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Paca

by Paca-AI

AI-native, free, open-source alternative to Jira, Trello, ClickUp & Monday. Built for Scrum teams where humans and AI agents collaborate as

  • Free
  • Run it yourself (technical)
  • Needs technical setup
  • Free and open
  • Verified developer
  • Community
Instead of
Trello, Jira
What it costs
Free to run yourself
How to start
How to run it yourself

Needs technical setup

Get Paca

No ready-to-use version is listed yet.

Paca is free, but right now you'd have to run it yourself, which takes some technical know-how. Paca-AI may offer a ready-to-use version on their website.

How to run it yourself (technical)
Check Paca-AI's website

Ratings elsewhere

What people say about Paca on other sites. These aren't OpenCtrl reviews and don't count toward its rating here.

  • GitHub

    1,928 stars

    Stars are bookmarks people give a project on GitHub.

    Checked Oct 15, 2026

    See it on GitHub

About Paca

AI-native, free, open-source alternative to Jira, Trello, ClickUp & Monday. Built for Scrum teams where humans and AI agents collaborate as

Listed by OpenCtrl from the project's public repository. OpenCtrl isn't affiliated with the project; its maintainers can claim this listing.

Pricing

Good to know:
Free to self-host under the Apache-2.0 license. The maker may also sell hosted plans; see their website for pricing.

Compared with Trello, Jira

AppPrice
PacaFree to run yourself
TrelloFree · $6/user/mo · $12.50/user/moChecked Oct 13, 2026
JiraFree · $7.91/user/mo · $14.54/user/moChecked Oct 13, 2026

OpenCtrl is not affiliated with the products listed here. Names are used to describe what an app replaces.

For technical people

Run it yourself, source code and more

Run it yourself

For people comfortable setting up servers. Source code · github.com/Paca-AI/paca

Source
https://github.com/Paca-AI/paca

Installation and deployment instructions are in the project's repository.

License

Free and open · Apache-2.0 Free and openIts code is public: anyone can check how it works or keep running their own copy.

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