# Redmine vs Roma (slim)

> Roma and Redmine score within a point of each other for issues and tasks, 51.1 and 50.2 out of 100. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Roma and Redmine score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 51.1 (D) and 50.2 (D). Redmine leads on reliability, security & auth, payments & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do issues and tasks.

- Redmine: D 50.2, rank #777 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/redmine.min.md
- Roma: D 51.1, rank #757 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/roma.min.md
- Redmine, good for Teams that already run Redmine or want a free, self-hosted tracker with issues, time entries and wikis under their own control. Ahead on Reliability, 69 against 38; Security & auth, 51 against 44; Payments & pricing, 60 against 20; Maintenance & community, 73 against 57. Also Open source.
- Roma, good for One person who wants an AI chat to read and write their own task list, notes and typed lists, with a single orientation call. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 83 against 32; Agent ergonomics, 60 against 51; Transparency & trust, 58 against 47. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; No incidents deducted, where Redmine loses 4 points for them.

| Category | Redmine | Roma |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 69 | 38 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 32 | 83 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 51 | 60 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 51 | 44 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 73 | 57 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 47 | 58 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Redmine | Roma |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | MCP server |
| Vendor | Redmine project | Milo Mode Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.roma.app/mcp` |
| Transports | HTTP | Streamable HTTP, HTTP |
| Licence | GPL-2.0-or-later | Proprietary service under Roma's terms of service. No public source repository found |
| Tools exposed | none | 31 |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-09-30 | 2026-10-02 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2026-09-18 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2026-10-06 |
| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | not found in the text |