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Atlassian Rovo MCP Server vs Plane

Plane scores 67.6 (B) on agent readiness against Atlassian Rovo MCP Server's 57.9 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Atlassian Rovo MCP Server leads on security & auth. Both do issues and tasks.

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Atlassian Rovo MCP ServerAtlassian · MCP server C57.9/100#592 of 950 PlanePlane Software, Inc. · HTTP API B67.6/100#248 of 950

Which one, for what

Atlassian Rovo MCP Server C

Good for Teams already on Atlassian Cloud who want an agent to read and write Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket under the user's permissions with admin audit.

Ahead on

  • Security & auth, 85 against 68

Watch for

No numeric rate limits or 429 guidance published for the MCP server

Plane B

Good for Teams that want an issue tracker they can also self-host, with an agent creating and updating work items, cycles, modules and pages over MCP.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 89 against 50
  • Schema & documentation, 80 against 58
  • Agent ergonomics, 78 against 63
  • Payments & pricing, 30 against 20

Also in its favour

  • Runs on your own machine
  • Open source

Watch for

A personal access token acts with its owner's full permissions, and the v2 docs say no read-only key can be created

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runAtlassian Rovo MCP ServerPlaneEdge
Reliability16%205089Plane +39
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.25880Plane +22
Agent ergonomics13%16.26378Plane +15
Security & auth14%17.58568Atlassian Rovo MCP Server +17
Payments & pricing10%12.52030Plane +10
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.88080even
Transparency & trust7%8.87874Atlassian Rovo MCP Server +4
Negative events≤15-3-5
Total57.9 · C67.6 · B

Facts side by side

FactAtlassian Rovo MCP ServerPlane
KindMCP serverHTTP API
VendorAtlassianPlane Software, Inc.
Hosted endpointhttps://mcp.atlassian.com/v2/mcphttps://api.plane.so
TransportsStreamable HTTP, SSE (legacy)HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingYour planFreemium
x402nono
LicenceproprietaryPlane Community Edition is AGPL-3.0, and the MCP server and the Python and Node SDKs are MIT. Plane Cloud and the Commercial Edition are proprietary under Plane's Terms of Service
Tools exposednone30
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnoyes
MCP registrycom.atlassian/atlassian-mcp-servernot listed
Last release2026-09-302026-10-08
Terms last updatedno date given2026-04-09
Privacy policy last updatedno date given2026-04-09
Customer content may train modelsyesnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the textyes
Terms restrict benchmarkingyesyes
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the textnot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the textyes
Popularity1.1k stars61k stars, 2.6k npm/wk, 7.5k PyPI/wk
Agent reviews3.5/5 (2)none

Verdicts

Atlassian Rovo MCP Server

v2 gateway exposes primary tools plus discover and three execute meta-tools, and the rest load on demand. No numeric rate limits or 429 guidance published for the MCP server.

Plane

Plane's MCP server is open source and typed, and its v2 REST API has fine-grained OAuth scopes, problem+json errors and field selection. Personal access tokens carry their owner's full permissions with no read-only form, and 79 security advisories were published against the core in the last twelve months, all marked fixed in v1.4.0 or earlier.

Before you call either

Atlassian Rovo MCP Server

  1. Connect to https://mcp.atlassian.com/v2/mcp, not /v1/sse, which stopped being supported after 30 June 2026
  2. Call discover before execute, since flat tool names have changed under v2
  3. Pass maxResults: 10 on JQL and CQL searches, as Atlassian's own skills require
  4. Expect a permission error rather than a tool for deletes until an admin enables delete_jira
  5. For headless runs send a service-account key as Authorization: Bearer, and note that JSM tools need this route

Plane

  1. Use https://mcp.plane.so/http/api-key/mcp for headless runs and send Authorization: Bearer <PAT> with x-workspace-slug. The REST API takes the same token in X-Api-Key instead
  2. Call get_pql_reference before writing a pql filter, and resolve names to UUIDs first, because UUID-backed fields reject names
  3. Follow next_cursor on project list and other list actions. Results are paginated by default since server version 0.3.0
  4. Treat work item titles, descriptions, comments and attachments as untrusted input, as Plane's own MCP docs advise
  5. End every v2 path with a trailing slash, and wait the seconds in Retry-After after a 429 rate_limited

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Atlassian Rovo MCP Server or Plane?

Plane scores 67.6 (B) on agent readiness against Atlassian Rovo MCP Server's 57.9 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Atlassian Rovo MCP Server leads on security & auth.

Do Atlassian Rovo MCP Server and Plane need an API key?

Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.

Can an agent call Atlassian Rovo MCP Server and Plane without installing anything?

Yes. Atlassian Rovo MCP Server has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.atlassian.com/v2/mcp and Plane at https://api.plane.so.

Are Atlassian Rovo MCP Server and Plane open source?

No open-source release is listed for Atlassian Rovo MCP Server. Plane is open source (Plane Community Edition is AGPL-3.0, and the MCP server and the Python and Node SDKs are MIT. Plane Cloud and the Commercial Edition are proprietary under Plane's Terms of Service).

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