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monday.com
Colourful boards that bend to any process
Free plan availableProject ManagementSince 2012
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What monday.com is
Work OS built from customisable boards and automations, used for everything from CRM to production scheduling. Priced in seat bundles.
What monday.com has cost
We have read this pricing page 11 times since Jul 2021, including archived copies of it. Each figure below was pulled from the page itself, not from a summary of it.
- $8/mo*Jul 2021 – Jan 2023 · Basic · 4 readings · archived page
- $9/mo*Jan 2024 – Jul 2025 · Basic · 3 readings · archived page
- $13†Jul 2026 · Basic · 1 reading · archived page
- $9/mo*Aug 2026 – Sept 2026 · Basic · 3 readings · source
The Basic plan moved from $8 to $9 (+12.5%) somewhere between Jan 2023 and Jan 2024 — we read it at both ends and cannot narrow it further.
* That reading is the effective monthly cost when paying for a year up front, which is what the page published at the time.
† The page showed this figure beside a monthly/annual switch and did not say which one it belonged to, so we publish the number without claiming a billing period. Readings like this are shown but never compared, which is why they never produce a price change.
Gaps are ours, not the vendor's: where a capture was unreadable, or the price could not be tied to a plan at all, no reading was recorded rather than a guess. See every price change we can stand behind.
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monday.com alternatives
Other tools in project management that cover similar ground. Full comparison.
Where monday.com sits on price
Entry prices across Project Management, cheapest first.
- NotionFree
- GearDex$3.25
- Trello$6
- Shortcut$8.50
- monday.com$9
- Linear$10
- ClickUp$10
- Wrike$10
- Asana$13.49
- Optivation$19
12 of these 12 prices were read from the vendor's own pricing page. The median is taken across the 12 verified prices in Project Management. Showing the 10 cheapest.
monday.com pricing questions
- How much does monday.com cost?
- monday.com starts at $9 a month on its Basic plan, billed annually. That figure was read from monday.com's own pricing page on 21 September 2026.
- Does monday.com have a free plan?
- Yes. monday.com publishes an ongoing free tier — not a countdown trial. Limits vary by plan, so check what the free tier covers before you commit.
- What is monday.com used for?
- Work OS built from customisable boards and automations, used for everything from CRM to production scheduling. Priced in seat bundles. People mainly use it to manage projects, build a workflow, assign tasks.
- What are the best alternatives to monday.com?
- The closest alternatives in the same category are Notion, Linear, Asana, ClickUp. Notion starts lower at $0 a month. Notion, Linear, Asana and ClickUp publish a free plan.