# Redmine vs Teamwork.com

> Teamwork.com scores 65.9 (B) to Redmine's 50.2 (D) for issues and tasks. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-09

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.

- Redmine: grade D, 50.2/100, rank #777 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/redmine.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/redmine.json
- Teamwork.com: grade B, 65.9/100, rank #309 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/teamwork.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/teamwork.json
- Best project and task management tools for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/project-management/index.md
- All 135 projects comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/project-management/index.md

## 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

| Category | Weight | Redmine | Teamwork.com | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 69 | 73 | Teamwork.com +4 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 32 | 72 | Teamwork.com +40 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 51 | 68 | Teamwork.com +17 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 51 | 58 | Teamwork.com +7 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 30 | Redmine +30 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 73 | 88 | Teamwork.com +15 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 47 | 80 | Teamwork.com +33 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | -4 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **50.2 · D** | **65.9 · B** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Redmine | Teamwork.com |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Redmine project | Teamwork Crew Limited |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://mcp.ai.teamwork.com` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy), stdio |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Free | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | GPL-2.0-or-later | Proprietary service under Teamwork.com's terms of service. The MCP server on GitHub is MIT |
| Tools exposed | none | 225 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | no |
| Last release | 2026-09-30 | 2026-10-06 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2024-08-19 |
| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | not found in the text |
| Popularity | none | 26 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.


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/redmine-vs-teamwork.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/redmine-vs-teamwork.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "redmine", "b": "teamwork"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare redmine teamwork`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/redmine.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/teamwork.json

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