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Project management, rebuilt for the AI era

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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Free plan, no credit card .mpp + XML + Primavera XER import Claude + Azure OpenAI built in Deploy anywhere 2FA & API tokens

31+

Plan-gated features

6

Pricing tiers

$0

To get started

< 1 day

Typical migration

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

The migration problem

Five months until Project Online retires.

Microsoft Project Online

End of life: September 2026

  • Retires September 30, 2026, Microsoft confirmed, no extensions
  • $30+/user/month, on top of Microsoft 365 licensing
  • Azure-only deployment, no on-premises or hybrid option
  • No AI features, manual risk assessment, manual planning
  • Desktop-era UX, web wrapper around a 20-year-old product
  • Migration to Project Server, expensive, complex, and also aging
  • Plans from $0, no forced seat minimums, cancel any time
  • Claude (Anthropic) & Azure OpenAI built in, risk detection, plan generation, NL task parsing, switchable per-org
  • Cloud-agnostic deployment, AWS, Azure, GCP, or your own servers
  • Import Microsoft Project plans, Native .mpp + XML export + OData, tasks, dependencies, baselines
  • Modern real-time SPA, keyboard-first, dark mode, mobile-friendly
  • Gantt, Sprints, Portfolios, Governance, whiteboards, wikis, dashboards, and more
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.

Everything you need

Built for project managers

Not a glorified to-do list. Onplana ships with enterprise-grade features out of the box.

AI Project Kickstart

Describe your project in plain English. Onplana generates tasks, subtasks, milestones, and a timeline in seconds, no empty-canvas paralysis, no weeks of manual setup.

AI, built in

Risk detection, plan generation, task suggestions, NL parsing, and a streaming chat panel, powered by Claude (Anthropic) or Azure OpenAI. Switch providers from the admin panel.

AI agents & MCP

Hand a task to the in-app "Run with Onplana Agent" to draft deliverables for review, or connect Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT and other MCP clients to work your projects directly. PRO+.

Gantt + critical path

Interactive Gantt with 4 dependency types (FS/SS/FF/SF), lag times, baseline snapshots, and automatic critical path highlighting.

Sprints & agile boards

Full Scrum: sprints, epics, backlog, burndown charts, and drag-and-drop Kanban, all inside the same project.

Custom dashboard builder

18 drag-and-drop widget types, stats, charts, task lists, governance widgets, and saved reports. Role-based templates on Enterprise.

Whiteboards & wikis

Excalidraw-powered collaborative whiteboards and BlockNote real-time wikis, per project, in the same workspace.

Project mailbox

Every project gets an inbound email address. Emails auto-create tasks or comments, great for client feedback and issue intake.

Deploy anywhere

Cloud-agnostic Docker deployment. Run on AWS, Azure, GCP, or your own servers. Enterprise+ includes full self-hosting with customer-managed keys.

MPP, Project XML & OData import

Upload .mpp binaries or Microsoft Project XML exports (MSPDI), or connect directly to the Project Online OData API. Built-in field mapper with preview, no manual re-entry.

Enterprise governance

12-stage proposal pipeline, multi-reviewer gate reviews, Change Control Board, scenario planning, SSO/SCIM, audit logs, and IP allowlists.

No upgrade required

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 via Azure OpenAI, directly into your workflows. Enable either, both, or switch any time. Enterprise customers can point Onplana at their own Azure OpenAI deployment so AI inference stays inside their tenant. 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 Chat, live example

YouWhat are the biggest risks in this project?
✦ Onplana AI🔴 High: 3 tasks on the critical path are overdue by 5+ days and have no slack. Resource contention detected on Jordan (140% allocated in week 3). Budget burn rate suggests overrun by ~12% at current velocity.
YouSuggest a recovery plan
✦ Onplana AIRecommend moving tasks T-14 and T-15 to Jordan's backlog and reassigning to Alex (32% free capacity). Extend sprint by 2 days or reduce scope of milestone M3. I've drafted 3 updated tasks, want me to apply them?

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

$0

forever

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

Starter

$7

/seat/month

  • 25 members · 25 projects
  • Everything in Free
  • Project templates
  • PDF export
  • 2 free guest seats
Start free trial
Most popular

Professional

$12

/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 PRO trial

Business

$20

/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 Business trial
See full pricing, 6 plans including Enterprise and self-hosted
Enterprise governance

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.

12-stage pipeline

DRAFT → COMPLETED

Multi-reviewer gates

Quorum-based approval

Weighted scoring

Configurable criteria per gate

Change Control Board

Formal CCB per project

Proposal pipeline

DRAFT
SUBMITTED
PROPOSAL REVIEW
BUSINESS CASE
PLAN REVIEW● Pending review
APPROVED
→ PROJECT CREATED
September 30, 2026 · Project Online end of life

The teams migrating now sleep through September.

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.

Got questions?

Frequently asked questions

Onplana includes a built-in migration wizard. Upload your native .mpp files directly, export XML from Microsoft Project (File → Save As → XML Format), or connect to the Project Online OData API. Our field-mapper guides you through the mapping, most migrations complete in under a day.
Both. Onplana ships with a dual-provider AI engine: Claude by Anthropic (default) and Azure OpenAI. Admins can enable either, both, or switch primary providers at any time from the admin panel, no code changes. Customers with Azure enterprise agreements can point Onplana at their own Azure OpenAI deployment so AI inference stays inside their tenant and burns Azure credits. Both providers power risk detection, plan generation, task suggestions, natural language parsing, and the chat panel.
Yes. The Enterprise+ plan includes a self-hosted option. Onplana is built with Docker Compose and is cloud-agnostic, deploy on AWS, Azure, GCP, or any on-premises environment. Your data never leaves your infrastructure.
Microsoft has confirmed Project Online will be retired on September 30, 2026. After that date, users will lose access. We recommend starting migration at least 3–6 months in advance to allow for data validation, team training, and parallel running.
Yes, the Free plan supports up to 5 members and 5 projects with no time limit. No credit card required. You can upgrade at any time from within your account settings.
You pay for each active member in your organization. Guest users (external collaborators) don't count toward your seat limit on PRO and above, each plan includes a set number of free guest seats. You can add or remove members at any time and billing adjusts automatically.
Yes. Onplana uses JWT authentication with token versioning, two-factor authentication (TOTP), bcrypt password hashing, HMAC-SHA256 webhooks, IP allowlisting (Enterprise), and customer-managed encryption keys (Enterprise+). SSO via SAML 2.0 / OIDC and SCIM provisioning are available on Enterprise plans.
Yes, PRO and Business plans include a free trial so you can explore Gantt charts, AI features, whiteboards, wikis, and automation before entering payment details.
No, Onplana (onplana.com) and OnePlan (oneplan.ai) are separate companies. The names are similar but the products are different. Onplana is a Microsoft Project Online alternative focused on PMO governance, AI-native scheduling, and native .mpp import, founded in 2024 and deployable to any cloud. OnePlan is a separate, older work-management vendor that runs in the Microsoft ecosystem. If you landed here looking for OnePlan, their site is at oneplan.ai. If Onplana is what you wanted, our /compare page includes a side-by-side at /compare/onplana-vs-oneplan.

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