| What you are actually buying | Plane — third-party open source — self-hosted and operated for you at plane.straventa.com. Straventa provides the deployment and the operations around it, not the software itself. | Atlassian's proprietary issue tracker. | Asana's proprietary work-management SaaS. | ClickUp's proprietary all-in-one SaaS. | The upstream project, on your servers, run entirely by you. |
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| Deployment model | Self-hosted — the Straventa-run instance today, or inside your own infrastructure as an on-premise engagement. | Cloud SaaS; self-hosting means the Data Center edition under an annual licence, since Server sales ended. | SaaS only — no self-hosted edition. | SaaS only — no self-hosted edition. | Self-hosted only. |
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| Where project data lives | Inside whichever deployment you choose — the Straventa-operated instance, or your own environment on a self-hosted deployment, in Indonesia. | Atlassian Cloud, with residency pinning to a published region list on paid tiers; Indonesia is not on that list. Data Center is your own servers. | Asana's own cloud regions, abroad. | ClickUp's cloud; EU hosting is offered on Enterprise. No Indonesian region. | Your own servers. |
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| Pricing model | Per deployment, on request — not per member. The published price catalogue covers the Payops modules only. | Per user, per month, with a free tier up to 10 users; Data Center is an annual licence by user tier. | Per user, per month, tiered by plan and billed monthly or annually. | Per member, per month, tiered by plan, with a free forever tier. | Free to licence — you pay in engineering time instead. |
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| Sign-in | Registered as an OIDC relying party against Straventa Accounts, the estate's self-hosted OpenID Connect provider — the same login as your other Straventa applications, licensed per deployment rather than per employee. | SSO requires Atlassian Access / Guard, a separate per-user subscription. | SAML SSO on the higher plan tiers. | SSO on paid and Enterprise tiers. | Whatever you wire up and maintain yourself. |
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| Feature surface | Issues and sub-issues with states and assignees, time-boxed cycles, modules for larger pieces of work, board / list / calendar views, and Pages for project docs. | Deep issue tracking, boards, and a very large marketplace of apps. | Tasks, portfolios, goals, and timeline views. | Tasks, docs, whiteboards, and dashboards in a single product. | Whatever the upstream release ships, on the version you last upgraded to. |
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| Who upgrades, backs up, and is on call | Straventa — patching, upgrades, and backups of the instance, with a Jakarta-based engineering contact in your timezone. | Atlassian on Cloud; you, entirely, on Data Center. | Asana. | ClickUp. | You. Entirely — including the 03:00 restore. |
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| Exit cost | Plane is open source: the deployment and its database are yours to take, and there is no proprietary layer to unpick. | Export exists, but workflows, automation rules, and marketplace apps are rebuild work. | CSV / JSON export; the structure is rebuilt in whatever comes next. | Export exists; hierarchy and automations are rebuilt. | None — you already hold everything. |
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