monday.com Pricing 2026: Free, Basic, Standard & Pro

monday.com pricing uses Free, Basic, Standard and Pro plans plus custom Enterprise. Current U.S. list rates are $12 per seat monthly or $9 annual-equivalent for Basic, $14/$12 for Standard and $24/$19 for Pro. The real cost is not only seats: automation actions, integration actions, API usage and AI credits can determine which tier the team needs.

Pricing at a glance

Free plan

Free supports up to two seats and includes three boards, three docs, templates, core columns and mobile apps. It is useful for learning the product but too small for most business teams.

Basic plan

Basic costs $12 per seat monthly or $9 annual-equivalent. It adds unlimited items and free viewers but not the richer project-management views and capacity found on Standard.

The active pricing page also shows a monthly AI-credit allowance for Basic, currently around 1,000 credits in the displayed model.

Standard plan

Standard costs $14 per seat monthly or $12 annually. It adds Timeline/Gantt, Calendar, guests, workflows, automations and integrations.

Current materials list 250 automation and 250 integration actions per month. That can be enough for moderate project coordination but restrictive for high-volume operational processes.

Pro plan

Pro costs $24 per seat monthly or $19 annual-equivalent. It adds private boards/docs, time tracking, advanced views/columns and much higher capacity.

Current materials list 25,000 automation and 25,000 integration actions per month. The 100x capacity jump versus Standard is often the strongest economic reason to upgrade.

Enterprise

Enterprise is custom priced and adds portfolio management, resource management, advanced permissions, enterprise-scale automations/integrations, advanced reporting and stronger support/governance.

Current materials reference capacity up to 250,000 automation/integration actions per month for relevant deployments and a 99.9% uptime SLA.

Paid-seat minimums

Current public task-management guidance states that paid plans require at least three seats. A two-person team can use Free, but moving to paid features can therefore mean paying for a third seat.

For larger teams, checkout may use predefined quantities or volume pricing, so the final invoice should be modeled from the purchase page rather than a simple active-user count.

10-seat cost example

At annual list rates, 10 Basic seats equal about $90 per month, Standard $120 and Pro $190 before tax. On monthly billing, the corresponding list costs are about $120, $140 and $240.

The annual savings become meaningful once the team has validated the right tier, but a discounted Standard subscription is poor value if action volume forces an immediate Pro upgrade.

50-seat cost example

At 50 seats, annual-equivalent list cost is roughly $450 per month for Basic, $600 for Standard and $950 for Pro before tax or volume/custom terms.

This is why larger buyers should model capability and capacity together. The $350 monthly-equivalent difference between Standard and Pro can be justified quickly if Pro replaces manual work or separate tools.

Automation actions

An action is an execution, not a rule. A rule that runs three steps across 100 monthly items uses about 300 actions and already exceeds Standard's 250 automation-action allowance.

Teams should measure actual execution counts during the Pro trial rather than estimating from the number of recipes they configured.

Integration actions

Integration actions are consumed when connected apps send or receive updates. A workflow can stay below the internal automation limit while exceeding the integration limit if every item syncs to multiple systems.

AI credits

The live pricing experience currently shows roughly 1,000 monthly AI credits on Basic, 2,000 on Standard and 3,000 on Pro in the displayed seat-plus-credit model. More credits can be purchased.

Credit quantity does not necessarily mean every AI feature is available on every plan. Buyers should verify Sidekick, agent, AI-column and workflow-builder access as well as the included credit pool.

API limits

monday.com also publishes API-call limits. Current Standard pricing shows 1,000 API calls per day, while higher tiers support more. This matters when monday.com is connected to internal apps, data pipelines or custom agents.

14-day Pro trial

New accounts currently begin a 14-day Pro trial automatically. No credit card is required, and current support documentation says the trial cannot be extended.

The best use of the trial is to test a real workload and inspect automation, integration and AI usage before choosing a lower paid tier.

Cancellation

Customers can turn off auto-renew so the subscription ends at the next renewal. Enterprise can include a minimum 12-month term and additional notice or contract conditions.

Refund policy

New customers making a first purchase currently have 30 days to submit a written refund request. monday.com refunds the prorated unused portion.

Renewals and monthly renewal charges are generally excluded, which makes the first 30 days the main reconsideration window for a new customer.

Taxes and regional pricing

monday.com says displayed prices exclude tax and final price depends on billing country. Toollers uses current U.S. dollar list pricing for comparison and treats checkout as final.

How to estimate total cost

Start with the number of paid seats, then identify the lowest tier containing the required views, privacy and reporting features. Next, estimate monthly automation and integration actions. Finally, add expected AI-credit or API usage.

This sequence prevents a common mistake: choosing Standard because it has the right features but discovering later that the workflow volume requires Pro.

When annual billing makes sense

Annual billing is most attractive after the team has validated plan fit during the trial or a monthly period. Larger teams can save materially, but only when the correct tier is chosen.

Organizations should also assign responsibility for renewal dates because renewal refunds are generally excluded.

Which plan fits which buyer?

Free is for one or two users. Basic is for lightweight paid work. Standard is the best starting point for most project teams. Pro is best for automation-heavy workflows, private boards and time tracking. Enterprise is for portfolio, resource, governance and security needs.

Pricing methodology

Toollers rechecked monday.com's live pricing, official task-management pricing, support pricing article, trial documentation and refund policy on October 9, 2026. Annual U.S. list prices remain $9 Basic, $12 Standard and $19 Pro; monthly list prices remain $12, $14 and $24.

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Why Standard can become expensive indirectly

Standard's seat price is reasonable, but teams sometimes underestimate the cost of its action limits. If a process regularly exceeds 250 automation or integration actions, users either reduce automation, add manual work or move to Pro. The real comparison is therefore Standard plus manual effort versus Pro plus greater automation capacity.

Budgeting for growth

Growing teams should model the next seat band and workflow volume rather than only today's account. A plan that fits 10 people can change economically at 30 or 50 seats, especially when the organization adds more connected apps and rules. Forecasting six to twelve months of usage gives finance a more realistic picture than multiplying today's headcount by a seat price.

Non-seat costs to consider

Taxes, extra AI credits, higher API needs and subscriptions to third-party apps can add to the platform cost. Integrations may be available in monday.com while the connected software still requires its own paid plan. Organizations should evaluate the complete workflow stack rather than treating the monday.com invoice as the total project-management cost.

Starter budgeting checklist

Before purchasing, record the number of billable seats, the number of recurring boards, expected monthly automation executions, expected integration executions, AI-credit demand and any API-driven processes. Then compare Standard and Pro using that real workload. This prevents a low headline seat price from hiding a capacity mismatch that forces an upgrade after implementation.

Cost of underbuying versus overbuying

Underbuying creates manual work when action limits are reached; overbuying wastes subscription budget on unused capacity. The cheapest approach is usually to validate real usage during the Pro trial, then downgrade only if Standard comfortably supports the observed workload. Teams with seasonal campaigns should also test a peak month rather than a quiet week.