# Basecamp vs monday.com (slim)

> monday.com scores 76.4 (BB) on agent readiness against Basecamp's 67.9 (B), and leads in every scored category. Both do tasks create. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-08

monday.com scores 76.4 (BB) on agent readiness against Basecamp's 67.9 (B), and leads in every scored category. Both do tasks create.

- Basecamp: B 67.9, rank #197 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/basecamp.min.md
- monday.com: BB 76.4, rank #32 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/monday.min.md
- Basecamp, good for Teams already on Basecamp that want an agent to create and complete to-dos, move cards, post messages and comments, and read overdue work and assignments, either through the CLI or the REST API. Also Runs on your own machine; Free to start without a card.
- monday.com, good for Teams that already run projects on monday.com boards and want an agent to create items, change status, post updates and read board summaries through MCP or GraphQL. Ahead on Reliability, 79 against 74; Schema & documentation, 88 against 80; Agent ergonomics, 82 against 65; Payments & pricing, 50 against 30. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better.

| Category | Basecamp | monday.com |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 74 | 79 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 88 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 65 | 82 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 67 | 70 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 50 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 82 | 85 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 79 | 80 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Basecamp | monday.com |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | 37signals LLC | monday.com Ltd. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://3.basecampapi.com` | `https://api.monday.com/v2` |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or key |
| Licence | Proprietary service under the 37signals terms of service. The CLI, the SDKs and the OpenAPI spec on GitHub are MIT, and the API docs are CC BY-SA 4.0 | Proprietary service under monday.com's Terms of Service and Developer Terms. The MCP server, agent toolkit and API SDK on GitHub are MIT |
| Tools exposed | none | 64 |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | `com.monday/monday.com` |
| Terms last updated | 2026-09-16 | 2026-05-05 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-16 | 2026-10-01 |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 286 stars, 3.1k npm/wk, 1.9k PyPI/wk | 176k npm/wk |