# OpenProject vs Wrike

> Wrike scores 60.1 (C) on agent readiness against OpenProject's 57.4 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. OpenProject leads on agent ergonomics, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do tasks create. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by…

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Wrike scores 60.1 (C) on agent readiness against OpenProject's 57.4 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. OpenProject leads on agent ergonomics, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do tasks create.

- OpenProject: grade C, 57.4/100, rank #550 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openproject.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/openproject.json
- Wrike: grade C, 60.1/100, rank #480 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/wrike.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/wrike.json

## Which one, for what

### OpenProject (C)

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:
- Agent ergonomics, 70 against 63
- Maintenance & community, 75 against 63
- Transparency & trust, 87 against 78

Also in its favour:
- Open source

Watch for: 83 advisories published against opf/openproject in the twelve months to 8 October 2026, 13 rated critical, among them remote code execution and SQL injection

### 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.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 68 against 52

Also in its favour:
- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
- 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 | OpenProject | Wrike | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 52 | 68 | Wrike +16 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 76 | 78 | Wrike +2 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 70 | 63 | OpenProject +7 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 59 | 60 | Wrike +1 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 30 | even |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 75 | 63 | OpenProject +12 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 87 | 78 | OpenProject +9 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | -5 | -3 | |
| **Total** | | **57.4 · C** | **60.1 · C** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | OpenProject | Wrike |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | OpenProject GmbH | Wrike, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://www.wrike.com/api/v4` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | 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 | Proprietary service under Wrike's terms. The agent skills repository on GitHub is MIT |
| Tools exposed | none | 29 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-09-17 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-08-06 | 2025-04-08 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 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 | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 16k stars | none |

## Verdicts

**OpenProject.** OpenProject's APIv3 has a public OpenAPI 3.1 document with 320 operations, stable error identifiers and optimistic locking, and the same API ships in the free GPL-3.0 Community edition. No request limits are published, API tokens carry their user's full permissions, and 83 security advisories were published in the last twelve months, 13 rated critical.

**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

### OpenProject

1. Send the API token as `Authorization: Bearer <token>`, or as the Basic auth password with the user name `apikey`
2. Read the resource first and send its current `lockVersion` with every PATCH. A stale value returns 409 `UpdateConflict`
3. POST to the `/form` endpoint of a work package to learn writable fields and allowed values before creating or updating
4. URL-encode `filters` as a JSON array, and add `pageSize`, `offset` and `select` to keep work package lists small
5. Run the agent as a dedicated user with a narrow project role, and treat work package text and comments as untrusted input

### 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, OpenProject or Wrike?

Wrike scores 60.1 (C) on agent readiness against OpenProject's 57.4 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. OpenProject leads on agent ergonomics, maintenance & community and transparency & trust.

### Do OpenProject and Wrike need an API key?

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

### Can an agent call OpenProject and Wrike without installing anything?

No hosted endpoint is listed for OpenProject. Wrike has a hosted endpoint at https://www.wrike.com/api/v4.

### Are OpenProject and Wrike open source?

OpenProject is open source (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). No open-source release is listed for Wrike.


## For agents

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

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