# Plane vs Teamwork.com (slim)

> 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. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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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.

- Plane: B 67.6, rank #204 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/plane.min.md
- Teamwork.com: B 65.9, rank #251 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/teamwork.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 73; Schema & documentation, 80 against 72; Agent ergonomics, 78 against 68; Security & auth, 68 against 58. Also Open source.
- Teamwork.com, 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 Free to start without a card; No incidents deducted, where Plane loses 5 points for them.

| Category | Plane | Teamwork.com |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 89 | 73 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 72 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 78 | 68 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 68 | 58 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 80 | 88 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 74 | 80 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Plane | Teamwork.com |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Plane Software, Inc. | Teamwork Crew Limited |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.plane.so` | `https://mcp.ai.teamwork.com` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy), stdio |
| 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 Teamwork.com's terms of service. The MCP server on GitHub is MIT |
| Tools exposed | 30 | 225 |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-10-06 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-04-09 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-04-09 | 2024-08-19 |
| Terms restrict automated access | 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 | 26 stars |