# Redmine vs Wrike

> Wrike scores 60.1 (C) 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

Wrike scores 60.1 (C) on agent readiness against Redmine's 50.2 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Redmine leads on payments & pricing and maintenance & community. 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
- Wrike: grade C, 60.1/100, rank #529 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/wrike.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/wrike.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
- Maintenance & community, 73 against 63

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

### Wrike (C)

Good for: Teams already on Wrike that want an assistant to find work, create tasks and projects from notes, update status in bulk, comment and check approvals.

Ahead on:
- Schema & documentation, 78 against 32
- Agent ergonomics, 63 against 51
- Security & auth, 60 against 51
- Transparency & trust, 78 against 47

Also in its favour:
- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
- Free to start without a card

Watch for: A permanent access token never expires and reaches everything its user can, and it is the documented route for clients that need dynamic client registration


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Redmine | Wrike | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 69 | 68 | Redmine +1 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 32 | 78 | Wrike +46 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 51 | 63 | Wrike +12 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 51 | 60 | Wrike +9 |
| 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 | 63 | Redmine +10 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 47 | 78 | Wrike +31 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | -4 | -3 | |
| **Total** | | **50.2 · D** | **60.1 · C** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Redmine | Wrike |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Redmine project | Wrike, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://www.wrike.com/api/v4` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Free | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | GPL-2.0-or-later | Proprietary service under Wrike's terms. The agent skills repository on GitHub is MIT |
| Tools exposed | none | 29 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-09-30 | 2026-09-17 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2025-04-08 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2026-06-01 |
| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | not found in the text |

## 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.

**Wrike.** The official MCP server has 29 documented tools for search, task and project creation, bulk updates, comments and approvals, and it works on every plan including Free. Permanent access tokens never expire and carry the user's full access, and no SLA, official SDK or deprecation policy 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

### Wrike

1. Build API URLs from the `host` value returned by /oauth2/token. Accounts live on www.wrike.com, app-eu.wrike.com or app-us2.wrike.com, and the wrong host answers 401.
2. Use https://mcp.wrike.com/v2 only. The older /app/mcp/stream and /app/mcp/sse URLs serve the v1 tool set.
3. Call `search_workflows` before setting a status, because `update_items` and `search_items` take custom status ids.
4. Stay under about 400 requests a minute per token or IP and back off exponentially on 429. Use POST /batch for up to 100 operations.
5. Page task lists with `pageSize` (up to 1,000) and `nextPageToken`, and request optional data through `fields`.

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Redmine or Wrike?

Wrike scores 60.1 (C) on agent readiness against Redmine's 50.2 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Redmine leads on payments & pricing and maintenance & community.

### Do Redmine and Wrike need an API key?

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

### Can an agent call Redmine and Wrike without installing anything?

No hosted endpoint is listed for Redmine. Wrike has a hosted endpoint at https://www.wrike.com/api/v4.

### Are Redmine and Wrike open source?

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


## For agents

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

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