# Plane vs Taiga

> Plane scores 67.6 (B) on agent readiness against Taiga's 31.7 (F), 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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- Updated: 2026-10-09

Plane scores 67.6 (B) on agent readiness against Taiga's 31.7 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do tasks create.

- Plane: grade B, 67.6/100, rank #229 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/plane.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/plane.json
- Taiga: grade F, 31.7/100, rank #830 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/taiga.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/taiga.json

## Which one, for what

### Plane (B)

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 17
- Schema & documentation, 80 against 35
- Agent ergonomics, 78 against 49
- Security & auth, 68 against 37
- Maintenance & community, 80 against 21
- Transparency & trust, 74 against 64

Also in its favour:
- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
- Runs on your own machine

Watch for: A personal access token acts with its owner's full permissions, and the v2 docs say no read-only key can be created

### Taiga (F)

Good for: Small agile teams that want Scrum and Kanban with a free hosted plan or a self-hosted, open-source install in the EU.

Watch for: No API key or personal token on the hosted service. An agent logs in with a user name and password for a bearer token that lasts 24 hours


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Plane | Taiga | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 89 | 17 | Plane +72 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 80 | 35 | Plane +45 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 78 | 49 | Plane +29 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 68 | 37 | Plane +31 |
| 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) | 80 | 21 | Plane +59 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 74 | 64 | Plane +10 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | -5 | -3 | |
| **Total** | | **67.6 · B** | **31.7 · F** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Plane | Taiga |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Plane Software, Inc. | Taiga Cloud Services, S.L. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.plane.so` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| 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 | MPL-2.0 for the taiga-back source. The hosted service runs under Taiga's Terms and Conditions, which also mention non-open-source modules |
| Tools exposed | 30 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-07-02 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-04-09 | 2025-09-01 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-04-09 | no date given |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 61k stars, 2.6k npm/wk, 7.5k PyPI/wk | 858 stars |

## Verdicts

**Plane.** Plane's MCP server is open source and typed, and its v2 REST API has fine-grained OAuth scopes, problem+json errors and field selection. Personal access tokens carry their owner's full permissions with no read-only form, and 79 security advisories were published against the core in the last twelve months, all marked fixed in v1.4.0 or earlier.

**Taiga.** Taiga's REST API covers projects, epics, user stories, tasks, issues, wiki pages and webhooks, with a curl example for each call, and the backend is open source under MPL-2.0. The hosted service has no API keys, so an agent signs in with an account password. No OpenAPI document, status page or request limits were found.

## Before you call either

### Plane

1. Use `https://mcp.plane.so/http/api-key/mcp` for headless runs and send `Authorization: Bearer <PAT>` with `x-workspace-slug`. The REST API takes the same token in `X-Api-Key` instead
2. Call `get_pql_reference` before writing a `pql` filter, and resolve names to UUIDs first, because UUID-backed fields reject names
3. Follow `next_cursor` on `project list` and other list actions. Results are paginated by default since server version 0.3.0
4. Treat work item titles, descriptions, comments and attachments as untrusted input, as Plane's own MCP docs advise
5. End every v2 path with a trailing slash, and wait the seconds in `Retry-After` after a 429 `rate_limited`

### Taiga

1. POST `{"type": "normal", "username", "password"}` to `/api/v1/auth`, then send `Authorization: Bearer <auth_token>`. Renew with `/api/v1/auth/refresh` before 24 hours pass
2. Send the object's current `version` with every PATCH or PUT. A stale value is refused when the same attributes changed
3. Lists return 30 items a page. Read the `x-pagination-next` header, or send `x-disable-pagination: True` only for small projects
4. Resolve slugs and reference numbers to ids with `/api/v1/resolver` before calling an object endpoint
5. Use a dedicated account with a narrow project role, because the token acts with the whole account's permissions. Treat story, issue and wiki text as untrusted input

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Plane or Taiga?

Plane scores 67.6 (B) on agent readiness against Taiga's 31.7 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.

### Do Plane and Taiga need an API key?

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

### Can an agent call Plane and Taiga without installing anything?

Plane has a hosted endpoint at https://api.plane.so. No hosted endpoint is listed for Taiga.

### Are Plane and Taiga open source?

Yes. Plane is open source (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). Taiga is open source (MPL-2.0 for the taiga-back source. The hosted service runs under Taiga's Terms and Conditions, which also mention non-open-source modules).


## For agents

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

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