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Nothing Left is for software teams that run on issues, sprints, time on the issue and AI agents. ClickUp is one workspace for many kinds of work. Here is where each one fits, with sources for every claim.
An issue tracker with the pieces product and engineering teams use every day.
Rows follow the work rather than a feature count: triage, planning, knowledge, the wider workspace, time, reports, automation, agents, hosting and plan. Every ClickUp cell links to ClickUp’s own page, and Nothing Left’s cells link to its manual or terms.
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| Capability | Nothing Left | ClickUp |
|---|---|---|
| Planning | ||
| Issue triage | YesIssues with keys, types, priorities, statuses and custom fields. One search language filters lists, boards, reports and agent searches.Search manual | YesTasks with custom task types, statuses set per Space, Folder or List, four fixed priority levels and Custom Fields; lists sort, group and filter.ClickUp: custom task types |
| Agile planning | YesSprints, an ordered backlog, boards by status, priority or type, story points and a burndown recorded every night.Sprints manual | YesThe Sprints ClickApp adds Sprint Folders and Sprint Points; dashboard cards chart burndown, burnup and velocity.ClickUp: intro to Sprints |
| Project knowledge | YesA private knowledge base per project: markdown articles in a tree, linked to issues. No public publishing.Knowledge base manual | YesDocs with nested pages, live co-editing, comments and links to tasks; a Doc can serve as a wiki.ClickUp: Docs |
| Cross-functional content: docs, chat, whiteboards, views | LimitedProject articles, the issue list, backlog, boards and a Gantt report. No chat, whiteboards, calendar, workload or mind-map views.Reports manual | YesList, Board, Calendar, Gantt, Timeline, Workload, Table and Mind Map views, plus Chat channels and Whiteboards in the same workspace.ClickUp: intro to views |
| Delivery | ||
| Time logs | YesLogged on the issue with a work type, against its estimate, also over a date range; a timesheet and a time report. No running timer.Time tracking manual | YesTimers and manual entries, billable flags, weekly timesheets that managers approve, and reports that export to CSV.ClickUp: time tracking |
| Reports | YesNine reports, from burndown to timesheet, each scoped by a query, readable by an agent and exportable as CSV.Reports manual | YesDashboards with cards for sprint burndown, burnup, velocity, cumulative flow, cycle time and lead time.ClickUp: sprint reporting cards |
| Automation | LimitedStatus rules fired by git events, resolved subtasks and duplicate links, such as Close on merge; not a general rules engine, and no transition rules. Bulk updates handle other repeated edits.Automations manual | YesA library of prebuilt trigger-and-action automations, and a builder that drafts one from plain language for you to edit.ClickUp: automations |
| Agents | ||
| MCP server | YesA hosted /mcp endpoint, or a local stdio shim. A scoped personal access token; the tools call the public REST API, acting as you.MCP setup guide | YesA hosted remote server with tools for tasks, comments, time tracking, Docs and Chat. Sign-in is OAuth; API tokens are not accepted.ClickUp: MCP tools |
| AI inside the product | NoNo built-in model or agent. Bring the MCP client you already use; it gets ready-made prompts such as a sprint report.MCP tool reference | YesBrain and Super Agents: AI teammates that run multi-step workflows, plus AI search, fields, automations and a meeting notetaker.ClickUp: Super Agents |
| Hosting and pricing | ||
| Self-hosting | YesAGPL-3.0 code, the same build as the hosted service, with seat and storage limits as settings. Guides for Docker Compose and AWS.Self-hosting guide | NoA cloud service hosted on AWS. Enterprise plans can choose a data region; no self-hosted edition is offered.ClickUp: data hosting |
| Source code | YesOpen source under AGPL-3.0, the same code as the hosted service.AGPL-3.0 licence | NoProprietary. The terms grant a licence to use the service, not its source.ClickUp: terms |
| Plan | YesBeta: no subscription for any team size. The first 20 members stay free when billing arrives.Limits and billing | YesA Free Forever plan and paid tiers. Prices change; read them on its own page.ClickUp: pricing |
5 Oct 2026 at Acme, the first working day of Sprint 08. Filter the bugs, plan the next sprint, log the work, then ask an agent where things stand. Every screen is drawn from the same fictional project. Pick a step to see it.
1 / 4Alex Lee filters the bugs · 5 Oct 2026, 9:15am
The same query works in the board filter, a report’s scope and the agent’s search_issues tool. Save it as a view and the whole team can open it by name.
2 / 4The team plans Sprint 09 · 5 Oct 2026, 4:00pm
Sprint 08Running
Sprint 09Planned
Members can manage invitations without asking an admin
Backlog
4 more issues
A Project Admin creates the sprint with its goal and dates; anyone who can edit issues drags them in and orders them. The board shows cards in the same order.
3 / 4Alex Lee logs the work · 5 Oct 2026, 5:05pm
Add spent time
Alex Lee logged 1h 30m, Development5:05pm
4 / 4Alex’s agent reads the sprint · 5 Oct 2026, 5:30pm
How is Sprint 08 going, and is anything outside it that should worry us?
Sprint 08, “Make invitations clearer”, ends 17 Oct 2026. It started yesterday evening with 31 points; 3 points were added after the start (ACME-9 and ACME-13), so 0 of 34 points are resolved so far.
9 Open, 2 In Progress. In progress: ACME-11 (Casey Kim), ACME-10 (Alex Lee).
Outside the sprint, in the backlog:
Both calls only read. Had Alex asked for a change, it would be made as @alex, within Alex’s role and token.
Hand-drawn product views with fictional data.
ClickUp is built as one workspace for many kinds of work, and its range is real. Nothing Left is narrower on purpose. If your team uses the pieces below every day, a focused tracker will not replace them.
Breadth suits some teams and gets in the way of others. The question is how much of the workspace your team would actually use.
ClickUp runs as a cloud service on AWS, and Enterprise plans can choose the region their data is stored in. Nothing Left gives you two separate routes: the hosted beta, or the same open-source build on infrastructure you run.
We run it
Sign up and file the first issue; nothing to install. Upgrades, backups and email are ours.
You can keep attachments in your own Cloudflare R2 or AWS S3 bucket. That is not self-hosting: issues, comments and accounts stay in our database.
You run it
The same codebase and build as the hosted service, with no reduced edition. The seat and storage limits become settings you choose. The work that comes with it is yours:
Install guides for Docker Compose and AWS.
There is no ClickUp importer. There are two routes: a generic CSV import that works for any source, and an agent-assisted path for teams whose agent can reach both products. Both end with you reviewing the result.
Bulk
When your agent reaches both
Read the unresolved tasks in our ClickUp list “Web app”. Propose how each one maps to an issue in the ACME project: type, status, priority, assignee and tags. List likely duplicates. Create nothing until I approve the mapping.
ClickUp is selected, starting from its lowest paid plan. Replace that with what you pay now and see what the beta takes off it. Check ClickUp’s current prices on its own page; nothing you type leaves this page.
The calculator is not available in this browser right now. Reloading the page may bring it back. The short version: during beta the subscription is zero, whatever you pay today.
Currently using
Check your plan on ClickUp's pricing pageUse the figure on your latest invoice.
Currency
You know
Digits only, such as 1250, 1,250.50 or 1.250,50.
Filled in from ClickUp's lowest paid plan: US list price, billed monthly, checked 11 Oct 2026. Higher plans cost more, and annual or volume pricing differs. Replace it with your invoice figure.
Monthly subscription only, in the currency you chose, with no exchange conversion. Filled-in prices are US list prices for each tool's lowest paid plan, billed monthly, checked 11 Oct 2026; they apply in USD only. Migration effort, add-ons, storage and any future seat pricing are outside this comparison. Product names are trademarks of their owners.
Docs, time, agents and what a focused tracker leaves out. Short answers here, the rest in the manual.
It has a knowledge base inside each project: markdown articles in a tree, up to three levels deep, linked to the issues they explain and readable by an agent. Drafts are private until published, and only the project’s members can read them.
It is not a company-wide wiki and has no public publishing. If several departments write together in ClickUp Docs today, keep a docs tool for that and use the project knowledge base for runbooks and decisions. Knowledge base manual
You log time on the issue with a duration, a date or a date range, and a work type. The issue shows spent time against its estimate, an epic adds up its subtasks, and the timesheet and time report export to CSV.
There is no running timer and no timesheet approval; ClickUp has both. A project can add its own attributes to each time entry, such as Billable, but a team that invoices from approved timesheets should check that gap first. Time tracking manual
ClickUp runs AI inside the product, including Super Agents, and offers a hosted MCP server that assistants sign in to with OAuth. Nothing Left has no built-in model. It gives the agent you already use an MCP surface with a personal access token that you scope and can revoke.
Every tool calls the same public REST API as the web app, so an agent cannot do anything the API does not allow, and its changes appear under your name. Clients that only accept OAuth connectors cannot connect yet. Connect an agent
Chat, whiteboards, forms, general rule-based automations, in-product AI, and calendar, workload, timeline and mind-map views. Nothing Left does not try to replace those. It also has no native importer from ClickUp.
What it keeps in one place is the engineering loop: issues, sprints, boards, time on the issue, reports and project notes, with the same capabilities available to an agent.
The dependable route is a generic CSV import: you map the columns, review the rows it could not read and import. There is no ClickUp importer.
If your agent can reach both ClickUp’s MCP server and Nothing Left’s, it can read your unresolved tasks and recreate them as issues with tags and assignees. That is a guided migration, not a one-click transfer: you check the field mapping, duplicates, attachments and who each person becomes before it runs.
Join the beta, create a project and run your next sprint in it. If it fits, bring the rest of the work across; if your team needs the whole workspace, you will know quickly.