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Panel rating · 6 judges · How to read the stars

Category median

Sovereignty: 1 of 4 dimensions proven

0–5 in half steps. 5 means the rubric's top anchor is met on the evidence.

by OpenProject GmbH · www.openproject.org

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The Bootstrapper

Weighted verdict

Pays with their own card. Optimizes for price/value at 3 seats and at 30, a usable free tier, and a price page that answers instead of qualifying. Rejects hidden seat minimums and "contact sales".

Same scores as the panel view — this lens weights them the way this judge cares.

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Collaboration depth

How this is scored

How much real multi-person project work the tool carries: shared planning, assignments, dependencies, workload, comments, guest access.

0 — A personal task list; a second user has no defined place in it.

3 — Tasks can be shared and assigned, but planning stays per-person — no shared timeline, workload or dependency view.

5 — Solid shared projects with assignments, comments and at least one team-level planning view; gaps appear in cross-project or capacity planning.

8 — Team-level planning is first-class: cross-project views, workload/capacity, dependencies, guest or client access with sane permissions.

10 — Handles the full span from two freelancers to a structured department in one model — planning, capacity, permissions and client involvement all without workarounds.

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The Bootstrapper

Fine-grained role-based access at individual project level tells me a second user has a defined place in a shared project, but the evidence evidences nothing about assignments, shared timelines, dependencies, workload or guest access. That clears rubric level 0 and stalls well short of 3. 4

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Reporting

How this is scored

Whether the tool can answer questions about the work: progress, time, budgets, utilization — and export the answer.

0 — No reporting beyond looking at the board.

3 — Fixed per-project status views only; nothing aggregates across projects and nothing exports cleanly.

5 — Useful standard reports (progress, tracked time) with basic filters and CSV export, but limited customization and no budget/utilization depth.

8 — Configurable cross-project reporting incl. time, budgets and utilization, with dashboards and reliable exports.

10 — Reporting is a product in itself: custom report builder, scheduled delivery, API access to every metric the UI shows.

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The Bootstrapper

Not one fact on this sheet evidences a report, dashboard, time view, budget view or any export — even the pricing page's plan-by-plan feature list never mentions reporting. Silence scores as absence: nothing beyond looking at the tool itself. 2

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Integrations

How this is scored

How well the tool connects to the rest of the stack: native integrations, calendar/comms hooks, API and webhooks, import/export paths.

0 — A closed box — no API, no integrations, CSV out if anything.

3 — A handful of marquee integrations, no public API or an API that covers a fraction of the product.

5 — The common set (calendar, Slack/Teams, file storage) plus a documented public API; automation platforms partially covered.

8 — Broad native catalogue, well-documented API and webhooks, first-class automation-platform support and real import paths from competitors.

10 — Ecosystem-grade: everything in 8 plus the tool is itself extensible (apps/plugins, AI/MCP surfaces) and exit via API export is complete.

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The Bootstrapper

Google SSO and iOS/Android apps exist, but the only native integrations named — Nextcloud Hub and openDesk — are locked behind the 250-minimum-seat Corporate tier, and the one documented API merely checks for new release versions on self-hosted installs. A handful of marquee hooks, no public product API or webhooks in evidence. 2 3

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Onboarding effort

How this is scored

Time and friction from signup to first real value for a small team, without paid services.

0 — No self-serve path — onboarding starts with a sales call and an implementation project.

3 — Self-serve exists but the first project requires configuration a newcomer cannot judge yet (workflows, custom fields, permissions) before anything works.

5 — A team gets a first project running within a day; trial requires payment details or key steps live behind docs.

8 — Signup to working project inside an hour: guided setup, sensible defaults, templates, trial without payment details.

10 — Minutes to value even for non-tool-people, importers pull existing work in, and the tool teaches its own advanced features as the team grows into them.

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The Bootstrapper

The free Community edition has no seat minimum and the 14-day trials are 'risk-free without cancellation', which reads as no card up front. But nothing evidences guided setup, templates or importers, and the genuinely free route is self-hosting — sysadmin work, not signup — so first real value lands somewhere inside a day, not an hour. 2

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European sovereignty

How this is scored

Where the company and the data actually sit: legal entity, ownership control, data residency, and subprocessor exposure to non-EU jurisdictions.

0 — Non-European vendor, data on US infrastructure under US law, no DPA worth the name.

3 — DPA and GDPR language present, but hosting defaults to the US or ownership sits outside Europe — compliance paperwork over substance.

5 — EU data residency is available and contractually fixed, but the vendor or its controlling owner is non-European, or core subprocessors put data within CLOUD Act reach.

8 — European company under European control with EU-resident data and a public DPA; remaining exposure is limited to identifiable subprocessors (e.g. a US hyperscaler's EU region) and is documented.

10 — European company, European control, EU-only data residency on European infrastructure, subprocessor list free of extraterritorial reach — verifiable, not asserted.

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The Bootstrapper

Berlin-based GmbH, GDPR/BDSG baseline, an Article 28 DPA signable inside the product, EU-hosted Enterprise Cloud, and self-hosting as a full escape hatch. But 'all sub-processors are based in the EU' is vendor marketing, and the privacy policy itself names Google Firebase, hCaptcha (Delaware) and InnoCraft (New Zealand) — documented extraterritorial exposure that keeps this below the clean 8. 3 4

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Support & documentation

How this is scored

Whether a stuck user gets unstuck: docs quality, support channels and their availability per plan, and the health of the learning surface.

0 — No docs beyond marketing pages; support is a contact form that may answer.

3 — Docs exist but are thin or stale; support on entry plans is effectively email-only with slow turnaround.

5 — Searchable help center covering the core product; chat or email support on all plans with reasonable response times.

8 — Deep, current docs incl. onboarding guides and templates; fast chat support not gated to top tiers; visible changelog.

10 — Docs, academy, community and support so good they are a reason to buy; SLAs published, support quality independent of plan.

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The Bootstrapper

Credit where due: every paid tier publishes its business-hours window right on the pricing page, and there's a security contact plus an advisory mailing list. But not a single fact evidences a help center, documentation, chat or SLA, and the free Community tier I'd actually run at 3 seats shows no support hours at all. 2 4

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Pricing transparency

How this is scored

Can a buyer determine the real, payable cost of the tool for their team before talking to anyone?

0 — No public pricing at all — every number sits behind "contact sales".

3 — Some tiers are public, but a deciding factor (seat minimums, mandatory add-ons, billing-period surcharge, tax treatment) only surfaces at checkout or in fine print.

5 — Self-serve tiers are publicly priced and the billing-period difference is stated, but the headline number still needs qualifying — e.g. annual-only headline, taxes excluded without saying so, or an opaque enterprise tier doing real work.

8 — Every self-serve tier is fully priced with billing periods and tax treatment plain on the page; only genuinely custom enterprise work lacks a number.

10 — Every tier including enterprise has a public price or published price formula, and the headline number is the number on the invoice.

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The Bootstrapper

The page answers instead of qualifying: every self-serve tier priced per user, seat minimums (25/100/250) printed rather than buried, a worked $2,175 example, discounts and free trials stated. Docked because Corporate is 'on request', tax treatment and monthly-vs-annual billing are never stated, and the 25-seat floor means my 3-seat team's cheapest paid reality is 25 users — disclosed, but still a value cliff. 2

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European sovereignty — proven facts

1 of 4 dimensions proven

Built only from facts shown on the vendor's own pages. A dimension we could not prove is left open, not scored as zero.

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Data residency Not determined ⚠ unverified — uncited Report an error
Subprocessors Not determined ⚠ unverified — uncited Report an error

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Sources (15)

The pages every claim on this page was read from — each one checked, dated, and kept verifiable.

  1. 1 Vendor homepage www.openproject.org Checked 5 Oct 2026 +3 earlier captures: 15 Sep 2026, 11 Sep 2026, 20 Aug 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Vendor pricing page www.openproject.org Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Privacy policy www.openproject.org Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Security page www.openproject.org Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Imprint www.openproject.org Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Collaboration depth — found from sitemap www.openproject.org Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Collaboration depth — found from sitemap www.openproject.org Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Reporting — found from sitemap www.openproject.org Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Reporting — found from sitemap www.openproject.org Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  10. 10 Integrations — found from sitemap www.openproject.org Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  11. 11 Integrations — found from sitemap www.openproject.org Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  12. 12 Onboarding effort — found from sitemap www.openproject.org Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  13. 13 Onboarding effort — found from sitemap www.openproject.org Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  14. 14 Support & documentation — found from sitemap www.openproject.org Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  15. 15 Support & documentation — found from sitemap www.openproject.org Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →