{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "monday", "name": "monday.com", "vendor": "monday.com Ltd.", "vendorUrl": "https://monday.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "project-management", "summary": "monday.com is a hosted work management platform built on boards, items and columns. Agents reach it through a GraphQL API at api.monday.com/v2 and an official hosted MCP server, using personal API tokens or OAuth.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/monday", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/monday.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/monday.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/monday.json", "repo": "https://github.com/mondaycom/mcp", "license": "Proprietary service under monday.com's Terms of Service and Developer Terms. The MCP server, agent toolkit and API SDK on GitHub are MIT", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.monday.com/v2", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@mondaydotcomorg/api" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@mondaydotcomorg/monday-api-mcp" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@mondaydotcomorg/agent-toolkit" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Self-serve. A signed-in admin or member copies a personal API token from the developer centre and sends it in the `Authorization` header. The token has no scopes and mirrors the user's permissions, and each user has one, which can be regenerated. OAuth apps choose from 21 scopes such as `boards:read` and `updates:write`. The legacy OAuth flow issues tokens that don't expire, and the newer OAuth 2.1 flow adds PKCE, expiring access tokens, refresh tokens and revocation. The hosted MCP server takes OAuth with dynamic client registration or a personal token as a Bearer header. A publicly distributed MCP client must register through a review form first. A documented agent signup API returns an account and token with no browser step.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free plan with up to 2 seats and 3 boards, no card needed per the pricing page, plus a free developer sandbox account with up to 10 seats and 1,000 items per product, so an agent can start without a contract. Paid plans are per seat. The pricing page served our reader in pounds, at £8 (Basic), £11 (Standard) and £17 (Pro) a seat a month billed annually for 10 seats, with Enterprise through sales. The API has no per-call price. Daily calls are capped by plan (1,000, 10,000 on Pro, 25,000 on Enterprise) and the page says more can be bought, with no price shown (checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "Freemium", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the API docs, the MCP docs, the agent skill files or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 64, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 176164, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://developer.monday.com/api-reference/docs/basics", "llmsTxt": "https://developer.monday.com/api-reference/llms.txt", "registryName": "com.monday/monday.com", "capabilities": [ "tasks.create", "tasks.update", "projects.manage", "tasks.comments", "projects.reporting", "work.docs", "forms.create" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "mcp", "graphql", "closed-source", "free-tier", "oauth", "llms-txt", "webhooks", "idempotency", "javascript", "typescript", "status-page", "soc2", "agent-signup" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-07", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 76.4, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 32, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 1, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 82, "maintenance": 85, "payments": 50, "reliability": 79, "schema": 88, "security": 70, "transparency": 80 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "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.", "bestFor": "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.", "strengths": [ "Full GraphQL schema is public as SDL and JSON at api.monday.com/v2/get_schema, with a copy for each dated API version", "Mutations accept an `Idempotency-Key` header, with responses cached for 30 minutes and replays marked `Idempotency-Replayed: true`", "A documented signup API at signup-logic.monday.com creates an account and returns an API token after an agent captcha, with no browser step", "Hosted MCP server at https://mcp.monday.com/mcp with OAuth, PKCE and dynamic client registration, and 64 tools in the published reference", "Quarterly dated API versions, each stable for at least six months, with deprecations announced at least six months ahead" ], "weaknesses": [ "Personal API tokens have no scopes. Each carries every permission its user has in the app", "1,000 API calls a day on Free, Basic and Standard, shared with MCP tool calls, against 10,000 on Pro and 25,000 on Enterprise", "status.monday.com lists a critical platform incident of 2 hours 8 minutes on 5 September 2026 and a major latency incident of 2 hours 57 minutes on 13 July 2026", "The MCP security page says self-service export of detailed MCP or API audit logs isn't available, and the audit log API is limited to Enterprise admins", "Column values travel as a JSON string whose shape depends on the column type, and the only official API SDK is for JavaScript and TypeScript" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send an `API-Version` header such as 2026-10 on every call. Without it the API uses whichever version is current", "Read the board's columns first (`get_board_info` or `boards { columns }`), then write column values as a JSON string keyed by column ID", "Reuse one `Idempotency-Key` per mutation when retrying after a timeout or 5xx. After a 429, wait for `Retry-After` or `retry_in_seconds`", "Page items with `items_page` and `next_items_page`, at most 500 a page. Cursors expire after 60 minutes", "For a narrower grant than a personal token, connect MCP through a custom OAuth app with only scopes such as `boards:read`" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "BB", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 76.4 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 82, "maintenance": 85, "payments": 50, "reliability": 79, "schema": 88, "security": 70, "transparency": 73 }, "provenanceScore": 86 }, "connect": { "install": "npx @mondaydotcomorg/monday-api-mcp@latest", "http": "curl -X POST https://api.monday.com/v2 \\\n -H \"Authorization: YOUR_API_TOKEN\" \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\"query\": \"query { me { id name } }\"}'", "config": { "mcpServers": { "monday-mcp": { "url": "https://mcp.monday.com/mcp" } } }, "headless": { "mcpServers": { "monday-mcp": { "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN" }, "url": "https://mcp.monday.com/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/tasks.create", "tool": "https://letme.dev/monday" }, "area": "business", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "monday.com Ltd.", "domain": "monday.com", "domainRegistered": "1995-07-19", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://monday.com/l/legal/tos/", "privacy": "https://monday.com/l/privacy/privacy-policy/", "statusPage": "https://status.monday.com", "changelog": "https://developer.monday.com/api-reference/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The Terms of Service (last updated 5 May 2026) are between the customer and monday.com Ltd., 6 Yitzhak Sadeh St., Tel-Aviv 6777506, Israel. The privacy policy was last updated on 1 October 2026.", "The API answers at api.monday.com, the MCP server at mcp.monday.com and its authorisation server at auth.monday.com, all monday.com subdomains.", "monday.com/.well-known/security.txt, www.monday.com/.well-known/security.txt and monday.com/security.txt each return 404. The trust centre sends vulnerability reports to a form at monday.com/security/form.", "RDAP for monday.com gives a registration date of 1995-07-19.", "The Service Level Agreement for the Enterprise plan (last updated 20 December 2023) commits to 99.9 per cent monthly uptime for the core services. The DPA carries the same date." ], "score": 86 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/monday.json", "live": { "slug": "monday", "probe": { "target": "https://api.monday.com/v2", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:16.091786665Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 126, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 138, "p95ms24h": 246, "samples24h": 64, "samples30d": 64, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 64, "ok": 64 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.monday.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T21:06:12.839318497Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@mondaydotcomorg/agent-toolkit", "version": "5.73.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:21:49.787128646Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@mondaydotcomorg/api", "version": "14.1.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:21:47.55416646Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@mondaydotcomorg/monday-api-mcp", "version": "3.3.1", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:21:48.399378593Z" } ], "githubStars": 427, "npmWeekly": 176164, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://monday.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:39:08.858683148Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://developer.monday.com/api-reference/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:17:15.57094829Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "392d3fee6fc8" }, { "url": "https://monday.com/l/privacy/privacy-policy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:22:11.913568217Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "6d277c3c4400" }, { "url": "https://monday.com/l/legal/tos/", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:22:09.717483007Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "f28d7d1863fc" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:16.091786665Z" } }, "answer": "monday.com scores 76.4 (BB) on agent readiness against YouTrack's 49.9 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.", "b": { "slug": "youtrack", "name": "YouTrack", "vendor": "JetBrains s.r.o.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.jetbrains.com/youtrack/", "kind": "http-api", "category": "project-management", "summary": "YouTrack is JetBrains' issue tracker and project management tool, with a knowledge base, helpdesk and time tracking. Agents reach each YouTrack Cloud or Server instance through its REST API and a built-in remote MCP server at `/mcp`.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/youtrack", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/youtrack.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/youtrack.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/youtrack.json", "license": "Proprietary service under the JetBrains YouTrack Cloud Terms of Service. YouTrack Server is licensed separately for self-hosting", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Access is self-serve. Each user creates a permanent token in their profile (Account Security) and sends it as a Bearer token. Tokens never expire, can be deleted, and carry one or both of two scopes, YouTrack and YouTrack Administration. OAuth 2.0 comes from the built-in Hub service, with authorisation code and PKCE (S256), client credentials and a deprecated implicit flow. From YouTrack 2026.2 a system administrator registers OAuth clients or enables automatic registration through Client ID Metadata Documents (off by default). Dynamic Client Registration is not supported. Every call acts with the authorising user's permissions. No app review or partner approval is described.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "The free plan covers up to ten users and three helpdesk agents, with 30 GB of storage, and the REST API is always enabled, so an agent can start without a contract. Paid Cloud subscriptions are priced per user on a sliding scale. JetBrains announced USD 5.40 a user a month on monthly billing and USD 4.50 on annual billing from 1 October 2025, and USD 6 or USD 5.50 per helpdesk agent beyond three. The pricing page served pounds to our network on 2026-10-08 (GBP 4.30 monthly, GBP 43 a year). API and MCP calls are not priced. A 14-day trial covers up to 100 users. No separate sandbox was found (https://www.jetbrains.com/youtrack/buy/, checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "$4.50 / seat-mo", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the developer portal, the OpenAPI document or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 23, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.jetbrains.com/help/youtrack/devportal/youtrack-rest-api.html", "llmsTxt": "https://www.jetbrains.com/help/youtrack/devportal/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/api/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "tasks.create", "tasks.update", "projects.manage", "tasks.comments", "work.issues", "work.docs" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "self-hosted", "mcp", "oauth", "openapi", "llms-txt", "freemium", "free-tier", "status-page", "soc2", "project-management", "issue-tracker" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-05", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 49.9, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 601, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 12, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 55, "maintenance": 64, "payments": 30, "reliability": 30, "schema": 72, "security": 67, "transparency": 82 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": -5, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-04-17. CVE-2026-33392, a sandbox bypass allowing code execution by an administrator, reported in March 2026. JetBrains says the impact was greatest in YouTrack Cloud, where it could bypass cross-tenant isolation on shared hardware, that Cloud was mitigated within 48 hours, and that it found no evidence of exploitation. Fixed and disclosed, so 3 of a possible 15 (https://blog.jetbrains.com/youtrack/2026/04/security-issue-in-youtrack-cve-2026-33392/)", "2026-06-19. CVE-2026-56141 (admin account takeover through authentication token forgery) and CVE-2026-56142 (email verification bypass), found in May 2026, affected YouTrack Cloud, and CVE-2026-50242 affected Server. JetBrains says Cloud was patched before the post and that it found no evidence of exploitation outside testing. Fixed and disclosed, so 2 points (https://blog.jetbrains.com/youtrack/2026/06/youtrack-security-update-youtrack-server-upgrade-required/)" ], "verdict": "Every instance serves an OpenAPI 3.0 document, a 23-tool MCP server with OAuth and PKCE, and field selection on each REST call, and the free plan covers ten users. No rate limits, 429 handling, error reference or SLA were found, and JetBrains disclosed two sets of critical vulnerabilities affecting YouTrack Cloud in 2026, both patched.", "bestFor": "Software teams that already run YouTrack and want an agent to search, file and update issues, comment, log time and maintain knowledge base articles under each user's permissions.", "strengths": [ "OpenAPI 3.0.1 document at `/api/openapi.json` on every instance, with 281 operations on 157 paths, plus llms.txt and a Markdown copy of each docs page", "Built-in remote MCP server at `/mcp` with 23 predefined tools, and `tools` and `ignoreTools` URL parameters that trim the tool list", "OAuth 2.0 authorisation code flow with PKCE (S256) and Client ID Metadata Documents, or revocable permanent tokens with two scopes", "Free plan for up to ten users and three helpdesk agents, with the REST API always enabled", "19 Server builds published between 15 July and 5 October 2026, and a REST API changelog by version" ], "weaknesses": [ "No rate limits, 429 handling, idempotency keys or error reference found in the reviewed documentation", "The status page shows availability percentages by region for 24 hours and 30 days, with no incident history, and no SLA was found", "Two security disclosures in 2026 affected YouTrack Cloud, a cross-tenant isolation bypass (CVE-2026-33392) and an admin account takeover (CVE-2026-56141). Both were patched", "Permanent tokens never expire and carry only two coarse scopes, YouTrack and YouTrack Administration", "No current official SDK. YouTrackSharp for .NET covers a subset of the API and was last published on 31 March 2023" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send `fields` on every REST request. Without it the server returns only the database ID and `$type` of each entity", "Page collections with `$top` and `$skip`. Most resources return 42 items by default", "Call `get_issue_fields_schema` before `create_issue` or `update_issue`, because required custom fields differ by project", "Connect MCP clients to `https://\u003cinstance\u003e.youtrack.cloud/mcp`. OAuth needs an administrator to enable CIMD or register the client, since Dynamic Client Registration is not supported", "Create permanent tokens with the YouTrack scope only, and add `?tools=` to the MCP URL to limit the tools listed" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 49.9 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 55, "maintenance": 64, "payments": 30, "reliability": 30, "schema": 72, "security": 67, "transparency": 65 }, "provenanceScore": 98 }, "connect": { "http": "curl 'https://example.youtrack.cloud/api/users/me?fields=id,login,name' -H 'Accept: application/json' -H \"Authorization: Bearer $YOUTRACK_TOKEN\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --header \"Authorization: Bearer \u003ctoken\u003e\" --transport http youtrack \u003cyoutrack-mcp-endpoint-url\u003e" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/tasks.create", "tool": "https://letme.dev/youtrack" }, "area": "business", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Free plan (up to 10 users, 3 helpdesk agents)", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 0, "note": "30 GB storage; REST API and MCP server included" }, { "item": "Cloud user, annual billing", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 4.5, "note": "starting price as announced for 1 October 2025; falls as users are added. Pricing page served GBP on 2026-10-08" }, { "item": "Cloud user, monthly billing", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 5.4, "note": "starting price as announced for 1 October 2025; pricing page showed GBP 4.30 on 2026-10-08" }, { "item": "Helpdesk agent beyond three, monthly billing", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 6, "note": "USD 5.50 on annual billing, as announced for 1 October 2025" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "JetBrains s.r.o.", "domain": "jetbrains.com", "domainRegistered": "2001-11-09", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.jetbrains.com/legal/docs/youtrack/youtrack_cloud/", "privacy": "https://www.jetbrains.com/legal/docs/privacy/privacy/", "statusPage": "https://www.jetbrains.com/youtrack/cloud/status/", "changelog": "https://www.jetbrains.com/help/youtrack/devportal/api-changelog.html", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The YouTrack Cloud Terms of Service (version 2.0, effective 14 August 2024) name JetBrains s.r.o., Na Hřebenech II 1718/8, Prague, 14000, Czech Republic, ID No. 265 02 275, and are governed by Czech law.", "The JetBrains Privacy Notice (version 3.2, last updated 12 June 2026) covers JetBrains websites, products and services, and the Cloud terms point to it. Customer personal data is processed under the Data Processing Addendum (version 1.3, 27 April 2022).", "Cloud instances answer at \u003cinstance\u003e.youtrack.cloud, or \u003cinstance\u003e.myjetbrains.com/youtrack for instances registered before 2 November 2021. RDAP gives youtrack.cloud a registration date of 2021-04-30 through MarkMonitor, and the docs describe both domains as JetBrains'.", "www.jetbrains.com/.well-known/security.txt has a Contact line (security@jetbrains.com) and a Policy line pointing to the Coordinated Disclosure Policy, and no Expires field, which RFC 9116 requires.", "The status page draws its figures by script from myjetbrains.com/youtrack/youtrack-hosted-master/rest/stat, which we read directly.", "RDAP for jetbrains.com gives a registration date of 2001-11-09 and Network Solutions, LLC as registrar." ], "score": 98 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/youtrack.json", "live": { "slug": "youtrack", "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://www.jetbrains.com/youtrack/cloud/status", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T19:39:21.794121817Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T19:39:21.794121817Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "monday.com Ltd.", "b": "JetBrains s.r.o.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.monday.com/v2", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary service under monday.com's Terms of Service and Developer Terms. The MCP server, agent toolkit and API SDK on GitHub are MIT", "b": "Proprietary service under the JetBrains YouTrack Cloud Terms of Service. YouTrack Server is licensed separately for self-hosting", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "64", "b": "23", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "com.monday/monday.com", "b": "not listed", "name": "MCP registry" }, { "a": "2026-10-07", "b": "2026-10-05", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-05-05", "b": "2024-08-14", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-10-01", "b": "2026-06-12", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "176k npm/wk", "b": "none", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "monday.com scores 76.4 (BB) on agent readiness against YouTrack's 49.9 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, monday.com or YouTrack?" }, { "answer": "Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do monday.com and YouTrack need an API key?" }, { "answer": "monday.com has a hosted endpoint at https://api.monday.com/v2. No hosted endpoint is listed for YouTrack.", "question": "Can an agent call monday.com and YouTrack without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 79 against 30", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 88 against 72", "Agent ergonomics, 82 against 55", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 50 against 30", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 85 against 64" ], "also": [ "Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better", "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install", "No incidents deducted, where YouTrack loses 5 points for them" ], "goodFor": "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.", "slug": "monday", "watchFor": "Personal API tokens have no scopes. Each carries every permission its user has in the app" }, { "aheadOn": null, "also": null, "goodFor": "Software teams that already run YouTrack and want an agent to search, file and update issues, comment, log time and maintain knowledge base articles under each user's permissions.", "slug": "youtrack", "watchFor": "No rate limits, 429 handling, idempotency keys or error reference found in the reviewed documentation" } ], "job": { "capability": "tasks.create", "name": "Tasks create" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asana-vs-monday.json", "title": "Asana vs monday.com", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asana-vs-monday" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asana-vs-youtrack.json", "title": "Asana vs YouTrack", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asana-vs-youtrack" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/basecamp-vs-monday.json", "title": "Basecamp vs monday.com", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/basecamp-vs-monday" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/basecamp-vs-youtrack.json", "title": "Basecamp vs YouTrack", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/basecamp-vs-youtrack" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-monday.json", "title": "ClickUp vs monday.com", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-monday" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-youtrack.json", "title": "ClickUp vs YouTrack", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-youtrack" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/monday-vs-plane.json", "title": "monday.com vs Plane", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/monday-vs-plane" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/monday-vs-roma.json", "title": "monday.com vs Roma", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/monday-vs-roma" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/monday-vs-shortcut.json", "title": "monday.com vs Shortcut", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/monday-vs-shortcut" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/monday-vs-teamwork.json", "title": "monday.com vs Teamwork.com", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/monday-vs-teamwork" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/monday-vs-todoist.json", "title": "monday.com vs Todoist", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/monday-vs-todoist" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/monday-vs-trello.json", "title": "monday.com vs Trello", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/monday-vs-trello" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/monday-vs-wrike.json", "title": "monday.com vs Wrike", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/monday-vs-wrike" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plane-vs-youtrack.json", "title": "Plane vs YouTrack", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plane-vs-youtrack" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/roma-vs-youtrack.json", "title": "Roma vs YouTrack", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/roma-vs-youtrack" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/shortcut-vs-youtrack.json", "title": "Shortcut vs YouTrack", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/shortcut-vs-youtrack" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/teamwork-vs-youtrack.json", "title": "Teamwork.com vs YouTrack", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/teamwork-vs-youtrack" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/todoist-vs-youtrack.json", "title": "Todoist vs YouTrack", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/todoist-vs-youtrack" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/trello-vs-youtrack.json", "title": "Trello vs YouTrack", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/trello-vs-youtrack" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/wrike-vs-youtrack.json", "title": "Wrike vs YouTrack", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/wrike-vs-youtrack" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 49, "edge": "monday", "key": "reliability", "monday": 79, "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16, "youtrack": 30 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 16, "edge": "monday", "key": "schema", "monday": 88, "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13, "youtrack": 72 }, { "by": 27, "edge": "monday", "key": "ergonomics", "monday": 82, "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13, "youtrack": 55 }, { "by": 3, "edge": "monday", "key": "security", "monday": 70, "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14, "youtrack": 67 }, { "by": 20, "edge": "monday", "key": "payments", "monday": 50, "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10, "youtrack": 30 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 21, "edge": "monday", "key": "maintenance", "monday": 85, "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7, "youtrack": 64 }, { "by": 2, "edge": "youtrack", "key": "transparency", "monday": 80, "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7, "youtrack": 82 } ], "summary": "monday.com scores 76.4 (BB) on agent readiness against YouTrack's 49.9 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do tasks create.", "verdicts": { "monday": "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.", "youtrack": "Every instance serves an OpenAPI 3.0 document, a 23-tool MCP server with OAuth and PKCE, and field selection on each REST call, and the free plan covers ten users. No rate limits, 429 handling, error reference or SLA were found, and JetBrains disclosed two sets of critical vulnerabilities affecting YouTrack Cloud in 2026, both patched." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/monday-vs-youtrack", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/monday-vs-youtrack.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/monday-vs-youtrack.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/monday-vs-youtrack.min.md" }, "markdown": "monday.com scores 76.4 (BB) on agent readiness against YouTrack's 49.9 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do tasks create.\n\n- 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\n- YouTrack: grade D, 49.9/100, rank #601 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/youtrack.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/youtrack.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### monday.com (BB)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 79 against 30\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 88 against 72\n- Agent ergonomics, 82 against 55\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 50 against 30\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 85 against 64\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n- No incidents deducted, where YouTrack loses 5 points for them\n\nWatch for: Personal API tokens have no scopes. Each carries every permission its user has in the app\n\n### YouTrack (D)\n\nGood for: Software teams that already run YouTrack and want an agent to search, file and update issues, comment, log time and maintain knowledge base articles under each user's permissions.\n\nWatch for: No rate limits, 429 handling, idempotency keys or error reference found in the reviewed documentation\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | monday.com | YouTrack | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 79 | 30 | monday.com +49 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 88 | 72 | monday.com +16 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 82 | 55 | monday.com +27 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 70 | 67 | monday.com +3 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 50 | 30 | monday.com +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 85 | 64 | monday.com +21 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 80 | 82 | YouTrack +2 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -5 | |\n| **Total** | | **76.4 · BB** | **49.9 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | monday.com | YouTrack |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | monday.com Ltd. | JetBrains s.r.o. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.monday.com/v2` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| 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 the JetBrains YouTrack Cloud Terms of Service. YouTrack Server is licensed separately for self-hosting |\n| Tools exposed | 64 | 23 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | `com.monday/monday.com` | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-10-05 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-05-05 | 2024-08-14 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-01 | 2026-06-12 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | yes |\n| Popularity | 176k npm/wk | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**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.\n\n**YouTrack.** Every instance serves an OpenAPI 3.0 document, a 23-tool MCP server with OAuth and PKCE, and field selection on each REST call, and the free plan covers ten users. No rate limits, 429 handling, error reference or SLA were found, and JetBrains disclosed two sets of critical vulnerabilities affecting YouTrack Cloud in 2026, both patched.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### monday.com\n\n1. Send an `API-Version` header such as 2026-10 on every call. Without it the API uses whichever version is current\n2. Read the board's columns first (`get_board_info` or `boards { columns }`), then write column values as a JSON string keyed by column ID\n3. Reuse one `Idempotency-Key` per mutation when retrying after a timeout or 5xx. After a 429, wait for `Retry-After` or `retry_in_seconds`\n4. Page items with `items_page` and `next_items_page`, at most 500 a page. Cursors expire after 60 minutes\n5. For a narrower grant than a personal token, connect MCP through a custom OAuth app with only scopes such as `boards:read`\n\n### YouTrack\n\n1. Send `fields` on every REST request. Without it the server returns only the database ID and `$type` of each entity\n2. Page collections with `$top` and `$skip`. Most resources return 42 items by default\n3. Call `get_issue_fields_schema` before `create_issue` or `update_issue`, because required custom fields differ by project\n4. Connect MCP clients to `https://\u003cinstance\u003e.youtrack.cloud/mcp`. OAuth needs an administrator to enable CIMD or register the client, since Dynamic Client Registration is not supported\n5. Create permanent tokens with the YouTrack scope only, and add `?tools=` to the MCP URL to limit the tools listed\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, monday.com or YouTrack?\n\nmonday.com scores 76.4 (BB) on agent readiness against YouTrack's 49.9 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.\n\n### Do monday.com and YouTrack need an API key?\n\nBoth take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call monday.com and YouTrack without installing anything?\n\nmonday.com has a hosted endpoint at https://api.monday.com/v2. No hosted endpoint is listed for YouTrack.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/monday-vs-youtrack.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/monday-vs-youtrack.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"monday\", \"b\": \"youtrack\"}`. 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