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02 / COMPARETHE AGENT-PM FIELD · JULY 2026

Bring any agent. Yours stays yours.

Every project tool now has agents working tasks. The differences that matter are underneath: whose model runs the work, which agents are allowed in, what stops a bad write, who can prove what happened, and what the bill looks like. Planra is the only one where you bring your own keys and your own agents — with approval gates, provenance, and per-agent budgets enforced on every write, including MCP.

No seats. No credit anxiety. Pay for work done.

ProductBYO model (your API keys)BYO agent (any external agent)Pre-action approval gatesAgent provenancePer-agent budget gatingPricing
PlanraYESAny key: OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, custom endpointsYESAny agent via MCP — trust-gated, not just CRUDYESRisk-tiered: destructive/outbound/costly, per-agent trust dialYESFull timeline + compliance export, human vs agent on every actionYESPer-agent caps that pause work — visibly, with alerts at 50/80%Pay for work done
ClickUpNONOYESApproval Mode (all-or-nothing)PARTIALFull audit log is Enterprise-only, 30-day windowPARTIALCost panels — transparency, no gatingSeats + credits
Jira (Atlassian)NOPARTIALCurated agent catalogPARTIALInherited from workflow approvalsYESNOCredits are billing, not governanceBundled + credits
monday.comNOVendor-managed modelsYESMCP + managed-agent importPARTIALPermission-scopedYESPARTIALPer-user credit limits, not per-agentSeats + mandatory credits
NotionNOModel picker, billed via creditsYESExternal Agents API (partner roster)PARTIALPlan mode on personal agent onlyYESPARTIALWorkspace pool auto-pause, not per-agentSeats + credits
AsanaNONOPARTIALPARTIALPARTIALDepartment credit allocations, soft limitsSeats + credits
LinearNOYESFixed third-party rosterNOGuidelines, not enforcementNOAudit log covers account events onlyNOSeats + AI credits
WrikeNOAzure-OpenAI lockedPARTIALInbound MCP under user RBACNOAgents can start approval flows; no per-action gateYESNOSeats + action packs
MotionNONOPARTIALManual mode or fire-and-forgetNONOSeats + AI Employee tiers
TaskadeNOBYOK is an open feature requestPARTIALMCP connectorsYESPer-tool approval toggleNOUsage dashboard onlyNOSeats + credits
PlanePARTIALCloud is Plane AI credits only; self-hosted Commercial Edition can run its own AI servicesYESMCP server + agent framework; agents can be work-item assigneesPARTIALBuild mode reviews action cards, Autopilot skips review; per-transition approvals are EnterprisePARTIALActivity trail + Agent Run lifecycle; audit-log API is Enterprise-onlyPARTIALPer-seat credit pools with admin limits on Business — not per-agent caps$6–13/seat + credits; free ≤12 users; AGPL self-host
DartNOVendor-hosted model pickerPARTIALMCP read/write with identity tokenNOPARTIALMCP write attribution onlyNOSeats, AI bundled

Compiled July 2026 from vendor documentation, release notes, and public community threads; the Plane row was refreshed in September 2026 against plane.so, docs.plane.so and developers.plane.so. “NO” means absent from public documentation at time of writing — vendors ship fast; tell us if something changed and we’ll update it.

SWITCHING FROM PLANE, LINEAR, CLICKUP, JIRA, ASANA, TRELLO OR NOTION

Export a CSV (or a Trello JSON) and drop it on Workspace → Import. Planra detects the tool from the file, then brings columns, tasks, statuses, priorities, labels, estimates and dates across in one step. Leaving is just as easy: every member can download the whole workspace as JSON from Settings, and provenance exports to CSV. Your work never needs a migration service.

Bring your agent →MCP & API docs