WHAT MONDAY.COM IS AND COSTS
AI PRODUCTIVITY6 comparisons · latest 2026-10-26

monday.com alternatives

By Joris van Huët · each comparison from the vendors' own pricing and help pages, prices dated on the page

The short answer: 6 tools are compared with monday.com on this site, and the line under each one is the verdict from its comparison: who should pick which, with the figures that decide it on the comparison itself. Read the one that names your job. What monday.com costs and who it suits is in its entry, and how to use monday.com walks through one job with it.

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Asana

Choose Asana when rules, forms and outside guests carry the work. Choose monday.com when marketing will share one platform with a CRM, a service desk or a dev team.

monday.com vs Asana: Automation Caps, Seats and AI Requests

ClickUp

For a marketing team of 8 that wants plans, docs and chat in one place, ClickUp's Core plan costs 8 x $9 = $72 a month billed yearly and runs 1,000 automations a month (ClickUp pricing). monday.com's team-size selector steps from 5 seats to 10, so the same 8 people price at 10 Standard seats, $120 a month billed.

ClickUp vs monday.com: One Workspace App or a Board Platform

HubSpot

If your team already plans campaigns and projects on monday.com boards and wants deals beside that work, monday CRM keeps them in the same workspace, from $17 per seat a month billed annually on Standard with a 3-seat minimum, per its CRM pricing page.

HubSpot vs monday.com: CRM Platform or Workspace With a CRM

Jira

If engineering already runs its sprints in Jira, keep it there, free for up to 10 users, and give marketing a launch plan where marketing works; if a team of 10 led by marketing ships with a few developers and wants one tool, monday dev's Standard plan carries sprints, story points and a two-way GitHub sync at $12 a.

monday.com vs Jira: Marketing Boards or Engineering Backlog

Motion

If a five-person team's launches slip because nobody's week has room for the tasks, Motion books every task into each person's calendar and re-plans when meetings land, for 5 x $19 = $95 a month on Pro AI billed annually (Motion pricing).

Motion vs monday.com: Auto-Scheduled Weeks or Shared Boards

Pipedrive

If sales hands work to delivery, operations or finance teams that already plan in monday.com, monday CRM keeps all of it on one platform, from $17 per seat a month billed yearly on Standard, per its pricing page.

Pipedrive vs monday.com: A Sales CRM or a Work Platform

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