replacing Monday.com
Work management platform — Monday.com pricing: $9-$19/user/month. Below: 3 free, self-hostable open source projects that cover the same ground, ranked by real GitHub adoption.
There are 3 open source Monday.com alternatives tracked on this registry, against Monday.com pricing of $9-$19/user/month. The most-adopted is Wekan with 21,089 GitHub stars under MIT, written in JavaScript. Together the set has 39,084 stars across 2 languages and 2 licences. All 3 are free to self-host with no licence fee, and 3 of 3 received a commit in the last 90 days. 3 head-to-head Monday.com comparisons are available.
Wekan is an open-source collaborative kanban board application written in JavaScript and built with Meteor. It is licensed under the MIT license and is positioned as a free and open-source alternative to Jira and Monday.com. The project lives in the self-hosted business software and project management ecosystem.
MIT · JavaScript · Monday.com vs Wekan →
Planka is a self-hosted Kanban board for project and task management. It lives in the open-source project and work management ecosystem, with JavaScript as its implementation language, and it positions itself as an open alternative to Trello and Monday.com. The project provides a free Community edition for self-hosting, while PLANKA Pro adds organization features and developer support.
NOASSERTION · JavaScript · Monday.com vs Planka →
Vikunja is a self-hosted task and project management application that carries the tagline "The task manager you actually own." It lives in the Go and Vue.js ecosystem: the backend is written in Go, the frontend uses Vue.js, and the project ships a documented OpenAPI interface with Swagger docs published against the hosted demo instance. The repository sits on GitHub under the go-vikunja organization, is licensed AGPL-3.0-or-later across most of the codebase with the contents of `desktop/` under GPL-3.0-or-later, and is published as the Docker image `vikunja/vikunja` with the current release marked as v2.6.0.
AGPL-3.0 · Go · Monday.com vs Vikunja →
Visual project management with complete data control
Self-hosted Kanban board with real-time collaboration
Organize, collaborate, and conquer your tasks
last updated nightly · ranking method: github stars, live-tracked
Wekan is the most-starred open source alternative to Monday.com in this registry, with 21,089 GitHub stars. 3 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.