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

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- Updated: 2026-10-09

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.

- 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
- 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

## 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

| Category | Weight | ClickUp | Taiga | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 74 | 17 | ClickUp +57 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 74 | 35 | ClickUp +39 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 48 | 49 | Taiga +1 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 64 | 37 | ClickUp +27 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 30 | even |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 54 | 21 | ClickUp +33 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 75 | 64 | ClickUp +11 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | |
| **Total** | | **60.9 · C** | **31.7 · F** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | ClickUp | Taiga |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Mango Technologies, Inc. DBA ClickUp | Taiga Cloud Services, S.L. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.clickup.com` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| 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 |
| Tools exposed | 48 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-09-18 | 2026-07-02 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-06-27 | 2025-09-01 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-06-02 | no date given |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | none | 858 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).


## For agents

- 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
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "clickup", "b": "taiga"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare clickup taiga`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/clickup.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/taiga.json

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