monday.com is an alternative
to Trello
$90/mo (Basic) vs Trello Standard at $60/mo for 10 seats ($6/seat) — covering 14% of the 4 compared capabilities.
Same job. Compare the fees.
Comparison scenario
Every cheaper-than claim is tied to a defined scenario — never a bare list price.
10 seats, monthly billing · USD · prices as observed on official pricing pages.
Standard plan at $60/mo ($6/seat × 10 seats), the cheapest paid plan.
Basic: 108 USD/yearly; 9 extra seat(s) × 108 USD.
Trello costs $60/mo on the Standard plan at 10 seats, monthly billing. monday.com costs $90/mo (Basic plan), which is not cheaper than Trello Standard at $60/mo in this scenario.
Capability comparison
monday.com covers 14% of the 4 capabilities compared against Trello. ✓ native · ◐ via integration · ✗ not found.
| Capability | monday.com | Trello |
|---|---|---|
| Workflow automations | ↑ Standard | ✓ |
| Guest access | ↑ Standard | ✓ |
| AI assistant | ✓ | ✓ |
| API access | ↑ Standard | ✓ |
What you give up
Capabilities Trello has that monday.com lacks.
- Workflow automations — Automate repetitive workflow steps.Missing from monday.com.
- Guest access — Invite external guests into a project.Missing from monday.com.
- API access — Access and update project data programmatically via an API.Missing from monday.com.
Price at your volume
The same comparison recomputed at three sizes. Plan caps change who is cheapest.
| Usage | Trello | monday.com |
|---|---|---|
| 3 seats | $18/moStandard | $27/mocosts moreBasic |
| 10 seats | $60/moStandard | $90/mocosts moreBasic |
| 25 seats | $150/moStandard | $225/mocosts moreBasic |
Plans & pricing, side by side
Advertised prices in USD as observed on the official pricing pages — per-seat and transaction-fee plans are marked.
| Free | Free |
| Basic | $9/seat/mo (billed yearly) |
| Standard | $12/seat/mo (billed yearly) |
| Pro | $19/seat/mo (billed yearly) |
| Enterprise | Contact sales |
| Free | Free |
| Standard | $6/seat/mo |
| Premium | $12.50/seat/mo |
| Enterprise | $17.50/seat/mo (billed yearly) |
Frequently asked
What does monday.com lack compared with Trello?
Gantt & timeline views, Workflow automations, Dashboards & reporting, Guest access, SSO & SCIM provisioning, API access — 6 of the 4 compared capabilities.
When were these prices checked?
Trello: 2026-10-26; monday.com: 2026-10-26 — on the official pricing pages.
Who switched
Anonymous: no account, no email, no IP stored. Reports are shown once a switch has 3 or more and never change ranking or order — alternatives are computed from prices and capabilities only.
Sources & freshness
- https://trello.com/pricing (official_pricing, checked 2026-10-26)
- https://trello.com/pricing#skip-target (official_pricing, checked 2026-10-26)
- monday.com data last verified 2026-10-26