{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "plane", "name": "Plane", "vendor": "Plane Software, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://plane.so", "kind": "http-api", "category": "project-management", "summary": "Plane is an open-source project management platform for work items, cycles, modules and pages, sold as a cloud service and for self-hosting. Agents reach it through an MIT-licensed MCP server, hosted at mcp.plane.so, and a REST API.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/plane", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/plane.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/plane.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/plane.json", "repo": "https://github.com/makeplane/plane", "license": "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", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http", "stdio" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.plane.so", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "plane-mcp-server" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "plane-sdk" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@makeplane/plane-node-sdk" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Access is self-serve. The hosted MCP server at `https://mcp.plane.so/http/mcp` uses OAuth with PKCE (S256), dynamic client registration and two scopes, read and write, and its redirect allowlist covers Cursor, VS Code, Antigravity, Claude.ai, ChatGPT and localhost. A second endpoint, `https://mcp.plane.so/http/api-key/mcp`, takes a personal or workspace access token in `Authorization: Bearer` with an `x-workspace-slug` header. The REST API takes the same token in `X-Api-Key`, or an OAuth 2.0 bearer token from a Plane app with any of 83 fine-grained scopes. Personal access tokens can expire but are not scope-limited. No app review or partner approval is described.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "The Free cloud plan covers up to 12 users, and the MCP server itself is free, so an agent can start without a contract. Pro is $6 a seat a month billed yearly or $8 monthly, Business $13 or $15, and Enterprise Grid is quoted on request. API and MCP calls are not priced. Self-hosting the Community Edition is free. No separate sandbox was found, and the pricing page does not say which plans include the REST API (https://plane.so/pricing, checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "$6 / seat-mo", "where": "both", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the developer docs, the MCP server repository or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 30, "popularity": { "githubStars": 60544, "npmWeekly": 2649, "pypiWeekly": 7528, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://developers.plane.so", "llmsTxt": "https://developers.plane.so/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "tasks.create", "tasks.update", "projects.manage", "tasks.comments", "projects.reporting", "work.docs", "events.webhooks-send" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "self-hosted", "open-source", "mcp", "oauth", "llms-txt", "freemium", "free-tier", "webhooks", "status-page", "soc2", "python", "typescript", "project-management" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-08", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 67.6, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 204, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 4, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 78, "maintenance": 80, "payments": 30, "reliability": 89, "schema": 80, "security": 68, "transparency": 74 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": -5, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-08-03. Six advisories rated critical were published against makeplane/plane, among them a pre-authentication workspace invitation hijack (GHSA-4vj8-p63v-8p24), account takeover through an unverified OAuth email match (GHSA-7j95-vh8g-f365) and a magic-code endpoint with no rate limit (GHSA-mqjv-rwgv-4gxq). All are marked fixed in v1.4.0 of 31 July 2026 and were published by Plane, so the deduction is reduced, -3 (https://github.com/makeplane/plane/security/advisories).", "2026-09-28. 62 more advisories were published in one day, 31 of them high and none critical, mostly missing project or workspace checks that let one tenant's member read or change another's assets, pages and members, some in the v1 REST API. All 62 are marked fixed in v1.4.0. The advisories do not say when Plane Cloud was patched. Fixed and published, -2 (https://github.com/makeplane/plane/security/advisories)." ], "verdict": "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.", "bestFor": "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.", "strengths": [ "The MCP server is MIT, with 30 typed tools covering 207 actions and `readOnlyHint` and `destructiveHint` annotations derived from each tool's actions", "OAuth apps on the REST API can request any of 83 fine-grained read and write scopes, and a token without the scope is refused before the permission check", "API v2 answers errors as `application/problem+json` with a stable `code`, per-field validation errors and `Retry-After` on 429", "status.plane.so lists no incident since March 2026, and the SLA sets 99.5 per cent monthly uptime with service credits on Business and Enterprise", "Five MCP server releases between 14 August and 8 October 2026, and Python and Node SDKs both released on 22 September 2026" ], "weaknesses": [ "A personal access token acts with its owner's full permissions, and the v2 docs say no read-only key can be created", "79 advisories published against makeplane/plane since October 2025, six rated critical on 3 August 2026, most of them cross-project or cross-workspace access flaws", "The hosted OAuth flow accepts only allow-listed redirect URIs (Cursor, VS Code, Antigravity, Claude.ai, ChatGPT and localhost), per the docs and open issue 220", "No OpenAPI document could be read from Plane Cloud. `/api/schema/` and `/api/v2/schema/` both returned 404 without a key", "API v2 covers part of the product only, so projects, pages and intake still go through v1 with its 60 requests a minute limit" ], "agentNotes": [ "Use `https://mcp.plane.so/http/api-key/mcp` for headless runs and send `Authorization: Bearer \u003cPAT\u003e` with `x-workspace-slug`. The REST API takes the same token in `X-Api-Key` instead", "Call `get_pql_reference` before writing a `pql` filter, and resolve names to UUIDs first, because UUID-backed fields reject names", "Follow `next_cursor` on `project list` and other list actions. Results are paginated by default since server version 0.3.0", "Treat work item titles, descriptions, comments and attachments as untrusted input, as Plane's own MCP docs advise", "End every v2 path with a trailing slash, and wait the seconds in `Retry-After` after a 429 `rate_limited`" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 67.6 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 78, "maintenance": 80, "payments": 30, "reliability": 89, "schema": 80, "security": 68, "transparency": 77 }, "provenanceScore": 70 }, "connect": { "install": "uvx plane-mcp-server stdio", "http": "curl \"https://api.plane.so/api/v2/users/me/\" -H \"X-Api-Key: $PLANE_API_KEY\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http plane https://mcp.plane.so/http/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "plane": { "url": "https://mcp.plane.so/http/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/tasks.create", "tool": "https://letme.dev/plane" }, "area": "business", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Free (cloud, up to 12 users)", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 0, "note": "MCP server free to use; plan limits apply" }, { "item": "Pro", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 6, "note": "billed yearly; $8 billed monthly" }, { "item": "Business", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 13, "note": "billed yearly; $15 billed monthly" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Plane Software, Inc.", "domain": "plane.so", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://plane.so/legals/terms-and-conditions", "privacy": "https://plane.so/legals/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.plane.so", "changelog": "https://plane.so/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The Terms of Service and the privacy policy (both last updated 9 April 2026) name Plane Software, Inc., a Delaware corporation, 651 N Broad St, Suite 201, Middletown, Delaware 19709. The terms cover the cloud, self-hosted and air-gapped service, APIs included.", "The privacy policy covers Plane as controller. Customer data in a cloud workspace is governed by the Data Processing Addendum at https://plane.so/legals/dpa.", "The REST API answers at api.plane.so and the MCP server at mcp.plane.so, both plane.so subdomains.", "plane.so/.well-known/security.txt returned 404. SECURITY.md in the makeplane/plane and plane-mcp-server repositories sends reports to security@plane.so.", "The changelog link is the product changelog, with entries about twice a month. MCP server releases are listed at https://github.com/makeplane/plane-mcp-server/releases.", "No RDAP service answers for the .so registry, so the domain registration date was not established." ], "score": 70 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/plane.json", "live": { "slug": "plane", "probe": { "target": "https://api.plane.so", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:18.795751542Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 200, "lastMs": 348, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 348, "p95ms24h": 413, "samples24h": 21, "samples30d": 21, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 21, "ok": 21 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.plane.so", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T21:06:22.484972267Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:18.795751542Z" } }, "answer": "Plane scores 67.6 (B) on agent readiness against YouTrack's 49.9 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. YouTrack leads on transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "youtrack", "name": "YouTrack", "vendor": "JetBrains s.r.o.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.jetbrains.com/youtrack/", "kind": "http-api", "category": "project-management", "summary": "YouTrack is JetBrains' issue tracker and project management tool, with a knowledge base, helpdesk and time tracking. Agents reach each YouTrack Cloud or Server instance through its REST API and a built-in remote MCP server at `/mcp`.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/youtrack", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/youtrack.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/youtrack.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/youtrack.json", "license": "Proprietary service under the JetBrains YouTrack Cloud Terms of Service. YouTrack Server is licensed separately for self-hosting", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Access is self-serve. Each user creates a permanent token in their profile (Account Security) and sends it as a Bearer token. Tokens never expire, can be deleted, and carry one or both of two scopes, YouTrack and YouTrack Administration. OAuth 2.0 comes from the built-in Hub service, with authorisation code and PKCE (S256), client credentials and a deprecated implicit flow. From YouTrack 2026.2 a system administrator registers OAuth clients or enables automatic registration through Client ID Metadata Documents (off by default). Dynamic Client Registration is not supported. Every call acts with the authorising user's permissions. No app review or partner approval is described.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "The free plan covers up to ten users and three helpdesk agents, with 30 GB of storage, and the REST API is always enabled, so an agent can start without a contract. Paid Cloud subscriptions are priced per user on a sliding scale. JetBrains announced USD 5.40 a user a month on monthly billing and USD 4.50 on annual billing from 1 October 2025, and USD 6 or USD 5.50 per helpdesk agent beyond three. The pricing page served pounds to our network on 2026-10-08 (GBP 4.30 monthly, GBP 43 a year). API and MCP calls are not priced. A 14-day trial covers up to 100 users. No separate sandbox was found (https://www.jetbrains.com/youtrack/buy/, checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "$4.50 / seat-mo", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the developer portal, the OpenAPI document or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 23, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.jetbrains.com/help/youtrack/devportal/youtrack-rest-api.html", "llmsTxt": "https://www.jetbrains.com/help/youtrack/devportal/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/api/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "tasks.create", "tasks.update", "projects.manage", "tasks.comments", "work.issues", "work.docs" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "self-hosted", "mcp", "oauth", "openapi", "llms-txt", "freemium", "free-tier", "status-page", "soc2", "project-management", "issue-tracker" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-05", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 49.9, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 601, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 12, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 55, "maintenance": 64, "payments": 30, "reliability": 30, "schema": 72, "security": 67, "transparency": 82 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": -5, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-04-17. CVE-2026-33392, a sandbox bypass allowing code execution by an administrator, reported in March 2026. JetBrains says the impact was greatest in YouTrack Cloud, where it could bypass cross-tenant isolation on shared hardware, that Cloud was mitigated within 48 hours, and that it found no evidence of exploitation. Fixed and disclosed, so 3 of a possible 15 (https://blog.jetbrains.com/youtrack/2026/04/security-issue-in-youtrack-cve-2026-33392/)", "2026-06-19. CVE-2026-56141 (admin account takeover through authentication token forgery) and CVE-2026-56142 (email verification bypass), found in May 2026, affected YouTrack Cloud, and CVE-2026-50242 affected Server. JetBrains says Cloud was patched before the post and that it found no evidence of exploitation outside testing. Fixed and disclosed, so 2 points (https://blog.jetbrains.com/youtrack/2026/06/youtrack-security-update-youtrack-server-upgrade-required/)" ], "verdict": "Every instance serves an OpenAPI 3.0 document, a 23-tool MCP server with OAuth and PKCE, and field selection on each REST call, and the free plan covers ten users. No rate limits, 429 handling, error reference or SLA were found, and JetBrains disclosed two sets of critical vulnerabilities affecting YouTrack Cloud in 2026, both patched.", "bestFor": "Software teams that already run YouTrack and want an agent to search, file and update issues, comment, log time and maintain knowledge base articles under each user's permissions.", "strengths": [ "OpenAPI 3.0.1 document at `/api/openapi.json` on every instance, with 281 operations on 157 paths, plus llms.txt and a Markdown copy of each docs page", "Built-in remote MCP server at `/mcp` with 23 predefined tools, and `tools` and `ignoreTools` URL parameters that trim the tool list", "OAuth 2.0 authorisation code flow with PKCE (S256) and Client ID Metadata Documents, or revocable permanent tokens with two scopes", "Free plan for up to ten users and three helpdesk agents, with the REST API always enabled", "19 Server builds published between 15 July and 5 October 2026, and a REST API changelog by version" ], "weaknesses": [ "No rate limits, 429 handling, idempotency keys or error reference found in the reviewed documentation", "The status page shows availability percentages by region for 24 hours and 30 days, with no incident history, and no SLA was found", "Two security disclosures in 2026 affected YouTrack Cloud, a cross-tenant isolation bypass (CVE-2026-33392) and an admin account takeover (CVE-2026-56141). Both were patched", "Permanent tokens never expire and carry only two coarse scopes, YouTrack and YouTrack Administration", "No current official SDK. YouTrackSharp for .NET covers a subset of the API and was last published on 31 March 2023" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send `fields` on every REST request. Without it the server returns only the database ID and `$type` of each entity", "Page collections with `$top` and `$skip`. Most resources return 42 items by default", "Call `get_issue_fields_schema` before `create_issue` or `update_issue`, because required custom fields differ by project", "Connect MCP clients to `https://\u003cinstance\u003e.youtrack.cloud/mcp`. OAuth needs an administrator to enable CIMD or register the client, since Dynamic Client Registration is not supported", "Create permanent tokens with the YouTrack scope only, and add `?tools=` to the MCP URL to limit the tools listed" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 49.9 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 55, "maintenance": 64, "payments": 30, "reliability": 30, "schema": 72, "security": 67, "transparency": 65 }, "provenanceScore": 98 }, "connect": { "http": "curl 'https://example.youtrack.cloud/api/users/me?fields=id,login,name' -H 'Accept: application/json' -H \"Authorization: Bearer $YOUTRACK_TOKEN\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --header \"Authorization: Bearer \u003ctoken\u003e\" --transport http youtrack \u003cyoutrack-mcp-endpoint-url\u003e" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/tasks.create", "tool": "https://letme.dev/youtrack" }, "area": "business", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Free plan (up to 10 users, 3 helpdesk agents)", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 0, "note": "30 GB storage; REST API and MCP server included" }, { "item": "Cloud user, annual billing", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 4.5, "note": "starting price as announced for 1 October 2025; falls as users are added. Pricing page served GBP on 2026-10-08" }, { "item": "Cloud user, monthly billing", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 5.4, "note": "starting price as announced for 1 October 2025; pricing page showed GBP 4.30 on 2026-10-08" }, { "item": "Helpdesk agent beyond three, monthly billing", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 6, "note": "USD 5.50 on annual billing, as announced for 1 October 2025" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "JetBrains s.r.o.", "domain": "jetbrains.com", "domainRegistered": "2001-11-09", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.jetbrains.com/legal/docs/youtrack/youtrack_cloud/", "privacy": "https://www.jetbrains.com/legal/docs/privacy/privacy/", "statusPage": "https://www.jetbrains.com/youtrack/cloud/status/", "changelog": "https://www.jetbrains.com/help/youtrack/devportal/api-changelog.html", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The YouTrack Cloud Terms of Service (version 2.0, effective 14 August 2024) name JetBrains s.r.o., Na Hřebenech II 1718/8, Prague, 14000, Czech Republic, ID No. 265 02 275, and are governed by Czech law.", "The JetBrains Privacy Notice (version 3.2, last updated 12 June 2026) covers JetBrains websites, products and services, and the Cloud terms point to it. Customer personal data is processed under the Data Processing Addendum (version 1.3, 27 April 2022).", "Cloud instances answer at \u003cinstance\u003e.youtrack.cloud, or \u003cinstance\u003e.myjetbrains.com/youtrack for instances registered before 2 November 2021. RDAP gives youtrack.cloud a registration date of 2021-04-30 through MarkMonitor, and the docs describe both domains as JetBrains'.", "www.jetbrains.com/.well-known/security.txt has a Contact line (security@jetbrains.com) and a Policy line pointing to the Coordinated Disclosure Policy, and no Expires field, which RFC 9116 requires.", "The status page draws its figures by script from myjetbrains.com/youtrack/youtrack-hosted-master/rest/stat, which we read directly.", "RDAP for jetbrains.com gives a registration date of 2001-11-09 and Network Solutions, LLC as registrar." ], "score": 98 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/youtrack.json", "live": { "slug": "youtrack", "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://www.jetbrains.com/youtrack/cloud/status", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T19:39:21.794121817Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T19:39:21.794121817Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Plane Software, Inc.", "b": "JetBrains s.r.o.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.plane.so", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "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", "b": "Proprietary service under the JetBrains YouTrack Cloud Terms of Service. YouTrack Server is licensed separately for self-hosting", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "30", "b": "23", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-08", "b": "2026-10-05", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-04-09", "b": "2024-08-14", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-04-09", "b": "2026-06-12", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "61k stars, 2.6k npm/wk, 7.5k PyPI/wk", "b": "none", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Plane scores 67.6 (B) on agent readiness against YouTrack's 49.9 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. YouTrack leads on transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Plane or YouTrack?" }, { "answer": "Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Plane and YouTrack need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Plane has a hosted endpoint at https://api.plane.so. No hosted endpoint is listed for YouTrack.", "question": "Can an agent call Plane and YouTrack without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "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 YouTrack.", "question": "Are Plane and YouTrack open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 89 against 30", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 80 against 72", "Agent ergonomics, 78 against 55", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 80 against 64" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install", "Runs on your own machine", "Open source" ], "goodFor": "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.", "slug": "plane", "watchFor": "A personal access token acts with its owner's full permissions, and the v2 docs say no read-only key can be created" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Transparency \u0026 trust, 82 against 74" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Software teams that already run YouTrack and want an agent to search, file and update issues, comment, log time and maintain knowledge base articles under each user's permissions.", "slug": "youtrack", "watchFor": "No rate limits, 429 handling, idempotency keys or error reference found in the reviewed documentation" } ], "job": { "capability": "tasks.create", "name": "Tasks create" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asana-vs-plane.json", "title": "Asana vs Plane", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asana-vs-plane" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asana-vs-youtrack.json", "title": "Asana vs YouTrack", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asana-vs-youtrack" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/basecamp-vs-plane.json", "title": "Basecamp vs Plane", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/basecamp-vs-plane" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/basecamp-vs-youtrack.json", "title": "Basecamp vs YouTrack", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/basecamp-vs-youtrack" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-plane.json", "title": "ClickUp vs Plane", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-plane" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-youtrack.json", "title": "ClickUp vs YouTrack", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-youtrack" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/monday-vs-plane.json", "title": "monday.com vs Plane", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/monday-vs-plane" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/monday-vs-youtrack.json", "title": "monday.com vs YouTrack", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/monday-vs-youtrack" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plane-vs-roma.json", "title": "Plane vs Roma", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plane-vs-roma" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plane-vs-shortcut.json", "title": "Plane vs Shortcut", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plane-vs-shortcut" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plane-vs-teamwork.json", "title": "Plane vs Teamwork.com", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plane-vs-teamwork" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plane-vs-todoist.json", "title": "Plane vs Todoist", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plane-vs-todoist" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plane-vs-trello.json", "title": "Plane vs Trello", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plane-vs-trello" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plane-vs-wrike.json", "title": "Plane vs Wrike", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plane-vs-wrike" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/roma-vs-youtrack.json", "title": "Roma vs YouTrack", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/roma-vs-youtrack" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/shortcut-vs-youtrack.json", "title": "Shortcut vs YouTrack", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/shortcut-vs-youtrack" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/teamwork-vs-youtrack.json", "title": "Teamwork.com vs YouTrack", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/teamwork-vs-youtrack" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/todoist-vs-youtrack.json", "title": "Todoist vs YouTrack", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/todoist-vs-youtrack" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/trello-vs-youtrack.json", "title": "Trello vs YouTrack", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/trello-vs-youtrack" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/wrike-vs-youtrack.json", "title": "Wrike vs YouTrack", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/wrike-vs-youtrack" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 59, "edge": "plane", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "plane": 89, "weight": 16, "youtrack": 30 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 8, "edge": "plane", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "plane": 80, "weight": 13, "youtrack": 72 }, { "by": 23, "edge": "plane", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "plane": 78, "weight": 13, "youtrack": 55 }, { "by": 1, "edge": "plane", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "plane": 68, "weight": 14, "youtrack": 67 }, { "by": 0, "edge": "", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "plane": 30, "weight": 10, "youtrack": 30 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 16, "edge": "plane", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "plane": 80, "weight": 7, "youtrack": 64 }, { "by": 8, "edge": "youtrack", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "plane": 74, "weight": 7, "youtrack": 82 } ], "summary": "Plane scores 67.6 (B) on agent readiness against YouTrack's 49.9 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. YouTrack leads on transparency \u0026 trust. Both do tasks create.", "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.", "youtrack": "Every instance serves an OpenAPI 3.0 document, a 23-tool MCP server with OAuth and PKCE, and field selection on each REST call, and the free plan covers ten users. No rate limits, 429 handling, error reference or SLA were found, and JetBrains disclosed two sets of critical vulnerabilities affecting YouTrack Cloud in 2026, both patched." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plane-vs-youtrack", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plane-vs-youtrack.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plane-vs-youtrack.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plane-vs-youtrack.min.md" }, "markdown": "Plane scores 67.6 (B) on agent readiness against YouTrack's 49.9 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. YouTrack leads on transparency \u0026 trust. Both do tasks create.\n\n- Plane: grade B, 67.6/100, rank #204 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/plane.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/plane.json\n- YouTrack: grade D, 49.9/100, rank #601 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/youtrack.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/youtrack.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Plane (B)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 89 against 30\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 80 against 72\n- Agent ergonomics, 78 against 55\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 80 against 64\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n- Runs on your own machine\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: A personal access token acts with its owner's full permissions, and the v2 docs say no read-only key can be created\n\n### YouTrack (D)\n\nGood for: Software teams that already run YouTrack and want an agent to search, file and update issues, comment, log time and maintain knowledge base articles under each user's permissions.\n\nAhead on:\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 82 against 74\n\nWatch for: No rate limits, 429 handling, idempotency keys or error reference found in the reviewed documentation\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Plane | YouTrack | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 89 | 30 | Plane +59 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 80 | 72 | Plane +8 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 78 | 55 | Plane +23 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 68 | 67 | Plane +1 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 30 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 80 | 64 | Plane +16 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 74 | 82 | YouTrack +8 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -5 | -5 | |\n| **Total** | | **67.6 · B** | **49.9 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Plane | YouTrack |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Plane Software, Inc. | JetBrains s.r.o. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.plane.so` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| 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 JetBrains YouTrack Cloud Terms of Service. YouTrack Server is licensed separately for self-hosting |\n| Tools exposed | 30 | 23 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-10-05 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-04-09 | 2024-08-14 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-04-09 | 2026-06-12 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | yes |\n| Popularity | 61k stars, 2.6k npm/wk, 7.5k PyPI/wk | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**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.\n\n**YouTrack.** Every instance serves an OpenAPI 3.0 document, a 23-tool MCP server with OAuth and PKCE, and field selection on each REST call, and the free plan covers ten users. No rate limits, 429 handling, error reference or SLA were found, and JetBrains disclosed two sets of critical vulnerabilities affecting YouTrack Cloud in 2026, both patched.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Plane\n\n1. Use `https://mcp.plane.so/http/api-key/mcp` for headless runs and send `Authorization: Bearer \u003cPAT\u003e` with `x-workspace-slug`. The REST API takes the same token in `X-Api-Key` instead\n2. Call `get_pql_reference` before writing a `pql` filter, and resolve names to UUIDs first, because UUID-backed fields reject names\n3. Follow `next_cursor` on `project list` and other list actions. Results are paginated by default since server version 0.3.0\n4. Treat work item titles, descriptions, comments and attachments as untrusted input, as Plane's own MCP docs advise\n5. End every v2 path with a trailing slash, and wait the seconds in `Retry-After` after a 429 `rate_limited`\n\n### YouTrack\n\n1. Send `fields` on every REST request. Without it the server returns only the database ID and `$type` of each entity\n2. Page collections with `$top` and `$skip`. Most resources return 42 items by default\n3. Call `get_issue_fields_schema` before `create_issue` or `update_issue`, because required custom fields differ by project\n4. Connect MCP clients to `https://\u003cinstance\u003e.youtrack.cloud/mcp`. OAuth needs an administrator to enable CIMD or register the client, since Dynamic Client Registration is not supported\n5. Create permanent tokens with the YouTrack scope only, and add `?tools=` to the MCP URL to limit the tools listed\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Plane or YouTrack?\n\nPlane scores 67.6 (B) on agent readiness against YouTrack's 49.9 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. YouTrack leads on transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Do Plane and YouTrack need an API key?\n\nBoth take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Plane and YouTrack without installing anything?\n\nPlane has a hosted endpoint at https://api.plane.so. No hosted endpoint is listed for YouTrack.\n\n### Are Plane and YouTrack open source?\n\nPlane 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 YouTrack.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plane-vs-youtrack.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plane-vs-youtrack.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"plane\", \"b\": \"youtrack\"}`. 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