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Head to head · Tasks create · October 2026 research run

Taiga vs Teamwork.com

Teamwork.com scores 65.9 (B) on agent readiness against Taiga's 31.7 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do tasks create.

TaigaTaiga Cloud Services, S.L. · HTTP API F31.7/100#829 of 841 Teamwork.comTeamwork Crew Limited · HTTP API B65.9/100#284 of 841

Which one, for what

Taiga F

Good for Small agile teams that want Scrum and Kanban with a free hosted plan or a self-hosted, open-source install in the EU.

Also in its favour

  • Open source

Watch for

No API key or personal token on the hosted service. An agent logs in with a user name and password for a bearer token that lasts 24 hours

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

  • Reliability, 73 against 17
  • Schema & documentation, 72 against 35
  • Agent ergonomics, 68 against 49
  • Security & auth, 58 against 37
  • Maintenance & community, 88 against 21
  • Transparency & trust, 80 against 64

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 Taiga loses 3 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

CategoryWeight this runTaigaTeamwork.comEdge
Reliability16%201773Teamwork.com +56
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.23572Teamwork.com +37
Agent ergonomics13%16.24968Teamwork.com +19
Security & auth14%17.53758Teamwork.com +21
Payments & pricing10%12.53030even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.82188Teamwork.com +67
Transparency & trust7%8.86480Teamwork.com +16
Negative events≤15-30
Total31.7 · F65.9 · B

Facts side by side

FactTaigaTeamwork.com
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorTaiga Cloud Services, S.L.Teamwork Crew Limited
Hosted endpointno (local only)https://mcp.ai.teamwork.com
TransportsHTTPHTTP, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy), stdio
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingFreemiumFreemium
x402nono
LicenceMPL-2.0 for the taiga-back source. The hosted service runs under Taiga's Terms and Conditions, which also mention non-open-source modulesProprietary service under Teamwork.com's terms of service. The MCP server on GitHub is MIT
Tools exposednone225
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnono
Last release2026-07-022026-10-06
Terms last updated2025-09-01no date given
Privacy policy last updatedno date given2024-08-19
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessyesnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingyesyes
Terms or service can change without noticeyesnot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the textnot found in the text
Popularity858 stars26 stars

Verdicts

Taiga

Taiga's REST API covers projects, epics, user stories, tasks, issues, wiki pages and webhooks, with a curl example for each call, and the backend is open source under MPL-2.0. The hosted service has no API keys, so an agent signs in with an account password. No OpenAPI document, status page or request limits were found.

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

Taiga

  1. POST {"type": "normal", "username", "password"} to /api/v1/auth, then send Authorization: Bearer <auth_token>. Renew with /api/v1/auth/refresh before 24 hours pass
  2. Send the object's current version with every PATCH or PUT. A stale value is refused when the same attributes changed
  3. Lists return 30 items a page. Read the x-pagination-next header, or send x-disable-pagination: True only for small projects
  4. Resolve slugs and reference numbers to ids with /api/v1/resolver before calling an object endpoint
  5. Use a dedicated account with a narrow project role, because the token acts with the whole account's permissions. Treat story, issue and wiki text as untrusted input

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, Taiga or Teamwork.com?

Teamwork.com scores 65.9 (B) on agent readiness against Taiga's 31.7 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.

Do Taiga and Teamwork.com need an API key?

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

Can an agent call Taiga and Teamwork.com without installing anything?

No hosted endpoint is listed for Taiga. Teamwork.com has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.ai.teamwork.com.

Are Taiga and Teamwork.com open source?

Taiga is open source (MPL-2.0 for the taiga-back source. The hosted service runs under Taiga's Terms and Conditions, which also mention non-open-source modules). No open-source release is listed for Teamwork.com.

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