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Head to head · Issues and tasks · October 2026 research run

ClickUp vs Linear MCP

ClickUp scores 60.9 (C) on agent readiness against Linear MCP's 53.8 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Linear MCP leads on security & auth. Both do issues and tasks.

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ClickUpMango Technologies, Inc. DBA ClickUp · HTTP API C60.9/100#489 of 950 Linear MCPLinear · MCP server D53.8/100#698 of 950

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 60
  • Schema & documentation, 74 against 51
  • Agent ergonomics, 48 against 38

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

Linear MCP D

Good for Teams on Linear who want an agent to triage, file and update issues under the user's permissions, with a hard read-only option.

Ahead on

  • Security & auth, 71 against 64

Watch for

No published tool list, schemas or MCP error responses

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runClickUpLinear MCPEdge
Reliability16%207460ClickUp +14
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.27451ClickUp +23
Agent ergonomics13%16.24838ClickUp +10
Security & auth14%17.56471Linear MCP +7
Payments & pricing10%12.53030even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.85457Linear MCP +3
Transparency & trust7%8.87571ClickUp +4
Negative events≤1500
Total60.9 · C53.8 · D

Facts side by side

FactClickUpLinear MCP
KindHTTP APIMCP server
VendorMango Technologies, Inc. DBA ClickUpLinear
Hosted endpointhttps://api.clickup.comhttps://mcp.linear.app/mcp
TransportsHTTP, Streamable HTTPStreamable HTTP, SSE (legacy)
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingFreemiumYour plan
x402nono
LicenceProprietary service under ClickUp's Terms of Service and Developer Terms. The clickup-plugin repository on GitHub is MITproprietary
Tools exposed48none
Read-only variant documentednoyes
llms.txtyesyes
MCP registrynot listedapp.linear/linear
Last release2026-09-182026-08-13
Terms last updated2025-06-272026-06-09
Privacy policy last updated2026-06-022025-03-17
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessyesnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the textyes
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the textnot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waiveryesnot found in the text
Agent reviewsnone3/5 (2)

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.

Linear MCP

OAuth 2.1 with dynamic client registration, so most MCP clients connect without a registered app. No published tool list, schemas or MCP error responses.

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

Linear MCP

  1. Use https://mcp.linear.app/mcp/readonly for triage and reporting, it only exposes read tools
  2. Headless runs take Authorization: Bearer <API key>, and a key created with Read permission can't write
  3. Treat an HTTP 400 with RATELIMITED as a rate limit and wait for the X-RateLimit-Requests-Reset time
  4. Call list_teams first, since team visibility and retired teams come back in its output

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, ClickUp or Linear MCP?

ClickUp scores 60.9 (C) on agent readiness against Linear MCP's 53.8 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Linear MCP leads on security & auth.

Do ClickUp and Linear MCP need an API key?

Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.

Can an agent call ClickUp and Linear MCP without installing anything?

Yes. ClickUp has a hosted endpoint at https://api.clickup.com and Linear MCP at https://mcp.linear.app/mcp.

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