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monday.com vs Trello: which is right for a small business?

monday.com suits teams that want boards for any process, from projects to sales, with dashboards and AI credits: Basic is $9 a seat billed yearly at 10 seats. Trello suits teams that want the simplest board-and-card tool: free for up to 10 collaborators, and Standard at $5 a user billed yearly with AI included.

Updated . Every fact is linked to monday.com's or Trello's own site, with the date we checked it

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How do monday.com and Trello compare, side by side?

monday.com: A no-code work platform built on boards (projects, processes, customers) with AI agents; sold as work management and as monday CRM, plus monday dev and monday service. Trello: A board-and-card tool for organizing work, from Atlassian.

What mattersmonday.comTrello
Free plan includesUp to 3 boards and 3 docs; AI features available from Basic1Unlimited cards; Up to 10 boards per Workspace; Inbox; Unlimited Power-Ups per board; Unlimited storage, 10 MB per file; 250 Workspace command runs per month2
Entry plan$9 per seat per month (3-seat minimum; checked at 3 and 10 seats), billed annually; $12 billed monthly3$5 per user per month, billed annually; $6 billed monthly4
Plan with timeline views$12 per seat per month (3-seat minimum; checked at 3 and 10 seats), billed annually; introductory offer discounts the mandatory AI credit charge in the total; $14 billed monthly5$10 per user per month, billed annually; $12.5 billed monthly6
Top self-serve plan$19 per seat per month (3-seat minimum; checked at 3 and 10 seats), billed annually; introductory offer discounts the mandatory AI credit charge in the total; $24 billed monthly7$17.5 per user per month, billed annually ($210.00 annual price per user)8
How work is laid outBoards with items and subitems, 30+ column types, docs, dashboards, forms (WorkForms) and files.9Boards, lists and cards with assignee and due dates; iOS, Android and desktop apps.10
Added on paid plansGuest access (Standard and up), private boards and docs (Pro), time tracking (Pro).11Standard adds Custom Fields, card mirroring across boards, advanced checklists and unlimited boards.12
AI in the priceAI is powered by monthly AI credits per plan: 1,000 (Basic), 2,000 (Standard), 3,000 (Pro), custom (Enterprise). Features run on credits: AI agent workforce, Sidekick assistant, vibe app builder, AI columns, AI meeting notetaker, AI workflow builder.13AI is bundled into plan prices; no separate AI price is shown on the pricing page.14
Add-ons and other productsOther products on the same platform: monday dev and monday service.15Some Power-Ups made by partners require an additional subscription fee.16
Admin for larger teamsEnterprise adds portfolio management, resource management and multi-level permissions.17Enterprise adds organization-wide permissions, unlimited Workspaces and SSO/user provisioning through Atlassian Guard.18
AI agents over MCPmonday.com MCP server at https://mcp.monday.com/mcp (streamable HTTP, OAuth2) is described as the recommended integration method for AI agents, with the GraphQL API as fallback; agent skill files are published.19MCP access is on by default for Premium and Enterprise; Enterprise admins can restrict it under the Rovo MCP section of Atlassian Administration.20

Prices are in US dollars a month, before tax, as each company lists them.

Which should you choose, monday.com or Trello?

Choose monday.com if

  • You want one platform for projects, sales and service, with monday CRM and monday service beside work management.
  • You want table-style boards with 30+ column types, dashboards and forms.
  • You want viewers who can see boards for free on every paid plan.
  • You want AI agents, a meeting notetaker and an app builder running on a monthly AI allowance.

Choose Trello if

  • You want boards anyone can learn in minutes, with cards that move across lists.
  • Your team is up to 10 people and wants a free plan with up to 10 boards.
  • You want the lowest price per user, with AI included rather than counted in credits.
  • You want unlimited automation runs at $10 a user billed yearly, on Premium.

How do monday.com and Trello differ in approach?

Both are built on boards, but they mean different things by a board. A Trello board is a set of lists with cards you drag from one to the next: To do, Doing, Done, or any stages you like. A monday.com board is closer to a smart spreadsheet: rows of items and subitems with 30+ column types, which you can view as a table, a Kanban, a Gantt chart or a dashboard.

That makes Trello the lighter tool, quick for a small team to adopt for a single workflow. monday.com takes more setup and covers more ground: the same platform runs work management, monday CRM for sales, monday dev and monday service.

How much do monday.com and Trello cost?

Trello costs less at each step, and its free plan holds a bigger team. Trello Standard is $5 a user a month billed yearly or $6 monthly, Premium is $10 billed yearly, and Enterprise is $17.5 a user billed yearly. monday.com quotes Basic at $9 a seat billed yearly, Standard at $12 and Pro at $19 for a 10-seat team, or $12, $14 and $24 billed monthly, and says prices change with team size and billing country.

Trello's free plan is for up to 10 collaborators per Workspace, with up to 10 boards. monday.com's free plan is for two seats with 3 boards and 3 docs, and its AI features start on Basic.

How do automations and AI compare?

Trello's automations run out later per dollar, and monday.com's AI does more. Trello counts command runs: 250 a month on Free, 1,000 on Standard and unlimited on Premium at $10 a user. monday.com counts automation actions: 250 a month on Standard and 25,000 on Pro at $19, with integrations counted separately.

On AI, Trello bundles its features into the price: Quick Capture from email and chat, summaries, generated checklists and whole boards from a described goal. monday.com gives each plan monthly AI credits (1,000 on Basic, 2,000 on Standard, 3,000 on Pro) for its AI agents, the Sidekick assistant, a meeting notetaker, AI columns and monday vibe, which builds a custom app from a prompt.

Which works better with outside people?

monday.com is better for people who only need to look; Trello for guests on a single board. monday.com includes unlimited free viewers from Basic, and guest access from Standard. Trello's Standard plan includes single-board guests, which suits sharing one client's board without opening the rest of the Workspace.

Where does Mojobase fit?

Mojobase is a third option for small teams that want tasks to come from the work itself rather than from cards someone remembered to add, built for 1 to 25 people, and it works well for teams up to 100. Its AI reads the team's email, calendar and chat, suggests the task with a link to its source, and shows each person a Today list. It has no board view at all, so teams that plan on cards and columns are better served by Trello or monday.com. It costs $39 a month for the first person and $25 for each after, with every app and the AI included.

Questions people ask

Is monday.com or Trello cheaper?

Trello. Standard is $5 a user a month billed yearly, or $6 monthly, and Premium $10 billed yearly. monday.com's Basic is $9 a seat billed yearly, or $12 monthly, and Standard, the first plan with timeline views, is $12 billed yearly; monday.com quotes these for a 10-seat team.

Which free plan does more?

Trello's, for a team. It covers up to 10 collaborators per Workspace, with unlimited cards, up to 10 boards, unlimited Power-Ups per board and 250 automation runs a month. monday.com's Free plan is for up to two seats, with 3 boards and 3 docs, and no AI features.

Do monday.com and Trello have Gantt or timeline views?

Both, on their second paid plans. monday.com adds Gantt, timeline and calendar views on Standard, at $12 a seat billed yearly. Trello adds Calendar, Timeline, Table, Dashboard and Map views on Premium, at $10 a user billed yearly.

How many automations do monday.com and Trello include?

Trello counts Workspace command runs: 250 a month on Free, 1,000 on Standard and unlimited on Premium. monday.com counts actions: 250 automation and 250 integration actions a month on Standard, 25,000 each on Pro, with Enterprise at a larger scale.

Can AI agents work in monday.com or Trello?

Yes. monday.com recommends its MCP server for AI agents, with the GraphQL API as a fallback. Trello's official MCP server works with ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor and GitHub; MCP access is on by default for Premium and Enterprise, and it can archive but not delete cards.

Sources

  1. monday.com: Work management: Free includes. monday.com/pricing, checked 7 Nov 2026.
  2. Trello: Free includes. trello.com/pricing, checked 7 Nov 2026.
  3. monday.com: Work management: Basic. monday.com/pricing, checked 7 Nov 2026.
  4. Trello: Standard. trello.com/pricing, checked 7 Nov 2026.
  5. monday.com: Work management: Standard. monday.com/pricing, checked 7 Nov 2026.
  6. Trello: Premium. trello.com/pricing, checked 7 Nov 2026.
  7. monday.com: Work management: Pro. monday.com/pricing, checked 7 Nov 2026.
  8. Trello: Enterprise. trello.com/pricing, checked 7 Nov 2026.
  9. monday.com: Feature. monday.com/llms.txt, checked 7 Nov 2026.
  10. Trello: Feature. trello.com/pricing, checked 7 Nov 2026.
  11. monday.com: Feature. monday.com/pricing, checked 7 Nov 2026.
  12. Trello: Feature. trello.com/pricing, checked 7 Nov 2026.
  13. monday.com: AI. monday.com/pricing, checked 7 Nov 2026.
  14. Trello: AI. trello.com/pricing, checked 7 Nov 2026.
  15. monday.com: Feature. monday.com/llms.txt, checked 7 Nov 2026.
  16. Trello: Add-on. trello.com/pricing, checked 7 Nov 2026.
  17. monday.com: Feature. monday.com/pricing, checked 7 Nov 2026.
  18. Trello: Feature. trello.com/pricing, checked 7 Nov 2026.
  19. monday.com: Agents and MCP. monday.com/llms.txt, checked 7 Nov 2026.
  20. Trello: Agents and MCP. trello.com/mcp, checked 7 Nov 2026.

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