# Todoist vs Trello (slim)

> Todoist scores 66.9 (B) on agent readiness against Trello's 61.1 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Trello leads on reliability. Both do tasks create. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Todoist scores 66.9 (B) on agent readiness against Trello's 61.1 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Trello leads on reliability. Both do tasks create.

- Todoist: B 66.9, rank #224 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/todoist.min.md
- Trello: C 61.1, rank #375 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/trello.min.md
- Todoist, 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 Schema & documentation, 76 against 63; Agent ergonomics, 77 against 52; Maintenance & community, 88 against 48. Also Runs on your own machine; Free to start without a card.
- Trello, good for Teams already on Trello that want an agent to create and move cards, set owners and due dates, comment and react to changes through webhooks. Ahead on Reliability, 83 against 66.

| Category | Todoist | Trello |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 66 | 83 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 76 | 63 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 77 | 52 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 61 | 62 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 88 | 48 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 77 | 80 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Todoist | Trello |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Doist | Atlassian (Trello, Inc.) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.todoist.com` | `https://api.trello.com/1` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Todoist's terms of service. The MCP server, the Python and TypeScript SDKs and the CLI on GitHub are MIT | Proprietary service under the Atlassian Customer Agreement, with API use under the Atlassian Developer Terms |
| Tools exposed | 47 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| MCP registry | `net.todoist/mcp` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-10-05 | 2026-09-15 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-08-27 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-08-27 | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 554 stars, 5.4k npm/wk, 26k PyPI/wk | none |