# Linear MCP vs monday.com

> monday.com scores 76.4 (BB) to Linear MCP's 53.8 (D) for issues and tasks. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

- Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/linear-mcp-vs-monday
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- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/linear-mcp-vs-monday.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json)
- Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (full text: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt)
- API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json
- Updated: 2026-10-08

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.

- Linear MCP: grade D, 53.8/100, rank #698 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/linear-mcp.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/linear-mcp.json
- monday.com: grade BB, 76.4/100, rank #34 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/monday.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/monday.json
- Best issue tracking, docs and chat tools for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/productivity/index.md
- All 40 work comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/productivity/index.md
- Best project and task management tools for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/project-management/index.md
- All 135 projects comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/project-management/index.md

## 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.

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

| Category | Weight | Linear MCP | monday.com | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 60 | 79 | monday.com +19 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 51 | 88 | monday.com +37 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 38 | 82 | monday.com +44 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 71 | 70 | Linear MCP +1 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 50 | monday.com +20 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 57 | 85 | monday.com +28 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 71 | 80 | monday.com +9 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **53.8 · D** | **76.4 · BB** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Linear MCP | monday.com |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Linear | monday.com Ltd. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.linear.app/mcp` | `https://api.monday.com/v2` |
| Transports | Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy) | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Your plan | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | proprietary | Proprietary service under monday.com's Terms of Service and Developer Terms. The MCP server, agent toolkit and API SDK on GitHub are MIT |
| Tools exposed | none | 64 |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| MCP registry | `app.linear/linear` | `com.monday/monday.com` |
| Last release | 2026-08-13 | 2026-10-07 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-06-09 | 2026-05-05 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-03-17 | 2026-10-01 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | none | 176k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (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.


## For agents

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

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