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Head to head · Issues and tasks · October 2026 research run

Linear MCP vs Taiga

Linear MCP scores 53.8 (D) on agent readiness against Taiga's 31.7 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Taiga leads on agent ergonomics. Both do issues and tasks.

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Linear MCPLinear · MCP server D53.8/100#698 of 950 TaigaTaiga Cloud Services, S.L. · HTTP API F31.7/100#938 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.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 60 against 17
  • Schema & documentation, 51 against 35
  • Security & auth, 71 against 37
  • Maintenance & community, 57 against 21
  • Transparency & trust, 71 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

No published tool list, schemas or MCP error responses

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.

Ahead on

  • Agent ergonomics, 49 against 38

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

CategoryWeight this runLinear MCPTaigaEdge
Reliability16%206017Linear MCP +43
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.25135Linear MCP +16
Agent ergonomics13%16.23849Taiga +11
Security & auth14%17.57137Linear MCP +34
Payments & pricing10%12.53030even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.85721Linear MCP +36
Transparency & trust7%8.87164Linear MCP +7
Negative events≤150-3
Total53.8 · D31.7 · F

Facts side by side

FactLinear MCPTaiga
KindMCP serverHTTP API
VendorLinearTaiga Cloud Services, S.L.
Hosted endpointhttps://mcp.linear.app/mcpno (local only)
TransportsStreamable HTTP, SSE (legacy)HTTP
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingYour planFreemium
x402nono
LicenceproprietaryMPL-2.0 for the taiga-back source. The hosted service runs under Taiga's Terms and Conditions, which also mention non-open-source modules
Read-only variant documentedyesno
llms.txtyesno
MCP registryapp.linear/linearnot listed
Last release2026-08-132026-07-02
Terms last updated2026-06-092025-09-01
Privacy policy last updated2025-03-17no date given
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the textyes
Terms restrict benchmarkingyesyes
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the textyes
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the textnot found in the text
Popularitynone858 stars
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.

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

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

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, Linear MCP or Taiga?

Linear MCP scores 53.8 (D) on agent readiness against Taiga's 31.7 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Taiga leads on agent ergonomics.

Do Linear MCP and Taiga need an API key?

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

Can an agent call Linear MCP and Taiga without installing anything?

Linear MCP has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.linear.app/mcp. No hosted endpoint is listed for Taiga.

Are Linear MCP and Taiga open source?

No open-source release is listed for Linear MCP. 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).

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