How do we price our plugins

As an open-source project, introducing paid plugins was a significant shift, and we weren’t quite sure what to expect. Over the past year, we’ve learned invaluable lessons from our community about how teams of different sizes use Leantime, what they value most, and how we can better serve everyone from individual users to enterprise teams.

Granular Team Sizes We’ve refined our team size brackets to better match real-world usage patterns

• • Personal (1-3 users)
  • Starter (6-10 users)
  • Small Team (11-25 users)
  • Growth Team (26-50 users)
  • Business (51-100 users)
  • Enterprise (101-250 users)

Complexity-Based Plugin Pricing Understanding plugin pricing shouldn’t require a decoder ring. We’ve categorized our plugins into three tiers based on their complexity and the ongoing maintenance they require:

• Simple Plugins (like our Pomodoro Widget) are straightforward tools that enhance your workflow. They require minimal updates and typically interact with a single aspect of Leantime.
• Medium Complexity Plugins (such as Custom Fields or Recurring Tasks) interact with multiple parts of Leantime and require regular updates to maintain compatibility as Leantime evolves. These plugins often need more frequent maintenance and testing across different use cases.
• Advanced Plugins (like Advanced Authentication or Strategy Pro) are sophisticated tools that often integrate with external services, handle complex data operations, or provide enterprise-grade features. These require the most maintenance, regular security updates, and extensive testing with each Leantime release.

This tiered approach ensures that plugin pricing reflects not just the initial development effort, but the ongoing work required to keep each plugin secure, compatible, and regularly updated.

The Developer Freedom License. We think software licensing is broken. So we fixed it. When you buy one of our plugins, it’s yours. Period. Not a subscription. Not a rental. Yours.

Now, we can’t stop PHP from evolving or predict every change in the technology landscape. That would be bananas. But here’s what we can do: offer you a simple choice.

Every year, we push the boundaries of what these plugins can do. We solve compatibility issues before they become your problem. We innovate. We perfect. And we offer all of that to you through annual update passes.

But—and this is the important part—we never force you to take them.
Your code. Your timeline. Your decision. This isn’t about maximizing our revenue stream. It’s about respecting what the open source community has always stood for: freedom, ownership, and control. We just found a way to make that sustainable.

We maintain ownership of the plugin code itself and you are bound to the number of users in your license. But the decision of when to update or which features to use? That power stays in your hands.

We think that’s not just a better licensing model. We think it’s the only one that makes sense for developers who actually build things that matter.

That’s what we believe in.