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

Linear MCP vs Wrike

Wrike scores 60.1 (C) on agent readiness against Linear MCP's 53.8 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Linear MCP leads on security & auth. Both do issues and tasks.

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Linear MCPLinear · MCP server D53.8/100#698 of 950 WrikeWrike, Inc. · HTTP API C60.1/100#529 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

  • Security & auth, 71 against 60

Also in its favour

  • No incidents deducted, where Wrike loses 3 points for them

Watch for

No published tool list, schemas or MCP error responses

Wrike C

Good for Teams already on Wrike that want an assistant to find work, create tasks and projects from notes, update status in bulk, comment and check approvals.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 68 against 60
  • Schema & documentation, 78 against 51
  • Agent ergonomics, 63 against 38
  • Maintenance & community, 63 against 57
  • Transparency & trust, 78 against 71

Also in its favour

  • Free to start without a card

Watch for

A permanent access token never expires and reaches everything its user can, and it is the documented route for clients that need dynamic client registration

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runLinear MCPWrikeEdge
Reliability16%206068Wrike +8
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.25178Wrike +27
Agent ergonomics13%16.23863Wrike +25
Security & auth14%17.57160Linear MCP +11
Payments & pricing10%12.53030even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.85763Wrike +6
Transparency & trust7%8.87178Wrike +7
Negative events≤150-3
Total53.8 · D60.1 · C

Facts side by side

FactLinear MCPWrike
KindMCP serverHTTP API
VendorLinearWrike, Inc.
Hosted endpointhttps://mcp.linear.app/mcphttps://www.wrike.com/api/v4
TransportsStreamable HTTP, SSE (legacy)HTTP, Streamable HTTP
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingYour planFreemium
x402nono
LicenceproprietaryProprietary service under Wrike's terms. The agent skills repository on GitHub is MIT
Tools exposednone29
Read-only variant documentedyesyes
llms.txtyesyes
MCP registryapp.linear/linearnot listed
Last release2026-08-132026-09-17
Terms last updated2026-06-092025-04-08
Privacy policy last updated2025-03-172026-06-01
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
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.

Wrike

The official MCP server has 29 documented tools for search, task and project creation, bulk updates, comments and approvals, and it works on every plan including Free. Permanent access tokens never expire and carry the user's full access, and no SLA, official SDK or deprecation policy was found in the reviewed documentation.

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

Wrike

  1. Build API URLs from the host value returned by /oauth2/token. Accounts live on www.wrike.com, app-eu.wrike.com or app-us2.wrike.com, and the wrong host answers 401.
  2. Use https://mcp.wrike.com/v2 only. The older /app/mcp/stream and /app/mcp/sse URLs serve the v1 tool set.
  3. Call search_workflows before setting a status, because update_items and search_items take custom status ids.
  4. Stay under about 400 requests a minute per token or IP and back off exponentially on 429. Use POST /batch for up to 100 operations.
  5. Page task lists with pageSize (up to 1,000) and nextPageToken, and request optional data through fields.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Linear MCP or Wrike?

Wrike scores 60.1 (C) on agent readiness against Linear MCP's 53.8 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Linear MCP leads on security & auth.

Do Linear MCP and Wrike need an API key?

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

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

Yes. Linear MCP has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.linear.app/mcp and Wrike at https://www.wrike.com/api/v4.

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