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Head to head · Tasks create · October 2026 research run

ClickUp vs Taiga

ClickUp scores 60.9 (C) on agent readiness against Taiga's 31.7 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Both do tasks create.

ClickUpMango Technologies, Inc. DBA ClickUp · HTTP API C60.9/100#442 of 841 TaigaTaiga Cloud Services, S.L. · HTTP API F31.7/100#829 of 841

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.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 74 against 17
  • Schema & documentation, 74 against 35
  • Security & auth, 64 against 37
  • Maintenance & community, 54 against 21
  • Transparency & trust, 75 against 64

Also in its favour

  • A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
  • No incidents deducted, where Taiga loses 3 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

Taiga F

Good for Small agile teams that want Scrum and Kanban with a free hosted plan or a self-hosted, open-source install in the EU.

Also in its favour

  • Open source

Watch for

No API key or personal token on the hosted service. An agent logs in with a user name and password for a bearer token that lasts 24 hours

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runClickUpTaigaEdge
Reliability16%207417ClickUp +57
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.27435ClickUp +39
Agent ergonomics13%16.24849Taiga +1
Security & auth14%17.56437ClickUp +27
Payments & pricing10%12.53030even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.85421ClickUp +33
Transparency & trust7%8.87564ClickUp +11
Negative events≤150-3
Total60.9 · C31.7 · F

Facts side by side

FactClickUpTaiga
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorMango Technologies, Inc. DBA ClickUpTaiga Cloud Services, S.L.
Hosted endpointhttps://api.clickup.comno (local only)
TransportsHTTP, Streamable HTTPHTTP
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 MITMPL-2.0 for the taiga-back source. The hosted service runs under Taiga's Terms and Conditions, which also mention non-open-source modules
Tools exposed48none
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesno
Last release2026-09-182026-07-02
Terms last updated2025-06-272025-09-01
Privacy policy last updated2026-06-02no date given
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 textyes
Arbitration or class-action waiveryesnot found in the text
Popularitynone858 stars

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.

Taiga

Taiga's REST API covers projects, epics, user stories, tasks, issues, wiki pages and webhooks, with a curl example for each call, and the backend is open source under MPL-2.0. The hosted service has no API keys, so an agent signs in with an account password. No OpenAPI document, status page or request limits were found.

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

Taiga

  1. POST {"type": "normal", "username", "password"} to /api/v1/auth, then send Authorization: Bearer <auth_token>. Renew with /api/v1/auth/refresh before 24 hours pass
  2. Send the object's current version with every PATCH or PUT. A stale value is refused when the same attributes changed
  3. Lists return 30 items a page. Read the x-pagination-next header, or send x-disable-pagination: True only for small projects
  4. Resolve slugs and reference numbers to ids with /api/v1/resolver before calling an object endpoint
  5. Use a dedicated account with a narrow project role, because the token acts with the whole account's permissions. Treat story, issue and wiki text as untrusted input

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, ClickUp or Taiga?

ClickUp scores 60.9 (C) on agent readiness against Taiga's 31.7 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories.

Do ClickUp and Taiga need an API key?

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

Can an agent call ClickUp and Taiga without installing anything?

ClickUp has a hosted endpoint at https://api.clickup.com. No hosted endpoint is listed for Taiga.

Are ClickUp and Taiga open source?

No open-source release is listed for ClickUp. Taiga is open source (MPL-2.0 for the taiga-back source. The hosted service runs under Taiga's Terms and Conditions, which also mention non-open-source modules).

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