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

Wekan is an open-source kanban board — projects, sprints, swimlanes, and card-level collaboration — combining the convenience of Trello with the security and control of self-hosted infrastructure. Released under the MIT license and translated into 105 languages.

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Wekan

Wekan

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 Wekan

Wekan is an open-source kanban board — boards, lists, cards, swimlanes, labels, custom fields, and webhooks — built to replace Trello on infrastructure you control. The MIT license, a 10-year release cadence, and a 105-language UI make it the deepest open-source option in this category.

The project is maintained by Lauri Ojansivu (xet7) under the WeKan ® trademark, registered in Finland. New versions land roughly every two to four weeks. Wekan runs on the Meteor framework backed by MongoDB; the working set sits comfortably on a 2 vCPU / 4 GB instance for typical small-team use.

At scale, the largest known Wekan deployment serves around 30,000 users on a multi-node setup — three frontend hosts running two Wekan-app containers each, plus a dedicated MongoDB backend. For most teams of 5 to 100, a single-instance deployment is more than enough. The project sells nothing, runs no advertising, and has no upsell tier; everything is in the box.

FEATURES

What Wekan does

Wekan implements the Trello mental model and then keeps going. Boards, lists, cards, swimlanes, labels, custom fields, due dates, checklists, attachments, and webhooks all sit in the box. The REST API is full-coverage and the activity log retains every card movement indefinitely.

Boards and swimlanes

Multi-board workspaces with horizontal swimlanes per epic, shift, line, or contributor. Drag-and-drop reordering, per-board permission roles, archive without delete.

Trello JSON import

Native importer reads a Trello board export and reconstructs lists, cards, comments, labels, and S3-hosted attachments. Pre-create your Wekan users and map them on import.

Rules and automation

Per-board rules trigger on card moves, label changes, due dates, and comments. Outgoing webhooks to Discord, Slack, Rocket.Chat, Mattermost, n8n, and generic endpoints.

SSO and identity

OIDC, LDAP, SAML, OAuth2 (Google, Azure AD, Keycloak), and password authentication. Group sync maps directory groups to board permissions.

Cards, labels, and custom fields

Cards carry assignees, due dates, labels, checklists, attachments, and arbitrary custom fields. Define field schemas per board, populate via API or import.

Real-time collaboration

Meteor's WebSocket layer pushes card updates to every connected browser in under a second. Concurrent edits propagate without conflict prompts.

REST API and webhooks

Full REST coverage for boards, lists, cards, checklists, swimlanes, custom fields, and users. WITH_API="true" exposes the surface; tokens are per-user.

105 languages and accessibility

Full UI translation across 105 locales. Keyboard navigation, high-contrast theming, screen-reader-friendly markup throughout the card interface.

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 Wekan

On August 17, 2026, Atlassian's privacy policy changes to allow Trello, Jira, and Confluence customer content to be used for AI model training by default — opt-out is limited to the Enterprise tier. Most teams looking at Wekan this year arrived here because of that single page.

The other ones arrive for the older reason: Trello's free workspace tops out at ten collaborators, the Premium tier runs $10 per user per month, and a 10-seat team is suddenly paying $1,200 a year for a kanban board. Wekan does the same job, ships the same Trello-import button, and runs on hardware you point at.

That's where the work begins, though. Wekan's deployment paths have two well-documented data-loss traps. Snap installs pin MongoDB to a version that current mongodump can no longer back up — GitHub issue #5467 is the canonical complaint, and the user's verbatim line is "no backups is unacceptable." Docker installs running 6.09 or older silently drop card attachments when upgraded to anything newer — GitHub issue #5731, still open. Wekan itself has no undo feature; the upstream homepage notes plainly that "bugs, updates, users deleting list or card, hard-drive full, hard-drive crash etc can eat your data."

REVIEWS

Hear from customers ​like you​​​​​​​

Successful businesses and professionals around the world rely on DANIAN every day

USE CASES

Three teams who run Wekan on DANIAN

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

14-PERSON FINTECH PRODUCT TEAM

Sprint boards moved off Trello before the August 2026 AI-training policy date

Germany region. OIDC SSO via the customer's Keycloak with the email field mapped as username. Attachments on regional S3. Outgoing webhook to Mattermost on every sprint-column move. LDAP groups synced to board permissions. Nightly mongodump to a separate retention bucket; 7-day rolling restore from the dashboard.

25-PERSON OPEN-EDUCATION NON-PROFIT

Hit Trello's 10-collaborator cap mid-curriculum sprint, no $1,500/year in the budget

Region matching donor jurisdiction. Google OAuth so volunteers log in with existing accounts. Public read-only boards for transparency reporting. Trello JSON import brought across two years of course-design boards. Rocket.Chat webhook for editorial-room pings.

45-PERSON SMALL MANUFACTURER

Per-seat Premium quote came in at $5,400/year before we'd opened a board

In-country region for data-residency. LDAP bound to existing Active Directory with shop-floor badge identities. Swimlanes per production line, custom fields for defect codes and batch IDs. REST API polled by the internal MES dashboard every minute. Attachments dominated by 2–8 MB defect photos sized for object storage.

COMPARISON

Four ways to run Wekan

Wekan is free software. The cost is the operational work around it and the proprietary alternative you'd otherwise pay for. Here's the same job priced four different ways, at one user, five users, and ten users.

 PATH1 USER5 USERS 10 USERSYOUR OPS TIME
Trello Premium
Proprietary SaaS
$10/mo$50/mo$100/mo0 hrs/mo (theirs)
Self-host on a VPS
$24/mo production-class VPS + backups + monitoring
$44/mo
+ €60–240/mo time
$44/mo
+ €60–240/mo time
$44/mo
+ €60–240/mo time
5–10h setup, 1–2h/mo ongoing
Home server
HP ProLiant ML30 Gen10 or similar + electricity + business internet
€85–167/mo
+ €120–480/mo time
€85–167/mo
+ €120–480/mo time
€85–167/mo
+ €120–480/mo time
2–4h/mo + buildout
DANIAN Managed Wekan€9/mo€9/mo€9/mo0 hours/month

At ten users, Trello Premium runs $1,200/year. The VPS path runs $528/year in infrastructure plus €720–2,880/year in your time. The home-server path adds hardware amortisation, electricity, and a business-grade internet line. DANIAN managed Wekan runs €108/year, flat, regardless of how many people you put on the board.

BY INDUSTRY

Wekan for specific industries

Wekan's shape — boards, swimlanes, custom fields, and a full REST API — fits four industries especially well. Each has its own operational standard, its own integration points, and its own retention expectations. Here's how we configure Wekan for each.

Engineering teams arrive at Wekan when their Trello or Jira sprint history becomes a privacy concern or a per-seat tax. The operational anchor is internal change-management policy — every card move is an event, every comment is an audit-trail entry, and the customer's SDLC controls dictate retention.

  • DANIAN config: OIDC SSO bound to the customer's identity provider, with an outgoing webhook firing to the engineering chat on every card column change.
  • Workflow example: a sprint board with columns Backlog → In Progress → Code Review → QA → Done, swimlanes per epic, labels for bug / feature / tech-debt, and custom fields for ticket-number and reviewer.
  • Quantifiable detail: a typical 8–12 person squad maintains 4–6 active boards and processes 80–120 cards per sprint; about 25 GB of attachments per year end up on object storage.

Donor-funded organisations need a kanban tool that doesn't punish growth — a 25-volunteer working group can't justify $1,500 a year in per-seat fees, and grant donors increasingly want their reporting infrastructure under the organisation's own control. The operational anchors are grant-reporting timelines and jurisdiction-specific data-handling rules where EU donors or beneficiaries are involved.

  • DANIAN config: region picked to match the donor jurisdiction, Google OAuth enabled so volunteers log in with personal accounts, public read-only board flag available where transparency matters.
  • Workflow example: a grant pipeline board running Prospecting → Application drafted → Submitted → Awarded → Reporting, with monthly review swimlanes and a custom field for funder name.
  • Quantifiable detail: a 10-seat plan handles three boards (grants, programs, comms), about 30 cards per week, and seven-year backup retention to match common grant-audit requirements.

Production floors need a visual board that survives shift changes, integrates with the MES, and authenticates against the same Active Directory that issues badge access. The operational anchor is ISO 9001 quality-management documentation — defect tracking, root-cause analysis, and containment actions all need to live somewhere auditable.

  • DANIAN config: LDAP bound to Active Directory so shop-floor users authenticate with existing badge identities, custom fields exposing batch ID and defect code, an outgoing webhook firing to the internal MES.
  • Workflow example: one board per production line, swimlanes per shift, defect cards moving Reported → Triage → Containment → Root Cause → Closed with attached photos.
  • Quantifiable detail: 25–50 seats, 5–8 boards (one per line plus a shared quality-review board), about 200 cards per week at peak, attachments dominated by 2–8 MB defect photos.

Records-request intake at a city agency and editorial pipelines at a small newsroom share the same need: every item has a clock against it, every state change is accountable, and the finished package needs to be archivable in its final form. The operational anchors are jurisdiction-specific records-request response timelines and editorial style-guide compliance.

  • DANIAN config: in-country region, SAML or OIDC against the institutional identity provider, board export feature enabled so completed records-request packages can be archived in their final form.
  • Workflow example: an FOI intake board moving Received → Acknowledged → In Search → Redaction Review → Released, or an editorial pipeline moving Pitched → Assigned → Drafting → Edit → Fact-check → Published.
  • Quantifiable detail: 15–40 seats, retention of completed cards for 5–10 years per records-management policy, about 50 cards per week intake at a small newsroom or city agency.

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

A 2 vCPU / 4 GB instance handles 50–200 active users comfortably for typical kanban use. The largest documented Wekan deployment runs about 30,000 users on a multi-node setup.
Yes to both. We set WITH_API="true" on every instance, which exposes the full REST surface for boards, lists, cards, checklists, swimlanes, custom fields, and users. Outgoing webhooks support Discord, Slack, Rocket.Chat, Mattermost, n8n, generic JSON endpoints, and several others. Each webhook is per-board, configurable from the board admin panel.
There isn't a maintained native app. The Wekan UI is responsive and works in mobile browsers — most card actions, including drag-and-drop, behave correctly.

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. In Trello: Board menu → More → Print and Export → Export JSON. In Wekan: New board → Import from Trello → paste JSON. The import brings across boards, labels, lists, cards, comments, and attachments via Trello's public S3 attachment URLs. Pre-create your Wekan users so the importer can map Trello assignees to them.
Power-Ups don't migrate — Wekan has its own integrations, not a Power-Up registry. Butler automations have no direct equivalent; Wekan handles automation through per-board rules and outgoing webhooks. Loose checklists not attached to a card can throw a "Card id is required" error during import. Anonymous comments on public Trello boards get reassigned to the importing user.
No, and this is by design — Trello doesn't expose user account data through its export. The standard pattern is to pre-register your Wekan users with the same usernames as Trello, then run the import. The mapping is checked at import time, so users keep their card assignments and comment attributions.
Wekan's native importer is Trello-shaped — it reads Trello JSON directly. For Jira or Asana, the practical path is to export your boards to CSV and import via Wekan's REST API. We provide a small migration script that handles the column mapping and assignee resolution. Card history doesn't carry across — only the current board state does.

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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