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Head to head · Issues and tasks · October 2026 research run

Redmine vs Teamwork.com

Teamwork.com scores 65.9 (B) on agent readiness against Redmine's 50.2 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Redmine leads on payments & pricing. Both do issues and tasks.

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RedmineRedmine project · HTTP API D50.2/100#777 of 950 Teamwork.comTeamwork Crew Limited · HTTP API B65.9/100#309 of 950

Which one, for what

Redmine D

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

  • Payments & pricing, 60 against 30

Also in its favour

  • Open source

Watch for

No OpenAPI document or other machine-readable contract was found in the wiki or the source repository

Teamwork.com B

Good for Agencies and services firms already on Teamwork.com that want an assistant to create and update tasks, log time, read workload and budgets, and answer Desk tickets.

Ahead on

  • Schema & documentation, 72 against 32
  • Agent ergonomics, 68 against 51
  • Security & auth, 58 against 51
  • Maintenance & community, 88 against 73
  • Transparency & trust, 80 against 47

Also in its favour

  • A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
  • Runs on your own machine
  • Free to start without a card
  • No incidents deducted, where Redmine loses 4 points for them

Watch for

OAuth scopes are per product only (projects, desk, spaces, chat), and the token from the app login flow is described as permanent

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runRedmineTeamwork.comEdge
Reliability16%206973Teamwork.com +4
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.23272Teamwork.com +40
Agent ergonomics13%16.25168Teamwork.com +17
Security & auth14%17.55158Teamwork.com +7
Payments & pricing10%12.56030Redmine +30
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.87388Teamwork.com +15
Transparency & trust7%8.84780Teamwork.com +33
Negative events≤15-40
Total50.2 · D65.9 · B

Facts side by side

FactRedmineTeamwork.com
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorRedmine projectTeamwork Crew Limited
Hosted endpointno (local only)https://mcp.ai.teamwork.com
TransportsHTTPHTTP, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy), stdio
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingFreeFreemium
x402nono
LicenceGPL-2.0-or-laterProprietary service under Teamwork.com's terms of service. The MCP server on GitHub is MIT
Tools exposednone225
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnono
Last release2026-09-302026-10-06
Terms last updatedno document linkedno date given
Privacy policy last updatedno document linked2024-08-19
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingyes
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the text
Popularitynone26 stars

Verdicts

Redmine

Redmine's REST API covers issues, projects, time entries and 20 other resources, and versions 6.1 and later add OAuth 2 with one scope per permission. The software is free under the GPL. No OpenAPI document exists, most errors return a bare status code, and 24 security advisories were published in twelve months, two rated critical.

Teamwork.com

The official MCP server is MIT licensed, released almost daily, and has typed tools with annotations, profile endpoints and no delete tools on the shipped servers. OAuth scopes stop at product level, access tokens are permanent, and no SLA, API changelog or prompt-injection guidance was found in the reviewed documentation.

Before you call either

Redmine

  1. Ask an administrator to tick Enable REST API under Administration, Settings, API. It is off by default and every call fails until then
  2. Send the key in the X-Redmine-API-Key header, never as the key query parameter, and set Content-Type: application/json on every POST and PUT
  3. Add status_id=* to issue lists. The default returns open issues only, 25 a page with a maximum of 100
  4. Comment on an issue by sending notes in a PUT to /issues/<id>.json. There is no separate comment endpoint
  5. A DELETE on a project through the API skips the confirmation the web page asks for, so run the agent as a non-administrator user

Teamwork.com

  1. Use a profile endpoint such as https://mcp.ai.teamwork.com/project-manager. The base URL loads every tool across Projects, Desk, Spaces and Chat.
  2. Ask a site administrator to enable MCP under Settings, AI before connecting.
  3. Build REST URLs from installation.apiEndPoint in the token response. Sites live at {site}.teamwork.com (US) or {site}.eu.teamwork.com (EU).
  4. Stay under 150 requests a minute on Free, Basics and Accelerate. The limit is shared by the whole site. On 429, wait until X-Rate-Limit-Reset.
  5. Pass verbose=false to list_* tools to get ids and names only, and use twprojects-create_tasks for many tasks in one call.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Redmine or Teamwork.com?

Teamwork.com scores 65.9 (B) on agent readiness against Redmine's 50.2 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Redmine leads on payments & pricing.

Do Redmine and Teamwork.com need an API key?

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

Can an agent call Redmine and Teamwork.com without installing anything?

No hosted endpoint is listed for Redmine. Teamwork.com has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.ai.teamwork.com.

Are Redmine and Teamwork.com open source?

Redmine is open source (GPL-2.0-or-later). No open-source release is listed for Teamwork.com.

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