Manage
by Manage · Open-source, self-hostable project management
21 — BenchRank score out of 100
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Overview
Manage is an open-source project management tool covering task lists with priorities and assignees, calendar events, files and docs, and full-text search across projects with filtering. It adds organisation and team management with roles and per-project permissions. It is AGPL-3.0 licensed and Docker-ready, and can be self-hosted or deployed on Railway.
- Best for
- Developer teams wanting a self-hosted, open-source tracker for tasks, docs and calendars
- Pricing
- No prices are shown; the site presents the product as open source under AGPL-3.0 for self-hosting, with no paid plans listed.
- Runs on
- Self-hosted
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- AGPL-3.0 licensed and self-hostable on your own infrastructure
- Tasks, calendar, files, docs and search in one app
- Docker-ready, built with TypeScript and Next.js
- One-click deployment path via Railway
Trade-offs
- Labelled beta, so features and stability may still change
- No pricing or hosted plan published; self-hosting is the stated route
- AGPL-3.0 imposes source-sharing duties on modified deployments
How this score is made up
Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.
- MCP support
- 0 out of 100
- API quality
- 0 out of 100
- Documentation
- 0 out of 100
- Agent friendliness
- 65 out of 100
- Changelog
- 40 out of 100
- Marketing site structure
- 60 out of 100
- Operational trust
- 25 out of 100
Measured, but not part of the score
Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.
- Openness
- 40 out of 100
- Maintenance
- 100 out of 100
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