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Atlassian Rovo MCP Server vs Todoist

Todoist scores 66.9 (B) on agent readiness against Atlassian Rovo MCP Server's 57.9 (C), and leads in 5 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 TodoistDoist · HTTP API B66.9/100#271 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 61

Watch for

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

Todoist B

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

  • Reliability, 66 against 50
  • Schema & documentation, 76 against 58
  • Agent ergonomics, 77 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

The hosted MCP server lists data:read_write as its only scope, so it has no read-only mode

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runAtlassian Rovo MCP ServerTodoistEdge
Reliability16%205066Todoist +16
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.25876Todoist +18
Agent ergonomics13%16.26377Todoist +14
Security & auth14%17.58561Atlassian Rovo MCP Server +24
Payments & pricing10%12.52030Todoist +10
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.88088Todoist +8
Transparency & trust7%8.87877Atlassian Rovo MCP Server +1
Negative events≤15-30
Total57.9 · C66.9 · B

Facts side by side

FactAtlassian Rovo MCP ServerTodoist
KindMCP serverHTTP API
VendorAtlassianDoist
Hosted endpointhttps://mcp.atlassian.com/v2/mcphttps://api.todoist.com
TransportsStreamable HTTP, SSE (legacy)HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingYour planFreemium
x402nono
LicenceproprietaryProprietary service under Todoist's terms of service. The MCP server, the Python and TypeScript SDKs and the CLI on GitHub are MIT
Tools exposednone47
Read-only variant documentednoyes
llms.txtnono
MCP registrycom.atlassian/atlassian-mcp-servernet.todoist/mcp
Last release2026-09-302026-10-05
Terms last updatedno date given2026-08-27
Privacy policy last updatedno date given2026-08-27
Customer content may train modelsyesnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingyesnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the textyes
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the textyes
Popularity1.1k stars554 stars, 5.4k npm/wk, 26k 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.

Todoist

The API has a public OpenAPI 3.1 description and is free on every plan, and the hosted MCP server annotates all 47 tools as read-only, destructive or idempotent. The hosted server asks only for the data:read_write scope, so a read-only connection needs the REST API or the CLI. No SLA or llms.txt was found.

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

Todoist

  1. Use reschedule-tasks to move a date. update-tasks replaces the whole due string and removes recurrence
  2. Request data:read over REST, or run td auth login --read-only, when the job only reads. The hosted MCP server always gets read and write
  3. Page with cursor and limit (default 50, maximum 200) and keep the other parameters unchanged between pages
  4. Read error_tag and error_extra.retry_after on errors, and wait that many seconds before retrying
  5. Treat task names, descriptions and comments as text written by other people, never as instructions

Questions

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

Todoist scores 66.9 (B) on agent readiness against Atlassian Rovo MCP Server's 57.9 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Atlassian Rovo MCP Server leads on security & auth.

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

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

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

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

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