivity\u002Fplane",[155,178,199,220],{"id":156,"slug":157,"slugs":158,"title":162,"excerpt":163,"readTime":164,"views":18,"isPinned":19,"publishedAt":165,"updatedAt":166,"category":167,"categories":173,"featuredImage":29,"bgImage":30,"posterImage":175,"relatedSolution":176},242,"host-kaneo-on-a-vps-minimalist-open-source-project-management",{"fr":159,"en":157,"ar":160,"es":161},"self-host-kaneo-vps","استضافة-kaneo-على-vps-إدارة-مشاريع-مفتوحة-المصدر-وبسيطة","alojar-kaneo-en-un-vps-gestion-de-proyectos","Host Kaneo on a VPS: Minimalist Open-Source Project Management","Deploy Kaneo on your VPS — the lightweight open-source project manager with Kanban boards and GitHub integrations. 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