Paid plans are coming back to Taiga

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Taiga has always been free and open source, and that will not change. What does change is that we want to give Taiga the future it deserves. Until now, we’ve only been able to address some issues and keep things running, but not dedicate the resources needed for bigger improvements.

To move forward, we’re reintroducing paid plans. They’ll allow us to maintain infrastructure, fight spam, and most importantly, invest in developing new features and improvements for everyone.

Here’s how the plans will look:

Gratis - €0/month or year

  • 10MB storage
  • 1 public project + 1 private project
  • Community support

Enthusiast- €5/month or €50/year

  • 100MB storage
  • 5 private projects + 5 public projects
  • Community support
  • Help us fund the Taiga open source project

Basic - €20/month or €200/year

  • 500MB storage
  • Unlimited projects
  • Basic support
  • Help us fund the Taiga open source project

Premium - €60/month or €600/year

  • 3GB storage
  • Unlimited projects
  • Premium support
  • Help us fund the Taiga open source project

One decision we feel strongly about: we won’t charge per user. Invite as many collaborators as you need, no hidden costs.

And of course, Taiga remains open source and self-hostable. Every improvement made possible by these plans will also benefit the wider community.

As for the timeline, paid plans and project limits will apply immediately to new users. Existing users, however, will have until January 1st, 2026 to choose a plan, reduce the number of projects, or move to self-hosting. We hope this transition period makes it easier for everyone to adapt.

This is a big step, but one we believe will make Taiga more sustainable and better for everyone. Thanks for being part of the journey.

The Taiga Team

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Hi, I’m concerned about storage.
Is there currently a way to check how much storage I’m using in my taiga projects? Do images on User Stories use up said storage? if so, isn’t 10MB too little? (nowdays a single image can weigh over a MB)
Even 500 MB seems way too low for 20$ a month!
You should probably provide plans with increased storage, and support should be an addon (no-support, basic-support, premium-support)

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Hi there,

  1. Yes, all storage usage will count, not only attachments. We are working on a way to display the storage usage per project and global. Rest assured that we will not block due to storage until we display it properly on the frontend, and afterwards we might give some extra time for people to sort their storage situation out.
  2. Maybe the storage quantity is too little. We did do some tests with various projects and found those numbers to be reasonable, since Taiga is not a storage software and there’s always solutions like external links. We do not want to charge by user but usage, and we found that metric, storage, to be a good indicator and one that has been historically abused on our platform. Likewise, we will consider creating add-ons for more storage, and if we find that the base storage amount we provide is unfair, we will consider increasing the amount. For now, based on our testing, we sincerely believe it is a fair amount.

Best regards!

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Does this apply to self-hosting? I can’t find the feature differences between cloud and self-hosted.

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Hi there,

No, this does not apply to self-hosted instances.

Feature wise, there is no difference aside from hosting, maintenance and configured modules.

Best regards!

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Hello Taiga team,

I am confused about the link between Taiga and Tenzu. I understand that Tenzu is intended to embody Taiga-next, so I am confused by the appearance of fees in Taiga now that Tenzu has released its first public version. Does this mean that Taiga continues to evolve and become two separate projects?

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Hi there,

Yes, that’s part of the reason Taiga-Next was renamed to Tenzu.

You can read more about it here: Important announcement! Taiga will be run by Taiga Cloud Services

Best!

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Is there a chance of creating a tier somewhere between Gratis and Basic? I primarily use Taiga for tracking posts a website I use to promote/expand on a book I wrote (plus a few other personal projects that I’m going to get to Real Soon Now). At the price for Basic, I’d basically be paying what I earn from book sales in a year.

I don’t object to paying for services, but it’s hard to justify the price of Basic for my level of usage. I wouldn’t hesitate to sign up for something like

Enthusiast - €5/month or €50/year

  • 100 MB storage
  • 10 projects (public or private)
  • Community support
  • Help us fund the Taiga open source project
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Hi there!

We have added an Enthusiast tier, with the only difference from your request that it’s 5 private projects and 5 public projects, instead of 10 of any kind, at least for now. We will update the original post to reflect this new tier.

Thank you for your feedback! As we said, we want to be fair while also being able to give Taiga the resources it deserves, and your suggestion does sound like a fair middle ground for use cases like yours.

Best regards!

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Thanks for being so responsive! The 5+5 seems like a reasonable adjustment. True to my word, I just purchased an annual subscription :smiley:

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Thank you for being a Taiga enthusiast and true to your word indeed!

By the way, just to clarify, even though that tier is community support (meaning here), anything related to the platform will still be attended through support@taiga.io (things like my limits are not correctly set up, it seems your security systems have blocked me, etc).

Best!

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I am trying to understand the ramifications for our software engineering degree program at ASU. We use Taiga in several of our project-centric courses, usually from the junior, senior, and graduate years. We have built curriculum, homework assignments, semester/capstone project scaffolding, custom assessment tooling, and published papers all around Taiga. I could ask my administration for funding for this, but wondering what the best pricing model would be for a collection of faculty and literally hundreds of students. We could also self-host though maintaining local services is never preferable in our environment. Is there are way to construct an academic or custom license?

FWIW I chose Taiga years ago (was using Scrumwise) based on a recommendation of a student who showed I to me. It is a better platform for teaching Agile and Lean techniques that tools like GitHub project boards or Jira IMHO.

Thank you,

Kevin Gary

Associate Professor, Arizona State University

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Hi there,

Please write to support@taiga.io with details on how you usually structure the courses, things like how many projects are there per user on average, how attachment heavy they usually are, how dense in objects (user stories, epics, issues, tasks, etc). Add any detail you may think relevant, please.

We know ASU has been using and believing in Taiga for a very long time, so we will evaluate it and think of something, perhaps a custom plan, or perhaps you may be interested in a private instance hosted by us in our infrastructure.

Best regards!

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I would strongly encourage thinking about formalizing an academic plan/licensing. We have also been using Taiga in our Software Engineering major at the University of Nebraska. We probably do not have the budget for any sort of paid plan here and will have to investigate self-hosting. But I am sure many universities use (or should use!) Taiga and would be willing to purchase a plan for their courses or department.

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Hi there!

Even if you do not have the budget, please write to support@taiga.io with how you usually structure your Taiga courses, how many people, number of attachments, and any detail you can think of about your usage of Taiga.

It will help us immensely to properly decide on what a fair plan for an academic licence would look like.

Best!

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I’m all for educational pricing, but if state universities can’t afford to pay $20/month for unlimited projects and unlimited users, it’s time to shut the doors. I assume you have heat, cafeterias and internet there, and that professors and lecturers are paid for their work.

How far must people go in exploiting open source projects? We should all contribute back something into the tip jar.

Basic plan is already an almost unlimited all-day buffet.

Taiga, as long as the pricing is this user friendly, you should stick to the set plans with no exceptions. Otherwise you may drown in the requests for academic and non-profit pricing. If you do wish to deal with privileged pricing, then perhaps just double the include storage for educational institutions and non-profits.

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I’m reinforcing this point by asking - as someone volunteering for a non-profit we’d certainly love to have a discounted rate or increased benefits. For our particular situation the 5 projects is a bit tight and doubling that would be great (storage isn’t a constraint).

At the same time I back @uncoy’s position - it’s a good offering as it is so understand if you decide not to offer discounts.

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Adding our 2 cents here. We’re a small community charity. In our last financial year, we barely scraped by. There is not really anything in our budget that allows for any extra cost. Even more so as exchange rates in our country (New Zealand) can add a significant amount to costs :confused: We recognise that Taiga is an excellent service (otherwise we wouldn’t be using it) and deserves funding (as all FOSS does) but if we end up having to pay then we will have to find another solution.

We don’t use any storage and have three users (hoping to expand that with more volunteers). But we do have 4 projects, all public (because we’re a transparent organisation) - admin, equipment, fundraising, events. We could technically join them into one project but this would make it messy and may make getting contributors/volunteers harder (something we already struggle with). The Fundraising project already has multiple swim lanes as sub projects so rolling everything into one project with many swimlanes would make for a lot of scrolling and confusion.

We could self-host but our hosting is very limited in what it can and can’t do (again to costs as low as possible) so we would really prefer to avoid that.

Again, as a non-profit, we understand the need for financial sustainability and we would love to support Taiga, we just can’t do that with money we don’t have.

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There has a way to connect with google drive? do you plan to make this an addon?

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Fortunately there seems to be an inexpensive plan which suits your exact use case, with 5 private and 5 public projects for €5/month or €50/year: Enthusiast.

My earlier comment about the €20/month level was aimed at large public or private institutions with hundreds, even thousands of users and dozens of projects.