Asana, Jira, Monday.com, ClickUp, Trello and Linear rent the board and, in Jira's case, the marketplace around it. OpenProject is GPL-3.0. Plane and Leantime are AGPL-3.0. Taiga is MPL-2.0. All four can be run by the client. Which one fits depends on whether the team wants a board, a project plan, or a software tracker.
What is the real difference?
OpenProject is the closer tool when the work is projects, dates and documents. Plane, Taiga and Leantime are closer when the work is issues on a board. Jira's value, for many teams, is the plugin they already paid for. List those plugins before calling it a migration.
What do you give up?
The marketplace, and the assumption that every SaaS on earth has a Jira connector. Connectors the client needs are either built or the subscription stays for that one team. Both are legitimate. Only one of them should be in the quote.
When should the board stay rented?
When the team is ten people, the tool is Linear, and they like it. A migration that saves a small bill and costs a quarter of attention is a bad trade. Own the tracker when it is the system of record for delivery and the per-seat bill is no longer small.
What do we hand over?
We select the system, deploy it on infrastructure you control, connect it to the tools you keep, and write the runbook so your own team can operate it. Support after handover is optional. The rest of the map is in software you can stop renting; the engagement behind it is open-source business systems.
Name one process that still needs a person. We will tell you what a one-time build takes.
Contact us today