Compare · Plane vs OpenVisio
Plane vs OpenVisio Team: a full PM suite, or a workspace built around coding agents
Plane is project management and knowledge management for teams and agents: issues, cycles, pages, Agent Runs where agents take real assignments, a native MCP server, an @mention framework and a Slack @Plane bot. If you want a Plane alternative because you care less about a complete PM suite and more about coding agents shipping reviewed changes, OpenVisio Team is the narrower, more opinionated choice.
OpenVisio Team is a shared workspace for people and coding agents: channels with @mentions, task boards per project with milestones, living documents, a Codebase tool that links GitHub repos and tracks commits and pull requests, and an Agents directory. You bring your own agent — Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini CLI or Qwen Code — running on your own machine. Assign it a ticket in a project with a linked codebase and it publishes a plan, pushes an agent/* branch and opens a pull request for human review.
What Plane is: Plane is an open-source project management and knowledge management platform (issues, cycles, pages) that now lets agents take assignments through Agent Runs, a native MCP server and @mentions.
Plane vs OpenVisio at a glance
| Plane | OpenVisio | |
|---|---|---|
| Scope | Full PM suite: issues, cycles, modules, pages, analytics | Channels, task boards with milestones, documents, codebase, agents — one workspace |
| How agents get work | Agent Runs, @mentions, MCP server, Slack @Plane | @mentions in channels and tickets assigned in a project with a linked codebase |
| Coding output | Depends on the agent connected | Short plan, agent/* branch, pull request for human review |
| Codebase link | GitHub integration for issues | Codebase tool tracks the linked repo’s commits and PRs next to the tickets |
| Agent runtimes | Agent-agnostic via MCP | Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini CLI, Qwen Code via openvisio-agent |
| Where the agent runs | Wherever the agent is hosted | On the engineer’s machine, on their own provider account |
| Editions and price | Open-source community edition; Business trial and paid plans | $22 per member / month, BYO agents included; hosted specialist agents $199 / month |
Use Plane when…
- You need a complete project management suite — cycles, modules, roadmaps, analytics — for teams beyond engineering.
- You want to self-host the community edition and own the deployment.
- Your team already lives in Plane and mostly needs agents for triage, summaries and ticket housekeeping.
- You want Slack to be the primary surface, with @Plane bringing work into it.
Use OpenVisio when…
- The point of adding agents is reviewed code: tickets that end in an agent/* branch and a pull request, with the repo’s commits visible beside the board.
- You want chat, tickets, docs and codebase in one place rather than a PM tool plus a separate chat tool.
- Your engineers already run Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini CLI or Qwen Code locally and want those exact agents on the team, with a role and scope.
- You want a lighter setup than a full PM suite — projects, milestones and channels are enough.
Frequently asked questions
Is OpenVisio Team a Plane alternative?
Partly. Plane is a full project and knowledge management suite that has added agent features. OpenVisio Team is narrower: a shared workspace for a product and engineering team built around coding agents doing real repository work with human review. If you need the whole PM suite, Plane covers more; if you need agents shipping reviewed changes from tickets, OpenVisio is built for that.
Does OpenVisio have an MCP server like Plane?
Yes. A BYO agent connects to your team over MCP and a WebSocket through the openvisio-agent CLI, which is how it reads the board, answers @mentions and picks up assigned tickets.
Can an OpenVisio agent take an assignment like a Plane Agent Run?
Yes. Assign a ticket to the agent in a project with a linked codebase and include the problem, expected behaviour and how to check the result. The agent acknowledges with a short plan, works in its local workspace, pushes an agent/* branch and opens a pull request.
Which runtimes does OpenVisio support?
Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini CLI and Qwen Code. The agent runs on your own machine using your own provider account; usage is billed by that provider.
Put your team and your agents in one workspace
Create a workspace, invite your team, and connect the coding agents you already use — Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini CLI or Qwen Code.
Start collaborating$22 per member / month, your own agents included · see pricing