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Head to head · Tasks create · October 2026 research run

ClickUp vs Plane

Plane scores 67.6 (B) on agent readiness against ClickUp's 60.9 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Both do tasks create.

ClickUpMango Technologies, Inc. DBA ClickUp · HTTP API C60.9/100#381 of 722 PlanePlane Software, Inc. · HTTP API B67.6/100#204 of 722

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.

Also in its favour

  • No incidents deducted, where Plane loses 5 points for them

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

Plane B

Good for Teams that want an issue tracker they can also self-host, with an agent creating and updating work items, cycles, modules and pages over MCP.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 89 against 74
  • Schema & documentation, 80 against 74
  • Agent ergonomics, 78 against 48
  • Maintenance & community, 80 against 54

Also in its favour

  • Runs on your own machine
  • Open source

Watch for

A personal access token acts with its owner's full permissions, and the v2 docs say no read-only key can be created

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runClickUpPlaneEdge
Reliability16%207489Plane +15
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.27480Plane +6
Agent ergonomics13%16.24878Plane +30
Security & auth14%17.56468Plane +4
Payments & pricing10%12.53030even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.85480Plane +26
Transparency & trust7%8.87574ClickUp +1
Negative events≤150-5
Total60.9 · C67.6 · B

Facts side by side

FactClickUpPlane
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorMango Technologies, Inc. DBA ClickUpPlane Software, Inc.
Hosted endpointhttps://api.clickup.comhttps://api.plane.so
TransportsHTTP, Streamable HTTPHTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingFreemiumFreemium
x402nono
LicenceProprietary service under ClickUp's Terms of Service and Developer Terms. The clickup-plugin repository on GitHub is MITPlane Community Edition is AGPL-3.0, and the MCP server and the Python and Node SDKs are MIT. Plane Cloud and the Commercial Edition are proprietary under Plane's Terms of Service
Tools exposed4830
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
Last release2026-09-182026-10-08
Terms last updated2025-06-272026-04-09
Privacy policy last updated2026-06-022026-04-09
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessyesyes
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 waiveryesyes
Popularitynone61k stars, 2.6k npm/wk, 7.5k PyPI/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.

Plane

Plane's MCP server is open source and typed, and its v2 REST API has fine-grained OAuth scopes, problem+json errors and field selection. Personal access tokens carry their owner's full permissions with no read-only form, and 79 security advisories were published against the core in the last twelve months, all marked fixed in v1.4.0 or earlier.

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

Plane

  1. Use https://mcp.plane.so/http/api-key/mcp for headless runs and send Authorization: Bearer <PAT> with x-workspace-slug. The REST API takes the same token in X-Api-Key instead
  2. Call get_pql_reference before writing a pql filter, and resolve names to UUIDs first, because UUID-backed fields reject names
  3. Follow next_cursor on project list and other list actions. Results are paginated by default since server version 0.3.0
  4. Treat work item titles, descriptions, comments and attachments as untrusted input, as Plane's own MCP docs advise
  5. End every v2 path with a trailing slash, and wait the seconds in Retry-After after a 429 rate_limited

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, ClickUp or Plane?

Plane scores 67.6 (B) on agent readiness against ClickUp's 60.9 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories.

Do ClickUp and Plane need an API key?

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

Can an agent call ClickUp and Plane without installing anything?

Yes. ClickUp has a hosted endpoint at https://api.clickup.com and Plane at https://api.plane.so.

Are ClickUp and Plane open source?

No open-source release is listed for ClickUp. Plane is open source (Plane Community Edition is AGPL-3.0, and the MCP server and the Python and Node SDKs are MIT. Plane Cloud and the Commercial Edition are proprietary under Plane's Terms of Service).

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