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

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- Updated: 2026-10-08

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.

- ClickUp: grade C, 60.9/100, rank #381 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/clickup.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/clickup.json
- Teamwork.com: grade B, 65.9/100, rank #251 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/teamwork.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/teamwork.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:
- 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

| Category | Weight | ClickUp | Teamwork.com | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 74 | 73 | ClickUp +1 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 74 | 72 | ClickUp +2 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 48 | 68 | Teamwork.com +20 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 64 | 58 | ClickUp +6 |
| 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 | 88 | Teamwork.com +34 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 75 | 80 | Teamwork.com +5 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **60.9 · C** | **65.9 · B** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | ClickUp | Teamwork.com |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Mango Technologies, Inc. DBA ClickUp | Teamwork Crew Limited |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.clickup.com` | `https://mcp.ai.teamwork.com` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy), stdio |
| 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 | Proprietary service under Teamwork.com's terms of service. The MCP server on GitHub is MIT |
| Tools exposed | 48 | 225 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-09-18 | 2026-10-06 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-06-27 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-06-02 | 2024-08-19 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | none | 26 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.


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-teamwork.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-teamwork.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "clickup", "b": "teamwork"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare clickup teamwork`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/clickup.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/teamwork.json

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