# Plane vs Trello (slim)

> Plane scores 67.6 (B) on agent readiness against Trello's 61.1 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Trello leads on 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 Trello's 61.1 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Trello leads on transparency & trust. Both do tasks create.

- Plane: B 67.6, rank #204 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/plane.min.md
- Trello: C 61.1, rank #375 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/trello.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 83; Schema & documentation, 80 against 63; Agent ergonomics, 78 against 52; Security & auth, 68 against 62; Maintenance & community, 80 against 48. Also Runs on your own machine; Open source.
- Trello, good for Teams already on Trello that want an agent to create and move cards, set owners and due dates, comment and react to changes through webhooks. Ahead on Transparency & trust, 80 against 74. Also No incidents deducted, where Plane loses 5 points for them.

| Category | Plane | Trello |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 89 | 83 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 63 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 78 | 52 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 68 | 62 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 80 | 48 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 74 | 80 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Plane | Trello |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Plane Software, Inc. | Atlassian (Trello, Inc.) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.plane.so` | `https://api.trello.com/1` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | 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 the Atlassian Customer Agreement, with API use under the Atlassian Developer Terms |
| Tools exposed | 30 | none |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-09-15 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-04-09 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-04-09 | couldn't be read |
| 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 | none |