RedminePRO vs Planio.

Planio's pricing, verified

Source: plan.io/pricing, verified 2 August 2026. Planio bills monthly.

When Planio is the better choice

You want to start at zero. Planio has a free tier for 2 users and a 30-day trial that doesn't ask for a card. RedminePRO's trial is 7 days and requires a card. If you're evaluating on your own time, at your own pace, before anyone has approved a budget line, that difference is real and it's in Planio's favor.

You're buying a brand as much as a product. Planio is the longest-established name in Redmine hosting, with enterprise references, published case studies, a large multilingual content library and a level of polish that shows. If your procurement process weights vendor longevity, they win that column outright.

You're on HostedRedmine.com already. Planio acquired it. Staying inside the same organization is the shortest path, and it's a legitimate reason to pick them.

Your team is genuinely small and staying small. At 5 users, €19/mo is less than $29/mo and you're not paying for 20 seats you'll never fill. Flat pricing only pays off if you grow into it.

When RedminePRO is the better choice

You have more than 10 people. This is the whole argument. At 25 users you're comparing $29/mo against €199/mo, and at 50 you're comparing $79/mo against a quote starting at €349/mo. Nothing else on this page matters as much as that.

You need more than a handful of projects. Planio's tiers cap projects: 3 on Silver, 7 on Gold, 15 on Diamond, 40 on Platinum. RedminePRO has unlimited projects on every plan including Startup. Teams that run a project per client, per release or per site hit that ceiling fast.

You want to install your own plugins. RedminePRO gives full Redmine administrator access on every plan. On Planio, what you can install is platform-defined. If a specific plugin is load-bearing for your workflow, ask them directly before you commit.

You want someone to do the migration. We do it for you, starting with a free assessment and a quote before you commit. Issues, users, attachments, history and custom fields, verified before cutover.

What both of us do the same way

It's worth being clear about where there's no difference, because a comparison page that finds a competitor lacking on every line is a comparison page nobody believes.

Both of us sell flat tiers rather than per-seat licensing, which is unusual in this market and good for both sets of customers. Both of us run Redmine as a managed service, so you're not patching a server, applying upgrades or testing backups. Both of us handle backups, uptime and security patching as part of the price. Both of us are established operations with real customers rather than a side project. And both of us will let you export your data, though the mechanics differ.

If you're choosing between us and Planio, you've already made the important decision — managed, flat-priced Redmine — and what's left is arithmetic and a judgment call about plugin freedom.

The plugin question

Redmine's plugin ecosystem is the main reason to run Redmine instead of something else. Hundreds of plugins exist, many free, covering agile boards, CRM, invoicing, checklists, reporting and more. So the question that decides a lot of these evaluations is simple: on the plan you're actually buying, can you install one yourself?

On RedminePRO the answer is yes on every plan. Full Redmine administrator access ships with Startup at $29/mo, and hosting and supporting third-party plugins is an Enterprise feature; custom plugins are reviewed case by case. On Planio, what runs on your instance is platform-defined rather than customer-controlled.

The right way to settle this is not to take our word for it. Pick the two or three plugins your workflow depends on, and ask both of us the same question in writing: can I install this myself, on the plan I'm buying, and will you support the instance afterwards? Whoever answers that clearly is telling you something useful about how they operate.