Agent Orchestrator – open-source alternative to Jira & Asana

At a glance

Agent Orchestrator in nine facts.

Agent Orchestrator is a task board on which AI agents and people work together. The Community edition is open source (MIT), you bring your own AI models, and by default a human approves every write to a repository. Built and operated in Germany, legally owned by Simplifier AG.

What it is	A task board for people and AI agents: agents and squads work on tasks, people approve.
License	Community edition under the MIT license (currently available on request via the waiting list).
Operation	Self-hosted (Docker) or hosted in Nuremberg (Hetzner).
AI models	Your own. The agent daemon runs in your network; we do not charge for AI usage.
Agent runtime	OpenCode.
Approval	A human approves every write to a repository by default; can be relaxed per project.
Interface	Web application in German and English.
Pricing (early access)	Community €0 · Team €4 · Business €8 per user per month, billed annually · Sovereign on request.
Legal owner	Simplifier AG.

Why switch

Three reasons both your IT lead and your data protection officer will understand.

If you run a ticketing system today, you pay per head, maintain tickets by hand and keep your data with vendors you have little influence over. It doesn't have to be that way.

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Costs that don't climb every year

Atlassian is raising prices by roughly 7 % as of 13 Oct 2026, and monday.com raised them by 18 % in February 2026. Our Community Edition is free, and hosted operation costs less than half of Jira Standard, Asana Starter or monday Standard.

Sources: Atlassian pricing overview (saasjet.com), monday.com pricing overview (rock.so), as of 14 Oct 2026

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Sovereign, not “somewhere in the cloud”

Built and operated in Germany. You bring your own AI models, and the agent daemon runs inside your network – using only the models you approve.

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Get work done instead of maintaining tickets

Assign a task to an agent or an agent team. The result comes back with a full log – and is only adopted after a human approves it.

The product

One task, four steps, one traceable result.

The difference from classic project management: the board isn't just a filing cabinet – it's where the work actually happens.

Create a task

Title, goal, acceptance criteria, due date, labels, dependencies – just as you know it.

An agent or squad takes over

An agent works alone, or a squad with a leader and members divides the work among themselves.

A human approves

Write access to a repository is presented as a change and only applied after your approval.

Result with a log

History, files and result stay attached to the task – traceable instead of a black box.

Your agents – with role, skills and status.

Approval dialog showing the proposed change

The approval gate: you see the change before it is applied.

Sovereignty

Your models. Your network. Our operations in Germany.

We don't sell AI and we don't forward your data to any third-party model. The workspace runs with us, the execution runs with you.

Inside your network

🛡️ Agent daemon

runs the agents – on your infrastructure
uses only the AI models your organization approves
can talk to local models as well as models from your provider
works on your repositories and systems

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encrypted

Hosted in Germany

🗂️ Workspace

Board, tasks, agents, knowledge base
Logs and results
Roles, approvals and history
Data center in Nuremberg (Hetzner)

Note: which models are used, and where the daemon sends their requests, is your decision. A cloud model of your choice remains a cloud model – but the decision is yours, not ours.

Human approval by default

An agent doesn't write to your repository on its own. The change is presented for review. Anyone who wants to relax that does so deliberately, per project.

Open source, inspectable

The Community Edition's source code is MIT-licensed. Your security team can read exactly what happens.

Our Trust Portal

Security and data protection information from Simplifier AG, the legal owner behind the product: trust.simplifier.io

Desktop client

Your computer as part of the team – only with your consent.

The desktop client pairs your own computer with Agent Orchestrator as a device. An agent can then use it – but only once three hurdles are cleared. Nothing happens without your consent.

Read & write files Notifications Clipboard Screenshot Mouse & keyboard Voice Browser tab (with extension)

Policy

Every capability is denied by default. An administrator allows it per workspace or per agent – or requires a confirmation.

Approval in the chat

If the policy requires confirmation, it appears as a card in the task's chat: before every call, or once per run.

Consent on the device

The client also asks you at your computer. Mouse and keyboard control is never granted permanently, and “Pause agent access” blocks everything at once.

Speech recognition runs on the device by default. The local check also happens inside the client – a compromised server cannot bypass it.

⚠ Honest disclosure: status of the client

Linux tested against the real backend on Linux
Windows & macOS the installer and the app are built, but have not yet been run on those systems and are not yet signed (Windows shows “unknown publisher”)
The browser extension has to be loaded by hand once
The client is not an interface for the whole workspace – that is the web application

AO Registry

Agents, skills and bundles – signed and open to inspect.

The AO Registry is a catalogue of ready-made building blocks for Agent Orchestrator: agents, skills, MCP definitions and bundles (whole teams). You can read every entry before you install anything – and your instance only fetches what you explicitly connect.

Signed and immutable

Every version is immutable and signed with an Ed25519 key. Your instance verifies the signature with the public key you configure and refuses a list that is older, or signed by an unknown key.

You decide

Only a workspace administrator can install. An installed agent starts disabled and without a runtime – you enable it and bind it to your own runtime.

Inspect first

The public catalogue shows each entry's instructions, capabilities, risk level, dependencies and checksum – in German and English.

Browse the catalogue Connect an instance

An entry's trust level is written in the entry itself and checked when it is merged – it is not a certification.

⚠ Honest disclosure: status of the registry

available public catalogue, signed releases and connecting an instance – the synchronisation runs in every edition, the registry tabs in the AO Hub currently exist in the Enterprise edition (off by default)
planned install with one click straight from the catalogue (enter the address of your own instance)
Publishing your own content currently works only through a reviewed pull request against the registry repository – there is no self-service portal yet

Comparison

Agent Orchestrator compared.

List prices per user per month, billed annually, in US dollars, excluding taxes. As of 14 Oct 2026.

	Agent Orchestrator	Jira	Asana	Trello	monday.com
Entry (Standard)	€4 (hosted), €0 self-hosted	$9.70 (Standard)	$10.99 (Starter)	$5 (Standard)	$12 (Standard)
Free plan	unlimited (self-hosted)	up to 10 users	up to 2 users	with a board limit	up to 2 seats
Open source	Yes (MIT)	—	—	—	—
Self-hostable	Yes (Community Edition)	—	—	—	—
AI agents execute tasks	Yes, with your own models	AI assistant, credits per plan	AI features per plan	—	AI with credits
Bring your own / local AI models	Yes	—	—	—	—
Human approval before repository writes	Default	—	—	—	—
Sprints, timelines, time tracking	in development	depending on plan	depending on plan	depending on plan	depending on plan
Integrations / app ecosystem	MCP Hub with catalog	Marketplace	Integrations	Power-Ups	App marketplace

Prices and feature sets of the vendors may change at any time and have been compiled from their public pricing pages, supplemented by third-party overviews, as of the date stated. Brand names belong to their owners. A “—” means: we make no statement. Found a mistake? Tell us and we'll correct it right away.

⚠ Honest disclosure: what's still missing

We don't want to be a Jira clone – but if you're coming from Jira, you'll probably still miss a few things today. Better you know up front:

in development Sprints / Scrum
in development Gantt / timeline view
in development Time tracking
in development Custom fields
planned Import from Jira, Trello and Asana – get in touch and we'll prioritize by demand

We deliberately give no dates until there are dates.

Pricing

Simple. Per user. No AI surcharge.

Because you bring your own AI models, we have no token costs. You pay for the workspace, not for credits.

Open source

Community

€0

self-hosted · forever

Board, agents, squads, knowledge base
Source code under the MIT license
Your own AI models
Community support

Request Community Edition

Early Access

Team

€4 / user / month

billed annually · from 5 users

Everything in Community
Hosted in Nuremberg (Hetzner)
Operations and updates by us
Email support

Secure Early Access

Early Access

Business

€8 / user / month

billed annually · from 10 users

Everything in Team
Single sign-on (SSO)
Audit log
Usage and cost overview
Support with response time

Secure Early Access

Enterprise

Sovereign

On request

dedicated instance or your own location

Everything in Business
Own instance, own region
Operation on your side possible
Individual support contract

Book a call

What that means for your team

Per month, billed annually	Team (€4)	Jira Standard ($9.70)	Asana Starter ($10.99)	monday Standard ($12)
10 users	€40	$97	$110	$120
50 users	€200	$485	$550	$600
100 users	€400	$970	$1,099	$1,200

Competitor amounts are in US dollars at list price (as of 14 Oct 2026; sources: the vendors' public pricing pages and third-party overviews), excluding taxes, add-on products and volume discounts. Our prices are in euros, plus statutory VAT. At about $1.15 per euro, Team is roughly 53 % below Jira Standard. Early Access prices apply to those who sign up now. Errors and changes excepted.

Community Edition

Prefer to keep everything in your own hands?

The Community Edition is open source under the MIT license and free of charge. You run it yourself – with Docker. Single sign-on, audit log and usage overview belong to the hosted Business edition, not to the Community Edition.

Request Community Edition

FAQ

Frequently asked questions.

Is it really free?

Yes: the Community Edition is open source under the MIT license and costs nothing. Only hosted operation by us (from €4 per user per month) and the Business feature set are paid.

Which AI models can I use?

The ones you approve. The daemon runs inside your network and talks to the models your organization allows – locally hosted ones as well as models from your provider. We provide no models and charge nothing for AI usage.

Where does my data go?

With the hosted version, tasks, board and logs live on servers in Nuremberg (Hetzner, Germany). Agent execution and requests to AI models run through the daemon inside your network. If you self-host, you keep everything.

What am I missing compared to Jira?

Today: sprints/Scrum, Gantt, time tracking and custom fields (in development), plus an import from Jira (planned). In return you get agents that execute tasks. If you need Scrum processes one-to-one, stay with Jira until those features arrive.

Who is behind the product?

Agent Orchestrator is built and operated in Germany. The legal owner is Simplifier AG. Security and data protection information is available in the Trust Portal.

Are the listed prices binding?

The Early Access prices are our current starting price for those who sign up now. Signing up doesn't commit you to anything.

Project management
that does the work.