# Redmine vs YouTrack (slim)

> Redmine and YouTrack score within a point of each other for issues and tasks, 50.2 and 49.9 out of 100. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Redmine and YouTrack score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 50.2 (D) and 49.9 (D). YouTrack leads on schema & documentation, security & auth and transparency & trust. Both do issues and tasks.

- Redmine: D 50.2, rank #777 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/redmine.min.md
- YouTrack: D 49.9, rank #785 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/youtrack.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 Reliability, 69 against 30; Payments & pricing, 60 against 30; Maintenance & community, 73 against 64. Also Open source.
- YouTrack, good 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. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 72 against 32; Security & auth, 67 against 51; Transparency & trust, 82 against 47.

| Category | Redmine | YouTrack |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 69 | 30 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 32 | 72 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 51 | 55 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 51 | 67 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 73 | 64 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 47 | 82 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Redmine | YouTrack |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Redmine project | JetBrains s.r.o. |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Pricing | Free | Freemium |
| Licence | GPL-2.0-or-later | Proprietary service under the JetBrains YouTrack Cloud Terms of Service. YouTrack Server is licensed separately for self-hosting |
| Tools exposed | none | 23 |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-09-30 | 2026-10-05 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2024-08-14 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2026-06-12 |
| 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 |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | yes |