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MantisBT vs Trac: catalog facts
MantisBTTrac
Free

Free and open source under the GPL; third-party hosting is available separately.

Free

Free and open source under the BSD-3-Clause license.

Web, Self-hosted Self-hosted
  • Per-project role-based access control
  • Customizable fields, notifications and workflow
  • Cross-links between tickets, commits and wiki pages
  • Works with Subversion and Git
  • Requires a PHP web server and database to set up
  • Interface is dated next to newer trackers
  • Dated interface compared with newer forges
  • No built-in code review or pull requests
Self-hosted Self-hosted
Open source Open source
License: GPL-2.0 License: BSD-3-Clause
Not stated if an account is needed Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline Not stated if it works offline

Checked October 2, 2026

Checked October 2, 2026

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