# monday.com vs Redmine

> monday.com scores 76.4 (BB) to Redmine's 50.2 (D) for issues and tasks. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

- Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/monday-vs-redmine
- Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/monday-vs-redmine.md (~2,600 tokens)
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- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/monday-vs-redmine.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: 2026-10-09

monday.com scores 76.4 (BB) on agent readiness against Redmine's 50.2 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Redmine leads on payments & pricing. Both do issues and tasks.

- 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
- Redmine: grade D, 50.2/100, rank #777 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/redmine.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/redmine.json
- 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

### 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 69
- Schema & documentation, 88 against 32
- Agent ergonomics, 82 against 51
- Security & auth, 70 against 51
- Maintenance & community, 85 against 73
- Transparency & trust, 80 against 47

Also in its favour:
- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better
- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
- No incidents deducted, where Redmine loses 4 points for them

Watch for: Personal API tokens have no scopes. Each carries every permission its user has in the app

### Redmine (D)

Good for: Teams that already run Redmine or want a free, self-hosted tracker with issues, time entries and wikis under their own control.

Ahead on:
- Payments & pricing, 60 against 50

Also in its favour:
- Open source

Watch for: No OpenAPI document or other machine-readable contract was found in the wiki or the source repository


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | monday.com | Redmine | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 79 | 69 | monday.com +10 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 88 | 32 | monday.com +56 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 82 | 51 | monday.com +31 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 70 | 51 | monday.com +19 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 50 | 60 | Redmine +10 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 85 | 73 | monday.com +12 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 80 | 47 | monday.com +33 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -4 | |
| **Total** | | **76.4 · BB** | **50.2 · D** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | monday.com | Redmine |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | monday.com Ltd. | Redmine project |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.monday.com/v2` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| x402 | no | no |
| 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-2.0-or-later |
| Tools exposed | 64 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| MCP registry | `com.monday/monday.com` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-09-30 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-05-05 | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-01 | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes |  |
| Popularity | 176k npm/wk | none |

## Verdicts

**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.

**Redmine.** Redmine's REST API covers issues, projects, time entries and 20 other resources, and versions 6.1 and later add OAuth 2 with one scope per permission. The software is free under the GPL. No OpenAPI document exists, most errors return a bare status code, and 24 security advisories were published in twelve months, two rated critical.

## Before you call either

### 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`

### Redmine

1. Ask an administrator to tick Enable REST API under Administration, Settings, API. It is off by default and every call fails until then
2. Send the key in the `X-Redmine-API-Key` header, never as the `key` query parameter, and set `Content-Type: application/json` on every POST and PUT
3. Add `status_id=*` to issue lists. The default returns open issues only, 25 a page with a maximum of 100
4. Comment on an issue by sending `notes` in a PUT to `/issues/<id>.json`. There is no separate comment endpoint
5. A DELETE on a project through the API skips the confirmation the web page asks for, so run the agent as a non-administrator user

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, monday.com or Redmine?

monday.com scores 76.4 (BB) on agent readiness against Redmine's 50.2 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Redmine leads on payments & pricing.

### Do monday.com and Redmine need an API key?

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

### Can an agent call monday.com and Redmine without installing anything?

monday.com has a hosted endpoint at https://api.monday.com/v2. No hosted endpoint is listed for Redmine.

### Are monday.com and Redmine open source?

No open-source release is listed for monday.com. Redmine is open source (GPL-2.0-or-later).


## For agents

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

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