Head to head · Issues and tasks · October 2026 research run

Atlassian Rovo MCP Server vs Teamwork.com

Teamwork.com scores 65.9 (B) on agent readiness against Atlassian Rovo MCP Server's 57.9 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Atlassian Rovo MCP Server leads on security & auth. Both do issues and tasks.

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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 58

Watch for

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

Teamwork.com B

Good for Agencies and services firms already on Teamwork.com that want an assistant to create and update tasks, log time, read workload and budgets, and answer Desk tickets.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 73 against 50
  • Schema & documentation, 72 against 58
  • Agent ergonomics, 68 against 63
  • Payments & pricing, 30 against 20
  • Maintenance & community, 88 against 80

Also in its favour

  • Runs on your own machine
  • Free to start without a card
  • No incidents deducted, where Atlassian Rovo MCP Server loses 3 points for them

Watch for

OAuth scopes are per product only (projects, desk, spaces, chat), and the token from the app login flow is described as permanent

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runAtlassian Rovo MCP ServerTeamwork.comEdge
Reliability16%205073Teamwork.com +23
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.25872Teamwork.com +14
Agent ergonomics13%16.26368Teamwork.com +5
Security & auth14%17.58558Atlassian Rovo MCP Server +27
Payments & pricing10%12.52030Teamwork.com +10
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.88088Teamwork.com +8
Transparency & trust7%8.87880Teamwork.com +2
Negative events≤15-30
Total57.9 · C65.9 · B

Facts side by side

FactAtlassian Rovo MCP ServerTeamwork.com
KindMCP serverHTTP API
VendorAtlassianTeamwork Crew Limited
Hosted endpointhttps://mcp.atlassian.com/v2/mcphttps://mcp.ai.teamwork.com
TransportsStreamable HTTP, SSE (legacy)HTTP, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy), stdio
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingYour planFreemium
x402nono
LicenceproprietaryProprietary service under Teamwork.com's terms of service. The MCP server on GitHub is MIT
Tools exposednone225
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnono
MCP registrycom.atlassian/atlassian-mcp-servernot listed
Last release2026-09-302026-10-06
Terms last updatedno date givenno date given
Privacy policy last updatedno date given2024-08-19
Customer content may train modelsyesnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the textnot found in the text
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 textnot found in the text
Popularity1.1k stars26 stars
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.

Teamwork.com

The official MCP server is MIT licensed, released almost daily, and has typed tools with annotations, profile endpoints and no delete tools on the shipped servers. OAuth scopes stop at product level, access tokens are permanent, and no SLA, API changelog or prompt-injection guidance was found in the reviewed documentation.

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

Teamwork.com

  1. Use a profile endpoint such as https://mcp.ai.teamwork.com/project-manager. The base URL loads every tool across Projects, Desk, Spaces and Chat.
  2. Ask a site administrator to enable MCP under Settings, AI before connecting.
  3. Build REST URLs from installation.apiEndPoint in the token response. Sites live at {site}.teamwork.com (US) or {site}.eu.teamwork.com (EU).
  4. Stay under 150 requests a minute on Free, Basics and Accelerate. The limit is shared by the whole site. On 429, wait until X-Rate-Limit-Reset.
  5. Pass verbose=false to list_* tools to get ids and names only, and use twprojects-create_tasks for many tasks in one call.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Atlassian Rovo MCP Server or Teamwork.com?

Teamwork.com scores 65.9 (B) on agent readiness against Atlassian Rovo MCP Server's 57.9 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Atlassian Rovo MCP Server leads on security & auth.

Do Atlassian Rovo MCP Server and Teamwork.com need an API key?

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

Can an agent call Atlassian Rovo MCP Server and Teamwork.com without installing anything?

Yes. Atlassian Rovo MCP Server has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.atlassian.com/v2/mcp and Teamwork.com at https://mcp.ai.teamwork.com.

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