ClickUp vs monday.com Comparison 2026
Both cover project management. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
Docs, tasks and dashboards in one place
Boards you can shape into whatever the work is
At a glance
- ClickUp starts cheaper, at $7.
- Both have a genuinely free tier.
Side by side
ClickUp | monday.com | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $7 | From $12 |
| Pricing model | Free plan, paid tiers | Free plan, paid tiers |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | Not stated | Not stated |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Data export | Not stated | Not stated |
| Their cut | None | None |
| Runs on (they differ) |
Shaded rows are where the two answers disagree and both listings have answered. A row where one side has not stated a fact is left plain, because silence is not a difference.
ClickUp
Docs, tasks and dashboards in one place
ClickUp tries to be the only work tool a team opens, and mostly manages it: tasks, documents, whiteboards, goals and dashboards all live together and cross-reference. The cost of that reach is a settings screen that takes a weekend to understand. Automations are metered per plan, which is what pushes a growing team off the free tier.
Our note
AI is a separate $9 per user a month, sitting on top of a $7 seat. That more than doubles the bill, and it is easy to miss when the comparison with Notion gets settled on the headline price.
monday.com
Boards you can shape into whatever the work is
monday.com is a work platform whose boards can be bent into a content calendar, a sponsorship pipeline or a client tracker without writing anything. Columns carry types, automations fire on a status change, and the views on top of the same data are what make it readable to somebody who did not build it. The free plan is capped at two seats, which rules out most teams and suits a solo operator well. Paid plans are billed per seat with a minimum seat count, so the real entry price is higher than the headline.
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