{ "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": "ClickUp and Shortcut score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 60.9 (C) and 60.2 (C). Shortcut leads on agent ergonomics and maintenance \u0026 community.", "b": { "slug": "shortcut", "name": "Shortcut", "vendor": "Shortcut Software Company", "vendorUrl": "https://www.shortcut.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "project-management", "summary": "Shortcut is a hosted project tracker for software teams, with stories, epics, iterations, objectives and docs. Agents reach it through REST API v3 with a personal token, or the hosted MCP server at mcp.shortcut.com/mcp with OAuth.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shortcut", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shortcut.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shortcut.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/shortcut.json", "repo": "https://github.com/useshortcut/shortcut-client-js", "license": "Proprietary service under Shortcut's terms of service. The JavaScript client and the archived MCP server on GitHub are MIT", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.app.shortcut.com", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@shortcut/client" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Self-serve. Any workspace member creates an API token under Settings, API Tokens, with no app review. REST API v3 takes it in the `Shortcut-Token` header, and tokens can be read-only or read-write since 20 January 2026. An Observer's token can read but not change data. The hosted MCP server at mcp.shortcut.com/mcp takes OAuth only (authorisation code with PKCE, dynamic client registration) with the scopes read, write, story-write, comment-write and admin, and access can be revoked in Shortcut settings. The v4 alpha uses `Authorization: Bearer` with `sct_ro_` or `sct_rw_` tokens.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "The API, webhooks and the MCP server are listed on every plan, and Shortcut charges nothing per call. Free is $0 for up to 10 users, Team $8.50 a user a month billed yearly ($10 monthly), Business $12 ($16 monthly), and Enterprise is quoted by sales. A 14-day trial needs no card, so an agent's owner can start on Free or the trial without a contract (checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "$8.50 / seat-mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the API reference, the OpenAPI files, llms.txt or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 142, "npmWeekly": 102825, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://developer.shortcut.com/api/rest/v3", "llmsTxt": "https://www.shortcut.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://developer.shortcut.com/api/rest/v3/shortcut.openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "tasks.create", "tasks.update", "projects.manage", "tasks.comments", "projects.reporting", "automation.webhooks" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "mcp", "oauth", "openapi", "llms-txt", "webhooks", "freemium", "free-tier", "no-card", "closed-source", "typescript", "status-page", "soc2" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-22", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 60.2, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 411, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 9, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 57, "maintenance": 73, "payments": 30, "reliability": 64, "schema": 75, "security": 54, "transparency": 73 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "REST API v3 and the hosted MCP server are included on the Free plan, with downloadable OpenAPI files and OAuth scopes down to story or comment writes on the MCP side. The API still accepts the token in a query string, and no idempotency keys, Retry-After header, uptime SLA or API changelog were found in the reviewed documentation.", "bestFor": "Software teams already on Shortcut that want an agent to search, create and update stories, epics, iterations and docs, and coding agents that pick up assigned stories.", "strengths": [ "REST API v3, webhooks and the MCP server are listed on every plan, Free (up to 10 users) among them, and the 14-day trial needs no card", "Swagger 2.0 and OpenAPI 3.0 files for v3 (143 operations) are downloadable, with enums, string limits and required fields", "The hosted MCP server uses OAuth with PKCE, dynamic client registration and the scopes read, write, story-write, comment-write and admin", "API tokens can be read-only or read-write since 20 January 2026, and Observers' tokens can read but not change data", "status.shortcut.com has separate API and Shortcut MCP components with incident history back to 2023" ], "weaknesses": [ "The v3 docs still allow the API token as a `token` query parameter, marked deprecated with no removal date", "No idempotency keys, Retry-After header or backoff guidance found. The docs state only 200 requests a minute and a 429", "No API changelog or deprecation policy found. API changes appear as lines in the product release notes", "The open-source MCP server is archived at v0.25.0, and the hosted server's tool list can't be read without a Shortcut account", "One official SDK, `@shortcut/client` for JavaScript and TypeScript, and no vendor entry in the official MCP registry" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send the v3 token in the `Shortcut-Token` header. v4 (alpha) takes `Authorization: Bearer` with `sct_ro_` or `sct_rw_` tokens, and v3 tokens don't work there.", "Create a story with `name` and `workflow_state_id`. Sending both `workflow_state_id` and `project_id`, or neither, is rejected.", "Use `GET /api/v3/search/stories` with `detail=slim`, `page_size` (1 to 250) and the `next` token. Many other v3 list endpoints return every record at once.", "Stay under 200 requests a minute and add your own backoff on 429, because no Retry-After header is documented.", "For MCP, connect to https://mcp.shortcut.com/mcp and request only the scopes needed, such as `read` or `story-write`." ], "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": 60.2 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 57, "maintenance": 73, "payments": 30, "reliability": 64, "schema": 75, "security": 54, "transparency": 57 }, "provenanceScore": 88 }, "connect": { "install": "npm install @shortcut/client", "http": "curl -X GET -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -H \"Shortcut-Token: $SHORTCUT_API_TOKEN\" -L \"https://api.app.shortcut.com/api/v3/categories\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http shortcut https://mcp.shortcut.com/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "shortcut": { "url": "https://mcp.shortcut.com/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/tasks.create", "tool": "https://letme.dev/shortcut" }, "area": "business", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Free (API, webhooks and MCP server included)", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 0, "note": "up to 10 users, 5 GB of storage" }, { "item": "Team, billed yearly", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 8.5, "note": "$10 billed monthly, as shown on 2026-10-08" }, { "item": "Business, billed yearly", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 12, "note": "$16 billed monthly, as shown on 2026-10-08" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Shortcut Software Company", "domain": "shortcut.com", "domainRegistered": "1997-08-01", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.shortcut.com/terms/", "privacy": "https://www.shortcut.com/privacy/", "statusPage": "https://status.shortcut.com", "changelog": "https://www.shortcut.com/release-notes/", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The terms of service (effective 18 September 2025) name Shortcut Software Company, govern the Service on shortcut.com and korey.ai, and are under New York law. The GDPR notice gives the address 201 Allen St, Unit #10004, New York, NY 10002.", "The privacy policy (effective 11 July 2025) covers the websites, the app and the platform.", "The API answers at api.app.shortcut.com and the MCP server at mcp.shortcut.com.", "www.shortcut.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. Reports go to security@shortcut.com under the disclosure policy at shortcut.com/disclosure.", "The changelog link is the product release notes. No separate API changelog was found.", "RDAP for shortcut.com gives a registration date of 1997-08-01. Shortcut was named Clubhouse until September 2021 per its llms.txt." ], "score": 88 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shortcut.json", "live": { "slug": "shortcut", "probe": { "target": "https://api.app.shortcut.com", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:21.490163068Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 200, "lastMs": 247, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 252, "p95ms24h": 306, "samples24h": 21, "samples30d": 21, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 21, "ok": 21 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.shortcut.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T21:06:25.985770991Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:21.490163068Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Mango Technologies, Inc. DBA ClickUp", "b": "Shortcut Software Company", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.clickup.com", "b": "https://api.app.shortcut.com", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "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": "Proprietary service under Shortcut's terms of service. The JavaScript client and the archived MCP server on GitHub are MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "48", "b": "none", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-09-18", "b": "2026-09-22", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2025-06-27", "b": "2025-09-18", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-06-02", "b": "2025-07-11", "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": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "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": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "none", "b": "142 stars, 103k npm/wk", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "ClickUp and Shortcut score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 60.9 (C) and 60.2 (C). Shortcut leads on agent ergonomics and maintenance \u0026 community.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, ClickUp or Shortcut?" }, { "answer": "Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do ClickUp and Shortcut need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. ClickUp has a hosted endpoint at https://api.clickup.com and Shortcut at https://api.app.shortcut.com.", "question": "Can an agent call ClickUp and Shortcut without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 74 against 64", "Security \u0026 auth, 64 against 54" ], "also": null, "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": [ "Agent ergonomics, 57 against 48", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 73 against 54" ], "also": [ "Free to start without a card" ], "goodFor": "Software teams already on Shortcut that want an agent to search, create and update stories, epics, iterations and docs, and coding agents that pick up assigned stories.", "slug": "shortcut", "watchFor": "The v3 docs still allow the API token as a `token` query parameter, marked deprecated with no removal date" } ], "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-shortcut.json", "title": "Asana vs Shortcut", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asana-vs-shortcut" }, { "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-shortcut.json", "title": "Basecamp vs Shortcut", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/basecamp-vs-shortcut" }, { "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-plane.json", "title": "ClickUp vs Plane", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-plane" }, { "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-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": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-wrike.json", "title": "ClickUp vs Wrike", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-wrike" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-youtrack.json", "title": "ClickUp vs YouTrack", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-youtrack" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/monday-vs-shortcut.json", "title": "monday.com vs Shortcut", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/monday-vs-shortcut" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plane-vs-shortcut.json", "title": "Plane vs Shortcut", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plane-vs-shortcut" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/roma-vs-shortcut.json", "title": "Roma vs Shortcut", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/roma-vs-shortcut" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/shortcut-vs-teamwork.json", "title": "Shortcut vs Teamwork.com", "url": 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"by": 1, "clickup": 74, "edge": "shortcut", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "shortcut": 75, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 9, "clickup": 48, "edge": "shortcut", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "shortcut": 57, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 10, "clickup": 64, "edge": "clickup", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "shortcut": 54, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 0, "clickup": 30, "edge": "", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "shortcut": 30, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 19, "clickup": 54, "edge": "shortcut", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "shortcut": 73, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 2, "clickup": 75, "edge": "clickup", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "shortcut": 73, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "ClickUp and Shortcut score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 60.9 (C) and 60.2 (C). Shortcut leads on agent ergonomics and maintenance \u0026 community. 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.", "shortcut": "REST API v3 and the hosted MCP server are included on the Free plan, with downloadable OpenAPI files and OAuth scopes down to story or comment writes on the MCP side. The API still accepts the token in a query string, and no idempotency keys, Retry-After header, uptime SLA or API changelog were found in the reviewed documentation." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-shortcut", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-shortcut.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-shortcut.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-shortcut.min.md" }, "markdown": "ClickUp and Shortcut score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 60.9 (C) and 60.2 (C). Shortcut leads on agent ergonomics and maintenance \u0026 community. 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- Shortcut: grade C, 60.2/100, rank #411 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shortcut.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/shortcut.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\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 74 against 64\n- Security \u0026 auth, 64 against 54\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### Shortcut (C)\n\nGood for: Software teams already on Shortcut that want an agent to search, create and update stories, epics, iterations and docs, and coding agents that pick up assigned stories.\n\nAhead on:\n- Agent ergonomics, 57 against 48\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 73 against 54\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: The v3 docs still allow the API token as a `token` query parameter, marked deprecated with no removal date\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | ClickUp | Shortcut | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 74 | 64 | ClickUp +10 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 74 | 75 | Shortcut +1 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 48 | 57 | Shortcut +9 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 64 | 54 | ClickUp +10 |\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 | 73 | Shortcut +19 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 75 | 73 | ClickUp +2 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **60.9 · C** | **60.2 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | ClickUp | Shortcut |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Mango Technologies, Inc. DBA ClickUp | Shortcut Software Company |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.clickup.com` | `https://api.app.shortcut.com` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\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 | Proprietary service under Shortcut's terms of service. The JavaScript client and the archived MCP server on GitHub are MIT |\n| Tools exposed | 48 | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-09-18 | 2026-09-22 |\n| Terms last updated | 2025-06-27 | 2025-09-18 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-06-02 | 2025-07-11 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not found in the text |\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 | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | none | 142 stars, 103k npm/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**Shortcut.** REST API v3 and the hosted MCP server are included on the Free plan, with downloadable OpenAPI files and OAuth scopes down to story or comment writes on the MCP side. The API still accepts the token in a query string, and no idempotency keys, Retry-After header, uptime SLA or API changelog were found in the reviewed documentation.\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### Shortcut\n\n1. Send the v3 token in the `Shortcut-Token` header. v4 (alpha) takes `Authorization: Bearer` with `sct_ro_` or `sct_rw_` tokens, and v3 tokens don't work there.\n2. Create a story with `name` and `workflow_state_id`. Sending both `workflow_state_id` and `project_id`, or neither, is rejected.\n3. Use `GET /api/v3/search/stories` with `detail=slim`, `page_size` (1 to 250) and the `next` token. Many other v3 list endpoints return every record at once.\n4. Stay under 200 requests a minute and add your own backoff on 429, because no Retry-After header is documented.\n5. For MCP, connect to https://mcp.shortcut.com/mcp and request only the scopes needed, such as `read` or `story-write`.\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, ClickUp or Shortcut?\n\nClickUp and Shortcut score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 60.9 (C) and 60.2 (C). Shortcut leads on agent ergonomics and maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n### Do ClickUp and Shortcut need an API key?\n\nBoth take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call ClickUp and Shortcut without installing anything?\n\nYes. ClickUp has a hosted endpoint at https://api.clickup.com and Shortcut at https://api.app.shortcut.com.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-shortcut.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-shortcut.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"clickup\", \"b\": \"shortcut\"}`. 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