# 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. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-09

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.

- Taiga: grade F, 31.7/100, rank #830 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/taiga.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/taiga.json
- Teamwork.com: grade B, 65.9/100, rank #284 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/teamwork.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/teamwork.json

## 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

| Category | Weight | Taiga | Teamwork.com | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 17 | 73 | Teamwork.com +56 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 35 | 72 | Teamwork.com +37 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 49 | 68 | Teamwork.com +19 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 37 | 58 | Teamwork.com +21 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 30 | even |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 21 | 88 | Teamwork.com +67 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 64 | 80 | Teamwork.com +16 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | -3 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **31.7 · F** | **65.9 · B** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Taiga | Teamwork.com |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Taiga Cloud Services, S.L. | Teamwork Crew Limited |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://mcp.ai.teamwork.com` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy), stdio |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | 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 | Proprietary service under Teamwork.com's terms of service. The MCP server on GitHub is MIT |
| Tools exposed | none | 225 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | no |
| Last release | 2026-07-02 | 2026-10-06 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-09-01 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2024-08-19 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 858 stars | 26 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.


## For agents

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

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