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Head to head · Tasks create · October 2026 research run

Plane vs Wrike

Plane scores 67.6 (B) on agent readiness against Wrike's 60.1 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Both do tasks create.

PlanePlane Software, Inc. · HTTP API B67.6/100#204 of 722 WrikeWrike, Inc. · HTTP API C60.1/100#413 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 68
  • Agent ergonomics, 78 against 63
  • Security & auth, 68 against 60
  • Maintenance & community, 80 against 63

Also in its favour

  • Runs on your own machine
  • 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

Wrike C

Good for Teams already on Wrike that want an assistant to find work, create tasks and projects from notes, update status in bulk, comment and check approvals.

Also in its favour

  • Free to start without a card

Watch for

A permanent access token never expires and reaches everything its user can, and it is the documented route for clients that need dynamic client registration

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runPlaneWrikeEdge
Reliability16%208968Plane +21
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.28078Plane +2
Agent ergonomics13%16.27863Plane +15
Security & auth14%17.56860Plane +8
Payments & pricing10%12.53030even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.88063Plane +17
Transparency & trust7%8.87478Wrike +4
Negative events≤15-5-3
Total67.6 · B60.1 · C

Facts side by side

FactPlaneWrike
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorPlane Software, Inc.Wrike, Inc.
Hosted endpointhttps://api.plane.sohttps://www.wrike.com/api/v4
TransportsHTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdioHTTP, Streamable HTTP
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 Wrike's terms. The agent skills repository on GitHub is MIT
Tools exposed3029
Read-only variant documentednoyes
llms.txtyesyes
Last release2026-10-082026-09-17
Terms last updated2026-04-092025-04-08
Privacy policy last updated2026-04-092026-06-01
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessyesyes
Terms restrict benchmarkingyesyes
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the textyes
Arbitration or class-action waiveryesnot found in the text
Popularity61k stars, 2.6k npm/wk, 7.5k PyPI/wknone

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.

Wrike

The official MCP server has 29 documented tools for search, task and project creation, bulk updates, comments and approvals, and it works on every plan including Free. Permanent access tokens never expire and carry the user's full access, and no SLA, official SDK or deprecation policy 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

Wrike

  1. Build API URLs from the host value returned by /oauth2/token. Accounts live on www.wrike.com, app-eu.wrike.com or app-us2.wrike.com, and the wrong host answers 401.
  2. Use https://mcp.wrike.com/v2 only. The older /app/mcp/stream and /app/mcp/sse URLs serve the v1 tool set.
  3. Call search_workflows before setting a status, because update_items and search_items take custom status ids.
  4. Stay under about 400 requests a minute per token or IP and back off exponentially on 429. Use POST /batch for up to 100 operations.
  5. Page task lists with pageSize (up to 1,000) and nextPageToken, and request optional data through fields.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Plane or Wrike?

Plane scores 67.6 (B) on agent readiness against Wrike's 60.1 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories.

Do Plane and Wrike need an API key?

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

Can an agent call Plane and Wrike without installing anything?

Yes. Plane has a hosted endpoint at https://api.plane.so and Wrike at https://www.wrike.com/api/v4.

Are Plane and Wrike 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 Wrike.

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