{ "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": 442, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 842, "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": "2026-10-09T10:42:39.667835466Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 34, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 38, "p95ms24h": 58, "samples24h": 207, "samples30d": 207, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 93, "ok": 93 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 114, "ok": 114 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.clickup.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T10:41:28.328250354Z" }, "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": "2026-10-09T10:42:39.667835466Z" } }, "answer": "ClickUp scores 60.9 (C) on agent readiness against Taiga's 31.7 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories.", "b": { "slug": "taiga", "name": "Taiga", "vendor": "Taiga Cloud Services, S.L.", "vendorUrl": "https://taiga.io", "kind": "http-api", "category": "project-management", "summary": "Taiga is open-source agile project management software with Scrum backlogs, Kanban boards, issues and a wiki, hosted at tree.taiga.io or self-hosted. Agents reach it through a REST API at `api.taiga.io/api/v1`.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/taiga", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/taiga.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/taiga.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/taiga.json", "repo": "https://github.com/taigaio/taiga-back", "license": "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", "transports": [ "http" ], "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Access is self-serve with a Taiga account, and there is no API key or personal token. A client posts the account's user name and password to `/api/v1/auth` and receives a bearer token and a refresh token. The backend's default lifetimes are 24 hours and 8 days. The token acts with the user's permissions in each project and has no scopes. The docs also describe application tokens, sent as `Authorization: Application \u003ctoken\u003e`, for an application an instance administrator has registered. No way to register an application on the hosted service was found. No app review or partner approval is described.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "The hosted Free plan has one public and one private project and 10 MB of storage, and the terms say API access is free, so an agent can start without a contract. Paid hosted plans are a flat monthly price with unlimited users, Enthusiast 5 euros (50 a year), Basic 20 euros (200 a year) and Premium 60 euros (600 a year). Private cloud and on-premise support are by quote. The software is free to self-host. API calls are not priced, and prices are in euros only (https://taiga.io/deployment-pricing-options/, checked 2026-10-09).", "priceSummary": "Freemium", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the API reference, the pricing page or the terms (checked 2026-10-09).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 858, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-09" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.taiga.io/api.html", "capabilities": [ "tasks.create", "tasks.update", "projects.manage", "tasks.comments", "projects.reporting", "events.webhooks-send" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "self-hosted", "open-source", "rest", "freemium", "free-tier", "webhooks", "eu-hosting", "project-management" ], "lastRelease": "2026-07-02", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 31.7, "grade": "F", "agentReady": false, "rank": 830, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 842, "categoryRank": 14, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 49, "maintenance": 21, "payments": 30, "reliability": 17, "schema": 35, "security": 37, "transparency": 64 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-09" }, "negative": -3, "negativeNotes": [ "2025-10-28. Two advisories were published against taigaio/taiga-back, an authenticated remote code execution through unsafe deserialisation in the API, rated critical (CVE-2025-62368, CVSS 9.0), and a time-based blind SQL injection rated moderate (CVE-2025-62367). Both affect 6.8.3 and earlier and are fixed in 6.9.0 of 13 October 2025. The advisories do not say when the hosted service was patched. Fixed and published, so the deduction is reduced, -3 (https://github.com/taigaio/taiga-back/security/advisories)." ], "verdict": "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.", "bestFor": "Small agile teams that want Scrum and Kanban with a free hosted plan or a self-hosted, open-source install in the EU.", "strengths": [ "One reference page documents 234 paths under `/api/v1`, each with a curl example and a sample response object", "The backend is public under MPL-2.0 and can be self-hosted, with the same API as the hosted service", "The hosted service has a free plan with one public and one private project, and the terms say API access is free", "Modifying requests take a `version` parameter, so a stale write is refused instead of overwriting another change", "Project roles carry per-permission lists, and webhooks keep a delivery log with a resend call" ], "weaknesses": [ "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", "No OpenAPI document or llms.txt, and error responses are not described in the API reference, whose page footer is dated 3 April 2024", "No status page, SLA text or numeric request limit was found for the hosted API", "The terms let Taiga change or withdraw API access at any time without notice, and bar using the API to make Taiga data and functions available to third parties", "Two advisories published on 28 October 2025, one a critical authenticated remote code execution (CVE-2025-62368), both fixed in 6.9.0" ], "agentNotes": [ "POST `{\"type\": \"normal\", \"username\", \"password\"}` to `/api/v1/auth`, then send `Authorization: Bearer \u003cauth_token\u003e`. Renew with `/api/v1/auth/refresh` before 24 hours pass", "Send the object's current `version` with every PATCH or PUT. A stale value is refused when the same attributes changed", "Lists return 30 items a page. Read the `x-pagination-next` header, or send `x-disable-pagination: True` only for small projects", "Resolve slugs and reference numbers to ids with `/api/v1/resolver` before calling an object endpoint", "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" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "F", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 31.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 49, "maintenance": 21, "payments": 30, "reliability": 17, "schema": 35, "security": 37, "transparency": 56 }, "provenanceScore": 72 }, "connect": { "http": "curl -X POST -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -d '{\"type\": \"normal\", \"username\": \"$USERNAME\", \"password\": \"$PASSWORD\"}' https://api.taiga.io/api/v1/auth" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/tasks.create", "tool": "https://letme.dev/taiga" }, "area": "business", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Free (hosted)", "unit": "month", "usd": 0, "note": "1 public and 1 private project, 10 MB, unlimited users; paid plans are priced in euros (5, 20 and 60 a month)" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Taiga Cloud Services, S.L.", "domain": "taiga.io", "domainRegistered": "2013-12-04", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://taiga.io/terms-and-conditions/", "privacy": "https://taiga.io/privacy-policy/", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://github.com/taigaio/taiga-back/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-09", "notes": [ "The Terms and Conditions (last updated September 2025) name TAIGA CLOUD SERVICES, S.L., C/ Uruguay 15, Entreplanta B, 36201 Vigo, Spain. They cover the cloud and on-premise products, and section 13 covers use of the API. Spanish law governs.", "The privacy policy names two joint controllers, KALEIDOS INC SUCURSAL EN ESPAÑA S.L. and TAIGA CLOUD SERVICES, S.L. It carries no date. A Data Processing Addendum at https://taiga.io/data-processing-addendum-dpa/ is incorporated into the terms.", "The hosted API answers at api.taiga.io and the web app at tree.taiga.io, both on the vendor's domain. Self-hosted instances answer on the owner's domain.", "taiga.io/.well-known/security.txt returned 404. The security page and the repository's SECURITY.md give security@taiga.io for reports.", "No status page is linked from the site, the docs or the terms.", "RDAP for taiga.io gives a registration date of 2013-12-04 and Gandi SAS as registrar." ], "score": 72 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/taiga.json" }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Mango Technologies, Inc. DBA ClickUp", "b": "Taiga Cloud Services, S.L.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.clickup.com", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "b": "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": "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", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "48", "b": "none", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-09-18", "b": "2026-07-02", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2025-06-27", "b": "2025-09-01", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-06-02", "b": "no date given", "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": "yes", "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": "858 stars", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "ClickUp scores 60.9 (C) on agent readiness against Taiga's 31.7 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, ClickUp or Taiga?" }, { "answer": "Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do ClickUp and Taiga need an API key?" }, { "answer": "ClickUp has a hosted endpoint at https://api.clickup.com. No hosted endpoint is listed for Taiga.", "question": "Can an agent call ClickUp and Taiga without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "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).", "question": "Are ClickUp and Taiga open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 74 against 17", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 74 against 35", "Security \u0026 auth, 64 against 37", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 54 against 21", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 75 against 64" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install", "No incidents deducted, where Taiga loses 3 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": null, "also": [ "Open source" ], "goodFor": "Small agile teams that want Scrum and Kanban with a free hosted plan or a self-hosted, open-source install in the EU.", "slug": "taiga", "watchFor": "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" } ], "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-taiga.json", "title": "Asana vs Taiga", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asana-vs-taiga" }, { "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-taiga.json", "title": "Basecamp vs Taiga", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/basecamp-vs-taiga" }, { "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-openproject.json", "title": "ClickUp vs OpenProject", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-openproject" }, { "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-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": "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-taiga.json", "title": "monday.com vs Taiga", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/monday-vs-taiga" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openproject-vs-taiga.json", "title": "OpenProject vs Taiga", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openproject-vs-taiga" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plane-vs-taiga.json", "title": "Plane vs Taiga", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plane-vs-taiga" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/roma-vs-taiga.json", "title": "Roma vs Taiga", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/roma-vs-taiga" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/shortcut-vs-taiga.json", "title": "Shortcut vs Taiga", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/shortcut-vs-taiga" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/taiga-vs-teamwork.json", "title": "Taiga vs Teamwork.com", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/taiga-vs-teamwork" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/taiga-vs-todoist.json", "title": "Taiga vs Todoist", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/taiga-vs-todoist" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/taiga-vs-trello.json", "title": "Taiga vs Trello", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/taiga-vs-trello" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/taiga-vs-wrike.json", "title": "Taiga vs Wrike", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/taiga-vs-wrike" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/taiga-vs-youtrack.json", "title": "Taiga vs YouTrack", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/taiga-vs-youtrack" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 57, "clickup": 74, "edge": "clickup", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "taiga": 17, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 39, "clickup": 74, "edge": "clickup", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "taiga": 35, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 1, "clickup": 48, "edge": "taiga", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "taiga": 49, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 27, "clickup": 64, "edge": "clickup", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "taiga": 37, 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No OpenAPI document, status page or request limits were found." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-taiga", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-taiga.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-taiga.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-taiga.min.md" }, "markdown": "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.\n\n- ClickUp: grade C, 60.9/100, rank #442 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/clickup.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/clickup.json\n- Taiga: grade F, 31.7/100, rank #830 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/taiga.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/taiga.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 17\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 74 against 35\n- Security \u0026 auth, 64 against 37\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 54 against 21\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 75 against 64\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n- No incidents deducted, where Taiga loses 3 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### Taiga (F)\n\nGood for: Small agile teams that want Scrum and Kanban with a free hosted plan or a self-hosted, open-source install in the EU.\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Open source\n\nWatch 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\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | ClickUp | Taiga | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 74 | 17 | ClickUp +57 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 74 | 35 | ClickUp +39 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 48 | 49 | Taiga +1 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 64 | 37 | ClickUp +27 |\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 | 21 | ClickUp +33 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 75 | 64 | ClickUp +11 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | |\n| **Total** | | **60.9 · C** | **31.7 · F** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | ClickUp | Taiga |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Mango Technologies, Inc. DBA ClickUp | Taiga Cloud Services, S.L. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.clickup.com` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | 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 | 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 |\n| Tools exposed | 48 | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| Last release | 2026-09-18 | 2026-07-02 |\n| Terms last updated | 2025-06-27 | 2025-09-01 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-06-02 | no date given |\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 | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | none | 858 stars |\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**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.\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### Taiga\n\n1. POST `{\"type\": \"normal\", \"username\", \"password\"}` to `/api/v1/auth`, then send `Authorization: Bearer \u003cauth_token\u003e`. Renew with `/api/v1/auth/refresh` before 24 hours pass\n2. Send the object's current `version` with every PATCH or PUT. A stale value is refused when the same attributes changed\n3. Lists return 30 items a page. Read the `x-pagination-next` header, or send `x-disable-pagination: True` only for small projects\n4. Resolve slugs and reference numbers to ids with `/api/v1/resolver` before calling an object endpoint\n5. 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\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, ClickUp or Taiga?\n\nClickUp scores 60.9 (C) on agent readiness against Taiga's 31.7 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories.\n\n### Do ClickUp and Taiga need an API key?\n\nBoth take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call ClickUp and Taiga without installing anything?\n\nClickUp has a hosted endpoint at https://api.clickup.com. No hosted endpoint is listed for Taiga.\n\n### Are ClickUp and Taiga open source?\n\nNo 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).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-taiga.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-taiga.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"clickup\", \"b\": \"taiga\"}`. 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