# ClickUp vs monday.com

> monday.com scores 76.4 (BB) on agent readiness against ClickUp's 60.9 (C), and leads in every scored category. Both do tasks create. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

- Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-monday
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- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-monday.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json)
- Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (full text: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt)
- API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json
- Updated: 2026-10-08

monday.com scores 76.4 (BB) on agent readiness against ClickUp's 60.9 (C), and leads in every scored category. Both do tasks create.

- ClickUp: grade C, 60.9/100, rank #336 of 629. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/clickup.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/clickup.json
- monday.com: grade BB, 76.4/100, rank #32 of 629. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/monday.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/monday.json

## 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.

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

### monday.com (BB)

Good for: Teams that already run projects on monday.com boards and want an agent to create items, change status, post updates and read board summaries through MCP or GraphQL.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 79 against 74
- Schema & documentation, 88 against 74
- Agent ergonomics, 82 against 48
- Security & auth, 70 against 64
- Payments & pricing, 50 against 30
- Maintenance & community, 85 against 54
- Transparency & trust, 80 against 75

Also in its favour:
- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better

Watch for: Personal API tokens have no scopes. Each carries every permission its user has in the app


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | ClickUp | monday.com | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 74 | 79 | monday.com +5 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 74 | 88 | monday.com +14 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 48 | 82 | monday.com +34 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 64 | 70 | monday.com +6 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 50 | monday.com +20 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 54 | 85 | monday.com +31 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 75 | 80 | monday.com +5 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **60.9 · C** | **76.4 · BB** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | ClickUp | monday.com |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Mango Technologies, Inc. DBA ClickUp | monday.com Ltd. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.clickup.com` | `https://api.monday.com/v2` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary service under ClickUp's Terms of Service and Developer Terms. The clickup-plugin repository on GitHub is MIT | Proprietary service under monday.com's Terms of Service and Developer Terms. The MCP server, agent toolkit and API SDK on GitHub are MIT |
| Tools exposed | 48 | 64 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | `com.monday/monday.com` |
| Last release | 2026-09-18 | 2026-10-07 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-06-27 | 2026-05-05 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-06-02 | 2026-10-01 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | yes |
| Popularity | none | 176k npm/wk |

## 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.

**monday.com.** The GraphQL API publishes its full schema, accepts an `Idempotency-Key` header on mutations and reports limits in `RateLimit` headers, and a documented signup API lets an agent create its own account and token. Personal tokens carry every permission their user has, daily calls stop at 1,000 below Pro, and the status page shows two long platform incidents since July 2026.

## 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

### monday.com

1. Send an `API-Version` header such as 2026-10 on every call. Without it the API uses whichever version is current
2. Read the board's columns first (`get_board_info` or `boards { columns }`), then write column values as a JSON string keyed by column ID
3. Reuse one `Idempotency-Key` per mutation when retrying after a timeout or 5xx. After a 429, wait for `Retry-After` or `retry_in_seconds`
4. Page items with `items_page` and `next_items_page`, at most 500 a page. Cursors expire after 60 minutes
5. For a narrower grant than a personal token, connect MCP through a custom OAuth app with only scopes such as `boards:read`

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, ClickUp or monday.com?

monday.com scores 76.4 (BB) on agent readiness against ClickUp's 60.9 (C), and leads in every scored category.

### Do ClickUp and monday.com need an API key?

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

### Can an agent call ClickUp and monday.com without installing anything?

Yes. ClickUp has a hosted endpoint at https://api.clickup.com and monday.com at https://api.monday.com/v2.


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-monday.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-monday.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "clickup", "b": "monday"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare clickup monday`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/clickup.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/monday.json

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