# ClickUp vs OpenProject (slim)

> ClickUp scores 60.9 (C) on agent readiness against OpenProject's 57.4 (C), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. OpenProject leads on agent ergonomics, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do tasks create. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side…

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ClickUp scores 60.9 (C) on agent readiness against OpenProject's 57.4 (C), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. OpenProject leads on agent ergonomics, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do tasks create.

- ClickUp: C 60.9, rank #442 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/clickup.min.md
- OpenProject: C 57.4, rank #550 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openproject.min.md
- ClickUp, 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 52; Security & auth, 64 against 59. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; No incidents deducted, where OpenProject loses 5 points for them.
- OpenProject, good for Teams that want a self-hostable or EU-hosted project tool with Gantt, time tracking and budgets, and an agent working through a documented REST API. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 70 against 48; Maintenance & community, 75 against 54; Transparency & trust, 87 against 75. Also Open source.

| Category | ClickUp | OpenProject |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 74 | 52 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 74 | 76 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 48 | 70 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 64 | 59 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 54 | 75 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 75 | 87 |

| Fact (where they differ) | ClickUp | OpenProject |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Mango Technologies, Inc. DBA ClickUp | OpenProject GmbH |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.clickup.com` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |
| Licence | Proprietary service under ClickUp's Terms of Service and Developer Terms. The clickup-plugin repository on GitHub is MIT | GPL-3.0 for the OpenProject source. Enterprise add-ons need a paid token, and OpenProject Enterprise cloud runs under OpenProject's Terms of Service |
| Tools exposed | 48 | none |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-09-18 | 2026-10-01 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-06-27 | 2026-08-06 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-06-02 | no date given |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | none | 16k stars |