# ClickUp vs Shortcut (slim)

> 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 & community. Both do tasks create. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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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 & community. Both do tasks create.

- ClickUp: C 60.9, rank #381 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/clickup.min.md
- Shortcut: C 60.2, rank #411 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shortcut.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 64; Security & auth, 64 against 54.
- Shortcut, good 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. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 57 against 48; Maintenance & community, 73 against 54. Also Free to start without a card.

| Category | ClickUp | Shortcut |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 74 | 64 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 74 | 75 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 48 | 57 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 64 | 54 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 54 | 73 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 75 | 73 |

| Fact (where they differ) | ClickUp | Shortcut |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Mango Technologies, Inc. DBA ClickUp | Shortcut Software Company |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.clickup.com` | `https://api.app.shortcut.com` |
| 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 |
| Tools exposed | 48 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-09-18 | 2026-09-22 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-06-27 | 2025-09-18 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-06-02 | 2025-07-11 |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | none | 142 stars, 103k npm/wk |