Wrike
$0at 5 users
$60 a month cheaper$0 at 1 user
A mid-sized team that expects to grow into resource planning, budgeting and BI, and can commit to a year up front.
- Also lists dashboards and reporting and intake forms
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monday work management alternatives
The 9 closest of 14, each with its real monthly cost at 5 users and what it does that monday work management does not. See all 15.
Wrike does everything we verified about monday work management for $60 a month less at 5 users, $0 against $60. It is a price cut rather than an upgrade: on the two features checked against the vendors’ own pricing pages the two are level. The trade: monday work management is built for boards as the interface and Wrike is not, so this is a swap with a cost.
Why people look for an alternative
Not for one or two people on a budget: the free plan stops at 2 seats and 3 boards, paid plans start at 3 seats sold in buckets, and the page lists no recurring tasks, forms (WorkForms appear only under monday service), dashboards or goals for work management.
It runs $60 a month at 5 users with the add-ons it forces on you included. 11 of the 14 alternatives to monday work management cost less than that.
The closest thing to monday work management
Ranked by how much of what we record for monday work management each platform also does. Wrike is the nearest, and it is $60 a month cheaper at 5 users. On every feature this site records, the two are level.
Cheaper, with nothing we record missing
Everything this site records for monday work management is also recorded for these, and they cost less at 5 users. That is not the same as saying they are better: the last column is what monday work management is built for that they are not, and for someone who needs that, the saving is not a saving.
| Platform | At 5 users | You save | What monday work management does that it does not |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wrike | $0 | $60 | boards as the interface |
| Teamwork.com | $0 | $60 | boards as the interface |
| ClickUp | $0 | $60 | boards as the interface and growing into portfolios and governance |
The rest, in order of how close they are
Prices are the real monthly cost at 5 users with the add-ons each platform forces on you included, from the same engine the shortlist quiz uses.
Teamwork.com
$0at 5 users
$60 a month cheaper$0 at 1 user
An agency or services team that bills clients for its time and wants intake forms, time budgets, retainers and client invoicing in the same tool as the tasks.
- Also lists dashboards and reporting and intake forms
Trello
$0at 5 users
$60 a month cheaper$0 at 1 user
A small team that wants cards on boards and nothing to learn, with a free plan that genuinely covers up to ten people.
- Also lists dashboards and reporting
- Does not list docs and notes and time tracking
Asana
$67.45at 5 users
$7.45 a month dearer$0 at 1 user
A team that already knows Asana or wants the most widely used project tool, with a clear path from Starter up to goals, portfolios, resourcing and enterprise controls.
- Also lists dashboards and reporting, intake forms, goals and OKRs and recurring tasks
ClickUp
$0at 5 users
$60 a month cheaper$0 at 1 user
A team that wants tasks, docs, goals, time tracking and dashboards in one configurable app and is happy to pay per user for the lot, or run a small team on the free plan with no member cap.
- Also lists dashboards and reporting, intake forms, goals and OKRs and recurring tasks
Zoho Projects
$0at 5 users
$60 a month cheaper$0 at 1 user
Teams that want a full project suite, with Gantt, timesheets, budgets and workflow automation, at the lowest per-user price in the category, especially if they already run on Zoho.
- Also lists dashboards and reporting, intake forms and recurring tasks
- Does not list boards
Smartsheet
$60at 5 users
Same money$12 at 1 user
A team that thinks in spreadsheets and wants Gantt, forms, dashboards and automations on top of a grid, with free viewers for the people around it.
- Also lists dashboards and reporting and intake forms
- Does not list docs and notes and time tracking
MeisterTask
$0at 5 users
$60 a month cheaper$0 at 1 user
Small teams that want a clean task tool with notes attached, a free plan with unlimited members, and a modest per-user price, rather than a full project suite.
- Also lists dashboards and reporting and recurring tasks
- Does not list a calendar view and boards
Basecamp
$29at 5 users
$31 a month cheaper$0 at 1 user
A team that wants one fixed monthly price however many people join, with message boards, to-dos, chat, docs and a Kanban-style card table in a single calm tool.
- Also lists dashboards and reporting
- Does not list automation rules, a timeline or Gantt view and a mobile app
What monday work management is still the best answer for
A team of three or more that wants colourful boards with automations, timelines and guest access, and an upgrade path to portfolio and resource management on Enterprise.
On this site it is the pick for boards as the interface and growing into portfolios and governance. If that is you, read the savings above and then ignore them.
monday work management against one other, side by side
The pairs people actually search for, each one priced at the same four sizes off both vendors' own pages.
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Questions people ask about monday work management alternatives
What is the closest alternative to monday work management?
Wrike. It is $60 a month cheaper at the size we compare on and gives up nothing we verify, though you should read why it exists before swapping: no two of these do exactly the same job.
Is there a cheaper alternative to monday work management?
Wrike, Teamwork.com and ClickUp are cheaper and level with monday work management on every feature we verify. Nothing here is strictly better: each one exists to do a slightly different job.
How much does monday work management cost?
monday work management is free at 1 user, $36 a month at 3 users and $120 at 10 users, read off their own pricing page and re-checked every week.
Why do people look for alternatives to monday work management?
Not for one or two people on a budget: the free plan stops at 2 seats and 3 boards, paid plans start at 3 seats sold in buckets, and the page lists no recurring tasks, forms (WorkForms appear only under monday service), dashboards or goals for work management.
How many alternatives to monday work management are there?
We compare 14 of them here, every one priced at the same size off its own pricing page, and the whole list of 15 is on the task management page.
Should yours be on this list? If you make task and project management tools and it is not compared here, ask to be shortlisted. Listings are free and cannot be bought.
How to read the feature lines
Two features were checked against each vendor's own pricing page: a price that does not move with users and a free plan. Those are the ones written above as does and does not. The other 14 are read out of each vendor's own pricing page, so an absence there means we did not find it listed, not that the product lacks it, and those lines say lists and does not list instead. How all of this gets checked.
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