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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
PlaneYESSelf-hosted onlyNOCan't plug an external agent in as a workerPARTIALYESNOSeats + credits
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. “NO” means absent from public documentation at time of writing — vendors ship fast; tell us if something changed and we’ll update it.

Bring your agent →MCP & API docs