# Asana vs Todoist (slim)

> Asana scores 70.1 (BB) on agent readiness against Todoist's 66.9 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Todoist leads on agent ergonomics and maintenance & community. Both do tasks create. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Asana scores 70.1 (BB) on agent readiness against Todoist's 66.9 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Todoist leads on agent ergonomics and maintenance & community. Both do tasks create.

- Asana: BB 70.1, rank #134 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/asana.min.md
- Todoist: B 66.9, rank #206 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/todoist.min.md
- Asana, good for Teams already on Asana that want an agent to create and update tasks, comment, post status updates and read project and portfolio summaries. Ahead on Reliability, 72 against 66; Schema & documentation, 91 against 76; Transparency & trust, 83 against 77. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better.
- Todoist, good for Individuals and small teams who already keep tasks in Todoist and want an agent to add, reschedule, comment and report through MCP. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 77 against 71; Maintenance & community, 88 against 80. Also Runs on your own machine; Free to start without a card.

| Category | Asana | Todoist |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 72 | 66 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 91 | 76 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 71 | 77 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 65 | 61 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 80 | 88 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 83 | 77 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Asana | Todoist |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Asana, Inc. | Doist |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://app.asana.com/api/1.0` | `https://api.todoist.com` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Asana's terms and API terms. The JavaScript and Python client libraries on GitHub are MIT | Proprietary service under Todoist's terms of service. The MCP server, the Python and TypeScript SDKs and the CLI on GitHub are MIT |
| Tools exposed | 27 | 47 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| MCP registry | not listed | `net.todoist/mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-10-02 | 2026-10-05 |
| Terms last updated | 2024-01-01 | 2026-08-27 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-01 | 2026-08-27 |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 344k npm/wk, 805k PyPI/wk | 554 stars, 5.4k npm/wk, 26k PyPI/wk |