monday.com
monday.com pricing, checked August 2026
Seats sold in blocks, AI sold in credits, and four separate products under one brand.
What it costs
monday work management lists Basic at $9, Standard at $12 and Pro at $19 per seat per month, with a yearly toggle marked "Yearly SAVE 18%", checked on monday.com/pricing on 21 August 2026. Free covers up to 2 seats. Each paid tier bundles AI credits: 1,000, 2,000 and 3,000 a month. Polaris charges nothing for software.
- Basic
- $9 / seat / month
- Standard
- $12 / seat / month
- Pro
- $19 / seat / month
- Checked
- 21 August 2026
monday work management, as listed
Read from monday.com/pricing on 21 August 2026 with the billing toggle showing "Yearly SAVE 18%" against "Monthly". The rates below are the ones the page displayed; confirm your own toggle before budgeting.
- Free$0
- Basic$9
- Standard$12
- Pro$19
- EnterpriseCustom
| Plan | Per seat / month | AI credits per month | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | Basic allowance included | Up to 2 seats |
| Basic | $9 | 1,000 | Unlimited items, 5GB storage |
| Standard | $12 | 2,000 | Timeline, calendar and automation limits raised |
| Pro | $19 | 3,000 | Private boards, time tracking, higher automation limits |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom | Not published |
You are not buying one product
monday sells work management, CRM, Service and Dev as separate priced products. CRM Basic listed at $12 per seat on annual billing and $18 on monthly, and Service Standard listed at $31 per seat on annual. A company that adopts monday for projects and then adds CRM is starting a second subscription with its own seat count, not extending the first.
Seats are also bought through a selector rather than typed in freely, and the page defaults to 10 seats. Plan on buying to the next block rather than to your exact headcount.
Twenty people on monday work management
Straight multiplication at the listed per-seat rates.
- Basic$9
- Standard$12
- Pro$19
- Pro plus monday CRM Basic for 5 sales seats$19 and $12
- Polaris software$0
| Plan | Rate | Seats | Per month | Per year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | $9 | 20 | $180.00 | $2,160.00 |
| Standard | $12 | 20 | $240.00 | $2,880.00 |
| Pro | $19 | 20 | $380.00 | $4,560.00 |
| Pro plus monday CRM Basic for 5 sales seats | $19 and $12 | 20 and 5 | $440.00 | $5,280.00 |
| Polaris software | $0 | unlimited | $0.00 | $0.00 |
Three cost mechanics specific to monday
Credits are per account, seats are per person
A Pro workspace gets 3,000 AI credits a month whether it has 10 seats or 200. The AI allowance does not scale with what you pay, which makes it a fixed budget that a growing team burns through faster each quarter.
The seat selector rounds you up
Seats are chosen from preset blocks. A team of 12 buys the block above 10, and the unused seats are billed the same as the used ones.
Product sprawl inside one vendor
Work management, CRM, Service and Dev each carry their own per-seat price. Consolidating onto monday can mean signing three subscriptions with the same logo on them.
monday Pro against Polaris
monday Pro
- $19 per seat per month, checked 21 August 2026
- 3,000 AI credits per account per month, regardless of size
- Separate subscriptions for CRM, Service and Dev
- Seats bought in blocks, used or not
Polaris
- $0 software, unlimited humans, no blocks and no tiers
- Tasks, docs and team chat in the same product
- AI workers hired in about sixty seconds with an editable SKILL.md
- Roughly $2 per human-equivalent hour delivered, logged per job
Where to go next
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ClickUp vs monday.com
Two platforms that both claim to replace your whole stack, with very different ideas about who does the configuring.
Trello vs monday.com
Both put cards in columns. Only one of them expects the columns to do arithmetic.
Replacing Monday.com and Slack
A board configured by the person who reports on the work, used by the people who have to do it.
Tool stack cost for a 25-person team
The size where paying monthly instead of annually costs $1,650 a year on its own.
Questions people ask
+How much is monday.com per seat?
Work management listed Basic at $9, Standard at $12 and Pro at $19 per seat per month on monday.com/pricing on 21 August 2026, with a billing toggle marked "Yearly SAVE 18%". CRM, Service and Dev are separately priced products with their own seat rates.
+Is monday.com free for a small team?
The Free plan covers up to 2 seats, which is a trial rather than a working plan for a team. Beyond that you are on Basic at $9 per seat per month or higher, bought through a seat selector that works in blocks.
+Are AI credits included with monday plans?
Yes, and the allowance is per account rather than per seat: 1,000 credits a month on Basic, 2,000 on Standard and 3,000 on Pro. A larger team pays more in seats and gets the same credit pool.
+How would Polaris bill the same team?
Nothing for the software, at any seat count. Work delivered by AI workers is metered at roughly two dollars per human-equivalent hour. As an illustration only, if that twenty-person team's workers delivered 60 human-hours in a month, the bill for that month would be about $120 against $380 for monday Pro seats.
+Who decides an AI worker's task is finished?
A person. The worker ticks its acceptance-criteria checklist as it goes and delivers the result as a comment with any files it produced, then stops. Closing and rating the task is a human action in Polaris, always.
Related
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Tool stack cost for a 25-person team
The size where paying monthly instead of annually costs $1,650 a year on its own.
Per-seat pricing and usage pricing charge for different things
One model prices access. The other prices output. Almost every argument about software cost is really about which of those you are buying.
Per-seat pricing
The bill tracks headcount, which is only a proxy for value received.