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Deploy OpenProject as a fully managed service starting at €9/mo. Get automated backups, SSL, updates, support and monitoring included.

OpenProject is an open-source project management platform — work packages, Gantt charts, agile boards, time tracking, budgets, wiki, and BIM coordination — combining the convenience of Jira and Microsoft Project with the security and control of self-hosted infrastructure. The Community Edition is GPLv3 with unlimited users and projects, maintained by OpenProject GmbH in Berlin.

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OpenProject

OpenProject

STARTING AT

€9/month
Automated Backups
Monitoring
Automated Updates
Auto SSL

USAGE

Unlimited
Human Support
Custom Domains
Terminal Access
File Manager Access
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ABOUT THE SOFTWARE

What is OpenProject

OpenProject is an open-source project management application built on Ruby on Rails. It covers traditional, agile, and hybrid project work — Gantt scheduling, Scrum and Kanban boards, time and budget tracking, wikis, meetings, and BIM coordination — in one self-hosted application with GPLv3 community access.

The project is developed and maintained by OpenProject GmbH in Berlin, with governance through the registered OpenProject Foundation. It traces its lineage to ChiliProject and Redmine, with the modern codebase rewritten around an Angular front end and a Ruby on Rails 7 back end. PostgreSQL 16 or later is required.

Both Community and Enterprise editions are GPLv3. The Community Edition supports unlimited users, unlimited projects, and the REST API v3 — features that competitor PM tools typically gate behind paid tiers. Enterprise adds SAML/OIDC single sign-on, LDAP group sync, baseline comparison, project lifecycle gates, custom fields of type weighted items, and SCIM. The OpenProject Foundation reports adoption across the German federal government, the City of Cologne, Deutsche Bahn, the International Criminal Court, and engineering firms running BIM workflows.

FEATURES

What OpenProject does

OpenProject is one application with several modules: project planning, work execution, agile boards, time and cost tracking, documentation, meetings, and BIM coordination. Modules are enabled per project, so a research team and a construction team can share the same instance without seeing each other's work types.

Work packages

The atomic unit. Configurable types (task, milestone, deliverable, phase), custom fields, status workflows, parent–child hierarchies, and a relations graph that ties everything to a Gantt chart.

Agile boards

Scrum backlogs with sprints and burndown, plus configurable Kanban boards. Boards filter from the same work-package pool a Gantt chart pulls from — no separate ticket system.

BIM coordination

An IFC viewer in the browser, BCF 2.1 issue management, and a Revit Add-In for round-tripping issues. IFC files up to 500 MB.

REST API and webhooks

REST API v3 with OAuth 2.0, personal access tokens, and webhooks for build pipelines, GitHub, GitLab, and external automation.

Gantt charts and baseline comparison

Drag-to-reschedule timelines with dependencies, milestones, and critical-path highlighting. Baseline comparison freezes a plan at any date and shows the deviation since.

Time tracking and budgets

Per-work-package hour logging, budgeted-versus-actual reporting, and CSV/PDF timesheet exports. The Budgets module ties labor and material cost to a project for invoicing.

Real-time documents and meetings

Collaborative text documents synced through a Hocuspocus server. One-time and recurring meeting types with structured agendas, decisions, and action items.

SSO, 2FA, and access control

Built-in TOTP and WebAuthn two-factor. SAML and OIDC single sign-on via Enterprise add-on. Role-based permissions with per-project granularity.

WHAT'S ALWAYS INCLUDED

Every app. Fully managed.
Nothing extra to pay for.

Every app you deploy includes the full managed service — security, backups, updates, and support from day one.

Automatic updates and patches

Apps run the latest stable version. Security patches applied silently, with rollback if needed.

Daily off-site backups

Multiple daily backups in redundant off-site locations. One-click restore if anything goes wrong.

24/7 uptime monitoring

Continuous monitoring with instant alerting. We respond before you notice.

SSL, firewall, DDoS protection

Auto-renewing SSL, hardened firewall rules, DDoS mitigation on every deployment.

Performance and scaling

We monitor resource usage continuously. When your app needs more headroom, we flag it and upgrade with your explicit approval.

Dedicated engineering support

Real engineers on chat. DNS, SMTP & migration help. All included in €9.

WHY MANAGED

Why teams pick managed OpenProject

Atlassian stops selling new Data Center licenses on March 30, 2026. Existing customer renewals end March 30, 2028. Read-only mode lands March 28, 2029. If a team needs an on-prem project tool that won't sunset under them, the open-source path is now the only path — and managed is how non-DevOps teams take it.

Running OpenProject is not Jira-in-a-box. The application stack is Rails 7 plus a separate GoodJob worker for background tasks, and a PostgreSQL 16+ database with a connection pool sized to peak concurrency. Reverse proxy headers, SSL termination, and outbound email all have to be configured correctly the first time, or the app comes up but quietly drops notifications.

Then there are upgrade days. When 17.4 shipped on April 23, 2026, every Docker self-host that had not manually set the SECRET_KEY_BASE environment variable refused to boot — the official image previously shipped a default value, and a remote-code-execution advisory closed that door. The fix was a one-line env edit, but the symptom was a container stuck in CrashLoopBackOff at 2am. We rotated the secret across every customer instance that day, zero customer action required.

By default, the Docker image starts four web workers with a single thread each and a PostgreSQL pool of 5. That setup serves around fifteen concurrent users before requests start queuing. We move all three numbers together as a team grows — typically OPENPROJECT_WEB_WORKERS to match available CPU, RAILS_MAX_THREADS to 16, and the database pool to 20 per worker — without resizing your plan, restarting at peak hours, or sending you a Sidekiq dashboard you didn't ask for.

What we ship by default
  • PostgreSQL 16 with pool sized to active users (20–60 connections)
  • GoodJob background worker isolated from the web pool
  • SMTP relay via a dedicated transactional sender, not raw port-25
  • Daily off-site backup of database and attachments in a separate region
  • SECRET_KEY_BASE generated per instance, rotated on every major version upgrade

REVIEWS

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USE CASES

Three teams who run OpenProject on DANIAN

These are representative team types we set up most often. Each starts with the same flat €9 plan.

45-PERSON ENGINEERING TEAM

Leaving Jira ahead of the 2028 Data Center renewal cliff

A B2B SaaS engineering team running Jira Data Center since 2019. Atlassian's 2026 Data Center end-of-sale closed off renewals from 2028. The team chose managed OpenProject over Jira Cloud to avoid Maximum Quantity Billing and keep work-package data on infrastructure they specify. Region: Germany. DANIAN configured the OpenProject Jira Migrator (GA in 17.4), GitHub commit integration, and SAML SSO via Okta. Migration of three Jira projects (~12,000 issues): one weekend.

25-PERSON AEC FIRM

BIM coordination on an instance that doesn't share a cloud tenant

An architecture and structural-engineering firm running mid-size commercial projects. Their workflow lives in IFC and BCF, not Jira. DANIAN deployed the OpenProject BIM image (-slim-bim), allocated extra RAM for the xeokit IFC viewer, raised the attachment ceiling to 500 MB, and installed the Revit Add-In for two seats. Region: Singapore. Daily off-site backups capture both the database and the BCF issue history. The team's IFC files stay on infrastructure they control, not a shared SaaS tenant.

120-PERSON MUNICIPAL AUTHORITY

A sovereign-cloud project tool that meets procurement standards

A regional public-sector body migrating off Microsoft Project after a state-wide open-source mandate. DANIAN configured an Enterprise-tier OpenProject instance with LDAP group sync to the agency's identity provider, OIDC single sign-on, antivirus scanning on attachments, and baseline comparison enabled for procurement record-keeping. Region: Spain, the closest datacenter to the agency's primary office. The project tool replaced six MS Project Online sites at a fraction of the per-seat license cost they previously paid.

COMPARISON

Four ways to run OpenProject

The choice is rarely OpenProject versus a competitor — OpenProject won the self-hostable Jira-alternative question years ago. The choice is how you run it. Four paths, scaled at 10, 25, and 50 users, with both the cash and the time cost shown.

 PATH10 USERS25 USERS50 USERSDAY-TO-DAY WORK
Jira Cloud Standard (per-seat)
$79/mo annual$198/mo annual$377/mo annualNone — Atlassian runs the platform. Data Center sunset blocks the on-prem path from 2026-03-30.
Self-host on a $24 production-class VPS
~€100–280/mo~€100–280/mo~€140–320/mo
(scale up VPS)
5–10h setup, 2–4h/month for patching, backups, certificate rotation, on-call
Home server
(HP ProLiant ML30 Gen10, ~€1,200)
€210–667/mo€210–667/mo€280–750/moHardware admin, electricity, business-class internet, off-site backup, ops time
DANIAN Managed OpenProject€9/mo€9/mo€9/moZero. We do the patching, backups, monitoring, and on-call.

Jira pricing verified at atlassian.com/software/jira/pricing, May 2026. Free tier covers up to 10 users only; teams above that move to Standard or Premium ($14.54/user/month annual).
VPS reference setup: 2 vCPU / 4 GB RAM / 80 GB SSD at $24/month + object-storage backup $5 + monitoring $15.
DANIAN €9 is per OpenProject instance, regardless of users on that instance. Add more apps from the catalog at €9 each.

DANIAN's column is flat because we price by instance, not by user. A 5-person agile team and a 200-person engineering division pay the same €9 for the OpenProject application — what changes is the resource tier underneath, which we right-size for you on request. Per-seat math is what the proprietary path gets wrong; an open-source application that scales linearly in compute should not scale linearly in license fees.

BY INDUSTRY

OpenProject for specific industries

OpenProject is unusually broad for a single application — the same work-package model that scaffolds a five-person engineering sprint also scaffolds a multi-year construction project and a multi-grant research portfolio. Five industries put specific demands on the configuration.

AEC teams use OpenProject for BIM coordination — pinning clashes inside the IFC model and routing the BCF issue to the responsible modeler.

The buildingSMART BCF 2.1 schema is the interoperable standard for moving issues between Solibri, Navisworks, and OpenProject.

DANIAN runs the -slim-bim Docker image with extra RAM allocated for the xeokit browser viewer, raises the attachment ceiling to 500 MB to fit large federated IFC models, and installs the Revit Add-In for Revit 2020–2024 users.

A typical workflow: architect uploads a federated IFC at end of week → coordinator pins a clash inside the BIM viewer → BCF issue created with viewpoint and assigned to MEP modeler → resolution exports as BCF XML back to the architect's clash-detection tool.

Round-trip in one week instead of three email threads.
Public-sector procurement teams choose open-source PM tools to satisfy operational standards like BSI IT-Grundschutz (Germany's baseline information-security catalog) and the Interoperable Europe Act's open-standards interoperability mandate.

DANIAN configures an OpenProject Enterprise instance with LDAP group sync to the agency's directory, OIDC single sign-on via the agency's identity provider, antivirus scanning on attachments, and enforced two-factor authentication for all users.

Baseline comparison records project state at decision points for procurement record-keeping.

A typical workflow: a procurement request enters as a structured work package → progresses through configured lifecycle gates with budget approval at each transition → baseline frozen at each gate → variance reports generated from baseline comparison at quarterly review.

Schleswig-Holstein, a German state that completed migration off Microsoft Office in October 2025, projects €15 million per year in license savings starting 2026.
Research groups track work against grant-period budgets — DFG, Horizon Europe, NIH — where every hour billed to a project has to be reconcilable to a beneficiary code and a work-package ID.

DANIAN enables the Time tracking and Budgets modules, adds custom fields for grant-period identifiers, and configures PDF timesheet export (added in OpenProject 15.2, February 2025) for monthly financial reporting.

A typical workflow: grant kickoff creates one OpenProject project per Horizon Europe work package → researchers log time against work packages with grant-period custom fields → PDF timesheet exports generate monthly → finance team reconciles against the institution's accounting system.

OpenProject GmbH publishes explicit non-profit and educational pricing for the Enterprise tier.
Consulting firms work on fixed-price engagements where billable utilization decides margin.

DANIAN configures OpenProject with the Budgets module, the require-exact-time-tracking setting (Enterprise Professional), and custom fields for client billing rates per role. Baseline comparison records the project plan at signing.

A typical workflow: project signed → baseline frozen → engineers log time against budgeted work packages → weekly plan-versus-actual variance reports → end-of-engagement export to Excel or PDF for client invoicing.

The variance report is the conversation: where did the actual hours diverge from the baseline, and which work package absorbed the gap?

Time and budgets data export cleanly to the firm's billing system.
IT and DevOps teams running Jira Data Center face Atlassian's March 30, 2028 renewal cliff and the February 2026 Data Center price increase of 15% (or up to 40% for legacy Advantage Pricing customers).

DANIAN runs the OpenProject Jira Migrator (GA in 17.4, May 2026) for issues, comments, attachments, watchers, and custom fields from Jira Server and Data Center 10.x and 11.x.

Boards module enabled for Kanban work, GitLab and GitHub integration for commit-to-work-package linking, webhooks for build pipelines, and SAML or OIDC SSO via the corporate identity provider.

A typical migration: three Jira projects with ~12,000 issues each — exported with the official Migrator over a weekend, validated Monday morning, switched over Tuesday.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Everything teams ask before signing up — answered straight, without sales speak.

Three groups: technical setup, migration, and how DANIAN works as a service.

01

Technical and configuration

We run the latest stable version. We bump customer instances within two weeks of a stable release after testing on internal staging. Security backports are applied within disclosure windows.
We generate a per-instance SECRET_KEY_BASE at provisioning, rotate it on every major version upgrade, and validate against the 2FA cookie store before reopening user access. When 17.4 shipped with the GHSA-r85r-gjq2-f83r advisory, every customer instance was patched the same day with no customer action required.
We run the latest stable PostgreSQL version. Connection pool defaults to 20 per web worker and scales up with active user count. Daily backups dump the database and attachments to a separate region with 7-day retention.
We route OpenProject's ActionMailer through a dedicated transactional sender with DKIM and SPF for your subdomain. Raw port-25 SMTP gets dropped by most receiving servers — a self-hosted instance using the default SMTP config typically fails to deliver notifications until somebody notices.
REST API v3 with OAuth 2.0, personal access tokens, and webhooks is in Community Edition. The MCP Server for AI-agent access (shipped in OpenProject 17.2) is Enterprise Professional. We enable both on request and document the OAuth client configuration in your dashboard.

02

Migration and onboarding

We can activate your app on your own custom domain/subdomain. Examples: mydomain.com, anyword.mydomain.com.
Or, on our randomized free subdomain. Example: 963.apps.danian.cloud
If you wish to use a custom domain/subdomain, select that option when ordering your app (or notify us later). We will send you the required DNS records and if needed, our tech team will modify them for you.
21 datacenter locations across six continents. You choose the region at provisioning. Application data sits in the region you choose; pick whichever is closest to your users or matches your data-residency preference.
Yes. Request a region migration from the dashboard and we run the move in the background. The system emails you when the migration completes; total transfer time depends on data volume but typical instances finish in a few hours. There is no extra charge for a region change.
Yes. Full data export is available at any time, in a portable format you can bring to any infrastructure.
Yes — the OpenProject Jira Migrator went GA in version 17.4 (May 2026). It imports issues, comments, attachments, watchers, and custom fields from Jira Server and Data Center 10.x and 11.x. Jira Cloud is not yet supported by the first-party tool; we use a community Python migrator for Cloud imports.
A typical three-project, 12,000-issue migration takes a weekend: Friday evening export, Saturday import validation, Sunday workflow remapping, Monday morning team walk-through. Larger Data Center instances (50,000+ issues, custom JQL automation, marketplace apps) take longer because the workflow translation is the slow part, not the data load.
MS Project XML and MPP files import via OpenProject's Excel round-trip path: export Project to Excel, map columns to OpenProject fields, import. Not as clean as the Jira Migrator. Microsoft is retiring Project Online on September 30, 2026 and moved Project Plan 5 to End of Sale on May 1, 2026.
Yes, for Enterprise-tier instances. SAML and OIDC are both Enterprise Professional add-ons in OpenProject. We work directly with your identity provider's admin team to configure the trust relationship and test the login flow before opening the instance to users.

03

Billing, support, and platform

€9 covers everything we do for that app: hardware in the region you choose, daily off-site backups with one-click restore, automatic security patches and version upgrades, 24/7 monitoring, SSL and firewall, and engineering support on Email/LiveChat. There are no setup fees or hidden line items. For more info see our Pricing page.
If you decide to continue, we charge €9/app/month from day 8. If you don't, the trial ends and you can export your data. No card is required for the trial, and we never auto-charge you without explicit consent.
No. The €9/month is flat regardless of how many users log into your app. Add 5 users or 50; the price doesn't change.
24/7 Live chat and email support, both staffed by engineers who run the systems. We handle DNS configuration, SMTP setup, app integrations, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and migration help. Response time is typically under an hour. There is no tier system — every customer gets the same support.
Yes. Cancel from the dashboard. We don't charge a cancellation fee, we don't lock data, and we will export your data to you on request before deletion. data to you on request before deletion.
Every customer instance is backed up daily to a separate region from the primary. We test restores. You can request a restore at any backup point within the retention window — usually 7 days for daily backups.
Your application data sits in the region you choose at provisioning — 21 datacenter locations across six continents. Account-level data (billing, account email, support ticket history) is processed centrally. Application data region is picked by you, per app.
99.9% uptime SLA on every app, every tenant. Service credits are documented at danian.co/service-level-agreement. The status page is located at status.danian.co.
When your tenant approaches the resource ceiling — the base tier holds 1 vCPU/RAM, 30 GB storage — we notify you. Resource upgrades happen with your explicit consent; we will not upgrade your tenant or charge you without it.
We wait. We don't suspend the app or delete your data on the first failed charge. We email you, you fix the card on file, and we continue.
Invoices can be downloaded from the billing dashboard in PDF the day each charge succeeds. EU VAT is added where applicable and the VAT-reverse-charge regime applies for VAT-registered businesses with a valid number.
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Yes. Every instance comes with a web-based terminal and a file manager in your DANIAN management dashboard. Useful for managing your data and customizations.
Resources scale with your usage. If your app needs more vCPU, RAM, or storage, we add it — and we ask first before any change to your plan. €9 is the floor; resource-heavy workloads may price higher, but you'll always know in advance.
Yes. We have both a Partner program and an Affiliate program available. Anybody can sign up.
No contract. No minimum commitment. Cancel anytime from the dashboard with one click. The 7-day free trial requires no credit card. After the trial converts to paid, you can still cancel at any month without notice or penalty.

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