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Head to head · Tasks create · October 2026 research run

Teamwork.com vs YouTrack

Teamwork.com scores 65.9 (B) on agent readiness against YouTrack's 49.9 (D), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. YouTrack leads on security & auth. Both do tasks create.

Teamwork.comTeamwork Crew Limited · HTTP API B65.9/100#251 of 722 YouTrackJetBrains s.r.o. · HTTP API D49.9/100#601 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 30
  • Agent ergonomics, 68 against 55
  • Maintenance & community, 88 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 YouTrack loses 5 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

YouTrack D

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

  • Security & auth, 67 against 58

Watch for

No rate limits, 429 handling, idempotency keys or error reference found in the reviewed documentation

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runTeamwork.comYouTrackEdge
Reliability16%207330Teamwork.com +43
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.27272even
Agent ergonomics13%16.26855Teamwork.com +13
Security & auth14%17.55867YouTrack +9
Payments & pricing10%12.53030even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.88864Teamwork.com +24
Transparency & trust7%8.88082YouTrack +2
Negative events≤150-5
Total65.9 · B49.9 · D

Facts side by side

FactTeamwork.comYouTrack
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorTeamwork Crew LimitedJetBrains s.r.o.
Hosted endpointhttps://mcp.ai.teamwork.comno (local only)
TransportsHTTP, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy), stdioHTTP, Streamable HTTP
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 the JetBrains YouTrack Cloud Terms of Service. YouTrack Server is licensed separately for self-hosting
Tools exposed22523
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnoyes
Last release2026-10-062026-10-05
Terms last updatedno date given2024-08-14
Privacy policy last updated2024-08-192026-06-12
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 textnot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the textyes
Popularity26 starsnone

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.

YouTrack

Every instance serves an OpenAPI 3.0 document, a 23-tool MCP server with OAuth and PKCE, and field selection on each REST call, and the free plan covers ten users. No rate limits, 429 handling, error reference or SLA were found, and JetBrains disclosed two sets of critical vulnerabilities affecting YouTrack Cloud in 2026, both patched.

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.

YouTrack

  1. Send fields on every REST request. Without it the server returns only the database ID and $type of each entity
  2. Page collections with $top and $skip. Most resources return 42 items by default
  3. Call get_issue_fields_schema before create_issue or update_issue, because required custom fields differ by project
  4. Connect MCP clients to https://<instance>.youtrack.cloud/mcp. OAuth needs an administrator to enable CIMD or register the client, since Dynamic Client Registration is not supported
  5. Create permanent tokens with the YouTrack scope only, and add ?tools= to the MCP URL to limit the tools listed

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Teamwork.com or YouTrack?

Teamwork.com scores 65.9 (B) on agent readiness against YouTrack's 49.9 (D), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. YouTrack leads on security & auth.

Do Teamwork.com and YouTrack need an API key?

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

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

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

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