monday.com pricing (2026): what you'll actually pay

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monday.com costs €9 to €19 per seat per month, billed yearly.

Those are the prices for Belgium, excluding VAT, and there’s a free plan for 2 users on top.

Pay monthly and it’s €12 to €24 per seat.

The verdict: the price per seat isn’t the trap, the seat buckets are.

You buy 3, 5, 10 or 15 seats, never 4 or 8. So a team of 4 pays for 5.

How we checked: every price comes from monday.com’s pricing page and the monday CRM pricing page, checked on 21 October 2026 from Belgium, in euro, excluding VAT.

The page only shows work management’s monthly prices after a click. We read them from the price data in that same page’s source code.

We didn’t test a paid account. We use a partner link for monday.com: it doesn’t change any of the numbers.

What does monday.com cost per plan in 2026?

monday work management has five plans: Free, Basic, Standard, Pro and Enterprise.

You pay per seat per month, with a 3-seat minimum on every paid plan. Here’s what the pricing page showed on 21 October 2026:

Most picked: Standard carries the “Most popular” label on the page.

It’s also the first plan with automations and a timeline.

On the pricing page, look at the small line under each price:

monday work management’s pricing page, English interface viewed from Belgium, October 2026. Prices are shown in euro.

It says “billed annually”. So that €9 is paid twelve months up front.

What does monday CRM cost?

monday CRM is a separate product, priced higher than work management.

It’s built for leads, contacts and deals, not project planning.

The CRM page showed this on 21 October 2026:

Watch out: monday CRM has no free plan, just a 14-day trial.

monday CRM’s pricing page, English interface viewed from Belgium, October 2026. The crossed-out price is the monthly price.

Torn between a CRM and a project tool? Start with what a CRM is and how to set up lead management in a CRM.

How marketing and sales share a CRM is covered in CRM marketing.

How do monday.com’s seat buckets work?

monday.com sells seats in groups, not per person.

monday calls this “bucket pricing” itself. According to its help article on plans and pricing, you start at 3 seats and then go up in steps of 5.

For example, a team of 4 picks 5 seats, and a team of 6 picks 10.

Here’s how your team size turns into what you pay:

Rule of thumb: a team of 6 is the most expensive team per person.

You pay for 10 seats for 6 people, so 67% more than you use.

You can’t just drop down either: to buy fewer seats, you deactivate users first.

Otherwise the smaller options are greyed out, says the same help article.

Click “Choose team size” on the pricing page and you’ll see the buckets listed:

The team size selector on monday.com’s pricing page, English interface viewed from Belgium, October 2026.

There’s no option for 4, 6 or 8 seats.

Good news: viewers are free from Basic up.

Someone who only reads along, such as a managing director following the plan, doesn’t take a seat.

What does monday.com cost for a team like yours?

These four examples are computed from the prices on 21 October 2026, excluding VAT.

They aren’t quotes, they’re sums on the published prices.

You’ll see the maths every time, so you can redo it with your own team size.

Example 1: a marketing team of 4 on Standard

Say a B2B marketing team of 4 plans campaigns and content in monday.

It wants a timeline and automations, so Standard.

• Seats: 4 people, so the 5-seat bucket.
• Yearly: 5 × €12 = €60 a month, or €720 a year.
• Monthly: 5 × €14 = €70 a month, or €840 a year.
• Per actual user: €60 / 4 = €15 a month, not €12.

That fifth seat costs €144 a year. Give it a job.

Example 2: a team of 8 on Standard

Say a bigger team of 8, same plan.

• Seats: the 10-seat bucket.
• Yearly: 10 × €12 = €120 a month, or €1,440 a year.
• Monthly: 10 × €14 = €140 a month, or €1,680 a year.
• Empty seats: 2, together €288 a year.

Grow to 10 people next year and it won’t cost a cent more.

At 11 you jump to 15 seats: €2,160 a year.

Example 3: three people on Pro

Say a small team of 3 that wants to track time per client or project.

Time tracking only comes with Pro.

• Seats: 3, exactly the minimum.
• Yearly: 3 × €19 = €57 a month, or €684 a year.
• Monthly: 3 × €24 = €72 a month, or €864 a year.

No empty seat: this is the cleanest price you’ll get.

Example 4: four sales reps on monday CRM Standard

Say 4 sales reps follow up leads and deals in monday CRM Standard.

• Seats: the 5-seat bucket.
• Yearly: 5 × €17 = €85 a month, or €1,020 a year.
• Monthly: 5 × €25 = €125 a month, or €1,500 a year.

Paying yearly saves €480 a year here.

The four examples side by side

Here’s the yearly cost, billed yearly versus billed monthly:

Monthly billing costs more in every example.

The gap runs from €120 a year (team of 4) to €480 (CRM).

Which costs aren’t in the headlines?

Five things change your real bill, and none of them is in large print on the page.

Yearly means paying a year up front

You always pay a full billing period in advance, says the FAQ on the pricing page.

On a yearly plan, that’s twelve months in one go. Cancel within 30 days of paying and you’ll get the remaining balance back.

The yearly discount isn’t 18% everywhere

The toggle on the pricing page says “Save 18%”. Per plan, you land somewhere else:

• Basic: €9 versus €12, so 25% cheaper.
• Standard: €12 versus €14, so 14% cheaper.
• Pro: €19 versus €24, so 21% cheaper.

On monday CRM the toggle says 33%, and there it roughly holds: 33% on Basic, 32% on Standard and Pro.

AI credits are included for now, as an offer

Every paid plan gets AI credits each month: 1,000 on Basic, 2,000 on Standard and 3,000 on Pro.

The page values 1,000 credits at €10.

Then it takes that same €10 off again as a “special monthly discount”. So your total is simply seats times price for now.

You can buy more credits. Check at renewal whether the offer’s still there.

Automations have a ceiling

The Basic card lists no automations.

Standard gives 250 automation actions a month, Pro 25,000.

250 actions a month is roughly 12 per working day.

Connect, for example, forms, email and your CRM to your boards, and you’ll hit that fast.

Building heavy flows? Look at a marketing automation tool too. How to set those flows up is in B2B marketing automation.

VAT comes on top

“Prices do not include tax”, it says under the plans. The price depends on your billing country.

If monday charges 21% Belgian VAT, €720 a year becomes €871.20.

Small detail: the FAQ says monday.com starts from €24 a month for three users, but the Basic card shows €27 (3 × €9).

Go by the card.

Is monday.com’s free plan enough?

For 1 or 2 people with a handful of live projects, yes.

The free plan gives you up to 2 users, 3 boards, 3 docs, 8 column types, 200+ templates and the mobile apps.

AI features only start at Basic.

The limit that bites first: 3 boards. A content calendar, a campaign board and a client board, and you’re full.

Want to test how you’d build that calendar first? Follow these steps for a content calendar.

How does monday.com compare on price with Trello, Asana and ClickUp?

monday.com isn’t the cheapest, and for small teams it’s sometimes clearly pricier.

This is what each tool’s pricing page showed on 21 October 2026. The three alternatives show dollars:

The sources: Trello’s pricing page, Asana’s pricing page and ClickUp’s pricing page.

ClickUp showed two price versions side by side on our check date, so check it yourself.

For a team of 4 on the entry plan, billed yearly:

• Trello Standard: 4 × $5 = $240 a year.
• Asana Starter: 4 × $10.99 = $527.52 a year.
• monday.com Basic: 5 × €9 = €540 a year.
• monday.com Standard: 5 × €12 = €720 a year.

Planning mostly content? Our roundup of content marketing tools lists Trello and Notion as lighter options.

Is monday.com worth the price, or should you pick something cheaper?

monday.com is worth it if your team lands on a bucket and actually uses the timeline and automations.

Then you get one tool that puts marketing, projects and, if you like, sales in one place.

Working in sprints? A steady growth sprint cadence helps more than one extra feature.

Pick monday.com if:

• your team is 3, 5 or 10 people: you won’t pay for empty seats.
• you need Gantt or a timeline: that starts at Standard.
• you also want to follow up leads: monday CRM runs on the same platform.

Pick something cheaper if:

• your team sits just above a bucket: 4, 6 or 11 people.
• you only need a kanban board: Trello will do.
• you’re mainly after a sales pipeline: check our B2B CRM comparison.

Here’s the pick per situation:

Working with an agency or freelancers? Read who does what: agency, freelancer or in-house first.

That decides how many seats you need.

Frequently asked questions

Does monday.com have a free plan?

Yes, for monday work management. The free plan is free forever, for up to 2 users, with 3 boards and 3 docs. monday CRM has no free plan, only a 14-day trial. You can also try work management’s Pro plan free for 14 days, with no credit card.

What’s the minimum number of seats on monday.com?

3 seats on every paid plan. After that you buy in steps: 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 40, 50, 100 and 200+. A team of 4 pays for 5 seats, a team of 6 for 10. The largest teams request a quote.

What’s monday.com’s cheapest paid plan?

Basic, at €9 per seat per month on yearly billing. With the 3-seat minimum, that’s €27 a month, or €324 a year, excluding VAT. Billed monthly, Basic costs €12 per seat, so €36 a month for 3 seats.

What’s the difference between monday CRM and monday work management?

Work management is for projects and tasks, monday CRM for leads, contacts and deals. CRM costs more: €12 versus €9 per seat on Basic, billed yearly. CRM plans also cap contacts, such as 1,000 on Basic. Want leads from ads to flow in automatically? See how to connect lead ads to your CRM and email.

Can you pay for monday.com monthly?

Yes, pick “Monthly” on the pricing page. There’s no discount then: Standard costs €14 instead of €12 per seat. For a team of 4, that’s €120 a year more, because you pay for 5 seats.

What’s your next step?

Count your team, round up to the next bucket and multiply by the seat price.

Want monday connected to your forms, CRM and email flows without hitting the 250-action ceiling? See how we handle marketing automation.

Book a call and within 24 hours you’ll get a first take on which integrations you really need.