# Plane vs Roma (slim)

> Plane scores 67.6 (B) on agent readiness against Roma's 51.1 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do tasks create. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Plane scores 67.6 (B) on agent readiness against Roma's 51.1 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do tasks create.

- Plane: B 67.6, rank #204 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/plane.min.md
- Roma: D 51.1, rank #583 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/roma.min.md
- Plane, good for Teams that want an issue tracker they can also self-host, with an agent creating and updating work items, cycles, modules and pages over MCP. Ahead on Reliability, 89 against 38; Agent ergonomics, 78 against 60; Security & auth, 68 against 44; Payments & pricing, 30 against 20; Maintenance & community, 80 against 57; Transparency & trust, 74 against 58. Also Runs on your own machine; Open source.
- Roma, good for One person who wants an AI chat to read and write their own task list, notes and typed lists, with a single orientation call. Also No incidents deducted, where Plane loses 5 points for them.

| Category | Plane | Roma |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 89 | 38 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 83 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 78 | 60 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 68 | 44 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 80 | 57 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 74 | 58 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Plane | Roma |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | MCP server |
| Vendor | Plane Software, Inc. | Milo Mode Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.plane.so` | `https://api.roma.app/mcp` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | Streamable HTTP, HTTP |
| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| Licence | Plane Community Edition is AGPL-3.0, and the MCP server and the Python and Node SDKs are MIT. Plane Cloud and the Commercial Edition are proprietary under Plane's Terms of Service | Proprietary service under Roma's terms of service. No public source repository found |
| Tools exposed | 30 | 31 |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-10-02 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-04-09 | 2026-09-18 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-04-09 | 2026-10-06 |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 61k stars, 2.6k npm/wk, 7.5k PyPI/wk | none |