replacing Basecamp
Project management and team communication — Basecamp pricing: $15/user/month or $299/month. Below: 2 free, self-hostable open source projects that cover the same ground, ranked by real GitHub adoption.
There are 2 open source Basecamp alternatives tracked on this registry, against Basecamp pricing of $15/user/month or $299/month. The most-adopted is OpenProject with 16,132 GitHub stars under GPL-3.0, written in Ruby. Together the set has 16,982 stars across 2 languages and 2 licences. All 2 are free to self-host with no licence fee, and 2 of 2 received a commit in the last 90 days. 2 head-to-head Basecamp comparisons are available.
OpenProject is a web-based open source project management software for teams and organizations that need transparency, flexibility, and data sovereignty. It lives in the open source project management ecosystem, with Ruby as the repository language and Angular as a listed topic. The project is positioned as an open alternative to Asana and Basecamp, and the README also compares it with Jira, MS Project, Monday, and YouTrack.
GPL-3.0 · Ruby · Basecamp vs OpenProject →
Taiga is an agile project management platform for cross-functional teams, and this repository holds the backend component of that platform — the server side of the application, written in Python. It sits in the open-source business software space, specifically the project and work management category, and is positioned as an open alternative to the paid products Jira, Linear, and Basecamp. The codebase is distributed under the Mozilla Public License 2.0, and the project publishes extensive public documentation covering both the HTTP API and server installation.
MPL-2.0 · Python · Basecamp vs Taiga →
Classic, agile, or hybrid project management, self-hosted
Agile project management for cross-functional teams
last updated nightly · ranking method: github stars, live-tracked
OpenProject is the most-starred open source alternative to Basecamp in this registry, with 16,132 GitHub stars. 2 alternatives are compared here in total.
Yes. Every project listed on this page is open source and free to self-host — there is no licence fee. Some projects also sell a managed hosted version, but the self-hosted path costs nothing.
Compare licence terms, community size (stars), primary language and release activity. A fast-moving project with a compatible licence and an active maintainer base matters more than raw star count when you are committing to a migration.