monday.com vs Airtable: Features, Pricing and Reviews Compared
- Starting price
- $9/user/mo · free plan
- Ease of use
- 8.7
- Functionality
- 8.9
- Value for money
- 7.5
- Customer support
- 8.1
Best for
- Teams that want to design their own workflow rather than adopt someone else's
- Operations and marketing teams that need dashboards leadership will actually look at
- Companies replacing spreadsheets with something shareable and automated
- Starting price
- $20/user/mo · free plan
- Ease of use
- 7.2
- Functionality
- 7.8
- Value for money
- 7.4
- Customer support
- 7.4
Best for
- Operations and project management teams
- Marketing and creative teams running campaigns and asset libraries
- Organizations replacing spreadsheets with governed custom apps
Our verdict
monday.com comes out ahead at 83/100 versus Airtable at 75. Highly visual boards that are easy to customize. monday.com is the better fit for teams that want a highly visual, customizable board. Airtable makes more sense if you need the Free plan covers individual users and very small teams with lightweight needs at no charge.
On monday.com: monday.com is less a project tool than a visual database you shape into one, and that flexibility is its strength: boards, columns, automations and dashboards can model almost any process, from a sales pipeline to a content calendar. It is colourful and quick to learn. The costs to watch are seat minimums, the Standard tier being the real entry point (Basic lacks timeline and automations) and automation caps on busy boards.
Features comparison
The 8 project management capabilities we check on every product, ordered by importance to buyers.
| Feature | Importance | monday.com | Airtable |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kanban boards | 88% | Included | Included |
| Mobile app | 71% | Included | Included |
| Automations | 67% | Included | Included |
| Gantt charts | 64% | Included | Included |
| Time tracking | 59% | Included | Included |
| Guest access | 55% | Included | Included |
| Docs & wikis | 48% | Included | Included |
| API access | 33% | Included | Included |
What stands out in each
Boards and column types
Boards are tables with typed columns (status, people, date, timeline, numbers, formula, files, dependencies). Groups, subitems and multiple views (kanban, calendar, Gantt, chart, map) make one board serve several audiences.
Automations
A recipe-style builder ("when status changes to Done, notify owner and move to group") covers most needs without code. Standard allows 250 actions a month, Pro 25,000; heavy teams hit the Standard cap quickly.
Dashboards
Widgets for charts, numbers, timelines, workload and battery (progress) pull from one or many boards. Dashboards are the most presentable in the category, which is why leadership teams tend to like monday.com.
Work management products
monday work management is the core; monday CRM, monday dev and monday service are packaged variants with the same engine. Buying the right product avoids rebuilding a CRM from a blank board.
Relational databases
Teams model their business in linked tables, connecting records across projects, customers, assets, and tools. Because the data is relational, one record can drive many views and workflows without duplicate entry.
Omni app building
Users describe what they need in plain language and Omni generates a working app from that description. This lets non-developers build custom business apps without writing code.
AI agents and Field Agents
Agents act inside the same data, logic, and workflows as the rest of the team. Field Agents run AI across all of a table's records, such as translating assets or summarizing feedback at scale.
Automations
Automations combine triggers with deterministic and generative logic to move work between steps. Teams use them to route approvals, update records, and keep related tools in sync.
Pricing comparison
monday.com starts at $9/user/mo with a free plan (14-day trial); Airtable starts at $20/user/mo with a free plan (Free trial). Plans are shown as the vendors publish them; the BSR Value subscore reflects what you get for the money.
Free
Up to 2 seats, 3 boards, 200 items.
- 2 seats
- 3 boards
- Unlimited docs
- 200+ templates
Basic
Unlimited boards and items, 5GB storage, one dashboard per board.
- Unlimited items
- Unlimited free viewers
- 5GB storage
- Prioritised support
Standard
Timeline, Gantt, guest access, 250 automation and integration actions.
- Timeline and Gantt
- Calendar view
- Guest access
- 250 automations/mo
Pro
Private boards, time tracking, formulas, 25,000 automations.
- Private boards
- Time tracking
- Formula column
- 25,000 automations/mo
Seats are sold in minimum packs (3 on paid plans, in bundles above that), so a two-person team pays for three. Prices shown are annual; monthly billing is roughly 18% more. Automation and integration actions are capped per plan. Guest access starts at Standard; free viewers are unlimited.
Value for money: 7.5/10 · Monthly, Annual, Minimum 3 seats · Vendor pricing page ↗
Free
Suited to individual users, very small teams, or people with lightweight needs who want to start building.
- Provides the key building blocks for building applications
- All users on the plan are free
- Free plan is available to teams at no charge
Team
For teams that like the Free plan features but need more capacity.
- Charged only for users with edit permissions on at least one base
- Read-only collaborators, form submissions, and share links are not charged
- Charges are prorated for users added partway through the month
- Paid by credit card
Business
For departments and larger organizations that need added customization, data scale, flexibility, and administrative features.
- Includes additional customization, data scale, and flexibility
- Includes administrative features for departments and enterprise organizations
- Can be purchased from workspace settings or through sales
- Sales-issued annual invoices accept PO, ACH, wire, or check
Enterprise Scale
For large organizations that need unlimited structure and enterprise administration.
- Unlimited org units, workspaces, and bases
- Charged for users with edit permissions across the organization
- Includes SAML-based single sign-on and additional administration features
- Purchased through sales
Team and Business plans are billed per seat, and charges apply only to users with edit permissions on at least one base. Team and Business are paid by credit card, while Business and Enterprise Scale purchased through sales can be paid by annual invoice via PO, ACH, wire, or check. Charges are prorated when users are added partway through a billing cycle.
Value for money: 7.4/10
Integrations comparison
2 integrations in common · 17 only in monday.com · 45 only in Airtable. Logos link to our review when we cover the tool.
Both connect to
Which one is best for my use case?
Who each product is built for, who should look elsewhere, and the jobs it gets bought for, from our editorial review and the vendor's own customer profile.
Ideal for
- Teams that want to design their own workflow rather than adopt someone else's
- Operations and marketing teams that need dashboards leadership will actually look at
- Companies replacing spreadsheets with something shareable and automated
Not for
- Teams that need only simple task lists; the Basic plan is thin and Standard is the real floor
- Organisations with strict seat budgets; minimum seat packs raise the effective price
- Teams who want opinionated project structure out of the box (Asana does this better)
Common use cases
Sells to: Small businesses, Mid-size companies, Enterprises. Common industries: Marketing and creative, Operations, Construction, SaaS and technology, Real estate, Nonprofits.
Ideal for
- Operations and project management teams
- Marketing and creative teams running campaigns and asset libraries
- Organizations replacing spreadsheets with governed custom apps
Not for
- Individuals who need only a simple task list
- Organizations that need published pricing for large-scale deployments
Common use cases
Sells to: Freelancers, Small businesses, Mid size businesses, Enterprises.
Support, training and setup
How you get help, how you learn the product, and how fast you can be running.
- Support score
- 8.1/10Leads
- Ease of use
- 8.7/10Leads
- Support channels
- 24/7 support (all plans)
- Help center
- Community
- Dedicated customer success (Enterprise)
- Training
- monday.com Academy
- Documentation
- Webinars
- Template center
- Tailored onboarding (Enterprise)
- Deployment
- Cloud / SaaS
- iOS app
- Android app
- Mac app
- Windows app
- Typical setup
- Same day
- Languages
- English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian +8
- Support score
- 7.4/10
- Ease of use
- 7.2/10
- Support channels
- Email/Help Desk
- FAQs/Forum
- Knowledge Base
- 24/7 (Live rep)
- Chat
- Training
- Live Online
- Webinars
- Documentation
- Videos
- Deployment
- Web
- Typical setup
- Not published
- Languages
- Not published
Security and reliability
Certifications and controls as published by each vendor. We list them; we don't audit them.
- Security
- SOC 2 Type II
- ISO 27001
- GDPR
- HIPAA (Enterprise)
- SSO (Pro+)
- Two-factor authentication
- Audit log (Enterprise)
- Public API
- Yes
- Mobile apps
- iOS · Android
- Company
- Tel Aviv, Israel · 2,500+ employees · founded 2012
- Security
- SOC 2 Type 2
- ISO/IEC 27001:2022
- ISO/IEC 27701:2019
- HIPAA
- TX-RAMP Level 2
- GDPR
- UK GDPR
- CCPA/CPRA
- Two-factor authentication (2FA)
- SAML-based single sign-on (SSO) on Enterprise plan
- Password-protected share links
- Record-level revision history
- Public API
- Yes
- Mobile apps
- None published
- Company
- San Francisco, CA, USA · 700 people employees · founded 2012
Pros and cons
Our editors' pros and cons for each product. No user reviews have been published for these products yet.
Pros
- Highly visual boards that are easy to customize
- No-code automations and dashboards
- Broad use beyond project management: CRM, HR, marketing
Cons
- Three-seat minimum and seat bundles on paid plans
- Time tracking and advanced features need Pro or above
- Can become cluttered on large, complex projects
Pros
- The Free plan covers individual users and very small teams with lightweight needs at no charge.
- Agents and human users operate under the same permissions and audit log, which simplifies oversight.
- Enterprise Scale allows unlimited org units, workspaces, and bases within one organization.
- Data can be stored in the European Union or Australia, with enterprise key management available for customer-owned keys.
- Records can scale into the hundreds of millions through HyperDB.
Cons
- Every user with edit permissions on a base is billed, so costs rise quickly as teams grow.
- The Business tier is $45 per user per month, more than double the Team tier.
- SAML-based single sign-on is available only on the Enterprise plan.
- Enterprise Scale pricing is custom and must be arranged through sales.
Full side-by-side table
monday.com leads in 6 of 6 rows where they differ. Green marks the leader in each row.
| Feature | monday.com Best for teams that want a highly visual, customizable board | Best for operations, marketing, and product teams replacing spreadsheets with governed custom apps |
|---|---|---|
| Scores | ||
| BSR score | 83 | 75 |
| Ease | 8.7 | 7.2 |
| Features | 8.9 | 7.8 |
| Value | 7.5 | 7.4 |
| Support | 8.1 | 7.4 |
| Pricing | ||
| Starting price | $9/user/mo | $20/user/mo |
| Free plan | Included | Included |
| Free trial | 14-day trial | Free trial |
| Features | ||
| Features included | 8 / 8 | 8 / 8 |
| Kanban boards | Included | Included |
| Gantt charts | Included | Included |
| Time tracking | Included | Included |
| Guest access | Included | Included |
| Automations | Included | Included |
| Docs & wikis | Included | Included |
| API access | Included | Included |
| Mobile app | Included | Included |
| Details | ||
| Biggest strength | Highly visual boards that are easy to customize | The Free plan covers individual users and very small teams with lightweight needs at no charge. |
| Biggest weakness | Three-seat minimum and seat bundles on paid plans | Every user with edit permissions on a base is billed, so costs rise quickly as teams grow. |
| Platforms | Web, iOS, Android, Windows, Mac | Web |
| Best fit | 3–2,000 users | Freelancers, Small businesses, Mid size businesses, Enterprises |
Not a match?
Other project management software we list, ranked by BSR score.
monday.com vs Airtable: FAQs
Is monday.com better than Airtable?
monday.com scores 83/100 against Airtable's 75, a 8-point lead. Highly visual boards that are easy to customize. Airtable is the better pick if the Free plan covers individual users and very small teams with lightweight needs at no charge matters more to you.
Which is cheaper, monday.com or Airtable?
monday.com has the lowest starting price at $9/user/mo and offers a free plan. Airtable starts at $20/user/mo. Per-user pricing, annual discounts and add-ons change the real total, so price out your actual seat count.
Which has more features?
monday.com covers 8 of the 8 project management features we track.
Do monday.com and Airtable integrate with the same tools?
Both connect to Jira, Zapier. Only monday.com lists Slack, Microsoft Teams, Gmail; Only Airtable lists Microsoft Outlook, Miro, Unito.
How this comparison was made
Each product was scored on the same four subscores (Ease, Features, Value, Support) from the vendor's published pricing and documentation, our editorial review, then combined into a 100-point BSR score. Hands-on tested: monday.com. Feature checks use one list per category; plans, integrations, support and security come from what each vendor publishes and are refreshed when listings change. Green marks the leader in a row. Sponsored placements are labeled elsewhere on the site and never touch a comparison. Full methodology →