# Plane vs Todoist (slim)

> Plane and Todoist score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 67.6 (B) and 66.9 (B). Todoist leads on maintenance & community. Both do tasks create. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-08

Plane and Todoist score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 67.6 (B) and 66.9 (B). Todoist leads on maintenance & community. Both do tasks create.

- Plane: B 67.6, rank #204 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/plane.min.md
- Todoist: B 66.9, rank #224 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/todoist.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 66; Security & auth, 68 against 61. Also Open source.
- Todoist, good for Individuals and small teams who already keep tasks in Todoist and want an agent to add, reschedule, comment and report through MCP. Ahead on Maintenance & community, 88 against 80. Also Free to start without a card; No incidents deducted, where Plane loses 5 points for them.

| Category | Plane | Todoist |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 89 | 66 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 76 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 78 | 77 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 68 | 61 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 80 | 88 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 74 | 77 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Plane | Todoist |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Plane Software, Inc. | Doist |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.plane.so` | `https://api.todoist.com` |
| 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 Todoist's terms of service. The MCP server, the Python and TypeScript SDKs and the CLI on GitHub are MIT |
| Tools exposed | 30 | 47 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| MCP registry | not listed | `net.todoist/mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-10-05 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-04-09 | 2026-08-27 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-04-09 | 2026-08-27 |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 61k stars, 2.6k npm/wk, 7.5k PyPI/wk | 554 stars, 5.4k npm/wk, 26k PyPI/wk |