Managed Leantime Hosting — production-ready from $15 a month
Open-source project management for non-project managers. Deployed on your own dedicated instance in AWS, Azure, or GCP, kept patched, backed up, and monitored by ManageStacks — standard Leantime, no lock-in.
Leantime on ManageStacks is the open-source project management platform deployed to your own AWS, Azure, or GCP region — flat per-app pricing from $15 a month ($29 on the Standard production plan). Built for teams that need project tracking without the complexity of enterprise PM tools. A self-hosted Asana alternative with full data ownership.
What does Leantime do, and why do teams deploy it?
Leantime is an open-source project management system designed specifically for non-project-managers. It combines strategy alignment (goals, milestones, ideas), execution tracking (Kanban boards, Gantt charts, timesheets), and collaboration (comments, file sharing, notifications) in an interface that stays approachable for small teams, agencies, and non-technical stakeholders.
Unlike Asana or Monday.com, Leantime does not overwhelm users with enterprise feature sprawl. It focuses on the 80% of project management that matters: knowing what needs to happen, who is doing it, and when it is due. The lean methodology underpinning gives structure without ceremony — idea boards feed into milestones, milestones break into tasks, and tasks flow through Kanban or list views with time tracking built in.
Self-hosting Leantime requires a PHP runtime, MySQL or MariaDB, file storage for attachments, and SMTP for notifications. ManageStacks provisions the full stack — database, PHP workers, object storage, SSL, backups, and SMTP relay — so your team manages projects instead of servers.
- Kanban boards, Gantt charts, and list views for task management
- Goal and milestone tracking for strategic alignment
- Built-in time tracking and timesheets per project
- Idea boards for collecting and prioritizing feature requests
- File attachments and commenting on tasks and milestones
- User roles and project-level access control
Open-source project management for non-project managers
Leantime as a self-hosted alternative to Asana and Monday.com
Instead of paying per-seat fees to a SaaS vendor, teams self-host Leantime to keep full control of their data and infrastructure. ManageStacks removes the operational overhead — you get the cost and privacy benefits of open source with the reliability of a managed platform.
What does managed Leantime hosting cost?
Flat per-app pricing, in your chosen AWS, Azure, or GCP region. No per-user pricing — a busy deployment costs the same as a quiet one.
Starter
Staging and internal tools. Dedicated instance, TLS, daily backups, managed upgrades.
Standard
Production workloads. Adds monitoring, staging environment, region choice, priority support.
Business
High-traffic and compliance workloads. Adds a high-availability replica and same-day support.
24×7 SRE retainer
Round-the-clock on-call across every hosted application, for teams that need a pager answered at 3am.
When is self-hosting Leantime the right answer instead?
“Managed hosting is not always the correct call.”
Self-host when a platform team already runs the infrastructure and on-call rotation to operate Leantime at genuinely low marginal cost. Self-host when compliance requires an air-gapped or on-premises deployment that no hosted option can satisfy. And self-host when the deployment depends on heavy customisation with a fast internal build-deploy loop, because an internal release process will beat any managed change process.
For everyone else — teams whose engineers have better things to do than shepherd upgrades — managed hosting is cheaper than the hours it replaces.
Which cloud should Leantime run on — AWS, Azure or GCP?
For most workloads, the choice of cloud matters less than proximity: run Leantime in the same cloud and region as the applications and data it talks to, because every request between them adds a round trip. The underlying compute performs equivalently across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
In practice, an existing cloud footprint decides it. All plans support all three clouds, and moving regions later is a scheduled migration, not a rebuild.
Deepest managed-service catalog, default when there's no existing footprint
Best fit for teams already on Microsoft 365 or Entra ID
Strongest for data/analytics-adjacent workloads
Every plan supports AWS, Azure, and GCP — region choice included.
Common questions about Leantime on ManageStacks
What is Leantime on ManageStacks used for?
Leantime is a project management tool designed for small teams and non-technical stakeholders. It tracks goals, milestones, and tasks with Kanban, Gantt, and time tracking. ManageStacks handles the hosting infrastructure.
How does Leantime compare to Asana or Monday.com?
Asana and Monday.com are SaaS platforms with per-user pricing that escalates with team size. Leantime is open-source and self-hosted at a flat rate. It focuses on simplicity — ideal for teams that find enterprise PM tools overwhelming.
Does Leantime support Gantt charts?
Yes. Leantime includes built-in Gantt chart views with task dependencies and milestone markers. No plugins or premium upgrades required — it is part of the core open-source product.
Can I track time in Leantime?
Yes. Leantime has built-in time tracking at the task level, with timesheets aggregated per user and per project. Useful for agencies and consulting teams that need billable-hour tracking alongside project management.
Does Leantime support multiple projects?
Yes. Leantime supports unlimited projects with individual Kanban boards, Gantt views, and team assignments. Each project has its own milestones, idea boards, and file storage.
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