monday.com pricing
Pricing score: 48/10monday.com is per-seat but sold in buckets - minimum 3 seats, then multiples of 5, so a team of 6 pays for 10. The headline $9-$19/seat prices are annual-billed. Buyers misjudge the feature gating: Gantt needs Standard, time tracking needs Pro.
Plans, list price, and your SaaSTweaks rate
| Plan | List price | SaaSTweaks deal | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free Free forever for up to 2 seats, capped at 3 boards and 3 Docs. Only available on monday Work Management (not CRM, dev or service).
| Free | — | Individuals and duos kicking the tyres |
| Basic $9/seat/month billed annually; monthly billing costs about 18% more (monday documents yearly as an 18% discount). Minimum 3 seats, sold in buckets. Includes 1,000 AI credits/month.
| $9/month | — | Simple task lists where views and automations don't matter yet |
| Standard $12/seat/month billed annually (about 18% more billed monthly). The first genuinely usable tier: adds Timeline, Gantt and Calendar views, guest access, and 250 automation + 250 integration actions a month.
| $12/month | — | Most small teams - this is the sweet spot |
| Pro $19/seat/month billed annually (about 18% more billed monthly). Adds private boards, time tracking, advanced columns and 25,000 automation + 25,000 integration actions a month.
| $19/month | — | Teams that live in automations, time tracking and dashboards |
| Enterprise Custom pricing ('discounts available') with a minimum 12-month term. 250,000 automation actions/month, portfolio & resource management, 99.9% uptime SLA, advanced security.
| Free | — | Organisations needing security, scale and portfolio management |
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Free
Free forever for up to 2 seats, capped at 3 boards and 3 Docs. Only available on monday Work Management (not CRM, dev or service).
List price
Free
SaaSTweaks deal
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Best for: Individuals and duos kicking the tyres
- Up to 2 seats
- Up to 3 boards & 3 Docs
- 200+ templates
- 8 column types
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Basic
$9/seat/month billed annually; monthly billing costs about 18% more (monday documents yearly as an 18% discount). Minimum 3 seats, sold in buckets. Includes 1,000 AI credits/month.
List price
$9/month
SaaSTweaks deal
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Best for: Simple task lists where views and automations don't matter yet
- Unlimited items & unlimited free viewers
- 1,000 AI credits/month (limited agent access)
- No Timeline/Gantt views
- No automations or integrations
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Standard
$12/seat/month billed annually (about 18% more billed monthly). The first genuinely usable tier: adds Timeline, Gantt and Calendar views, guest access, and 250 automation + 250 integration actions a month.
List price
$12/month
SaaSTweaks deal
—
Best for: Most small teams - this is the sweet spot
- Timeline, Gantt & Calendar views
- 250 automation + 250 integration actions/month
- Guest access
- 2,000 AI credits/month
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Pro
$19/seat/month billed annually (about 18% more billed monthly). Adds private boards, time tracking, advanced columns and 25,000 automation + 25,000 integration actions a month.
List price
$19/month
SaaSTweaks deal
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Best for: Teams that live in automations, time tracking and dashboards
- 25,000 automation + 25,000 integration actions/month
- Time tracking & private boards
- Advanced views & columns
- 3,000 AI credits/month + 6 AI tools
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Enterprise
Custom pricing ('discounts available') with a minimum 12-month term. 250,000 automation actions/month, portfolio & resource management, 99.9% uptime SLA, advanced security.
List price
Free
SaaSTweaks deal
—
Best for: Organisations needing security, scale and portfolio management
- 250,000 automation actions/month
- Portfolio & resource management
- 99.9% uptime SLA
- 25,000 API calls/day
Hidden costs to watch for
- Bucket pricing: paid plans start at a 3-seat minimum and then ascend in multiples of 5 - a team of 6 must buy 10 seats, so you can be paying for 40% empty chairs.
- The advertised prices are annual-billed; monday documents yearly billing as an 18% discount, so month-to-month costs roughly a fifth more per seat.
- Core features are stair-stepped paywalls: Timeline/Gantt and integrations need Standard, time tracking and private boards need Pro - price the tier your workflow needs, not the $9 headline.
- Automation and integration actions are capped monthly (250 each on Standard); an active board with a few recipes can exhaust that in days, and the fix is the Pro tier at 58% more per seat.
- monday CRM, dev and service are separate products with separate per-seat prices (CRM runs $12-$28/seat annually) - bundling doesn't merge the bills, and Enterprise bundles force every product onto Enterprise.
- Enterprise has a minimum 12-month term, and the 14-day Pro trial cannot be extended.
Negotiation tips
Which tier is right for you?
Solo founder
→ Free
Two seats, three boards and mobile apps cost nothing; the moment you need a third person or a Gantt view you're into a 3-seat Standard bucket at about $432/year, so stay free until the pain is real.
Small team (5-15)
→ Standard (annual)
Timeline/Gantt, guest access and basic automations cover most workflows at $12/seat annually - but mind the buckets: 6 people pay for 10 seats, so hire towards bucket edges.
Scaling company
→ Pro (annual), Enterprise when security demands it
25,000 automation actions and time tracking remove the Standard-tier ceilings; move to Enterprise only when SSO/SLA/portfolio needs justify a 12-month custom contract - and negotiate, discounts are explicitly available.
FAQ
Yes, but it's tight: free forever for up to 2 seats, 3 boards and 3 Docs, and only on monday Work Management. It's a trial substitute, not a workspace for a real team.
monday documents yearly billing as an 18% discount versus monthly. On Pro at 10 seats that's roughly $500 a year, and a documented partial refund within 30 days of an annual purchase reduces the commitment risk.
Three honest routes: the 18% annual discount, the monday.com for Nonprofits programme, and Enterprise negotiation (the pricing page itself says 'discounts available'). No public coupon codes.
Pricing is per bucket, not per seat: plans start at 3 seats and ascend in multiples of 5. A team of 6 buys the 10-seat bucket. Deactivating unused users before checkout lets you select a smaller bucket.
Standard includes 250 automation and 250 integration actions per month. Once exhausted, recipes stop running until the next cycle - the practical fix is upgrading to Pro's 25,000 actions.
No. CRM, dev and service are separately priced products ($12-$28+/seat annually for CRM). You can bundle them on one account, but each is billed on its own plan and all must share one billing cycle.
Signing up starts a 14-day free trial of the Pro plan automatically. It cannot be extended - after that you either pay or drop to the Free plan, which keeps your account data.
Guest seats are counted differently from member seats - guests (available from Standard) are for external collaborators and don't consume full member seats in the same way. Check monday's 'Pricing for guests' rules for your tier before inviting clients.
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