# monday.com vs OpenProject (slim)

> monday.com scores 76.4 (BB) on agent readiness against OpenProject's 57.4 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. OpenProject leads on transparency & trust. Both do tasks create. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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monday.com scores 76.4 (BB) on agent readiness against OpenProject's 57.4 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. OpenProject leads on transparency & trust. Both do tasks create.

- monday.com: BB 76.4, rank #33 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/monday.min.md
- OpenProject: C 57.4, rank #550 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openproject.min.md
- monday.com, 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 52; Schema & documentation, 88 against 76; Agent ergonomics, 82 against 70; Security & auth, 70 against 59; Payments & pricing, 50 against 30; Maintenance & community, 85 against 75. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; No incidents deducted, where OpenProject loses 5 points for them.
- OpenProject, good for Teams that want a self-hostable or EU-hosted project tool with Gantt, time tracking and budgets, and an agent working through a documented REST API. Ahead on Transparency & trust, 87 against 80. Also Open source.

| Category | monday.com | OpenProject |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 79 | 52 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 88 | 76 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 82 | 70 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 70 | 59 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 50 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 85 | 75 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 80 | 87 |

| Fact (where they differ) | monday.com | OpenProject |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | monday.com Ltd. | OpenProject GmbH |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.monday.com/v2` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |
| Licence | Proprietary service under monday.com's Terms of Service and Developer Terms. The MCP server, agent toolkit and API SDK on GitHub are MIT | GPL-3.0 for the OpenProject source. Enterprise add-ons need a paid token, and OpenProject Enterprise cloud runs under OpenProject's Terms of Service |
| Tools exposed | 64 | none |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| MCP registry | `com.monday/monday.com` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-10-01 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-05-05 | 2026-08-06 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-01 | no date given |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 176k npm/wk | 16k stars |