CHOOSE PLANE
Open source and established assurance
Plane is a mature open-core project platform with cloud, self-hosted, and air-gapped editions, a large community, and public security attestations.
COMPARE
Ekso vs. Plane
Both run on your infrastructure. Choose based on the work you need to keep there.
CHOOSE EKSO
Delivery, service work, labor, and cost together
Ekso combines program delivery, shared-inbox service work, timesheet approvals, and labor and cost context in one customer-operated system with published flat annual pricing.
DECISION
PLANE
EKSO
Customer-operated deployment
Community, Commercial, and Enterprise Grid self-hosting; Airgapped is an Enterprise Grid deployment method.
Customer-operated deployment on infrastructure you control. Restricted-network requirements are reviewed against the complete deployment.
Air-gap packaging
Quote-based Enterprise Grid with a published 100-seat minimum; smaller teams may be considered case by case.
No published seat minimum for customer-operated plans. Confirm restricted-network and support requirements during a deployment review.
Requests and service work
Forms, email intake, triage, customers, and customer requests.
Shared-inbox tickets, mailbox connectors, SLA clocks, rules, and service work beside program delivery.
Time and cost
Work-item time logs with filtering and spreadsheet export.
Timesheet approvals plus job roles, cost centers, rates, budget codes, and project-margin views.
Commercial model
Per-seat public tiers; Enterprise Grid is quote-based.
$6,500 and $9,500 flat annual paid plans with unlimited users; capabilities vary by plan.
Assurance and source access
AGPL Community Edition; Plane publishes SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001:2022 claims.
Proprietary product. No equivalent public attestation today; evaluate the customer-operated architecture and product evidence directly.
Compared September 4, 2026. Vendor packaging and features change; verify current requirements before purchasing.
The choice is about operating depth—not a checkbox.
Choose Plane when open-source inspectability, its community, a cloud option, or existing assurance reports are primary. Choose Ekso when service requests, delivery work, approved labor, and cost controls need to share one operational model—and per-seat packaging is a poor fit.
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