# Basecamp vs Plane (slim)

> Basecamp and Plane score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 67.9 (B) and 67.6 (B). Plane leads on reliability and agent ergonomics. 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

Basecamp and Plane score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 67.9 (B) and 67.6 (B). Plane leads on reliability and agent ergonomics. Both do tasks create.

- Basecamp: B 67.9, rank #197 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/basecamp.min.md
- Plane: B 67.6, rank #204 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/plane.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. Ahead on Transparency & trust, 79 against 74. Also Free to start without a card; No incidents deducted, where Plane loses 5 points for them.
- Plane, 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 74; Agent ergonomics, 78 against 65. Also Open source.

| Category | Basecamp | Plane |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 74 | 89 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 80 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 65 | 78 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 67 | 68 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 82 | 80 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 79 | 74 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Basecamp | Plane |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | 37signals LLC | Plane Software, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://3.basecampapi.com` | `https://api.plane.so` |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |
| 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 | 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 |
| Tools exposed | none | 30 |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-10-08 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-09-16 | 2026-04-09 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-16 | 2026-04-09 |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 286 stars, 3.1k npm/wk, 1.9k PyPI/wk | 61k stars, 2.6k npm/wk, 7.5k PyPI/wk |