# monday.com vs Shortcut (slim)

> monday.com scores 76.4 (BB) on agent readiness against Shortcut's 60.2 (C), and leads in every scored category. 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 Shortcut's 60.2 (C), and leads in every scored category. Both do tasks create.

- monday.com: BB 76.4, rank #32 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/monday.min.md
- Shortcut: C 60.2, rank #411 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shortcut.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 64; Schema & documentation, 88 against 75; Agent ergonomics, 82 against 57; Security & auth, 70 against 54; Payments & pricing, 50 against 30; Maintenance & community, 85 against 73; Transparency & trust, 80 against 73. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better.
- Shortcut, good for Software teams already on Shortcut that want an agent to search, create and update stories, epics, iterations and docs, and coding agents that pick up assigned stories. Also Free to start without a card.

| Category | monday.com | Shortcut |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 79 | 64 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 88 | 75 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 82 | 57 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 70 | 54 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 50 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 85 | 73 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 80 | 73 |

| Fact (where they differ) | monday.com | Shortcut |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | monday.com Ltd. | Shortcut Software Company |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.monday.com/v2` | `https://api.app.shortcut.com` |
| 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 | Proprietary service under Shortcut's terms of service. The JavaScript client and the archived MCP server on GitHub are MIT |
| Tools exposed | 64 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| MCP registry | `com.monday/monday.com` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-09-22 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-05-05 | 2025-09-18 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-01 | 2025-07-11 |
| 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 | 142 stars, 103k npm/wk |