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

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- Updated: 2026-10-08

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.com: grade B, 65.9/100, rank #251 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/teamwork.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/teamwork.json
- YouTrack: grade D, 49.9/100, rank #601 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/youtrack.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/youtrack.json

## 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

| Category | Weight | Teamwork.com | YouTrack | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 73 | 30 | Teamwork.com +43 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 72 | 72 | even |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 68 | 55 | Teamwork.com +13 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 58 | 67 | YouTrack +9 |
| 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) | 88 | 64 | Teamwork.com +24 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 80 | 82 | YouTrack +2 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -5 | |
| **Total** | | **65.9 · B** | **49.9 · D** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Teamwork.com | YouTrack |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Teamwork Crew Limited | JetBrains s.r.o. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.ai.teamwork.com` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy), stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Teamwork.com's terms of service. The MCP server on GitHub is MIT | Proprietary service under the JetBrains YouTrack Cloud Terms of Service. YouTrack Server is licensed separately for self-hosting |
| Tools exposed | 225 | 23 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-06 | 2026-10-05 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2024-08-14 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2024-08-19 | 2026-06-12 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 26 stars | none |

## 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.


## For agents

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

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