{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "redmine", "name": "Redmine", "vendor": "Redmine project", "vendorUrl": "https://www.redmine.org", "kind": "http-api", "category": "project-management", "summary": "Redmine is open-source project management software for issues, projects, time tracking, wikis and Gantt charts, written in Ruby on Rails and run on the owner's own server. Agents reach it through a REST API in JSON or XML.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/redmine", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/redmine.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/redmine.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/redmine.json", "repo": "https://github.com/redmine/redmine", "license": "GPL-2.0-or-later", "transports": [ "http" ], "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Access is self-serve on the owner's own install. An administrator first enables the REST API in the settings, where it is off by default. Each user then has one API key on the account page, sent in the `X-Redmine-API-Key` header, as the Basic auth user name or as a `key` query parameter. The key carries that user's full permissions and can be reset. Basic auth with a login and password also works, unless two-factor is active. Versions 6.1 and later accept OAuth 2 bearer tokens from applications an administrator registers, by the authorisation code grant, with one scope per Redmine permission.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free. Redmine is distributed under the GPL with no paid edition, cloud plan or trial from the project, so an agent can start without a contract once someone installs it. The owner pays for the server. API calls are not priced. The home page links one demo site and calls it unofficial and third-party (https://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/Download, checked 2026-10-09).", "priceSummary": "Free · OSS", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the REST API wiki or the source at tag 7.0.2 (checked 2026-10-09).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-09" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/Rest_api", "capabilities": [ "tasks.create", "tasks.update", "projects.manage", "tasks.comments", "events.webhooks-send" ], "tags": [ "official", "self-hosted", "open-source", "rest", "oauth", "api-key", "free", "webhooks", "ruby", "project-management" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-30", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 50.2, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 777, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 950, "categoryRank": 13, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 51, "maintenance": 73, "payments": 60, "reliability": 69, "schema": 32, "security": 51, "transparency": 47 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-09" }, "negative": -4, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-09-30. 24 advisories were fixed between 6 January and 30 September 2026, two rated critical, both PostScript execution through thumbnail generation (#44145, fixed in 6.1.3 of 15 June 2026, and one fixed in 6.1.1 of 6 January 2026), and nine rated high, among them an OAuth scope bypass (#44174) and two REST API leaks of private issue subjects and project names (#44467, #44468, fixed in 7.0.2 and 6.1.5). All are fixed and listed by the project itself, so the deduction is reduced, -4 (https://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/Security_Advisories)." ], "verdict": "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.", "bestFor": "Teams that already run Redmine or want a free, self-hosted tracker with issues, time entries and wikis under their own control.", "strengths": [ "Free under GPL version 2 or later, with no paid edition, and the REST API is part of the standard release", "OAuth 2 since 6.1, authorisation code grant only, with one scope per Redmine permission and tokens stored hashed", "Five releases between 26 August and 30 September 2026, and a published policy that keeps three release series supported", "Issue lists take filters with operators, `sort`, `offset`, `limit` and `page`, and return `total_count`", "Webhooks since 7.0 for issues, time entries, versions, wiki pages and news, signed in an `X-Redmine-Signature-256` header" ], "weaknesses": [ "No OpenAPI document or other machine-readable contract was found in the wiki or the source repository", "24 advisories were published in the twelve months to 9 October 2026, two critical and nine high, several of them data leaks through the REST API", "17 of the 23 API resources are marked Alpha in the documentation, and only five are marked Stable", "Errors other than validation failures return a status code with no body, and no idempotency keys exist", "The API key acts with its user's full permissions and is accepted in a `key` query parameter", "No official SDK. The wiki lists community clients, and no request limit is built in" ], "agentNotes": [ "Ask an administrator to tick Enable REST API under Administration, Settings, API. It is off by default and every call fails until then", "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", "Add `status_id=*` to issue lists. The default returns open issues only, 25 a page with a maximum of 100", "Comment on an issue by sending `notes` in a PUT to `/issues/\u003cid\u003e.json`. There is no separate comment endpoint", "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" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 50.2 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 51, "maintenance": 73, "payments": 60, "reliability": 69, "schema": 32, "security": 51, "transparency": 69 }, "provenanceScore": 25 }, "connect": { "http": "curl -H \"X-Redmine-API-Key: $API_KEY\" https://$REDMINE_HOST/issues.json" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/tasks.create", "tool": "https://letme.dev/redmine" }, "area": "business", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Redmine (self-hosted)", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 0, "note": "free software, REST API included; no paid edition from the project" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "", "domain": "redmine.org", "domainRegistered": "2006-07-08", "endpointOnVendorDomain": false, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/Changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-09", "notes": [ "No legal entity was found. The home page says Redmine is built and maintained by community volunteers, and the source files carry a copyright notice in the name of Jean-Philippe Lang.", "No terms of service were found on redmine.org. The software is distributed under the GPL, version 2 or later, which stands in.", "The privacy policy at https://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/PrivacyPolicy covers the redmine.org website only (server logs, account registration, ads and Gravatar). It does not govern an install of the software, so `provenance.privacy` is left out.", "There is no hosted service run by the project, so no endpoint sits on the vendor's domain. Each install answers on its owner's host.", "www.redmine.org/.well-known/security.txt returned 404. The Security Advisories page gives security(at)redmine.org for reports.", "RDAP for redmine.org gives a registration date of 2006-07-08 and Gandi SAS as registrar." ], "score": 25 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/redmine.json", "live": { "slug": "redmine", "githubStars": 6044, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/Changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:53:27.794517102Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "5c04a846eb92" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T18:53:27.794517102Z" } }, "answer": "Redmine and YouTrack score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 50.2 (D) and 49.9 (D). YouTrack leads on schema \u0026 documentation, security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "youtrack", "name": "YouTrack", "vendor": "JetBrains s.r.o.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.jetbrains.com/youtrack/", "kind": "http-api", "category": "project-management", "summary": "YouTrack is JetBrains' issue tracker and project management tool, with a knowledge base, helpdesk and time tracking. Agents reach each YouTrack Cloud or Server instance through its REST API and a built-in remote MCP server at `/mcp`.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/youtrack", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/youtrack.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/youtrack.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/youtrack.json", "license": "Proprietary service under the JetBrains YouTrack Cloud Terms of Service. YouTrack Server is licensed separately for self-hosting", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Access is self-serve. Each user creates a permanent token in their profile (Account Security) and sends it as a Bearer token. Tokens never expire, can be deleted, and carry one or both of two scopes, YouTrack and YouTrack Administration. OAuth 2.0 comes from the built-in Hub service, with authorisation code and PKCE (S256), client credentials and a deprecated implicit flow. From YouTrack 2026.2 a system administrator registers OAuth clients or enables automatic registration through Client ID Metadata Documents (off by default). Dynamic Client Registration is not supported. Every call acts with the authorising user's permissions. No app review or partner approval is described.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "The free plan covers up to ten users and three helpdesk agents, with 30 GB of storage, and the REST API is always enabled, so an agent can start without a contract. Paid Cloud subscriptions are priced per user on a sliding scale. JetBrains announced USD 5.40 a user a month on monthly billing and USD 4.50 on annual billing from 1 October 2025, and USD 6 or USD 5.50 per helpdesk agent beyond three. The pricing page served pounds to our network on 2026-10-08 (GBP 4.30 monthly, GBP 43 a year). API and MCP calls are not priced. A 14-day trial covers up to 100 users. No separate sandbox was found (https://www.jetbrains.com/youtrack/buy/, checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "$4.50 / seat-mo", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the developer portal, the OpenAPI document or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 23, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.jetbrains.com/help/youtrack/devportal/youtrack-rest-api.html", "llmsTxt": "https://www.jetbrains.com/help/youtrack/devportal/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/api/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "tasks.create", "tasks.update", "projects.manage", "tasks.comments", "work.issues", "work.docs" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "self-hosted", "mcp", "oauth", "openapi", "llms-txt", "freemium", "free-tier", "status-page", "soc2", "project-management", "issue-tracker" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-05", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 49.9, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 785, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 950, "categoryRank": 14, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 55, "maintenance": 64, "payments": 30, "reliability": 30, "schema": 72, "security": 67, "transparency": 82 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": -5, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-04-17. CVE-2026-33392, a sandbox bypass allowing code execution by an administrator, reported in March 2026. JetBrains says the impact was greatest in YouTrack Cloud, where it could bypass cross-tenant isolation on shared hardware, that Cloud was mitigated within 48 hours, and that it found no evidence of exploitation. Fixed and disclosed, so 3 of a possible 15 (https://blog.jetbrains.com/youtrack/2026/04/security-issue-in-youtrack-cve-2026-33392/)", "2026-06-19. CVE-2026-56141 (admin account takeover through authentication token forgery) and CVE-2026-56142 (email verification bypass), found in May 2026, affected YouTrack Cloud, and CVE-2026-50242 affected Server. JetBrains says Cloud was patched before the post and that it found no evidence of exploitation outside testing. Fixed and disclosed, so 2 points (https://blog.jetbrains.com/youtrack/2026/06/youtrack-security-update-youtrack-server-upgrade-required/)" ], "verdict": "Every instance serves an OpenAPI 3.0 document, a 23-tool MCP server with OAuth and PKCE, and field selection on each REST call, and the free plan covers ten users. No rate limits, 429 handling, error reference or SLA were found, and JetBrains disclosed two sets of critical vulnerabilities affecting YouTrack Cloud in 2026, both patched.", "bestFor": "Software teams that already run YouTrack and want an agent to search, file and update issues, comment, log time and maintain knowledge base articles under each user's permissions.", "strengths": [ "OpenAPI 3.0.1 document at `/api/openapi.json` on every instance, with 281 operations on 157 paths, plus llms.txt and a Markdown copy of each docs page", "Built-in remote MCP server at `/mcp` with 23 predefined tools, and `tools` and `ignoreTools` URL parameters that trim the tool list", "OAuth 2.0 authorisation code flow with PKCE (S256) and Client ID Metadata Documents, or revocable permanent tokens with two scopes", "Free plan for up to ten users and three helpdesk agents, with the REST API always enabled", "19 Server builds published between 15 July and 5 October 2026, and a REST API changelog by version" ], "weaknesses": [ "No rate limits, 429 handling, idempotency keys or error reference found in the reviewed documentation", "The status page shows availability percentages by region for 24 hours and 30 days, with no incident history, and no SLA was found", "Two security disclosures in 2026 affected YouTrack Cloud, a cross-tenant isolation bypass (CVE-2026-33392) and an admin account takeover (CVE-2026-56141). Both were patched", "Permanent tokens never expire and carry only two coarse scopes, YouTrack and YouTrack Administration", "No current official SDK. YouTrackSharp for .NET covers a subset of the API and was last published on 31 March 2023" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send `fields` on every REST request. Without it the server returns only the database ID and `$type` of each entity", "Page collections with `$top` and `$skip`. Most resources return 42 items by default", "Call `get_issue_fields_schema` before `create_issue` or `update_issue`, because required custom fields differ by project", "Connect MCP clients to `https://\u003cinstance\u003e.youtrack.cloud/mcp`. OAuth needs an administrator to enable CIMD or register the client, since Dynamic Client Registration is not supported", "Create permanent tokens with the YouTrack scope only, and add `?tools=` to the MCP URL to limit the tools listed" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 49.9 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 55, "maintenance": 64, "payments": 30, "reliability": 30, "schema": 72, "security": 67, "transparency": 65 }, "provenanceScore": 98 }, "connect": { "http": "curl 'https://example.youtrack.cloud/api/users/me?fields=id,login,name' -H 'Accept: application/json' -H \"Authorization: Bearer $YOUTRACK_TOKEN\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --header \"Authorization: Bearer \u003ctoken\u003e\" --transport http youtrack \u003cyoutrack-mcp-endpoint-url\u003e" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/tasks.create", "tool": "https://letme.dev/youtrack" }, "area": "business", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Free plan (up to 10 users, 3 helpdesk agents)", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 0, "note": "30 GB storage; REST API and MCP server included" }, { "item": "Cloud user, annual billing", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 4.5, "note": "starting price as announced for 1 October 2025; falls as users are added. Pricing page served GBP on 2026-10-08" }, { "item": "Cloud user, monthly billing", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 5.4, "note": "starting price as announced for 1 October 2025; pricing page showed GBP 4.30 on 2026-10-08" }, { "item": "Helpdesk agent beyond three, monthly billing", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 6, "note": "USD 5.50 on annual billing, as announced for 1 October 2025" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "JetBrains s.r.o.", "domain": "jetbrains.com", "domainRegistered": "2001-11-09", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.jetbrains.com/legal/docs/youtrack/youtrack_cloud/", "privacy": "https://www.jetbrains.com/legal/docs/privacy/privacy/", "statusPage": "https://www.jetbrains.com/youtrack/cloud/status/", "changelog": "https://www.jetbrains.com/help/youtrack/devportal/api-changelog.html", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The YouTrack Cloud Terms of Service (version 2.0, effective 14 August 2024) name JetBrains s.r.o., Na Hřebenech II 1718/8, Prague, 14000, Czech Republic, ID No. 265 02 275, and are governed by Czech law.", "The JetBrains Privacy Notice (version 3.2, last updated 12 June 2026) covers JetBrains websites, products and services, and the Cloud terms point to it. Customer personal data is processed under the Data Processing Addendum (version 1.3, 27 April 2022).", "Cloud instances answer at \u003cinstance\u003e.youtrack.cloud, or \u003cinstance\u003e.myjetbrains.com/youtrack for instances registered before 2 November 2021. RDAP gives youtrack.cloud a registration date of 2021-04-30 through MarkMonitor, and the docs describe both domains as JetBrains'.", "www.jetbrains.com/.well-known/security.txt has a Contact line (security@jetbrains.com) and a Policy line pointing to the Coordinated Disclosure Policy, and no Expires field, which RFC 9116 requires.", "The status page draws its figures by script from myjetbrains.com/youtrack/youtrack-hosted-master/rest/stat, which we read directly.", "RDAP for jetbrains.com gives a registration date of 2001-11-09 and Network Solutions, LLC as registrar." ], "score": 98 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/youtrack.json", "live": { "slug": "youtrack", "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://www.jetbrains.com/youtrack/cloud/status", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-10T00:51:26.716871479Z" }, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://jetbrains.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T15:40:11.305857549Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://www.jetbrains.com/help/youtrack/devportal/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T14:03:02.234623865Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.jetbrains.com/help/youtrack/devportal/api-changelog.html", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:51:19.921883365Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "1b6feb45beae" }, { "url": "https://www.jetbrains.com/legal/docs/privacy/privacy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:51:21.985093546Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "7d6c9c28b6d6" }, { "url": "https://www.jetbrains.com/legal/docs/youtrack/youtrack_cloud/", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:51:23.988967136Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "447e1a8b6b93" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-10T00:51:26.716871479Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Redmine project", "b": "JetBrains s.r.o.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Free", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "GPL-2.0-or-later", "b": "Proprietary service under the JetBrains YouTrack Cloud Terms of Service. YouTrack Server is licensed separately for self-hosting", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "none", "b": "23", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-09-30", "b": "2026-10-05", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "2024-08-14", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "2026-06-12", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "", "b": "yes", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Redmine and YouTrack score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 50.2 (D) and 49.9 (D). YouTrack leads on schema \u0026 documentation, security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Redmine or YouTrack?" }, { "answer": "Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Redmine and YouTrack need an API key?" }, { "answer": "No hosted endpoint is listed for Redmine. No hosted endpoint is listed for YouTrack.", "question": "Can an agent call Redmine and YouTrack without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "Redmine is open source (GPL-2.0-or-later). No open-source release is listed for YouTrack.", "question": "Are Redmine and YouTrack open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 69 against 30", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 30", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 73 against 64" ], "also": [ "Open source" ], "goodFor": "Teams that already run Redmine or want a free, self-hosted tracker with issues, time entries and wikis under their own control.", "slug": "redmine", "watchFor": "No OpenAPI document or other machine-readable contract was found in the wiki or the source repository" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 72 against 32", "Security \u0026 auth, 67 against 51", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 82 against 47" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Software teams that already run YouTrack and want an agent to search, file and update issues, comment, log time and maintain knowledge base articles under each user's permissions.", "slug": "youtrack", "watchFor": "No rate limits, 429 handling, idempotency keys or error reference found in the reviewed documentation" } ], "job": { "capability": "tasks.create", "name": "Issues and tasks" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asana-vs-redmine.json", "title": "Asana vs Redmine", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asana-vs-redmine" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asana-vs-youtrack.json", "title": "Asana vs YouTrack", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asana-vs-youtrack" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atlassian-rovo-mcp-vs-redmine.json", "title": "Atlassian Rovo MCP Server vs Redmine", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atlassian-rovo-mcp-vs-redmine" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atlassian-rovo-mcp-vs-youtrack.json", "title": "Atlassian Rovo MCP Server vs YouTrack", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atlassian-rovo-mcp-vs-youtrack" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/basecamp-vs-redmine.json", "title": "Basecamp vs Redmine", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/basecamp-vs-redmine" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/basecamp-vs-youtrack.json", "title": "Basecamp vs YouTrack", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/basecamp-vs-youtrack" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-redmine.json", "title": "ClickUp vs Redmine", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-redmine" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-youtrack.json", "title": "ClickUp vs YouTrack", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickup-vs-youtrack" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/linear-mcp-vs-redmine.json", "title": "Linear MCP vs Redmine", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/linear-mcp-vs-redmine" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/linear-mcp-vs-youtrack.json", "title": "Linear MCP vs YouTrack", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/linear-mcp-vs-youtrack" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/monday-vs-redmine.json", "title": "monday.com vs Redmine", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/monday-vs-redmine" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/monday-vs-youtrack.json", "title": "monday.com vs YouTrack", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/monday-vs-youtrack" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openproject-vs-redmine.json", "title": "OpenProject vs Redmine", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openproject-vs-redmine" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openproject-vs-youtrack.json", "title": "OpenProject vs YouTrack", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openproject-vs-youtrack" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plane-vs-redmine.json", "title": "Plane vs Redmine", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plane-vs-redmine" }, { "json": 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/redmine-vs-todoist" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/redmine-vs-trello.json", "title": "Redmine vs Trello", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/redmine-vs-trello" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/redmine-vs-wrike.json", "title": "Redmine vs Wrike", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/redmine-vs-wrike" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/roma-vs-youtrack.json", "title": "Roma vs YouTrack", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/roma-vs-youtrack" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/shortcut-vs-youtrack.json", "title": "Shortcut vs YouTrack", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/shortcut-vs-youtrack" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/taiga-vs-youtrack.json", "title": "Taiga vs YouTrack", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/taiga-vs-youtrack" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/teamwork-vs-youtrack.json", "title": "Teamwork.com vs YouTrack", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/teamwork-vs-youtrack" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/todoist-vs-youtrack.json", "title": "Todoist vs YouTrack", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/todoist-vs-youtrack" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/trello-vs-youtrack.json", "title": "Trello vs YouTrack", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/trello-vs-youtrack" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/wrike-vs-youtrack.json", "title": "Wrike vs YouTrack", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/wrike-vs-youtrack" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 39, "edge": "redmine", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "redmine": 69, "weight": 16, "youtrack": 30 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 40, "edge": "youtrack", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "redmine": 32, "weight": 13, "youtrack": 72 }, { "by": 4, "edge": "youtrack", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "redmine": 51, "weight": 13, "youtrack": 55 }, { "by": 16, "edge": "youtrack", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "redmine": 51, "weight": 14, "youtrack": 67 }, { "by": 30, "edge": "redmine", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "redmine": 60, "weight": 10, "youtrack": 30 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 9, "edge": "redmine", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "redmine": 73, "weight": 7, "youtrack": 64 }, { "by": 35, "edge": "youtrack", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "redmine": 47, "weight": 7, "youtrack": 82 } ], "summary": "Redmine and YouTrack score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 50.2 (D) and 49.9 (D). YouTrack leads on schema \u0026 documentation, security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do issues and tasks.", "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.", "youtrack": "Every instance serves an OpenAPI 3.0 document, a 23-tool MCP server with OAuth and PKCE, and field selection on each REST call, and the free plan covers ten users. No rate limits, 429 handling, error reference or SLA were found, and JetBrains disclosed two sets of critical vulnerabilities affecting YouTrack Cloud in 2026, both patched." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/redmine-vs-youtrack", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/redmine-vs-youtrack.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/redmine-vs-youtrack.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/redmine-vs-youtrack.min.md" }, "markdown": "Redmine and YouTrack score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 50.2 (D) and 49.9 (D). YouTrack leads on schema \u0026 documentation, security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do issues and tasks.\n\n- 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\n- YouTrack: grade D, 49.9/100, rank #785 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/youtrack.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/youtrack.json\n- Best project and task management tools for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/project-management/index.md\n- All 135 projects comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/project-management/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Redmine (D)\n\nGood for: Teams that already run Redmine or want a free, self-hosted tracker with issues, time entries and wikis under their own control.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 69 against 30\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 30\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 73 against 64\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: No OpenAPI document or other machine-readable contract was found in the wiki or the source repository\n\n### YouTrack (D)\n\nGood for: Software teams that already run YouTrack and want an agent to search, file and update issues, comment, log time and maintain knowledge base articles under each user's permissions.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 72 against 32\n- Security \u0026 auth, 67 against 51\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 82 against 47\n\nWatch for: No rate limits, 429 handling, idempotency keys or error reference found in the reviewed documentation\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Redmine | YouTrack | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 69 | 30 | Redmine +39 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 32 | 72 | YouTrack +40 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 51 | 55 | YouTrack +4 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 51 | 67 | YouTrack +16 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 30 | Redmine +30 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 73 | 64 | Redmine +9 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 47 | 82 | YouTrack +35 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -4 | -5 | |\n| **Total** | | **50.2 · D** | **49.9 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Redmine | YouTrack |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Redmine project | JetBrains s.r.o. |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Free | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | GPL-2.0-or-later | Proprietary service under the JetBrains YouTrack Cloud Terms of Service. YouTrack Server is licensed separately for self-hosting |\n| Tools exposed | none | 23 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-09-30 | 2026-10-05 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2024-08-14 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2026-06-12 |\n| Customer content may train models | | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | yes |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**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.\n\n**YouTrack.** Every instance serves an OpenAPI 3.0 document, a 23-tool MCP server with OAuth and PKCE, and field selection on each REST call, and the free plan covers ten users. No rate limits, 429 handling, error reference or SLA were found, and JetBrains disclosed two sets of critical vulnerabilities affecting YouTrack Cloud in 2026, both patched.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Redmine\n\n1. Ask an administrator to tick Enable REST API under Administration, Settings, API. It is off by default and every call fails until then\n2. 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\n3. Add `status_id=*` to issue lists. The default returns open issues only, 25 a page with a maximum of 100\n4. Comment on an issue by sending `notes` in a PUT to `/issues/\u003cid\u003e.json`. There is no separate comment endpoint\n5. 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\n\n### YouTrack\n\n1. Send `fields` on every REST request. Without it the server returns only the database ID and `$type` of each entity\n2. Page collections with `$top` and `$skip`. Most resources return 42 items by default\n3. Call `get_issue_fields_schema` before `create_issue` or `update_issue`, because required custom fields differ by project\n4. Connect MCP clients to `https://\u003cinstance\u003e.youtrack.cloud/mcp`. OAuth needs an administrator to enable CIMD or register the client, since Dynamic Client Registration is not supported\n5. Create permanent tokens with the YouTrack scope only, and add `?tools=` to the MCP URL to limit the tools listed\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Redmine or YouTrack?\n\nRedmine and YouTrack score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 50.2 (D) and 49.9 (D). YouTrack leads on schema \u0026 documentation, security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Do Redmine and YouTrack need an API key?\n\nBoth take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Redmine and YouTrack without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for Redmine. No hosted endpoint is listed for YouTrack.\n\n### Are Redmine and YouTrack open source?\n\nRedmine is open source (GPL-2.0-or-later). No open-source release is listed for YouTrack.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/redmine-vs-youtrack.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/redmine-vs-youtrack.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"redmine\", \"b\": \"youtrack\"}`. 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