# monday.com vs Wrike

> monday.com scores 76.4 (BB) on agent readiness against Wrike's 60.1 (C), and leads in every scored category. Both do tasks create. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

- Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/monday-vs-wrike
- Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/monday-vs-wrike.md (~2,250 tokens)
- Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/monday-vs-wrike.min.md (~680 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts)
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/monday-vs-wrike.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: 2026-10-08

monday.com scores 76.4 (BB) on agent readiness against Wrike's 60.1 (C), and leads in every scored category. Both do tasks create.

- monday.com: grade BB, 76.4/100, rank #32 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/monday.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/monday.json
- Wrike: grade C, 60.1/100, rank #413 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/wrike.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/wrike.json

## 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 68
- Schema & documentation, 88 against 78
- Agent ergonomics, 82 against 63
- Security & auth, 70 against 60
- Payments & pricing, 50 against 30
- Maintenance & community, 85 against 63

Also in its favour:
- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better
- No incidents deducted, where Wrike loses 3 points for them

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

### 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.

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 | monday.com | Wrike | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 79 | 68 | monday.com +11 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 88 | 78 | monday.com +10 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 82 | 63 | monday.com +19 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 70 | 60 | monday.com +10 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 50 | 30 | monday.com +20 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 85 | 63 | monday.com +22 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 80 | 78 | monday.com +2 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | |
| **Total** | | **76.4 · BB** | **60.1 · C** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | monday.com | Wrike |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | monday.com Ltd. | Wrike, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.monday.com/v2` | `https://www.wrike.com/api/v4` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| 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 | Proprietary service under Wrike's terms. The agent skills repository on GitHub is MIT |
| Tools exposed | 64 | 29 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| MCP registry | `com.monday/monday.com` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-09-17 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-05-05 | 2025-04-08 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-01 | 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 | yes | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| 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.

**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

### 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`

### 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, monday.com or Wrike?

monday.com scores 76.4 (BB) on agent readiness against Wrike's 60.1 (C), and leads in every scored category.

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

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

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

Yes. monday.com has a hosted endpoint at https://api.monday.com/v2 and Wrike at https://www.wrike.com/api/v4.


## For agents

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

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