Alternatives
monday CRM is a sales layer on a work platform, and that is either the reason to keep it or the reason to leave. This page compares purpose-built CRMs on current pricing, with a named read on each.
It is boards all the way down. monday CRM inherits its data model from the work platform, so a deal is a row on a board with columns. That is fine until you want the things a CRM data model gives you for free: a company record that survives a contact changing jobs, an activity timeline that is not a column, a person who belongs to two accounts.
Sales depth lags. Sequences, call logging, forecast quality, and deal-stage analytics are where a purpose-built CRM has spent a decade and a work platform has not. Teams doing real outbound feel this first.
Seat pricing on a platform bought for delivery. Many firms already pay for monday for project work and then discover the CRM product is priced per seat again, for a set of users that overlaps but is not identical.
Automation limits are counted. Actions are metered per plan, which is an unusual thing to have to think about when designing a sales process, and it tends to be discovered after the process is designed.
Every row on the same billing basis, at the same seat count, from each vendor own professional-band plan. Switch the basis to see how annual commitment changes the total, or use the CRM cost calculator at your own seat count.
monday CRM benchmark: Standard, $147.84 per month for 8 seats (billed annually). Vendor pricing
| Best for | Free | Compared / seat | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Premier Source record: 15 September 2026 | A small team with a simple pipeline | $7 | $12 | $96 | |
Complete Source record: 7 September 2026 | Relationship-led B2B service firms | $24.17 | $24.17 | $193 | |
Growth Source record: 15 September 2026 Priced in EUR, converted | Small and quiet | $16.30 | $30.43 | $243 | |
Growth Source record: 15 September 2026 | The straight swap | $14 | $39 | $312 | |
Pro Source record: 15 September 2026 | Calling and AI native | $9 | $39 | $312 | |
Pro Source record: 15 September 2026 | Outbound included | $13 | $42 | $336 | |
Premium Source record: 5 October 2026 | Contacts, outreach and lightweight deals | $24 | $48 | $384 | |
Pro Source record: 15 September 2026 | Reducing manual sales data entry | $29 | $49 | $392 | |
Professional Source record: 12 October 2026 | Sales linked to project delivery | $29 | $49 | $392 | |
Pro Source record: 15 September 2026 | Build the model properly | $35 | $79 | $632 | |
Sales Hub Professional Source record: 15 September 2026 Free CRM: up to 2 users and 1,000 contacts | One platform, properly | $7 | $90 | $720 |
8 users, USD, list price, cheapest professional-band plan, pricing source dates 20 July 2026 to 12 October 2026. A vendor with no published price for that plan on this basis shows “Not published” rather than a price borrowed from a cheaper plan. Verify on the vendor own pricing page.
What each one is, the kind of team it fits, what it costs to start, and the one thing that will annoy you. Cheapest first.
Recorded from $7 per seat; $96 per month at 8 seats
Zoho's lightweight pipeline CRM, with a free plan for one user and 500 records.
Fits: solo sellers and small teams that want fewer configuration choices than a broad CRM suite.
The drawback: record limits count more than contacts. Check automation, reporting and integrations before growing into a paid plan.
Recorded from $24.17 per seat; $193 per month at 8 seats
Our product. A full-funnel CRM that captures email, meetings, and LinkedIn on its own, ranks who needs attention with a reason attached, and carries a won deal into delivery and invoicing on the same client record.
Fits: agencies, consultancies, and software firms where clients come back and referrals matter more than lead volume.
The drawback: we are young. The app marketplace is small next to the platform vendors, and we do not do resource planning.
Recorded from $16.30 per seat; $243 per month at 8 seats
A calm CRM with contacts, a pipeline, and projects, priced in clear tiers.
Fits: a small team that found the board interface busier than the job required.
The drawback: thin automation and reporting once more than a handful of people sell.
Recorded from $14 per seat; $312 per month at 8 seats
A purpose-built pipeline CRM with the same low setup cost as monday and a proper deal data model underneath.
Fits: teams who liked the board and want the sales behaviour that goes with it.
The drawback: no post-sale account view, and nothing for delivery work.
Recorded from $9 per seat; $312 per month at 8 seats
A single-product CRM with phone, email, and lead scoring built in.
Fits: teams doing outbound volume that monday cannot carry.
The drawback: the useful automation is in the upper plans.
Recorded from $13 per seat; $336 per month at 8 seats
A B2B CRM with email sequences, forms, and reporting in the plan rather than as add-ons.
Fits: teams whose main complaint about monday was that real outbound needed a second tool.
The drawback: reporting is lighter than the platform tools, and there is nothing after the sale.
Recorded from $24 per seat; $384 per month at 8 seats
A CRM for contact management, outreach and shared pipelines, with a browser extension.
Fits: small teams that start from people and conversations rather than a complex sales process.
The drawback: check reporting, permissions and deal features on the plan you would buy; it does not replace an enterprise suite.
Recorded from $29 per seat; $392 per month at 8 seats
A B2B sales CRM focused on automatic contact and activity capture from email and calendar.
Fits: small sales teams whose main problem is keeping customer history current.
The drawback: test the capture permissions and plan limits; sales automation does not replace project delivery or a marketing platform.
Recorded from $29 per seat; $392 per month at 8 seats
A CRM with relationship links, pipelines and project management.
Fits: service businesses that need to carry sales context into delivery.
The drawback: Marketing and Service are separate products. Compare the CRM plan rather than a bundle headline price.
Recorded from $35 per seat; $632 per month at 8 seats
A data-model CRM where you define the objects and relationships, with the flexibility monday users like and a real CRM underneath it.
Fits: teams who chose monday for flexibility and hit the limits of a board.
The drawback: it ships blank. Somebody has to design it and then own that design.
Recorded from $7 per seat; $720 per month at 8 seats
Marketing, sales, and service on one contact record, with the deepest app ecosystem in the category.
Fits: teams who wanted the everything-in-one-place promise and found monday delivers it for work, not for revenue.
The drawback: required Sales Hub Professional onboarding, and hub-based pricing that grows in steps. Sales Hub has no seat minimum.
monday exports per board to Excel or CSV, which means the export mirrors the boards rather than a CRM data model. Plan the shape before you export: decide which board is companies, which is people, and which is deals, and how the links between them are represented, because a naive import produces three flat lists with nothing joining them. Attachments and updates on items usually need to be handled separately.
Moving to Lumenbase runs through Portage, which scans the source, maps fields and owners, shows you a preview with record counts, then imports in the background with rollback. It comes with the plan rather than as a paid service.
Prices come from each vendor's own pricing page, on whichever basis the table is set to: annual-billed or month-to-month. A basis is never calculated from the other, so a vendor publishing only one shows a dash on the other rather than an estimate. The 8-seat column always uses the cheapest plan in a vendor's professional band, and a vendor with no published price for that plan is left blank instead of being quoted from a cheaper tier. This page lists 11 CRMs, 11 of them priced on the default basis. Pricing source records span20 July 2026 to 12 October 2026. See the CRM feature comparison for the full method, capability data, and treatment of flat and quote-only plans. Plan bands are our categories and do not guarantee equal features. Taxes, onboarding, usage charges and add-ons are excluded.
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