monday.com vs Celoxis: 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
- $10/user/mo
- Ease of use
- 7.2
- Functionality
- 7.7
- Value for money
- 6.8
- Customer support
- 7.2
Best for
- PMOs standardizing portfolio governance
- Project-driven firms tracking budgets and margins
- Organizations that need resource capacity visibility
Our verdict
monday.com comes out ahead at 83/100 versus Celoxis at 73. Highly visual boards that are easy to customize. monday.com is the better fit for teams that want a highly visual, customizable board. Celoxis makes more sense if you need a 14-day free trial with no credit card, opening on a sample portfolio with the full Business feature set.
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 | Celoxis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kanban boards | 88% | Included | Included |
| Mobile app | 71% | Included | Not 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.
Intake and prioritization
Requests from email, web forms, and spreadsheets land in one queue and are scored against business KPIs. Scoring, what-if analysis, and approval routing help decide which work is funded before any hours are committed.
Interactive Gantt scheduling
Plans include dependencies of all four types, lead and lag, and a critical path. Automatic scheduling uses work calendars, so holidays, shifts, and slipped predecessors move the dates.
Capacity and resource planning
Workload is read across every project a person is booked on, with overload alerts raised before a booking is saved. Analytics can break down availability by role, skill, or custom field.
Timesheets and expense tracking
Built-in timers and a weekly timesheet grid support multi-level approvals and reminders for missing entries. Approved time and expenses flow into costing and billing without a second entry.
Pricing comparison
monday.com starts at $9/user/mo with a free plan (14-day trial); Celoxis starts at $10/user/mo (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 ↗
Core
For teams that need structured planning and reporting.
- Gantt charts and advanced scheduling
- Project templates and baselines
- Dashboards and BI reporting
- 2 read-only users included
Essentials
For teams planning both projects and people.
- Resource workload and capacity planning
- Timesheets included
- Job roles and work calendars
- Team-member users at $18, timesheet users at $12
Professional
For PMOs managing demand, risk, and financials.
- Project intake management
- Risk management and issue tracking
- Expenses and project costing
- Team-member users at $24
Business
For organizations managing clients, billing, and governance.
- Project billing
- Free client portal
- Advanced security and expanded administrative controls
- Team-member users at $29, timesheet users at $14
Every plan includes a 14-day free trial with no credit card required, and the trial opens on a sample portfolio with the Business feature set. A minimum of 5 full-access users applies. Jira, Azure DevOps, QuickBooks Online, and Zapier are paid add-ons on Core through Business and included on Enterprise.
Value for money: 6.8/10
Integrations comparison
7 integrations in common · 12 only in monday.com · 18 only in Celoxis. 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
- PMOs standardizing portfolio governance
- Project-driven firms tracking budgets and margins
- Organizations that need resource capacity visibility
Not for
- Teams that require a free plan
- Groups with fewer than five full-access users
- Teams that only want a lightweight task board
Common use cases
Sells to: 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
- 7.2/10
- Ease of use
- 7.2/10
- Support channels
- Email/Help Desk
- FAQs/Forum
- Knowledge Base
- Chat
- Training
- In Person
- Live Online
- Documentation
- Videos
- Deployment
- Web
- Typical setup
- Not published
- Languages
- English, French, Spanish, German
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
- ISO 27001
- GDPR alignment
- Role-based access
- Audit logs
- Custom security roles
- Advanced security (Business and Enterprise)
- Encrypted off-site backups
- SSO via Okta integration
- Public API
- Yes
- Mobile apps
- None published
- Company
- founded 2001
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
- A 14-day free trial with no credit card, opening on a sample portfolio with the full Business feature set.
- The Core plan starts at $10 per user per month billed annually and includes Gantt scheduling, baselines, and BI reporting.
- Schedules recalculate from work calendars when holidays, shifts, or slipped predecessors change the dates.
- Approved timesheet hours flow into costing, billing, and QuickBooks Online without re-entry.
- The same product can run as a cloud service on U.S. or EU data centers or on-premise.
Cons
- There is no free plan, and the paid tiers require a minimum of five full-access users.
- Billing, the client portal, advanced security, and custom apps are reserved for the Business and Enterprise plans.
- Jira, Azure DevOps, QuickBooks Online, and Zapier connections are paid add-ons on the Core through Business plans.
- API requests are capped per hour, ranging from 150 on Core to 1,800 on Enterprise.
Full side-by-side table
monday.com leads in 9 of 9 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 PMOs and project-driven firms that need budgets, capacity, and portfolio reporting in one system |
|---|---|---|
| Scores | ||
| BSR score | 83 | 73 |
| Ease | 8.7 | 7.2 |
| Features | 8.9 | 7.7 |
| Value | 7.5 | 6.8 |
| Support | 8.1 | 7.2 |
| Pricing | ||
| Starting price | $9/user/mo | $10/user/mo |
| Free plan | Included | Not included |
| Free trial | 14-day trial | Free trial |
| Features | ||
| Features included | 8 / 8 | 7 / 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 | Not included |
| Details | ||
| Biggest strength | Highly visual boards that are easy to customize | A 14-day free trial with no credit card, opening on a sample portfolio with the full Business feature set. |
| Biggest weakness | Three-seat minimum and seat bundles on paid plans | There is no free plan, and the paid tiers require a minimum of five full-access users. |
| Platforms | Web, iOS, Android, Windows, Mac | Web |
| Best fit | 3–2,000 users | Small businesses, Mid size businesses, Enterprises |
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monday.com vs Celoxis: FAQs
Is monday.com better than Celoxis?
monday.com scores 83/100 against Celoxis's 73, a 10-point lead. Highly visual boards that are easy to customize. Celoxis is the better pick if a 14-day free trial with no credit card, opening on a sample portfolio with the full Business feature set matters more to you.
Which is cheaper, monday.com or Celoxis?
monday.com has the lowest starting price at $9/user/mo and offers a free plan. Celoxis starts at $10/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, including Mobile app which Celoxis lacks.
Do monday.com and Celoxis integrate with the same tools?
Both connect to Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Calendar, Jira, GitHub and 2 more. Only monday.com lists Gmail, Outlook, Google Drive; Only Celoxis lists QuickBooks Online, Salesforce Sales Cloud, Zendesk Suite.
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 →