Why We Open-Sourced Our Tracker

Your issue tracker knows everything about your engineering team — priorities, bottlenecks, velocity. That data shouldn't be locked in a black box. Here's our case for open-source project management.

Trust Through Transparency

When an AI agent reads your backlog, triages issues, and reassigns work — you need to trust the system it's operating in. Closed-source trackers ask you to trust a vendor. Open-source trackers let you verify.

xpntl is source-available under BSL-1.1. You can read every line, self-host on your own infrastructure, and audit every data path your agents touch.

Self-Host or Cloud

Not every team wants to manage infrastructure. Our hosted version at app.xpntl.dev handles the ops. But if your security policy requires on-premise, or you're in a regulated industry, you can run xpntl on your own Kubernetes cluster with a single Helm chart.

Same codebase, same features, same MCP endpoint. The only difference is who runs the servers.

Community-Driven Roadmap

Our public roadmap is built from real user feedback. If you need a feature, open an issue. If it matters to the community, it gets prioritized. No sales calls, no enterprise-only feature requests.

The Model

Open core, simple split: the tracker is open, advanced team features (SAML, SCIM, audit logs) are paid. We make money from teams that need scale, not from locking down the base product. That's sustainable and aligned.