# Linear MCP vs Wrike

> Wrike scores 60.1 (C) to Linear MCP's 53.8 (D) for issues and tasks. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-08

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.

- 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
- Wrike: grade C, 60.1/100, rank #529 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/wrike.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/wrike.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.

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

| Category | Weight | Linear MCP | Wrike | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 60 | 68 | Wrike +8 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 51 | 78 | Wrike +27 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 38 | 63 | Wrike +25 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 71 | 60 | Linear MCP +11 |
| 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) | 57 | 63 | Wrike +6 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 71 | 78 | Wrike +7 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | |
| **Total** | | **53.8 · D** | **60.1 · C** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Linear MCP | Wrike |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Linear | Wrike, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.linear.app/mcp` | `https://www.wrike.com/api/v4` |
| 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 Wrike's terms. The agent skills repository on GitHub is MIT |
| Tools exposed | none | 29 |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | yes |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| MCP registry | `app.linear/linear` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-08-13 | 2026-09-17 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-06-09 | 2025-04-08 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-03-17 | 2026-06-01 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| 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 | not found in the text |
| 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.

**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.


## For agents

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

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