# Basecamp vs Taiga (slim)

> Basecamp scores 67.9 (B) on agent readiness against Taiga's 31.7 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do tasks create. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Basecamp scores 67.9 (B) on agent readiness against Taiga's 31.7 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do tasks create.

- Basecamp: B 67.9, rank #220 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/basecamp.min.md
- Taiga: F 31.7, rank #830 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/taiga.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 Reliability, 74 against 17; Schema & documentation, 80 against 35; Agent ergonomics, 65 against 49; Security & auth, 67 against 37; Maintenance & community, 82 against 21; Transparency & trust, 79 against 64. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Runs on your own machine; Free to start without a card; No incidents deducted, where Taiga loses 3 points for them.
- Taiga, good for Small agile teams that want Scrum and Kanban with a free hosted plan or a self-hosted, open-source install in the EU. Also Open source.

| Category | Basecamp | Taiga |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 74 | 17 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 35 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 65 | 49 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 67 | 37 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 82 | 21 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 79 | 64 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Basecamp | Taiga |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | 37signals LLC | Taiga Cloud Services, S.L. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://3.basecampapi.com` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio | 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 | MPL-2.0 for the taiga-back source. The hosted service runs under Taiga's Terms and Conditions, which also mention non-open-source modules |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-07-02 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-09-16 | 2025-09-01 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-16 | no date given |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 286 stars, 3.1k npm/wk, 1.9k PyPI/wk | 858 stars |