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Head to head · Tasks create · October 2026 research run

ClickUp vs Teamwork.com

Teamwork.com scores 65.9 (B) on agent readiness against ClickUp's 60.9 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. ClickUp leads on security & auth. Both do tasks create.

ClickUpMango Technologies, Inc. DBA ClickUp · HTTP API C60.9/100#381 of 722 Teamwork.comTeamwork Crew Limited · HTTP API B65.9/100#251 of 722

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

  • Security & auth, 64 against 58

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

Teamwork.com B

Good for Agencies and services firms already on Teamwork.com that want an assistant to create and update tasks, log time, read workload and budgets, and answer Desk tickets.

Ahead on

  • Agent ergonomics, 68 against 48
  • Maintenance & community, 88 against 54
  • Transparency & trust, 80 against 75

Also in its favour

  • Runs on your own machine
  • Free to start without a card

Watch for

OAuth scopes are per product only (projects, desk, spaces, chat), and the token from the app login flow is described as permanent

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runClickUpTeamwork.comEdge
Reliability16%207473ClickUp +1
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.27472ClickUp +2
Agent ergonomics13%16.24868Teamwork.com +20
Security & auth14%17.56458ClickUp +6
Payments & pricing10%12.53030even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.85488Teamwork.com +34
Transparency & trust7%8.87580Teamwork.com +5
Negative events≤1500
Total60.9 · C65.9 · B

Facts side by side

FactClickUpTeamwork.com
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorMango Technologies, Inc. DBA ClickUpTeamwork Crew Limited
Hosted endpointhttps://api.clickup.comhttps://mcp.ai.teamwork.com
TransportsHTTP, Streamable HTTPHTTP, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy), stdio
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 MITProprietary service under Teamwork.com's terms of service. The MCP server on GitHub is MIT
Tools exposed48225
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesno
Last release2026-09-182026-10-06
Terms last updated2025-06-27no date given
Privacy policy last updated2026-06-022024-08-19
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessyesnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the textyes
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the textnot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waiveryesnot found in the text
Popularitynone26 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.

Teamwork.com

The official MCP server is MIT licensed, released almost daily, and has typed tools with annotations, profile endpoints and no delete tools on the shipped servers. OAuth scopes stop at product level, access tokens are permanent, and no SLA, API changelog or prompt-injection guidance was found in the reviewed documentation.

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

Teamwork.com

  1. Use a profile endpoint such as https://mcp.ai.teamwork.com/project-manager. The base URL loads every tool across Projects, Desk, Spaces and Chat.
  2. Ask a site administrator to enable MCP under Settings, AI before connecting.
  3. Build REST URLs from installation.apiEndPoint in the token response. Sites live at {site}.teamwork.com (US) or {site}.eu.teamwork.com (EU).
  4. Stay under 150 requests a minute on Free, Basics and Accelerate. The limit is shared by the whole site. On 429, wait until X-Rate-Limit-Reset.
  5. Pass verbose=false to list_* tools to get ids and names only, and use twprojects-create_tasks for many tasks in one call.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, ClickUp or Teamwork.com?

Teamwork.com scores 65.9 (B) on agent readiness against ClickUp's 60.9 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. ClickUp leads on security & auth.

Do ClickUp and Teamwork.com need an API key?

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

Can an agent call ClickUp and Teamwork.com without installing anything?

Yes. ClickUp has a hosted endpoint at https://api.clickup.com and Teamwork.com at https://mcp.ai.teamwork.com.

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