# Redmine vs Todoist (slim)

> Todoist scores 66.9 (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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Todoist scores 66.9 (B) on agent readiness against Redmine's 50.2 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Redmine leads on payments & pricing. Both do issues and tasks.

- Redmine: D 50.2, rank #777 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/redmine.min.md
- Todoist: B 66.9, rank #271 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/todoist.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 Payments & pricing, 60 against 30. Also Open source.
- Todoist, good for Individuals and small teams who already keep tasks in Todoist and want an agent to add, reschedule, comment and report through MCP. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 76 against 32; Agent ergonomics, 77 against 51; Security & auth, 61 against 51; Maintenance & community, 88 against 73; Transparency & trust, 77 against 47. Also 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.

| Category | Redmine | Todoist |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 69 | 66 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 32 | 76 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 51 | 77 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 51 | 61 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 73 | 88 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 47 | 77 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Redmine | Todoist |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Redmine project | Doist |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.todoist.com` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |
| Pricing | Free | Freemium |
| Licence | GPL-2.0-or-later | Proprietary service under Todoist's terms of service. The MCP server, the Python and TypeScript SDKs and the CLI on GitHub are MIT |
| Tools exposed | none | 47 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | `net.todoist/mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-09-30 | 2026-10-05 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2026-08-27 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2026-08-27 |
| 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 |  | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | yes |
| Popularity | none | 554 stars, 5.4k npm/wk, 26k PyPI/wk |