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Availability: The Redmine AI Plugin is not available as a standalone license. It is exclusively available to hosting customers: as a monthly AI Add-On to AlphaNodes Managed Redmine Hosting, as part of the Enterprise Support Package, or via our Redmine AI Hosting.

AI-Powered Project Management for Redmine

The Redmine AI Plugin connects to external AI providers that you choose and where you maintain your own account or subscription. This extends your project management workflow with AI features directly in Redmine. With this integration you can summarize tickets, create reply drafts, analyze wiki content and define custom AI prompts.

What you do with the Redmine AI Plugin The AI sits in four places in your Redmine WHAT FOR WHERE HOW IT STARTS WHAT YOU GET In the issue while you are editing it A click in the toolbar Reply draft or text correction as a suggestion, you decide In the project the AI assistant A question in the chat Creates issues and wiki pages only once you confirm On the dashboard in a project or on the home page AI block Status report from the issue data current every time, no copy and paste On opening an issue, the very first time runs on its own The analysis is already there stored, instant the next time Someone with permission sets up the templates once. Everyone else just clicks. Schematic representation You pick the AI service yourself, the plugin does not bring one. © AlphaNodes GmbH

Supported AI Providers

Connect to the AI provider that fits your needs:

  • OpenAI: all current GPT models
  • Anthropic Claude: all current Claude models
  • Google Gemini: all current Gemini models
  • Azure OpenAI: enterprise-grade OpenAI in your Azure tenant
  • Ollama: run AI models locally for maximum data privacy
  • Grok / xAI: Grok models by xAI
  • Mistral AI (e.g. Mistral Large, Small, Codestral, Pixtral) is supported via the OpenAI-compatible API; open Mistral models (e.g. Mistral, Codestral, Mixtral) can additionally be run locally via Ollama.
  • OpenAI-compatible APIs: LM Studio, vLLM and more

Important: The plugin itself does not contain an AI service. You connect Redmine to a provider of your choice via its API. Usage costs and privacy terms depend on the respective provider.

Redmine AI

Flexible & Cost-Controlled

Anyone on the team who should work with the AI does not need to master it first. Users with the appropriate permission set up prompt templates with variables. That defines exactly which data goes to the AI. Everyone else calls up the template with a single click, without any prompt engineering on their side.

Cost and access under control: Token limits per model with automatic fallback keep usage within budget. Permissions define who may execute which prompts and which data fields go to AI providers.

Key Features

  • Custom AI Prompts: Users with the appropriate permission set up prompts with variables. That defines exactly which data goes to the AI. Everyone else calls up the template with a single click, without any prompt engineering on their side.
  • AI Reply Suggestion: Directly in the issue edit form, one click in the toolbar creates a context-aware reply suggestion. The AI knows the full issue history and puts the draft into the notes field, where you edit it freely.
  • Ticket Assistant: From a free-form description, the AI creates an issue draft with subject, description, tracker and priority. You enter change requests as text. The issue is only created once you confirm it.
  • Text Correction: One click in the toolbar corrects spelling, grammar and punctuation in any text field. The result appears in a before/after comparison and you apply it with a single click.
  • Automatic Analyses: Certain prompts run automatically as soon as someone opens an issue for the first time. The result is saved and instantly available on the next visit, without an additional API call.
  • AI Dashboard Block: Freely configurable AI block for project dashboards, it shows open issues, overdue items or version progress as an AI-processed summary.
  • Privacy Control: Define which data goes to AI providers. Keep fields with personal information like author or assignee out of AI requests. Combined with local models via Ollama, your data never leaves your network.
  • Granular Permissions: Control who can execute prompts and view AI results
  • Cost Control: Token limits per model with automatic fallback to alternative models
What runs right away and what comes on top Three areas need a prerequisite, everything else runs without one WHAT IS INCLUDED INCLUDED Runs right away Reply draft and text correction AI assistant in the project, with chat AI block for dashboards Analysis on first opening Your own prompt templates with variables Shared conversations in the team No further prerequisite Similar issues and duplicate warnings The vector search finds related issues and wiki pages by meaning instead of by keyword. Needs PostgreSQL with pgvector AI actions in automation rules Analyse and change an issue, or run an AI task with full tool access. Needs the Redmine Automation Plugin External services in the assistant Slack, GitHub and other MCP sources as extra information and action in the chat. Needs a reachable MCP service If a prerequisite is missing, everything else still runs. Schematic representation © AlphaNodes GmbH

AI Assistant: Interactive Chat in the Project

The AI Assistant is a full chat interface directly inside your Redmine project. It knows the project context with issues, wiki and members, and it takes action on request:

  • Create and edit issues: based on natural language, with a confirmation dialog before any write action
  • Create and update wiki pages: directly from the chat, without switching context
  • Search issues and wiki: including analysis of file attachments and images
  • Import external content: include web pages as working material in the conversation

Shared conversations: You set up chats as project-public, role-based or private. Teams collaborate on a shared conversation and everyone sees who asked what.

External tool integration (MCP): Connect the assistant to external services like Slack, GitHub, or other MCP-compatible sources as additional information and action sources.

Redmine as an MCP server: MCP also works in the other direction. External AI applications such as Claude Desktop or Cursor access Redmine via MCP, read project data, create issues or update wiki pages. The permissions of the respective user apply. The connection settings are available under My account.

AI-Powered Automation

When used together with the Redmine Automation Plugin, the AI Plugin adds two AI-driven actions to your automation rules:

  • AI Issue Change: Analyzes an issue and updates it automatically, based on a plain-language prompt you define. It assigns tags, sets priority, status and assignee or adds a comment.
  • AI Tool: Executes an AI task with full tool access, triggered by your automation rules. It searches and creates issues, reads wiki pages and more.

With that you build workflows that run without manual input. Typical examples: auto-tagging new tickets by topic, automatically setting priority based on content, or routing issues to the right team based on description.

Cost control built in: You assign each action a model tag with a token limit. Once the daily or monthly budget is reached, the action stops. The issue is then saved without AI modification, without errors.

Requires the Redmine Automation Plugin.

Vector Search (PostgreSQL only)

When using Redmine with PostgreSQL, additional features become available:

  • Similar Tickets: Find related issues by meaning and not just by keywords
  • Duplicate Detection: Get a warning when a new issue resembles an existing one
  • Relevant Wiki Pages: Related documentation appears automatically

Note: Vector Search requires PostgreSQL with pgvector. These features are not available with MySQL.

Redmine AI, exclusive for hosting customers

Redmine AI is not available for purchase. It is exclusively available to our hosting customers: as a monthly AI Add-On from Cloud Professional onwards, already included in the Redmine Hosting package Cloud Business, via the Enterprise Support Package, or as part of our Redmine AI Hosting.

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Who Benefits from Redmine AI?

The AI Plugin for Redmine provides different leverage points depending on the role. Here is concretely what four typical Redmine user groups gain from it.

Who the Redmine AI Plugin pays off for Project management is not the only one who benefits WHO FOR ROLE MAINLY USES PM Project management Sees where the project stands without reading every issue AI block on the dashboard, assistant SU Support Understands long issue histories in seconds Summary, reply draft DE Development Finds similar cases even when the wording differs Vector search, MCP to GitHub OF Office and assistants Writes without mistakes, knowing nothing about AI Text correction, ready-made templates IT IT management Keeps costs, permissions and data under control Permissions, limits, Ollama Who may run which template is up to you, through permissions. Schematic representation © AlphaNodes GmbH
Redmine AI for Project Managers

Status reports without copy-paste

Ideal for project managers who want to be informed about the current status automatically:

  • The AI text block on the project dashboard generates status reports automatically from current issue data, without manual effort.
  • The AI Assistant answers questions directly in the project context: Which issues are blocking the sprint?, Where are the risks?.
  • Pre-defined AI prompts generate risk analyses, stakeholder summaries, or escalation lists.
Redmine AI for Support

Understand issues faster, automate routines

Ideal for support teams that want to handle recurring requests and long issue histories more efficiently:

  • Get automatic issue summaries when opening an issue. You understand the history in seconds instead of minutes.
  • In combination with the Automation Plugin, prioritize issues automatically by content or route specific tasks to a specialized person.
  • Check outgoing messages quickly for correct spelling or other internal guidelines.
Redmine AI for Developers

Find context, process bug reports

Ideal for developers that want to triage bug reports faster and find context across complex tickets:

  • Quick summaries of complex bug reports including reproduction steps and affected components.
  • Find similar issues and wiki pages via semantic search, even when the wording differs.
  • Connect to GitHub or GitLab via the MCP integration.
Redmine AI for IT Managers

GDPR-compliant and without maintenance burden

Ideal for IT managers that want to roll out AI in a controlled, compliance-safe way:

  • Control granular permissions. You decide who can use which AI features and which data is included in prompts.
  • Run multiple AI providers in parallel. You decide whether to use a local Ollama for sensitive issues or a cloud provider for non-critical tasks (controllable per tag).
  • Set token limits per model when needed (automatic fallback keeps costs under control).

Recommended reading: GDPR-compliant AI integration in Redmine

Plugin, server and model. All hosted in Germany.

AI in Redmine where the plugin, the hosting and, if you choose, the language model itself stay in Germany.

  • Plugin development from Bavaria: We build and maintain the Redmine AI Plugin at AlphaNodes.
  • Hosting in German data centers: including a data processing agreement and ISO-certified locations, with no data transfers to third countries.
  • Optional local LLM: With Redmine AI Hosting the language model itself (Ollama) runs on German hardware. Your issues never leave your network.

We take care of the setup completely.

Redmine Cloud Package   Redmine AI Hosting   5 use cases   AI Decision Tool

Your data, your rules You decide what Redmine sends to an AI in the first place DATA PROTECTION Your Redmine Issues, wiki, time entries CONTROL POINT 1 Which fields go along? Personal fields such as author or assignee stay out of every request you send. CONTROL POINT 2 Who may ask at all? Permissions per role and per template. In a team everyone sees who asked what. Local through Ollama Never leaves your network Your chosen provider OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Azure, Mistral and others depending on the issue tag The plugin contains no AI service. You connect Redmine to the provider of your choice. Schematic representation © AlphaNodes GmbH

Particularly valuable for:

  • Enterprise teams: Standardized workflows across departments without every user having to learn prompt engineering individually.
  • Support organizations: Support staff use existing prompts and do not have to deal with prompt engineering themselves.
  • Regulated industries: Centrally maintained prompts and granular permissions support compliance and data protection requirements.
  • Time-critical environments: New team members can use existing prompts directly, without first having to learn prompt engineering.