Trac

Plans and prices

From Trac's own pricing page, checked 4 Oct 2026. Every plan

What the maker publishes

API documentation

The published API reference covers administration, database backends, tickets, wiki, timeline, permissions, web handling and version control modules. source

Cross-linking

Wiki markup links bugs, tasks, changesets, files and wiki pages so related project information can be navigated together. source

Customization

The project site lists plugins among the resources for getting started with Trac. source

Design approach

The project describes Trac as a minimalistic tool intended to fit an established development process with little ceremony. source

Documentation and support

The user guide covers installation, upgrades, administration, backups, logging, permissions, wiki, tickets, reports, timeline, RSS and notifications; mailing lists are presented as a support channel. source

Free plan

Yes source

Hosting model

The Trac documentation describes deployment as a Python web application served through WSGI and a web server such as Apache. source

Integrations

Trac's homepage explicitly names Subversion and Git as version-control integrations. source

Latest stable release

Wikipedia lists Trac 1.6 as the stable release dated September 23, 2023. source

Licence

Trac is distributed under a modified BSD licence, identified in package metadata as BSD. source

Limit: basic bug model

An Open Hub reviewer said Trac's bug tracking is less detailed than Bugzilla and lacks advanced relationships such as dependencies and duplicate-of links. source

Limit: dated experience

G2 reviewers described the bug tracker or overall product as somewhat out of date. source

Maintainers

The Trac Team page names Jun Omae, Peter Suter and Ryan Ollos as developers currently working on Trac. source

Maker founding history

The Trac history page says Edgewall Software developers began writing the predecessor svntrac in August 2003. source

Maker headquarters

G2 lists Edgewall Software's headquarters location as Seattle, Washington. source

Multiple repositories

A Trac environment can work with multiple version-control repositories. source

Permissions

Trac's wiki documentation describes permissions and notes that editing may depend on local policy set by administrators. source

Permissions

Trac includes fine-grained permissions for controlling access to project resources. source