Onplana, AI-Native Project Management | Stay on Plan A

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AI-native project management for PMOs and portfolios.

Onplana is a cloud-agnostic, AI-native project management platform built as a Microsoft Project Online alternative, powered by Claude and Azure OpenAI. Import your .mpp files, keep your workflows, and ship projects faster.

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5.0 / 5

Enterprise-Grade Project Management with a Modern AI-Powered Collaborative Edge

It combines enterprise-grade project management features like Gantt charts, dependencies, and portfolio management with a modern AI-powered and collaborative experience. It feels like a strong modern alternative for organizations moving away from Microsoft Project.

Waheed H.

Manager · Small Business (50 or fewer employees)

via G2, May 7, 2026

Humans + AI agents, one team

Put a human and an AI agent on the same project

Assign a task to an AI agent the way you would a teammate, in-app, or to Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor over MCP. Talk to it in task comments. It does the work and proposes a draft; you ratify before anything ships.

Assign work to AI

In-app agents and external agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) each show up as a real org member you can assign a task to.

Collaborate in comments

Comment on a task an agent is working and it picks your feedback up on its next sync. The conversation lives on the work, like with a human teammate.

You ratify the drafts

Every output is a draft in the review inbox. Nothing is sent, published, or executed on an agent's say-so. The human keeps the authority.

Humans and agents share the same task thread.

See how humans and AI work together

Included in every plan, even Free

Kanban & calendar view

Task dependencies (4 types)

Comments & activity feed

MPP, Project XML & OData import

Working calendars & holidays

Recycle bin & soft-delete

Two-factor auth (TOTP)

API tokens & PAT access

Real-time notifications

Team management

Multi-currency budgets

Subtasks & recurring tasks

Powered by Claude (Anthropic) & Azure OpenAI

AI that reads your schedule, not just your prompts

Onplana embeds the leading AI models, Claude by Anthropic and Azure OpenAI, directly into your workflows. Onplana operates both providers with automatic failover, so AI keeps working even during a provider outage, with nothing for you to configure. Or skip the in-app chat entirely and connect Onplana to Claude Desktop, Gemini CLI, ChatGPT, or any other MCP-aware agent via our public MCP server.

  • Risk detection, schedule, budget, scope, resource
  • Plan generation from a goal description
  • Natural language → structured task (type it, don't click it)
  • Task recommendations, assignee, due date, priority
  • Status summaries, "what changed since Monday?"
  • AI report generation, executive summaries in seconds

AI Risk Analysis, in the app

Typical use cases

Built for teams migrating off MS Project

From PMOs managing 50+ projects to lean teams running their first sprint, Onplana is built for project managers ready to move off aging tooling.

Enterprise PMO

Managing 50+ active projects with governance, resource planning, and portfolio tracking. Migrating off Project Online before the September 2026 deadline.

Growing PM team

10-50 project managers needing modern collaboration, AI-assisted planning, and real-time visibility, without the complexity of enterprise PPM.

IT operations

Deploying a cloud-agnostic PM platform, AWS, Azure, or self-hosted. Needs SSO/SCIM, audit logs, and customer-managed encryption.

Simple pricing

From one PM to the whole PMO

No forced seat minimums. No surprise bills. Cancel any time.

Free

forever

  • 5 members · 2 projects
  • Kanban + calendar
  • MPP, Project XML & OData import
  • Working calendars
  • Recycle bin & 2FA

Get started free

Starter

/seat/month

  • 25 members · 25 projects
  • Everything in Free
  • Project templates
  • 2 free guest seats

Sign up for Starter

Most popular

Professional

/seat/month

  • 100 members · 200 projects
  • Gantt + critical path
  • Sprints, epics & backlog
  • AI assistant + plan/report generation
  • Whiteboards & wikis
  • Custom dashboards
  • Workflow automation
  • Project mailbox

Start with PRO

Business

/seat/month

  • 1,000 members · unlimited
  • Portfolios & OKRs
  • AI risk detection + portfolio insights
  • Cross-project reports
  • Webhooks + integrations
  • Custom roles
  • 5 free guest seats

Start with Business

See full pricing, 6 plans including Enterprise and self-hosted

Formal project governance, not just approvals

Onplana's governance pipeline takes ideas from proposal to approved project through a structured 12-stage workflow, with multi-reviewer gate reviews, weighted scoring, and automatic project creation on approval.

Configurable criteria per gate

See governance features

Governance pipeline, in the app

September 30, 2026 · Project Online end of life

Migrations take 3–6 months to plan, validate, and roll out. Start now and go live comfortably before the deadline, not in an emergency-rate Q3 rush.