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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    monday.com

    Score8.3 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    monday.com Work OS is an open platform designed so that anyone can create the tools they need to run all aspects of their work. It includes ready-made templates or the ability to customize any work solution ranging from sales pipelines to marketing campaigns, CRMs, and project tracking.

    $36

    per month (3 seats)

    RationalPlan

    Score7.7 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    RationalPlan is project management software that has been designed to help project managers keep their projects on time and within budget. The main goal of this software is to make the process of planning projects as short and as straightforward as possible and to guide novice project managers through each step but offer enough tools to those who are more experienced.

    $0

    per month per user

    Pricing
    monday.comRationalPlan
    Editions & Modules
    Basic
    $12
    per month per user
    Standard
    $14
    per month per user
    Pro
    $24
    per month per user
    Enterprise
    Contact Sales
    Contact us
    Free
    $0
    Beginner
    $4
    per user
    Master
    $12
    per user
    Production
    $19
    per user
    Stakeholder
    $64 USD
    Lifetime License per Seat
    Single
    $145 USD
    Lifetime License per Seat
    Multi
    $288 USD
    Lifetime License per Seat
    Server
    $668 USD
    Lifetime License per Seat
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    monday.comRationalPlan
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
    Additional DetailsAn 18% discount is available for annual billing.
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    Community Pulse
    monday.comRationalPlan
    Considered Both Products
    monday.com
    No answer on this topic
    Stand By Soft
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    2239 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
    1899 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    2243 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    98%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    1572 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    1745 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    monday.comRationalPlan
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of monday.com and RationalPlan
    Feature
    monday.com
    7.6
    2321 Ratings
    1% below category average
    RationalPlan
    6.6
    4 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Task Management8.92314 Ratings7.34 Ratings
    Resource Management7.71984 Ratings6.84 Ratings
    Gantt Charts7.91370 Ratings7.34 Ratings
    Scheduling7.71931 Ratings6.44 Ratings
    Workflow Automation7.82014 Ratings00 Ratings
    Team Collaboration8.62269 Ratings7.31 Ratings
    Support for Agile Methodology7.21218 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for Waterfall Methodology7.01 Ratings7.32 Ratings
    Document Management6.91877 Ratings3.63 Ratings
    Email integration7.21667 Ratings6.43 Ratings
    Mobile Access7.01848 Ratings9.11 Ratings
    Timesheet Tracking7.61091 Ratings4.51 Ratings
    Change request and Case Management7.91210 Ratings00 Ratings
    Budget and Expense Management7.21086 Ratings6.43 Ratings
    Professional Services Automation
    Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of monday.com and RationalPlan
    Feature
    monday.com
    6.9
    1058 Ratings
    11% below category average
    RationalPlan
    4.5
    1 Ratings
    52% below category average
    Quotes/estimates6.5713 Ratings00 Ratings
    Project & financial reporting7.5943 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with accounting software6.7534 Ratings00 Ratings
    Invoicing00 Ratings4.51 Ratings
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    Score8 out of 10
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    Score8 out of 10
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    KanbanFlow
    Score7.3 out of 10
    KanbanFlow
    Score7.3 out of 10
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    Microsoft To Do
    Score8 out of 10
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    Score8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    monday.comRationalPlan
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.4
    (2335 ratings)
    7.7
    (4 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (34 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.1
    (2263 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (11 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    6.4
    (11 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (1963 ratings)
    7.7
    (2 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.3
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.9
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.6
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.5
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.5
    (11 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    7.9
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.5
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    monday.comRationalPlan
    Likelihood to Recommend
    monday.com
    Another feature I love in the free plan is the “Sort” feature, which enables me to sort all my clients by name alphabetically. Or sort by date,
    status, progress notes, etc. I make extensive use of the text column, where I can keep ongoing, detailed notes on the progress of a particular client's work and the information I am still waiting on. I have it open automatically every day, and my tasks are listed there for me to follow through on.
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    Stand By Soft
    Appropriate as a great alternative to MS Project. RationalPlan provides most of the features needed to develop and maintain mid-level complex schedules. Less Appropriate for large complex schedules of long duration. These can be a challenge due to Duration at top-level. It is also a challenge to generate reports for management - reporting feature is limited.
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    Pros
    monday.com
    • Intuitive board functionality with a variety of column types and customizations to address different use-cases, such as templates for user lifecycle management, checklists for onboarding.
    • Extensive automation capabilities to reduce tedium in more complex boards, such as our company's computer asset inventory board, to ensure devices are kept organized within the board for quicker reference.
    • The ability to connect boards and mirror info across them allowed us to build out a cross-functional, quasi-ticketing system enabling more efficient processing of requests that involved action items from different departments and/or teams.
    • We could use both the many board functions in tandem with the WorkForm feature to create an IT ticketing system that could be replicated and tailored for other teams needs.
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    Stand By Soft
    • Portfolio view is great to get a feel for how your programme is running at a glance and which areas possibly might require attention. The fact that you can customise your view by adding your own columns is another plus.
    • All project information in one tool is a big plus for me considering the amount of projects we run with. This really improves efficiency and saves me time. You have the ability to add documents to tasks, manage risks, email resources tasks due for projects they are assigned to(might need some refinement depending on your requirements), material db with costing etc.
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    Cons
    monday.com
    • The management of holdable items, continuously drops in incorrect places or doesn't show the 'correct way' to handle in the wished place, it happens with the dragable items on dashboards
    • The 'favorites' menu on desktop is now with 'Use my IA feature' everywhere and has removed the Fav section of for the boards in the sidebar. It was so useful when there were hundreds of Tables and only work on or update 3 - 4 of them (it is still visible on the mobile version, by the way)
    • The errors after using for a while, like 90 minutes, I am writing something and unexpectedly the app says something is wrong and I need to reload the page, and the thing I was doing doesn't still local storage as in other use cases
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    Stand By Soft
    • Milestones should be a primary option instead of 0h to create one.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    monday.com
    Teams involved in content creation, such as marketing or editorial teams, could use monday.com to manage the entire content lifecycle. Boards might track content ideas, assignments, drafts, reviews, approvals, and publication schedules, helping teams collaborate and keep content production on track.
    Incentivized
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    Stand By Soft
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    monday.com
    monday.com was pretty easy to use from the get-go. Their automation templates are really easy to get things set up. A few of my monday.com boards are essentially upgraded spreadsheets that are much easier to digest and automatically send out reminder email to myself and my team.
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    Stand By Soft
    No answers on this topic
    Reliability and Availability
    monday.com
    There have only been 2 instances in the past year where monday.com was down.
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    Stand By Soft
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    monday.com
    Everything performs fairly well. Every now and then there are user errors where an employee will not click "ok" on a note they've created and simply exit out (I do wish that something was in place to prevent this, such as a pop "are you finished?")
    Incentivized
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    Stand By Soft
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    monday.com
    I personally haven't found their customer success managers to be proactive or useful as the primary user of our monday.com account. This is different from a few years ago, when I had a contact that I reached out to as-needed (we are an enterprise account). I don't get a lot of touchpoints with anyone from monday.com and rarely submit tickets.
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    Stand By Soft
    I had to ask for support once and got a response immediately.
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    Online Training
    monday.com
    To have someone walk you thru the features and capabilities of Monday.com is priceless. Someone also coming along later in the contract to see if you are maximizing the program to suit your company needs is beyond helpful. The staff that have provided this training are fun, creative and very patient.
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    Stand By Soft
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    monday.com
    We signed up for the accounts. Created the accounts. Ran the trial version and tested it live while we were running multiple projects and found that it was fitting our needs perfectly. When the trial ended and we were asked to purchase the full version, we did. We have found other ways to use it and it's a breeze.
    Incentivized
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    Stand By Soft
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    monday.com
    monday.com gives us the most flexibility when it comes to its features -- to create templates and quickly modify or customize. While limited in its overall functionality, it is secure and does what it is supposed to do well. An ability to interpret documents given to it -- not just its own assets -- would take monday.com to the next level.
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    Stand By Soft
    RationalPlan is cost-effective and allows most users to prepare and manage their schedule. The software lacks comprehensive reporting and duration changes at the top level of a project.
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    Scalability
    monday.com
    For it to work across multiple departments and sites, I would like to see improvements made with integrations and automation. For this question, I am acknowledging not only the addition of internal triggers/automation, but also an expansion on external ones.
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    Stand By Soft
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    monday.com
    • The platform has saved us time by allowing us to have all of our program information in one place.
    • The fact that it is easy to set up has saved us countless hours of trying to learn the platform.
    • The platform has helped us greatly with collaboration with our program partners who need to use our data.
    Incentivized
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    Stand By Soft
    • Helps explain the target schedule and resource estimates for cost of the project
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    monday.com Screenshots

    Screenshot of Work OSScreenshot of Ready-Made TemplatesScreenshot of MobileScreenshot of Visual BoardsScreenshot of Real-time NotificationsScreenshot of Automations

    RationalPlan Screenshots

    Screenshot of Project infoScreenshot of Notes and linksScreenshot of Working calendarsScreenshot of Gantt chartsScreenshot of Resource levelingScreenshot of Baseline management