Easy8

Easy8 is the name the Prague company behind Easy Redmine and Easy Project now uses for a single product line.

Its own history page says the brands were unified in March 2026 and that the company began in 2006 as a software studio building on Redmine. The product is a commercial platform on that open-source base, covering waterfall planning with Gantt charts and work breakdown structures, Kanban and Scrum boards, resource management, project cost management, a helpdesk, CRM and built-in AI and automation. The company calls this a private WorkOps platform.

Pricing is published and per user: Essentials at €6.90 per user per month, Business at €13.90 and Platform at €25.90, all billed annually, with Enterprise on request and a 30-day free trial. The catch is the minimum: cloud subscriptions require at least 10 user licences and on-premises at least 25, so it is not a tool for a team of three. The cloud runs on Easy8 servers across more than 20 locations with a choice of region.

The sovereignty case is where it differs from most of this category.

Easy8 offers an EU Sovereign Cloud that it says is operated by EU legal entities on EU data centres from providers such as OVHcloud and Hetzner, alongside on-premises, private cloud and air-gapped deployment. One nuance worth knowing: its terms list a UK company, Easy8 Software Ltd, as part of the group and as data controller for the website, next to the Czech Easy8 s.r.o. (company ID 26426269, confirmed in the Czech commercial register).

What Easy8 does well

• Waterfall, agile, resource and cost management in one platform
• Published per-user pricing from €6.90 per month, with a 30-day free trial
• EU Sovereign Cloud, private cloud, on-premises and air-gapped options
• Czech company registered since 2001, bootstrapped and with no US parent by its own account
• Built on Redmine, with a Redmine edition and Jira, MS Project and Confluence alternatives positioned directly

Where Easy8 falls short

• Minimum of 10 user licences for cloud and 25 for on-premises
• Proprietary product, not open source itself
• Broad scope (helpdesk, CRM, AI) means a heavier rollout than a simple board
• A UK group company appears in the terms alongside the Czech entity

Standout feature. It is the only entry here that pairs classical Gantt-based project control with a dedicated EU Sovereign Cloud and an air-gapped deployment option.