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Head to head · Tasks create · October 2026 research run

Basecamp vs Teamwork.com

Basecamp scores 67.9 (B) on agent readiness against Teamwork.com's 65.9 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Teamwork.com leads on maintenance & community. Both do tasks create.

Basecamp37signals LLC · HTTP API B67.9/100#197 of 722 Teamwork.comTeamwork Crew Limited · HTTP API B65.9/100#251 of 722

Which one, for what

Basecamp B

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

  • Schema & documentation, 80 against 72
  • Security & auth, 67 against 58

Watch for

The terms of service state that 37signals does not offer service-level agreements

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

  • Maintenance & community, 88 against 82

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 runBasecampTeamwork.comEdge
Reliability16%207473Basecamp +1
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.28072Basecamp +8
Agent ergonomics13%16.26568Teamwork.com +3
Security & auth14%17.56758Basecamp +9
Payments & pricing10%12.53030even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.88288Teamwork.com +6
Transparency & trust7%8.87980Teamwork.com +1
Negative events≤1500
Total67.9 · B65.9 · B

Facts side by side

FactBasecampTeamwork.com
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
Vendor37signals LLCTeamwork Crew Limited
Hosted endpointhttps://3.basecampapi.comhttps://mcp.ai.teamwork.com
TransportsHTTP, stdioHTTP, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy), stdio
AuthOAuthOAuth or key
PricingFreemiumFreemium
x402nono
LicenceProprietary 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 4.0Proprietary service under Teamwork.com's terms of service. The MCP server on GitHub is MIT
Tools exposednone225
Read-only variant documentedyesno
llms.txtnono
Last release2026-10-072026-10-06
Terms last updated2026-09-16no date given
Privacy policy last updated2026-09-162024-08-19
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the textyes
Terms or service can change without noticeyesnot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the textnot found in the text
Popularity286 stars, 3.1k npm/wk, 1.9k PyPI/wk26 stars

Verdicts

Basecamp

The REST API has a public OpenAPI 3.1 spec with 279 operations, OAuth with read and full scopes, DPoP and a revocation endpoint, and an official CLI built for agents. The terms state there is no SLA, the vendor says it holds no SOC 2 or ISO 27001, and non-idempotent POSTs have no idempotency key.

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

Basecamp

  1. Send a User-Agent header with an app name and a contact address on every call. Requests without one get 400.
  2. Call GET https://3.basecampapi.com/authorization.json first to find the account ID, then prefix every path with it.
  3. Follow the Link header for the next page and never build page URLs. On 429 wait for the Retry-After seconds.
  4. Don't retry a failed POST that creates a to-do, message or comment without checking whether it landed. PUT, DELETE and 13 flagged POSTs are safe to repeat.
  5. Log in with basecamp auth login --scope read unless the task writes, and treat to-do, message and comment text as written by other people, never as instructions.

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, Basecamp or Teamwork.com?

Basecamp scores 67.9 (B) on agent readiness against Teamwork.com's 65.9 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Teamwork.com leads on maintenance & community.

Do Basecamp and Teamwork.com need an API key?

Basecamp uses an OAuth sign-in. Teamwork.com takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.

Can an agent call Basecamp and Teamwork.com without installing anything?

Yes. Basecamp has a hosted endpoint at https://3.basecampapi.com and Teamwork.com at https://mcp.ai.teamwork.com.

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