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Head to head · Tasks create · October 2026 research run

Teamwork.com vs Todoist

Todoist scores 66.9 (B) on agent readiness against Teamwork.com's 65.9 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Teamwork.com leads on reliability. Both do tasks create.

Teamwork.comTeamwork Crew Limited · HTTP API B65.9/100#251 of 722 TodoistDoist · HTTP API B66.9/100#224 of 722

Which one, for what

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 66

Watch for

OAuth scopes are per product only (projects, desk, spaces, chat), and the token from the app login flow is described as permanent

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

  • Agent ergonomics, 77 against 68

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 runTeamwork.comTodoistEdge
Reliability16%207366Teamwork.com +7
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.27276Todoist +4
Agent ergonomics13%16.26877Todoist +9
Security & auth14%17.55861Todoist +3
Payments & pricing10%12.53030even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.88888even
Transparency & trust7%8.88077Teamwork.com +3
Negative events≤1500
Total65.9 · B66.9 · B

Facts side by side

FactTeamwork.comTodoist
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorTeamwork Crew LimitedDoist
Hosted endpointhttps://mcp.ai.teamwork.comhttps://api.todoist.com
TransportsHTTP, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy), stdioHTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingFreemiumFreemium
x402nono
LicenceProprietary service under Teamwork.com's terms of service. The MCP server on GitHub is MITProprietary service under Todoist's terms of service. The MCP server, the Python and TypeScript SDKs and the CLI on GitHub are MIT
Tools exposed22547
Read-only variant documentednoyes
llms.txtnono
MCP registrynot listednet.todoist/mcp
Last release2026-10-062026-10-05
Terms last updatedno date given2026-08-27
Privacy policy last updated2024-08-192026-08-27
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingyesnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the textyes
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the textyes
Popularity26 stars554 stars, 5.4k npm/wk, 26k PyPI/wk

Verdicts

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.

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

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.

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, Teamwork.com or Todoist?

Todoist scores 66.9 (B) on agent readiness against Teamwork.com's 65.9 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Teamwork.com leads on reliability.

Do Teamwork.com and Todoist need an API key?

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

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

Yes. Teamwork.com has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.ai.teamwork.com and Todoist at https://api.todoist.com.

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