monday.com Basic Tier Pricing: $8 per user, per month; $79 per month for 10

• Unlimited boards
• 20 different column types
• Android and iOS access
• Five automations
• One dashboard
• Embedded forms
• 5GB of storage

The Basic tier will cost you $8 per user, per month – or, $79 per month for 10 users. Basic is a very generous introduction to monday.com. You're offered unlimited boards, over 200 templates, and over 20 different column types.

And while you're only able to allow access to your registered team, you'll be able to give viewership to an unlimited amount of people. You'll also be given full mobile access, whether you use Android or iOS.

monday.com Standard Tier Pricing: $10 per person, per month; $99 per month for 10

• Storage increases to 20GB
• You can share boards with people outside your team
• Timeline view
• Guest access
• Increase the number of integrations, automations, and dashboards

monday.com's Standard tier comes with all the Basic features, plus a considerable amount more, for only $10 per user, per month, or for $99 per month for 10 users. You're given guest access, meaning that external people can do more than just view your boards.

You'll also be able to up both your automations and integrations to both 250 actions a month. The amount of boards you can use on one dashboard will also be increased from one to five. Finally, you'll be given more options regarding the ways you can view your boards, as you'll gain access to both the Timeline and Gantt views.

If you want our opinion, the Standard tier is the best plan offered by monday.com. Sign up for your own plan, and start organizing your workflow today.

monday.com Pro Tier Pricing: $16 per user, per month; $159 per month for 10

• Formula column
• Private boards
• Time tracking
• Chart view
• Increases the number of integrations, automations, dashboards, and guests

monday.com's top pre-built level is the Pro tier. This is intended for larger businesses, as the cost of $16 per user, per month – or, for $159 per month for a team of 10 – is a lot higher than the standard tier. However, if you're a bigger business, this price tag might be worth it, as your automations and integrations get increased from 250 to 25,000 each. Your dashboard can also combine up to 10 boards.

As far as brand new features go, you'll be offered time tracking, which can help you keep tabs on how long certain tasks take. You'll get your hands on chart view, which lets you visualise your data in different graphs and charts, giving you a bird's eye view of the company. Finally, you'll be able to create private boards, in case you have sensitive information that only certain people should know.

monday.com Enterprise Tier Pricing: Custom

• A higher API rate limit
• Higher level support
• Audit logs
• Further increases to integration, automation, and dashboard limits

Finally, if you don't like the look of these tiers, you can build your own! The perks we've listed above are a big vague, since the API limit and increases to integration, automation, and dashboard limits, are all up to your discretion when you're crafting your plan. Depending on what you pick, your Enterprise plan might end up costing you more than the Pro tier, so make sure you're not short changing yourself by springing for features that you don't need.

Within each tier, you can select from nine different pre-set numbers of team members, including 2, 5, 10, 15, 25, 50, 100, 200, and 200+. That's 36 different pricing options across all the tiers and team sizes – all of which are billed annually.

You can find the complete pricing list on monday.com's website. The 30-user pricing increases the first three plans' costs to $239, $299, and $479, respectively.

Features of monday.com

monday.com does its best to eschew built-in hierarchies, allowing users to create their own, but some kind of predetermined data organization is inevitable. Like other project management tools, it starts with the Team at the very top.

Below that are what monday.com calls boards. This is akin to different company departments, or different clients for service-based businesses. Within each board are ‘pulses,' which (as we explain below) can be used for single tasks or entire projects. Pulses can also be grouped together to create lists.

monday.com offers a dashboard view, allowing users to get a global view of their various boards with bar charts, timelines, and so on. Other key features include helpful global and board-specific search tools, and the ability to share boards with people outside of the company (such as freelancers).

Here's a look at three key features of monday.com.

Customizability

monday.com doesn't have tasks – at least, not as we usually understand them. Instead, monday.com uses what it calls ‘pulses.'

Pulses are blank slates that can accept all kinds of information. You could, for example, use one pulse for an entire project, and then use the integrated checklists feature as your task list, or attach a simple text file with all your tasks. That approach wouldn't be ideal for huge projects, but might be ideal for simpler ones.

Each pulse also features an activity log, comments, a section to create an FAQ, and the ability to attach files. monday.com also lets you customize pulse columns, making them act more like templates. The “People” column, for example, can be renamed to “Assignee” or “Lead” depending on what's appropriate for the situation. Better still, if your tasks needed to have both assignees and leads, you could add two people columns to your pulses. The bottom line is that you can mold pulses into a container of information that suits your needs.

Automations

monday.com can also carry out particular actions when something happens through a feature called automations. Like customizations, automations are similar to IFTTT, and allow you to create an automated task in plain language. For example, you can set up an automation that will notify your manager when a pulse's status changes from “in progress” to “done.” This automation is what monday.com suggests you can use in lieu of dependencies.

Automations have their limits. In the version of monday.com we used, you couldn't set automations for specific pulses, such as “when Task 1 is done, alert person in charge of Task 2.” Our way around this was to add a new status column, rename it “dependency”, and then edit it to have only two statuses: “not ready” and “ready.” We then created an automation to notify another team member when the dependency column changed from “not ready” to “ready.” That way, only tasks using the dependency column would activate this automation. In other words, our solution worked, but required more complexity than some users may be happy with.

Third-party integrations

monday.com doesn't offer traditional third-party integrations the way other services do. Usually, you hook up services like Gmail or Slack, and then start using them with all supported features available. Instead, monday.com's integrations are another extension of the company's “customize everything” ethos. Each supported integration includes various features that you can activate a la carte, using plain language scenarios similar to the website IFTTT (if this, then that).

The Gmail integration, for example, allows you to create a new pulse when an email is received from a particular contact. Alternatively, you could use a Slack feature that notifies people in a particular channel (chat room) when a new pulse is created. If all you need from Slack and Gmail are these two features, then that's all you have to add.