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Head to head · Tasks create · October 2026 research run

Plane vs Teamwork.com

Plane scores 67.6 (B) on agent readiness against Teamwork.com's 65.9 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Teamwork.com leads on maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do tasks create.

PlanePlane Software, Inc. · HTTP API B67.6/100#204 of 722 Teamwork.comTeamwork Crew Limited · HTTP API B65.9/100#251 of 722

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 73
  • Schema & documentation, 80 against 72
  • Agent ergonomics, 78 against 68
  • Security & auth, 68 against 58

Also in its favour

  • Open source

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

Teamwork.com B

Good for Agencies and services firms already on Teamwork.com that want an assistant to create and update tasks, log time, read workload and budgets, and answer Desk tickets.

Ahead on

  • Maintenance & community, 88 against 80
  • Transparency & trust, 80 against 74

Also in its favour

  • Free to start without a card
  • No incidents deducted, where Plane loses 5 points for them

Watch for

OAuth scopes are per product only (projects, desk, spaces, chat), and the token from the app login flow is described as permanent

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runPlaneTeamwork.comEdge
Reliability16%208973Plane +16
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.28072Plane +8
Agent ergonomics13%16.27868Plane +10
Security & auth14%17.56858Plane +10
Payments & pricing10%12.53030even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.88088Teamwork.com +8
Transparency & trust7%8.87480Teamwork.com +6
Negative events≤15-50
Total67.6 · B65.9 · B

Facts side by side

FactPlaneTeamwork.com
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorPlane Software, Inc.Teamwork Crew Limited
Hosted endpointhttps://api.plane.sohttps://mcp.ai.teamwork.com
TransportsHTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdioHTTP, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy), stdio
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingFreemiumFreemium
x402nono
LicencePlane 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 ServiceProprietary service under Teamwork.com's terms of service. The MCP server on GitHub is MIT
Tools exposed30225
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesno
Last release2026-10-082026-10-06
Terms last updated2026-04-09no date given
Privacy policy last updated2026-04-092024-08-19
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessyesnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingyesyes
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the textnot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waiveryesnot found in the text
Popularity61k stars, 2.6k npm/wk, 7.5k PyPI/wk26 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.

Teamwork.com

The official MCP server is MIT licensed, released almost daily, and has typed tools with annotations, profile endpoints and no delete tools on the shipped servers. OAuth scopes stop at product level, access tokens are permanent, and no SLA, API changelog or prompt-injection guidance was found in the reviewed documentation.

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

Teamwork.com

  1. Use a profile endpoint such as https://mcp.ai.teamwork.com/project-manager. The base URL loads every tool across Projects, Desk, Spaces and Chat.
  2. Ask a site administrator to enable MCP under Settings, AI before connecting.
  3. Build REST URLs from installation.apiEndPoint in the token response. Sites live at {site}.teamwork.com (US) or {site}.eu.teamwork.com (EU).
  4. Stay under 150 requests a minute on Free, Basics and Accelerate. The limit is shared by the whole site. On 429, wait until X-Rate-Limit-Reset.
  5. Pass verbose=false to list_* tools to get ids and names only, and use twprojects-create_tasks for many tasks in one call.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Plane or Teamwork.com?

Plane scores 67.6 (B) on agent readiness against Teamwork.com's 65.9 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Teamwork.com leads on maintenance & community and transparency & trust.

Do Plane and Teamwork.com need an API key?

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

Can an agent call Plane and Teamwork.com without installing anything?

Yes. Plane has a hosted endpoint at https://api.plane.so and Teamwork.com at https://mcp.ai.teamwork.com.

Are Plane and Teamwork.com open source?

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). No open-source release is listed for Teamwork.com.

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