Project management built for teams of humans and agents
Delegate engineering tasks, control permissions, monitor execution, and approve every result.
curl -fsSL https://get.norn.so | bash Grouped, filtered, keyboard-driven.
Yours to run
Deploy it yourself, or sign up for the managed EU cloud. Same software, same features, either way.
No per-seat pricing
Members and issues are unlimited and never counted. Cloud plans meter storage and agent usage.
SSO on every tier
SAML and OIDC cost nothing, self-hosted included. Audit logs and directory sync are the paid additions.
Built for the keyboard
Every action has a shortcut.
The tracker
Drag between states, or change them from the keyboard.
Command palette
Search, navigate and act from the same place.
MCP and agents
Authorize once for every workspace, scoped to your own permissions and revocable at any time.
Agents act under their own name in issue history.
SSO
SAML and OIDC on every tier, self-hosted included. Audit logs and directory sync are the paid additions.
Importing
Importers for Jira, Linear, GitHub Issues and CSV. Original references stay resolvable.
Why Norn
Issue trackers hold the record of what a team is doing and why. That record is worth keeping under your own control, on infrastructure you choose, without paying by the head for the privilege.
Norn is open source under AGPL-3.0. Run it on your own hardware, or let us run it in the EU.
Reasons to switch
| Feature | Norn | Linear | Jira | Plane |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Self-host | Yes | No | No for new customers | Yes |
| Open source | AGPL-3.0 | No | No | AGPL-3.0 core |
| SAML and OIDC | Every tier | Enterprise | Guard add-on | Commercial edition |
| Per-seat pricing | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Member limit on free | None | None | 10 users | 12 seats |
| Issue limit | None | 250 on free | None | None |
| EU-only hosting | Yes | EU or US region | Region options | Cloud regions |
| SCIM | Paid | Enterprise | Guard add-on | Enterprise Grid |
| MCP across workspaces | One authorization | Per workspace | Per site | Per workspace |
| Full export | Free | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Checked 14 August 2026