{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "clickup", "name": "ClickUp", "vendor": "Mango Technologies, Inc. DBA ClickUp", "vendorUrl": "https://clickup.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "project-management", "summary": "ClickUp is a work management platform for tasks, docs, chat and time tracking. Agents reach it through a hosted MCP server at mcp.clickup.com and a public REST API (v2 and v3), both available on every plan.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/clickup", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/clickup.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/clickup.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/clickup.json", "repo": "https://github.com/clickup/clickup-plugin", "license": "Proprietary service under ClickUp's Terms of Service and Developer Terms. The clickup-plugin repository on GitHub is MIT", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.clickup.com", "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Access is self-serve. The MCP server at https://mcp.clickup.com/mcp accepts only OAuth 2.1 with PKCE, with dynamic client registration and read and write scopes, and refuses API keys. The REST API takes a personal token (`pk_`, generated under Settings, Apps) or an OAuth 2.0 authorisation code token from an app that a Workspace owner or admin creates. Neither REST token expires or carries scopes. Users choose the Workspaces they authorise, and calls act with that user's permissions. No app review or partner approval is described.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free Forever includes the API and the MCP server, so an agent can start without a contract. Unlimited is $7 a seat a month billed yearly or $10 monthly, Business $12 or $19, Enterprise through sales. API calls are not priced. Without the Everything AI add-on ($28 a seat a month as shown) MCP is capped per rolling 24 hours, from 100 calls on Free Forever to 25,000 on Enterprise Plus. No separate sandbox was found (https://clickup.com/pricing, checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "$7 / seat-mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the developer docs, the OpenAPI specs or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 48, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://developer.clickup.com", "llmsTxt": "https://developer.clickup.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://developer.clickup.com/openapi/clickup-api-v2-reference.json", "capabilities": [ "tasks.create", "tasks.update", "projects.manage", "tasks.comments", "projects.reporting", "work.docs", "work.chat" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "mcp", "oauth", "openapi", "llms-txt", "freemium", "free-tier", "webhooks", "status-page", "soc2", "project-management" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-18", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 60.9, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 381, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 8, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 48, "maintenance": 54, "payments": 30, "reliability": 74, "schema": 74, "security": 64, "transparency": 75 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "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.", "bestFor": "Teams already working in ClickUp that want an assistant to create and update tasks, comment, log time and read Docs through one OAuth connection.", "strengths": [ "Hosted MCP server at mcp.clickup.com/mcp with OAuth 2.1, PKCE (S256), dynamic client registration and read and write scopes", "Public OpenAPI specs for API v2 (138 operations) and v3 (35), plus llms.txt and a Markdown copy of every docs page", "API and MCP server available on every plan, including Free Forever", "Rate limits published per plan for the API (100 to 10,000 requests a minute per token) and for MCP", "security.txt valid until 1 September 2027, a disclosure policy with safe harbour, SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 stated" ], "weaknesses": [ "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", "Personal API tokens and REST OAuth tokens never expire and carry no scopes", "No API changelog or deprecation policy found, and the Developer Terms state no obligation to maintain the API", "No official SDK and no idempotency keys found, and no entry under a ClickUp namespace in the official MCP registry", "48 documented MCP tools, and the tools page lists Delete task while the MCP FAQ says no deletion tools exist" ], "agentNotes": [ "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", "Pass `workspace_id` on every MCP call when the user belongs to more than one Workspace, as ClickUp's own skills instruct", "Budget MCP calls. Each tool call counts against the rolling 24-hour cap, and `RATE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED` returns `retryAfter`", "On the REST API read `X-RateLimit-Remaining` and `X-RateLimit-Reset`, and page Get Tasks with `page` at 100 tasks a page", "Treat `team_id` in API v2 as the Workspace ID, and send dates as Unix milliseconds" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 60.9 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 48, "maintenance": 54, "payments": 30, "reliability": 74, "schema": 74, "security": 64, "transparency": 52 }, "provenanceScore": 97 }, "connect": { "http": "curl https://api.clickup.com/api/v2/team -H \"Authorization: $CLICKUP_API_TOKEN\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http clickup https://mcp.clickup.com/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "clickup": { "url": "https://mcp.clickup.com/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/tasks.create", "tool": "https://letme.dev/clickup" }, "area": "business", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Free Forever (API and MCP included)", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 0, "note": "100 MCP calls per rolling 24 hours" }, { "item": "Unlimited", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 7, "note": "billed yearly; $10 billed monthly" }, { "item": "Business", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 12, "note": "billed yearly; $19 billed monthly" }, { "item": "Everything AI add-on", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 28, "note": "as shown on 2026-10-08; lifts the MCP daily caps to the API limits" }, { "item": "AI Super Credits", "unit": "credit", "usd": 0.001, "note": "$10 per 10,000; MCP calls do not use them" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Mango Technologies, Inc. DBA ClickUp", "domain": "clickup.com", "domainRegistered": "2001-07-05", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://clickup.com/terms", "privacy": "https://clickup.com/terms/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.clickup.com", "changelog": "https://feedback.clickup.com/changelog", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The Terms of Service (effective 27 June 2025) and the privacy policy (effective 2 June 2026) name Mango Technologies, Inc. DBA ClickUp, 350 Tenth Ave, 5th floor, San Diego, CA 92101.", "The API answers at api.clickup.com and the MCP server at mcp.clickup.com, both clickup.com subdomains.", "clickup.com/.well-known/security.txt lists security@clickup.com and expires on 1 September 2027. It is not signed.", "The changelog link is the product changelog. No API changelog was found, and developer.clickup.com/changelog returns 404.", "RDAP for clickup.com gives a registration date of 2001-07-05." ], "score": 97 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/clickup.json", "live": { "slug": "clickup", "probe": { "target": "https://api.clickup.com", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:07.461405831Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 46, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 40, "p95ms24h": 66, "samples24h": 64, "samples30d": 64, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 64, "ok": 64 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.clickup.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T21:05:54.125344879Z" }, "githubStars": 2, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://clickup.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "expires": "2027-09-01T00:00:00.000Z", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:36.792376652Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://feedback.clickup.com/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:20:17.32513086Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "a2ab6d600540" }, { "url": "https://clickup.com/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:16:10.891024498Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "0aeb562d06bc" }, { "url": "https://clickup.com/terms/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:16:15.118233054Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "af2e356a9bb6" }, { "url": "https://clickup.com/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:16:12.939041869Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "c6fe50dc7cfb" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:07.461405831Z" } }, "answer": "Plane scores 67.6 (B) on agent readiness against ClickUp's 60.9 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories.", "b": { "slug": "plane", "name": "Plane", "vendor": "Plane Software, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://plane.so", "kind": "http-api", "category": "project-management", "summary": "Plane is an open-source project management platform for work items, cycles, modules and pages, sold as a cloud service and for self-hosting. Agents reach it through an MIT-licensed MCP server, hosted at mcp.plane.so, and a REST API.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/plane", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/plane.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/plane.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/plane.json", "repo": "https://github.com/makeplane/plane", "license": "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", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http", "stdio" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.plane.so", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "plane-mcp-server" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "plane-sdk" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@makeplane/plane-node-sdk" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Access is self-serve. The hosted MCP server at `https://mcp.plane.so/http/mcp` uses OAuth with PKCE (S256), dynamic client registration and two scopes, read and write, and its redirect allowlist covers Cursor, VS Code, Antigravity, Claude.ai, ChatGPT and localhost. A second endpoint, `https://mcp.plane.so/http/api-key/mcp`, takes a personal or workspace access token in `Authorization: Bearer` with an `x-workspace-slug` header. The REST API takes the same token in `X-Api-Key`, or an OAuth 2.0 bearer token from a Plane app with any of 83 fine-grained scopes. Personal access tokens can expire but are not scope-limited. No app review or partner approval is described.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "The Free cloud plan covers up to 12 users, and the MCP server itself is free, so an agent can start without a contract. Pro is $6 a seat a month billed yearly or $8 monthly, Business $13 or $15, and Enterprise Grid is quoted on request. API and MCP calls are not priced. Self-hosting the Community Edition is free. No separate sandbox was found, and the pricing page does not say which plans include the REST API (https://plane.so/pricing, checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "$6 / seat-mo", "where": "both", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the developer docs, the MCP server repository or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 30, "popularity": { "githubStars": 60544, "npmWeekly": 2649, "pypiWeekly": 7528, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://developers.plane.so", "llmsTxt": "https://developers.plane.so/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "tasks.create", "tasks.update", "projects.manage", "tasks.comments", "projects.reporting", "work.docs", "events.webhooks-send" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "self-hosted", "open-source", "mcp", "oauth", "llms-txt", "freemium", "free-tier", "webhooks", "status-page", "soc2", "python", "typescript", "project-management" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-08", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 67.6, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 204, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 4, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 78, "maintenance": 80, "payments": 30, "reliability": 89, "schema": 80, "security": 68, "transparency": 74 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": -5, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-08-03. Six advisories rated critical were published against makeplane/plane, among them a pre-authentication workspace invitation hijack (GHSA-4vj8-p63v-8p24), account takeover through an unverified OAuth email match (GHSA-7j95-vh8g-f365) and a magic-code endpoint with no rate limit (GHSA-mqjv-rwgv-4gxq). All are marked fixed in v1.4.0 of 31 July 2026 and were published by Plane, so the deduction is reduced, -3 (https://github.com/makeplane/plane/security/advisories).", "2026-09-28. 62 more advisories were published in one day, 31 of them high and none critical, mostly missing project or workspace checks that let one tenant's member read or change another's assets, pages and members, some in the v1 REST API. All 62 are marked fixed in v1.4.0. The advisories do not say when Plane Cloud was patched. Fixed and published, -2 (https://github.com/makeplane/plane/security/advisories)." ], "verdict": "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.", "bestFor": "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.", "strengths": [ "The MCP server is MIT, with 30 typed tools covering 207 actions and `readOnlyHint` and `destructiveHint` annotations derived from each tool's actions", "OAuth apps on the REST API can request any of 83 fine-grained read and write scopes, and a token without the scope is refused before the permission check", "API v2 answers errors as `application/problem+json` with a stable `code`, per-field validation errors and `Retry-After` on 429", "status.plane.so lists no incident since March 2026, and the SLA sets 99.5 per cent monthly uptime with service credits on Business and Enterprise", "Five MCP server releases between 14 August and 8 October 2026, and Python and Node SDKs both released on 22 September 2026" ], "weaknesses": [ "A personal access token acts with its owner's full permissions, and the v2 docs say no read-only key can be created", "79 advisories published against makeplane/plane since October 2025, six rated critical on 3 August 2026, most of them cross-project or cross-workspace access flaws", "The hosted OAuth flow accepts only allow-listed redirect URIs (Cursor, VS Code, Antigravity, Claude.ai, ChatGPT and localhost), per the docs and open issue 220", "No OpenAPI document could be read from Plane Cloud. `/api/schema/` and `/api/v2/schema/` both returned 404 without a key", "API v2 covers part of the product only, so projects, pages and intake still go through v1 with its 60 requests a minute limit" ], "agentNotes": [ "Use `https://mcp.plane.so/http/api-key/mcp` for headless runs and send `Authorization: Bearer \u003cPAT\u003e` with `x-workspace-slug`. The REST API takes the same token in `X-Api-Key` instead", "Call `get_pql_reference` before writing a `pql` filter, and resolve names to UUIDs first, because UUID-backed fields reject names", "Follow `next_cursor` on `project list` and other list actions. Results are paginated by default since server version 0.3.0", "Treat work item titles, descriptions, comments and attachments as untrusted input, as Plane's own MCP docs advise", "End every v2 path with a trailing slash, and wait the seconds in `Retry-After` after a 429 `rate_limited`" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 67.6 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 78, "maintenance": 80, "payments": 30, "reliability": 89, "schema": 80, "security": 68, "transparency": 77 }, "provenanceScore": 70 }, "connect": { "install": "uvx plane-mcp-server stdio", "http": "curl \"https://api.plane.so/api/v2/users/me/\" -H \"X-Api-Key: $PLANE_API_KEY\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http plane https://mcp.plane.so/http/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "plane": { "url": "https://mcp.plane.so/http/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/tasks.create", "tool": "https://letme.dev/plane" }, "area": "business", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Free (cloud, up to 12 users)", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 0, "note": "MCP server free to use; plan limits apply" }, { "item": "Pro", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 6, "note": "billed yearly; $8 billed monthly" }, { "item": "Business", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 13, "note": "billed yearly; $15 billed monthly" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Plane Software, Inc.", "domain": "plane.so", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://plane.so/legals/terms-and-conditions", "privacy": "https://plane.so/legals/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.plane.so", "changelog": "https://plane.so/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The Terms of Service and the privacy policy (both last updated 9 April 2026) name Plane Software, Inc., a Delaware corporation, 651 N Broad St, Suite 201, Middletown, Delaware 19709. The terms cover the cloud, self-hosted and air-gapped service, APIs included.", "The privacy policy covers Plane as controller. Customer data in a cloud workspace is governed by the Data Processing Addendum at https://plane.so/legals/dpa.", "The REST API answers at api.plane.so and the MCP server at mcp.plane.so, both plane.so subdomains.", "plane.so/.well-known/security.txt returned 404. SECURITY.md in the makeplane/plane and plane-mcp-server repositories sends reports to security@plane.so.", "The changelog link is the product changelog, with entries about twice a month. MCP server releases are listed at https://github.com/makeplane/plane-mcp-server/releases.", "No RDAP service answers for the .so registry, so the domain registration date was not established." ], "score": 70 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/plane.json", "live": { "slug": "plane", "probe": { "target": "https://api.plane.so", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:18.795751542Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 200, "lastMs": 348, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 348, "p95ms24h": 413, "samples24h": 21, "samples30d": 21, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 21, "ok": 21 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.plane.so", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T21:06:22.484972267Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:18.795751542Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Mango Technologies, Inc. DBA ClickUp", "b": "Plane Software, Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.clickup.com", "b": "https://api.plane.so", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary service under ClickUp's Terms of Service and Developer Terms. The clickup-plugin repository on GitHub is MIT", "b": "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", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "48", "b": "30", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-09-18", "b": "2026-10-08", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2025-06-27", "b": "2026-04-09", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-06-02", "b": "2026-04-09", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "none", "b": "61k stars, 2.6k npm/wk, 7.5k PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Plane scores 67.6 (B) on agent readiness against ClickUp's 60.9 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, ClickUp or Plane?" }, { "answer": "Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do ClickUp and Plane need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. ClickUp has a hosted endpoint at https://api.clickup.com and Plane at https://api.plane.so.", "question": "Can an agent call ClickUp and Plane without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "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).", "question": "Are ClickUp and Plane open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": null, "also": [ "No incidents deducted, where Plane loses 5 points for them" ], "goodFor": "Teams already working in ClickUp that want an assistant to create and update tasks, comment, log time and read Docs through one OAuth connection.", "slug": "clickup", "watchFor": "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" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 89 against 74", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 80 against 74", "Agent ergonomics, 78 against 48", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 80 against 54" ], "also": [ "Runs on your own machine", "Open source" ], "goodFor": "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.", "slug": "plane", "watchFor": "A personal access token acts with its owner's full permissions, and the v2 docs say no read-only key can be created" } ], "job": { "capability": "tasks.create", "name": "Tasks create" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asana-vs-clickup.json", "title": "Asana vs ClickUp", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asana-vs-clickup" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asana-vs-plane.json", "title": "Asana vs Plane", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asana-vs-plane" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/basecamp-vs-clickup.json", "title": "Basecamp vs ClickUp", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/basecamp-vs-clickup" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/basecamp-vs-plane.json", "title": "Basecamp vs Plane", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/basecamp-vs-plane" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-monday.json", "title": "ClickUp vs monday.com", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-monday" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-roma.json", "title": "ClickUp vs Roma", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-roma" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-shortcut.json", "title": "ClickUp vs Shortcut", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-shortcut" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-teamwork.json", "title": "ClickUp vs Teamwork.com", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-teamwork" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-todoist.json", "title": "ClickUp vs Todoist", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-todoist" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-trello.json", "title": "ClickUp vs Trello", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-trello" }, { "json": 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plane-vs-teamwork" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plane-vs-todoist.json", "title": "Plane vs Todoist", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plane-vs-todoist" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plane-vs-trello.json", "title": "Plane vs Trello", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plane-vs-trello" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plane-vs-wrike.json", "title": "Plane vs Wrike", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plane-vs-wrike" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plane-vs-youtrack.json", "title": "Plane vs YouTrack", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plane-vs-youtrack" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 15, "clickup": 74, "edge": "plane", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "plane": 89, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 6, "clickup": 74, "edge": "plane", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "plane": 80, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 30, "clickup": 48, "edge": "plane", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "plane": 78, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 4, "clickup": 64, "edge": "plane", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "plane": 68, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 0, "clickup": 30, "edge": "", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "plane": 30, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 26, "clickup": 54, "edge": "plane", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "plane": 80, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 1, "clickup": 75, "edge": "clickup", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "plane": 74, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "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.", "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." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-plane", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-plane.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-plane.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-plane.min.md" }, "markdown": "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.\n\n- ClickUp: grade C, 60.9/100, rank #381 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/clickup.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/clickup.json\n- Plane: grade B, 67.6/100, rank #204 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/plane.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/plane.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### ClickUp (C)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No incidents deducted, where Plane loses 5 points for them\n\nWatch 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\n\n### Plane (B)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 89 against 74\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 80 against 74\n- Agent ergonomics, 78 against 48\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 80 against 54\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Runs on your own machine\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: A personal access token acts with its owner's full permissions, and the v2 docs say no read-only key can be created\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | ClickUp | Plane | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 74 | 89 | Plane +15 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 74 | 80 | Plane +6 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 48 | 78 | Plane +30 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 64 | 68 | Plane +4 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 30 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 54 | 80 | Plane +26 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 75 | 74 | ClickUp +1 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -5 | |\n| **Total** | | **60.9 · C** | **67.6 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | ClickUp | Plane |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Mango Technologies, Inc. DBA ClickUp | Plane Software, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.clickup.com` | `https://api.plane.so` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under ClickUp's Terms of Service and Developer Terms. The clickup-plugin repository on GitHub is MIT | 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 |\n| Tools exposed | 48 | 30 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-09-18 | 2026-10-08 |\n| Terms last updated | 2025-06-27 | 2026-04-09 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-06-02 | 2026-04-09 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | yes |\n| Popularity | none | 61k stars, 2.6k npm/wk, 7.5k PyPI/wk |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**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.\n\n**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.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### ClickUp\n\n1. 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\n2. Pass `workspace_id` on every MCP call when the user belongs to more than one Workspace, as ClickUp's own skills instruct\n3. Budget MCP calls. Each tool call counts against the rolling 24-hour cap, and `RATE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED` returns `retryAfter`\n4. On the REST API read `X-RateLimit-Remaining` and `X-RateLimit-Reset`, and page Get Tasks with `page` at 100 tasks a page\n5. Treat `team_id` in API v2 as the Workspace ID, and send dates as Unix milliseconds\n\n### Plane\n\n1. Use `https://mcp.plane.so/http/api-key/mcp` for headless runs and send `Authorization: Bearer \u003cPAT\u003e` with `x-workspace-slug`. The REST API takes the same token in `X-Api-Key` instead\n2. Call `get_pql_reference` before writing a `pql` filter, and resolve names to UUIDs first, because UUID-backed fields reject names\n3. Follow `next_cursor` on `project list` and other list actions. Results are paginated by default since server version 0.3.0\n4. Treat work item titles, descriptions, comments and attachments as untrusted input, as Plane's own MCP docs advise\n5. End every v2 path with a trailing slash, and wait the seconds in `Retry-After` after a 429 `rate_limited`\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, ClickUp or Plane?\n\nPlane scores 67.6 (B) on agent readiness against ClickUp's 60.9 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories.\n\n### Do ClickUp and Plane need an API key?\n\nBoth take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call ClickUp and Plane without installing anything?\n\nYes. ClickUp has a hosted endpoint at https://api.clickup.com and Plane at https://api.plane.so.\n\n### Are ClickUp and Plane open source?\n\nNo 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. 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From a terminal: `anchor compare clickup plane`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/clickup.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/plane.json\n\n## Other comparisons with ClickUp or Plane\n\n- [Asana vs ClickUp](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asana-vs-clickup.md)\n- [Asana vs Plane](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asana-vs-plane.md)\n- [Basecamp vs ClickUp](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/basecamp-vs-clickup.md)\n- [Basecamp vs Plane](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/basecamp-vs-plane.md)\n- [ClickUp vs monday.com](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-monday.md)\n- [ClickUp vs Roma](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-roma.md)\n- [ClickUp vs Shortcut](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-shortcut.md)\n- [ClickUp vs Teamwork.com](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-teamwork.md)\n- [ClickUp vs Todoist](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-todoist.md)\n- [ClickUp vs Trello](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-trello.md)\n- [ClickUp vs Wrike](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-wrike.md)\n- [ClickUp vs YouTrack](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-youtrack.md)\n- [monday.com vs Plane](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/monday-vs-plane.md)\n- [Plane vs Roma](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plane-vs-roma.md)\n- [Plane vs Shortcut](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plane-vs-shortcut.md)\n- [Plane vs Teamwork.com](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plane-vs-teamwork.md)\n- [Plane vs Todoist](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plane-vs-todoist.md)\n- [Plane vs Trello](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plane-vs-trello.md)\n- [Plane vs Wrike](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plane-vs-wrike.md)\n- [Plane vs YouTrack](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plane-vs-youtrack.md)\n", "meta": { "attribution": "Anchor Terminal (https://www.anchorterminal.com)", "docs": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/docs/", "generatedAt": "2026-10-08", "license": "CC-BY-4.0", "method": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/", "methodology": "0.4", "openapi": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/openapi.json", "preview": false, "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run" }, "page": { "breadcrumbs": [ { "name": "Home", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/" }, { "name": "Compare", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/" }, { "name": "ClickUp vs Plane", "url": "" } ], "description": "Plane scores 67.6 (B) on agent readiness against ClickUp's 60.9 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. 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