monday.com vs. Salesforce Starter

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
monday.com
Score 8.5 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)
Salesforce Starter
Score 8.4 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Salesforce Starter (formerly Salesforce Essentials) is a small business CRM that replaces the former SalesforceIQ product. It is priced at $35 per user, on a monthly basis, or at $25 per month for if billed annually ($300) and can be tried free for 14 days on a trial.
$35
per month per user
Pricing
monday.comSalesforce Starter
Editions & Modules
Basic
$12
per month per user
Standard
$14
per month per user
Pro
$24
per month per user
Enterprise
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
monday.comSalesforce Starter
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsYearly plan: Save 18% Monthly plan also available
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Community Pulse
monday.comSalesforce Starter
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
monday.comSalesforce Starter
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
monday.com
8.3
2230 Ratings
9% above category average
Salesforce Starter
-
Ratings
Task Management9.12216 Ratings00 Ratings
Resource Management8.61893 Ratings00 Ratings
Gantt Charts7.91294 Ratings00 Ratings
Scheduling8.41852 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow Automation8.61923 Ratings00 Ratings
Team Collaboration9.32173 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology8.21153 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Document Management7.91792 Ratings00 Ratings
Email integration8.21596 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Access8.21772 Ratings00 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking7.71037 Ratings00 Ratings
Change request and Case Management8.41151 Ratings00 Ratings
Budget and Expense Management8.31024 Ratings00 Ratings
Professional Services Automation
Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Product A and Product B
monday.com
8.0
1001 Ratings
6% above category average
Salesforce Starter
-
Ratings
Quotes/estimates8.3670 Ratings00 Ratings
Project & financial reporting8.0884 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with accounting software7.7498 Ratings00 Ratings
Sales Force Automation
Comparison of Sales Force Automation features of Product A and Product B
monday.com
-
Ratings
Salesforce Starter
9.0
5 Ratings
16% above category average
Customer data management / contact management00 Ratings9.35 Ratings
Territory management00 Ratings8.45 Ratings
Opportunity management00 Ratings9.35 Ratings
Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
Quote & order management00 Ratings8.74 Ratings
Interaction tracking00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
Channel / partner relationship management00 Ratings9.64 Ratings
Marketing Automation
Comparison of Marketing Automation features of Product A and Product B
monday.com
-
Ratings
Salesforce Starter
8.4
5 Ratings
10% above category average
Lead management00 Ratings8.45 Ratings
CRM Project Management
Comparison of CRM Project Management features of Product A and Product B
monday.com
-
Ratings
Salesforce Starter
8.9
4 Ratings
16% above category average
Task management00 Ratings9.34 Ratings
Billing and invoicing management00 Ratings7.74 Ratings
Reporting00 Ratings9.64 Ratings
CRM Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of CRM Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
monday.com
-
Ratings
Salesforce Starter
9.3
4 Ratings
20% above category average
Forecasting00 Ratings9.34 Ratings
Pipeline visualization00 Ratings8.94 Ratings
Customizable reports00 Ratings9.64 Ratings
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of Product A and Product B
monday.com
-
Ratings
Salesforce Starter
9.3
5 Ratings
21% above category average
Custom fields00 Ratings9.65 Ratings
Custom objects00 Ratings9.64 Ratings
Scripting environment00 Ratings8.64 Ratings
API for custom integration00 Ratings9.34 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
monday.com
-
Ratings
Salesforce Starter
9.6
5 Ratings
14% above category average
Single sign-on capability00 Ratings9.65 Ratings
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings9.65 Ratings
Social CRM
Comparison of Social CRM features of Product A and Product B
monday.com
-
Ratings
Salesforce Starter
7.1
4 Ratings
3% below category average
Social engagement00 Ratings7.14 Ratings
Integrations with 3rd-party Software
Comparison of Integrations with 3rd-party Software features of Product A and Product B
monday.com
-
Ratings
Salesforce Starter
7.3
4 Ratings
0% above category average
Marketing automation00 Ratings7.84 Ratings
Compensation management00 Ratings6.84 Ratings
Platform
Comparison of Platform features of Product A and Product B
monday.com
-
Ratings
Salesforce Starter
8.9
5 Ratings
19% above category average
Mobile access00 Ratings8.95 Ratings
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User Ratings
monday.comSalesforce Starter
Likelihood to Recommend
8.7
(2235 ratings)
9.3
(5 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(31 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.6
(2163 ratings)
9.5
(2 ratings)
Availability
8.2
(8 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
8.6
(8 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.6
(1883 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
9.1
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.1
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
8.2
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.0
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
7.0
(8 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.0
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.0
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
monday.comSalesforce Starter
Likelihood to Recommend
monday.com
The platform is very well suited for our nonprofit programs that serve low-income clients who need diapers, wipes, and period products. It has helped us run our programs, capturing information and allowing us to view the data for reporting purposes. The ability to filter data is very helpful by allowing us to categorize information to get a better picture of the progress of our programs.
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Salesforce
If you own a business that has complex selling processes or requires integrations with 3rd party tools/systems, you should look at Professional, Enterprise, or Unlimited editions. Salesforce operates very well across pretty much every industry, but not all sales, marketing, and operational processes are created equal. If your marketing process requires a long list of sendable contacts then I would recommend adding on Pardot or Hubspot. Always start small and scale up, to avoid boxing yourself in down the road.
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Pros
monday.com
  • I like summary of subitems, especially with subitasks as subitems and add item tracking for each subtask it can show total tracked in parent item. Similar with other columns, like numbers, status, date.
  • Dashboard features, Many kinds of dashboard view available, we can utilize on the basis of requirements.
  • monday.com workform is very powerful, easily share form link when submitted it will create line item in board with provided data.
  • monday.com automation is very helpful in order to automate steps with specific rules and easy setup.
  • monday.com also provides integrations in order to automate processes if need to integrate multiple app together. or need to transfer data between multiple apps.
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Salesforce
  • Tracking phone calls is extremely easy when using the app on the iphone. After a phone call is complete it prompts the user to enter in call details.
  • SalesforceIQ also automatically logs emails for us. This has saved us time from entering in information manually.
  • SalesforceIQ was easy to set up and allowed us customization for fields that were relevant to our business.
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Cons
monday.com
  • The desktop app for Mac seems to have a few issues with visual glitches appearing on screen, it only seems to go away when I close the tool and reopen it
  • Subtasks don't show on the individual users to-do list, only main level tasks
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Salesforce
  • sharing templates to others
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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.
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Salesforce
No answers on this topic
Usability
monday.com
I give monday.com a 10/10 because I almost never encounter any lag or connectivity issues despite all of the many templates, boards, and automations we have. As a matter of fact, I feel like the last issue I encountered was over a year ago... and I'm in monday.com every single work day. Not only is monday trustworthy, it is easy to find what I'm looking for... making the overall usability extremely hard to beat.
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Salesforce
Web & mobile app based. Great securing. It's easily customizable and intuitive
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Reliability and Availability
monday.com
There have only been 2 instances in the past year where monday.com was down.
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Salesforce
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?")
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Salesforce
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
monday.com
monday.com only really care about accounts that have 20 seats or more. While this is great for monday.com, it pushes smaller organisations to evaluate alternatives. We rate monday.com highly in our organisation because key staff have already got good experience with the application and we know we will get to 20+ seats one day. But, till then the billing model and lack of permanent enterprise features is a dread.
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Salesforce
No answers on this topic
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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Salesforce
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.
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Salesforce
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Alternatives Considered
monday.com
monday.com is simpler and easier to grasp, apply and navigate than ClickUp, but the ClickUp free version has so much more functionality available than the monday.com free / low-cost options (sorry, but it's true!). Google Tasks is really simple and I shouldn't really compare them - it's just really nice to be able to see my tasks right next to my Google Calendar or Gmail (widget) - the "all on one" view on the screen is really nice ease of access, but the power of monday.com outweighs the nice-to-have of an all-in-one screen layout - it feels clumsy to bring in all my Calendar items from Google to monday.com, so an integration app to the Google screen where you can see monday.com tasks would be amazing.
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Salesforce
Salesforce Starter is exactly what it says. It's specific to getting a small business up and running effectively, without unnecessary development or internal overhead required. It doesn't allow for a ton of customization, but it provides more than most other providers across sales, service, and integration/automating business processes. Some tools are more specific to organizations that want to focus on a specific area to grow or manage their business. That's where the other package types and integrations with specific tools come in
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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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Salesforce
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
monday.com
  • >25% of our org is using monday.com to build Boards & projects. Only 5% used our prior Work Management System.
  • 100% of project communication is kept within monday.com. Which means we don't have to search Slack, Email, or other places to find a message.
  • 100% of our project files are kept or linked with monday.com. So, we don't have to find missing files in other locations.
  • monday.com integrates with Salesforce, so we don't have to manually duplicate data
  • 3rd-Party solutions are linking to our monday.com data and producing reports as humans read reports.
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Salesforce
  • Not budget friendly for smaller start-ups.
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ScreenShots

monday.com Screenshots

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