monday.com

Overview

monday.com is a Work OS platform designed to facilitate team collaboration and project management across diverse organizational functions. Founded in 2012, the platform provides visual interfaces and customizable tools for managing tasks, tracking progress, and streamlining workflows. It is suitable for cross-functional teams looking to adapt their work management system to specific operational requirements, ranging from marketing campaign management to software development sprint planning. The platform's modular structure allows users to build custom applications and integrations atop its core functionality.

The system is built around visual boards, which can be configured with various column types to represent different data points, such as status, priority, people, and timelines. These boards support multiple views, including Gantt charts, Kanban boards, calendars, and dashboards, providing different perspectives on project data. This flexibility aims to support teams with varied project methodologies, including Agile and Waterfall approaches, within a single environment. For example, marketing teams might use it for campaign tracking and content calendars, while development teams can adapt it for bug tracking and sprint planning.

monday.com offers a suite of core products tailored to specific enterprise needs. These include monday work management for general project and task coordination, monday sales CRM for managing customer relationships and sales pipelines, and monday dev for software development teams. Other specialized offerings include monday projects for complex project portfolios and monday marketer for marketing operations. The platform emphasizes customization, allowing users to create automations and integrations to reduce manual effort and connect with other business applications. Security and compliance features include SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, ISO 27001, ISO 27018, and HIPAA compliance, addressing data governance requirements for enterprise users.

Key features

• Customizable Workflows: Users can design and automate workflows using no-code/low-code builders, defining triggers, conditions, and actions across boards and items.
• Visual Project Tracking: Offers multiple views for project data, including Gantt charts, Kanban boards, timeline views, and calendars, providing visual representations of project progress and schedules.
• Team Collaboration Tools: Includes features for communication, file sharing, and real-time updates within tasks and projects, facilitating coordination among team members.
• Integrations Ecosystem: Supports integration with external applications like Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and various developer tools through a marketplace and open API.
• Reporting and Dashboards: Allows users to create custom dashboards and reports with widgets that aggregate data from multiple boards, offering insights into project performance and resource allocation.
• Automation Capabilities: Provides pre-built automation recipes and custom automation builders to streamline repetitive tasks, such as status updates, notifications, and item creation.
• Developer Platform: A GraphQL-based API enables developers to build custom apps, integrations, and extensions, extending the platform's functionality to specific business needs, as detailed in the monday.com Developer Resources.

Pricing

monday.com offers a free plan for individuals and tiered paid plans that scale with features and team size. Pricing is typically per seat, per month, with discounts for annual billing. As of May 2026, the general pricing structure is as follows:

For the most current pricing details and specific plan inclusions, refer to the official monday.com pricing page.

Common integrations

monday.com supports a range of integrations with third-party applications to extend its functionality and connect with other business systems. The platform offers pre-built integration recipes and an API for custom connections.

• Communication: Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Outlook. For example, Slack integration documentation describes how to send updates and notifications.
• CRM & Sales: Salesforce, HubSpot, Zendesk.
• Development & IT: GitHub, GitLab, Jira, PagerDuty. The Jira integration allows syncing issues and projects.
• Marketing: Mailchimp, Facebook Ads, Google Ads.
• File Storage: Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive.
• Business Intelligence: Tableau, Power BI.
• Automation & Workflow: Zapier, Make (formerly Integromat).

Alternatives

• Asana: A project management tool known for its task-list orientation and comprehensive features for tracking projects and workloads across teams.
• ClickUp: A highly customizable productivity platform designed to consolidate work management across various functions, offering a wide array of views and features.
• Trello: A Kanban-style project management tool that uses boards, lists, and cards to organize tasks and workflows visually, often preferred for simpler projects.
• Jira: Developed by Atlassian, Jira is primarily used by software development teams for Agile project management, bug tracking, and issue tracking, as outlined in Atlassian's product information.
• Smartsheet: Known for its spreadsheet-like interface, Smartsheet offers robust project management, collaboration, and automation features, suitable for data-intensive workflows.

Getting started

To interact with the monday.com API, you will need an API token and the board ID. The monday.com API uses GraphQL. Below is a basic example of how to fetch items from a specific board using Python with the requests library.

import requests
import json

# Replace with your actual API key and board ID
API_KEY = "YOUR_MONDAY_API_KEY"
BOARD_ID = 123456789 # Example Board ID

API_URL = "https://api.monday.com/v2"
HEADERS = {
    "Authorization": API_KEY,
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

# GraphQL query to fetch items from a board
QUERY = f"""
query {
  boards(ids: {BOARD_ID}) {
    name
    items_page {
      items {
        id
        name
        column_values {
          title
          text
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
"""

def get_board_items(board_id):
    data = {'query': QUERY}
    try:
        response = requests.post(API_URL, headers=HEADERS, json=data)
        response.raise_for_status() # Raise an exception for HTTP errors
        result = response.json()
        
        if 'errors' in result:
            print("API Errors:", result['errors'])
            return None
            
        # Process the data
        board_info = result['data']['boards'][0]
        print(f"Board Name: {board_info['name']}")
        print("Items:")
        for item in board_info['items_page']['items']:
            print(f"  - ID: {item['id']}, Name: {item['name']}")
            for col_val in item['column_values']:
                print(f"    {col_val['title']}: {col_val['text']}")
        return result

    except requests.exceptions.HTTPError as http_err:
        print(f"HTTP error occurred: {http_err}")
    except Exception as err:
        print(f"Other error occurred: {err}")
    return None

if __name__ == "__main__":
    print(f"Attempting to fetch items from board ID: {BOARD_ID}")
    get_board_items(BOARD_ID)

This script demonstrates how to make a GraphQL API call to retrieve the name of a specified board and a list of its items, including their IDs, names, and the text values of their columns. For detailed API reference and other language examples (JavaScript, Ruby, C#, PHP), consult the monday.com developer documentation.