# ClickUp vs Financial Cents MCP

> ClickUp scores 60.9 (C) to Financial Cents MCP's 39.7 (E) for issues and tasks. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-27

ClickUp scores 60.9 (C) on agent readiness against Financial Cents MCP's 39.7 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do issues and tasks.

- ClickUp: grade C, 60.9/100, rank #556 of 1212. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/clickup.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/clickup.json
- Financial Cents MCP: grade E, 39.7/100, rank #1093 of 1212. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/financial-cents-mcp.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/financial-cents-mcp.json
- Best project and task management tools for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/project-management/index.md
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## Which one, for what

### ClickUp (C)

Good for: Teams already working in ClickUp that want an assistant to create and update tasks, comment, log time and read Docs through one OAuth connection.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 74 against 23
- Schema & documentation, 74 against 40
- Payments & pricing, 30 against 25
- Transparency & trust, 75 against 53

Watch for: MCP calls are capped per rolling 24 hours without the Everything AI add-on, 100 on Free Forever and 300 on Unlimited, per Workspace and client

### Financial Cents MCP (E)

Good for: Accounting, bookkeeping and tax firms on Financial Cents Scale who want an assistant to answer workload, billing and client questions and log time or create tasks.

Also in its favour:
- Free to start without a card

Watch for: One OAuth scope, `mcp:use`, covers reads and every write, including sending, charging and voiding invoices


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | ClickUp | Financial Cents MCP | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 74 | 23 | ClickUp +51 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 74 | 40 | ClickUp +34 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 48 | 48 | even |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 64 | 61 | ClickUp +3 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 25 | ClickUp +5 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 54 | 50 | ClickUp +4 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 75 | 53 | ClickUp +22 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -2 | |
| **Total** | | **60.9 · C** | **39.7 · E** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | ClickUp | Financial Cents MCP |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | MCP server |
| Vendor | Mango Technologies, Inc. DBA ClickUp | Financial Cents LLC |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.clickup.com` | `https://app.financial-cents.com/mcp` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth |
| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary service under ClickUp's Terms of Service and Developer Terms. The clickup-plugin repository on GitHub is MIT | Proprietary hosted service under Financial Cents' terms of use, which are hosted on iubenda and weren't read because iubenda's robots.txt disallows them. No source is public |
| Tools exposed | 48 | 40 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-09-18 | 2026-10-05 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-06-27 |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-06-02 |  |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes |  |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (4) | none |

## Verdicts

**ClickUp.** The hosted MCP server uses OAuth 2.1 with PKCE, dynamic client registration and read and write scopes, and works on the Free Forever plan. Without the Everything AI add-on, MCP calls are capped at 100 to 25,000 per rolling 24 hours by plan. No API changelog, deprecation policy, official SDK or SLA was found.

**Financial Cents MCP.** The server gives assistants 40 tools over an accounting firm's Financial Cents data, under the user's own permissions and bound to one firm by OAuth. Tool descriptions are detailed and client chat is marked as untrusted. It can send and charge invoices with one undivided scope, and there's no status page, numeric MCP rate limit or readable tool schema.

## Before you call either

### ClickUp

1. Connect to https://mcp.clickup.com/mcp with OAuth 2.1 and PKCE. API keys and REST OAuth tokens are refused on the MCP server
2. Pass `workspace_id` on every MCP call when the user belongs to more than one Workspace, as ClickUp's own skills instruct
3. Budget MCP calls. Each tool call counts against the rolling 24-hour cap, and `RATE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED` returns `retryAfter`
4. On the REST API read `X-RateLimit-Remaining` and `X-RateLimit-Reset`, and page Get Tasks with `page` at 100 tasks a page
5. Treat `team_id` in API v2 as the Workspace ID, and send dates as Unix milliseconds

### Financial Cents MCP

1. Call `whoami` first and work out date windows from `user.timezone`, not `company.timezone`
2. Resolve clients and projects with `list_clients` or `list_projects` search, since `lookup` covers only reference data such as users, tags and service items
3. Check money units per tool. Invoices, payments, proposals and credit memos use integer cents, while time entries and service-item rates use dollars
4. Never retry a successful `invoice_actions`, `proposal_actions` or credit-memo create, since a second call can email or charge the client again
5. Get the person's approval before any write, and use `preview: true` before sending a proposal

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, ClickUp or Financial Cents MCP?

ClickUp scores 60.9 (C) on agent readiness against Financial Cents MCP's 39.7 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.

### Do ClickUp and Financial Cents MCP need an API key?

ClickUp takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Financial Cents MCP uses an OAuth sign-in.

### Can an agent call ClickUp and Financial Cents MCP without installing anything?

Yes. ClickUp has a hosted endpoint at https://api.clickup.com and Financial Cents MCP at https://app.financial-cents.com/mcp.


## For agents

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- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "clickup", "b": "financial-cents-mcp"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare clickup financial-cents-mcp`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/clickup.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/financial-cents-mcp.json

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