Unlike most SaaS companies, Leantime maintains an open-source version that anyone can download and self-host for free. This commitment to open-source reflects our core values of accessibility and transparency.

We’ve chosen to eliminate our limited free SaaS tier because:

• It creates confusion. Having both a free SaaS tier and an open-source version created an unnecessary decision point for users.
• It splits our focus. Maintaining feature limitations for free users diverted resources from improving the core product experience.
• It ensures sustainability. By focusing on paying customers who value our work, we can build a sustainable business that continues to improve the product for everyone.

If you’re seeking a free solution, our open-source version offers extensive functionality and is actively supported by our community. For those who want a hassle-free experience with all features included, our SaaS offering provides exceptional value.

Most project management tools offer complex pricing tiers that force you to predict your future needs and often withhold key features behind higher tiers. We think this approach is fundamentally broken, especially for neurodivergent users who may already struggle with decision paralysis.

Our single-plan approach means:

• No cognitive overhead. You don’t need to compare feature tables or worry about outgrowing your plan.
• No artificial limitations. We don’t restrict essential features or create arbitrary limits on users, projects, or tasks.
• Equal access to innovation. Every customer gets access to our latest AI features, neurodivergent-friendly tools, and new capabilities as they’re released.

We offer a 17% discount for annual billing because:

• It helps us build better. Predictable revenue allows us to plan feature development more effectively and make long-term investments in the platform.
• It aligns with project timeframes. Most meaningful projects span months or years, not days or weeks.
• It reduces administrative overhead. Less frequent billing means fewer headaches for you and lower transaction costs for us.

We believe this straightforward approach to pricing better serves our community while ensuring Leantime can continue to evolve as a tool that truly understands and supports different ways of thinking.

Traditional project management tools were built for a neurotypical world. They assume everyone processes information the same way and often optimize for the wrong metrics – like the number of tasks completed rather than meaningful progress toward goals.

Leantime is built differently. Our pricing reflects our commitment to creating a tool that works with your brain, not against it. We don’t believe in charging extra for features that make work more accessible or comprehensible for neurodivergent minds.

By supporting Leantime with your subscription, you’re not just buying a project management tool – you’re investing in a more inclusive vision of productivity that recognizes and celebrates cognitive diversity.

Open source software gives us the opportunity to share our core code with you and allow you to set it up on your own servers.

It is a self (you) maintained platform. This gives you ownership of your data and the security of maintaining your own platform.

Our open source version operates under AGPL licensing and requires code updates to be submitted back to the core code. We offer Enterprise licenses if you’d like to modify the code to use for company use.

The open source version of Leantime includes everything in our free plan.

We now also offer our additional features like Strategy management, Plan (Program Management), Whiteboards, Notes, Pomodoro & Custom Fields in our Plugin Marketplace for the open source version available for download on github, Docker, and more.

If you’re on our cloud hosted plans, we’ve had users get projects up and running in less than 10 minutes.

For our open source users, if you’re experienced on the technical side, it typically takes less than an hour to set up self-hosting.

Yes! For a small fee, we can help you migrate over your data.