Planio

Planio is a hosted project-management platform built on the open-source Redmine framework, operated by Planio GmbH in Berlin. Founded in 2009 by Jan Schulz-Hofen and run as a bootstrapped, founder-owned company, it bundles issue tracking, agile boards, a help desk, team chat, and file storage with unlimited hosted Git and Subversion repositories governed by Redmine's role-based permissions and reachable over HTTPS or SSH. It is best understood as a project-management tool with integrated version control rather than a GitHub-style forge.

For an EU-sovereignty audit Planio's posture is strong on the fundamentals: it is an EU-owned German GmbH, and all customer data is kept on the company's own servers in Germany, in an ISO 27001-certified Hetzner facility in the Vogtland region, with an encrypted backup to a second data centre in Frankfurt. Planio states a deliberate policy of avoiding third-party cloud services for customer data, so there is no US sub-processor and no CLOUD Act exposure: [[planio.cloud_act]]. A commissioned data-processing agreement under Art. 28 GDPR is provided free of charge and can be signed online, but it lives inside the logged-in customer account rather than on a public page, which is the single factor holding the compliance score at 4/5 for buyers who need to review the DPA before signing up.

Pricing is a freemium model: a free Bronze tier (1 project, 2 users, 1 GB) up to paid plans from [[planio.price_from]] per month, all including unlimited Git and SVN repositories. The important trade-off versus a dedicated forge is feature scope: Planio has no pull-request or merge-request review workflow, no built-in CI/CD, and no package or container registry, because its centre of gravity is Redmine project management. Best fit: German and European teams, agencies, and public-sector buyers who want issue tracking and hosted repositories in one EU-owned, German-hosted tool, and who value data residency over forge-specific developer features.