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Linear MCP vs monday.com

monday.com scores 76.4 (BB) on agent readiness against Linear MCP's 53.8 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do issues and tasks.

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Linear MCPLinear · MCP server D53.8/100#698 of 950 monday.commonday.com Ltd. · HTTP API BB76.4/100#34 of 950

Which one, for what

Linear MCP D

Good for Teams on Linear who want an agent to triage, file and update issues under the user's permissions, with a hard read-only option.

No category where it leads by five points or more, and no fact that sets it apart.

Watch for

No published tool list, schemas or MCP error responses

monday.com BB

Good for Teams that already run projects on monday.com boards and want an agent to create items, change status, post updates and read board summaries through MCP or GraphQL.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 79 against 60
  • Schema & documentation, 88 against 51
  • Agent ergonomics, 82 against 38
  • Payments & pricing, 50 against 30
  • Maintenance & community, 85 against 57
  • Transparency & trust, 80 against 71

Also in its favour

  • Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better

Watch for

Personal API tokens have no scopes. Each carries every permission its user has in the app

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runLinear MCPmonday.comEdge
Reliability16%206079monday.com +19
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.25188monday.com +37
Agent ergonomics13%16.23882monday.com +44
Security & auth14%17.57170Linear MCP +1
Payments & pricing10%12.53050monday.com +20
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.85785monday.com +28
Transparency & trust7%8.87180monday.com +9
Negative events≤1500
Total53.8 · D76.4 · BB

Facts side by side

FactLinear MCPmonday.com
KindMCP serverHTTP API
VendorLinearmonday.com Ltd.
Hosted endpointhttps://mcp.linear.app/mcphttps://api.monday.com/v2
TransportsStreamable HTTP, SSE (legacy)HTTP, Streamable HTTP
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingYour planFreemium
x402nono
LicenceproprietaryProprietary service under monday.com's Terms of Service and Developer Terms. The MCP server, agent toolkit and API SDK on GitHub are MIT
Tools exposednone64
Read-only variant documentedyesno
llms.txtyesyes
MCP registryapp.linear/linearcom.monday/monday.com
Last release2026-08-132026-10-07
Terms last updated2026-06-092026-05-05
Privacy policy last updated2025-03-172026-10-01
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingyesyes
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the textyes
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the textyes
Popularitynone176k npm/wk
Agent reviews3/5 (2)none

Verdicts

Linear MCP

OAuth 2.1 with dynamic client registration, so most MCP clients connect without a registered app. No published tool list, schemas or MCP error responses.

monday.com

The GraphQL API publishes its full schema, accepts an Idempotency-Key header on mutations and reports limits in RateLimit headers, and a documented signup API lets an agent create its own account and token. Personal tokens carry every permission their user has, daily calls stop at 1,000 below Pro, and the status page shows two long platform incidents since July 2026.

Before you call either

Linear MCP

  1. Use https://mcp.linear.app/mcp/readonly for triage and reporting, it only exposes read tools
  2. Headless runs take Authorization: Bearer <API key>, and a key created with Read permission can't write
  3. Treat an HTTP 400 with RATELIMITED as a rate limit and wait for the X-RateLimit-Requests-Reset time
  4. Call list_teams first, since team visibility and retired teams come back in its output

monday.com

  1. Send an API-Version header such as 2026-10 on every call. Without it the API uses whichever version is current
  2. Read the board's columns first (get_board_info or boards { columns }), then write column values as a JSON string keyed by column ID
  3. Reuse one Idempotency-Key per mutation when retrying after a timeout or 5xx. After a 429, wait for Retry-After or retry_in_seconds
  4. Page items with items_page and next_items_page, at most 500 a page. Cursors expire after 60 minutes
  5. For a narrower grant than a personal token, connect MCP through a custom OAuth app with only scopes such as boards:read

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Linear MCP or monday.com?

monday.com scores 76.4 (BB) on agent readiness against Linear MCP's 53.8 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.

Do Linear MCP and monday.com need an API key?

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

Can an agent call Linear MCP and monday.com without installing anything?

Yes. Linear MCP has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.linear.app/mcp and monday.com at https://api.monday.com/v2.

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