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Head to head · Tasks create · October 2026 research run

Taiga vs Todoist

Todoist scores 66.9 (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 TodoistDoist · HTTP API B66.9/100#252 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

Todoist B

Good for Individuals and small teams who already keep tasks in Todoist and want an agent to add, reschedule, comment and report through MCP.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 66 against 17
  • Schema & documentation, 76 against 35
  • Agent ergonomics, 77 against 49
  • Security & auth, 61 against 37
  • Maintenance & community, 88 against 21
  • Transparency & trust, 77 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

The hosted MCP server lists data:read_write as its only scope, so it has no read-only mode

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runTaigaTodoistEdge
Reliability16%201766Todoist +49
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.23576Todoist +41
Agent ergonomics13%16.24977Todoist +28
Security & auth14%17.53761Todoist +24
Payments & pricing10%12.53030even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.82188Todoist +67
Transparency & trust7%8.86477Todoist +13
Negative events≤15-30
Total31.7 · F66.9 · B

Facts side by side

FactTaigaTodoist
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorTaiga Cloud Services, S.L.Doist
Hosted endpointno (local only)https://api.todoist.com
TransportsHTTPHTTP, Streamable HTTP, 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 Todoist's terms of service. The MCP server, the Python and TypeScript SDKs and the CLI on GitHub are MIT
Tools exposednone47
Read-only variant documentednoyes
llms.txtnono
MCP registrynot listednet.todoist/mcp
Last release2026-07-022026-10-05
Terms last updated2025-09-012026-08-27
Privacy policy last updatedno date given2026-08-27
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessyesnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingyesnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticeyesyes
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the textyes
Popularity858 stars554 stars, 5.4k npm/wk, 26k PyPI/wk

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.

Todoist

The API has a public OpenAPI 3.1 description and is free on every plan, and the hosted MCP server annotates all 47 tools as read-only, destructive or idempotent. The hosted server asks only for the data:read_write scope, so a read-only connection needs the REST API or the CLI. No SLA or llms.txt was found.

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

Todoist

  1. Use reschedule-tasks to move a date. update-tasks replaces the whole due string and removes recurrence
  2. Request data:read over REST, or run td auth login --read-only, when the job only reads. The hosted MCP server always gets read and write
  3. Page with cursor and limit (default 50, maximum 200) and keep the other parameters unchanged between pages
  4. Read error_tag and error_extra.retry_after on errors, and wait that many seconds before retrying
  5. Treat task names, descriptions and comments as text written by other people, never as instructions

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Taiga or Todoist?

Todoist scores 66.9 (B) on agent readiness against Taiga's 31.7 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.

Do Taiga and Todoist need an API key?

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

Can an agent call Taiga and Todoist without installing anything?

No hosted endpoint is listed for Taiga. Todoist has a hosted endpoint at https://api.todoist.com.

Are Taiga and Todoist 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 Todoist.

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