# ClickUp vs Plane (slim)

> 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. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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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.

- ClickUp: C 60.9, rank #381 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/clickup.min.md
- Plane: B 67.6, rank #204 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/plane.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. Also No incidents deducted, where Plane loses 5 points for them.
- Plane, 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 Runs on your own machine; Open source.

| Category | ClickUp | Plane |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 74 | 89 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 74 | 80 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 48 | 78 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 64 | 68 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 54 | 80 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 75 | 74 |

| Fact (where they differ) | ClickUp | Plane |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Mango Technologies, Inc. DBA ClickUp | Plane Software, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.clickup.com` | `https://api.plane.so` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |
| 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 |
| Tools exposed | 48 | 30 |
| Last release | 2026-09-18 | 2026-10-08 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-06-27 | 2026-04-09 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-06-02 | 2026-04-09 |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | none | 61k stars, 2.6k npm/wk, 7.5k PyPI/wk |