# Plane vs Shortcut (slim)

> Plane scores 67.6 (B) on agent readiness against Shortcut's 60.2 (C), 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 Shortcut's 60.2 (C), 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
- Shortcut: C 60.2, rank #411 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shortcut.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 64; Schema & documentation, 80 against 75; Agent ergonomics, 78 against 57; Security & auth, 68 against 54; Maintenance & community, 80 against 73. Also Runs on your own machine; Open source.
- 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; No incidents deducted, where Plane loses 5 points for them.

| Category | Plane | Shortcut |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 89 | 64 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 75 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 78 | 57 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 68 | 54 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 80 | 73 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 74 | 73 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Plane | Shortcut |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Plane Software, Inc. | Shortcut Software Company |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.plane.so` | `https://api.app.shortcut.com` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| 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 Shortcut's terms of service. The JavaScript client and the archived MCP server on GitHub are MIT |
| Tools exposed | 30 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-09-22 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-04-09 | 2025-09-18 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-04-09 | 2025-07-11 |
| 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 | 142 stars, 103k npm/wk |