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Sahnga vs Monday.com
Colorful boards, seats sold at fixed rungs, and an automation cliff between Standard and Pro.
Monday.com prices checked July 2026, quoted at their best published rate — annual where they offer one. Sahnga: $5 a person, flat, monthly.
Sahnga vs Monday.com at a glance
| Sahnga | Monday.com | |
|---|---|---|
| Advertised entry price | Free for one maker, then $5 a person | Basic — $9/user/mo |
| Price with everything included | $5 a person — the same number, because there is no tier above it | Pro — $19/user/mo (3-seat minimum, seats sold at fixed rungs, not per head)A floor, not a quote — SSO needs a sales call. |
| Monthly bill for 10 people | $45 | ≥ $190A floor, not a quote — SSO needs a sales call. |
| SSO & SAML | On every plan when it lands — never an upcharge. We don't tax security and we never will. | Enterprise-only, no published price — a sales call |
| Guests & clients | Unlimited and free — only people who create or edit ever count | Viewers can be free, but the 3-seat minimum and the fixed seat rungs mean you buy seats you don't fill |
| Automation & usage limits | No usage meters, anywhere. Nothing counts down. | 250 automation + 250 integration actions/mo on Standard; 25,000 on Pro |
| Free plan | One maker, unlimited viewers and guests, the whole feature set | 2 seats, 3 boards |
| How the bill scales | $5 × your makers, flat — no tiers, no minimums, no upsells, and nothing else in the formula. | Per seat too — through the tiers and add-ons above |
Competitor prices checked July 2026 and quoted at each vendor's best published rate — annual where a vendor offers one, and their cheapest number, not ours. Every figure links to the page it came from. Spot something out of date? Tell us and we'll fix it. The full 13-tool parity table lives on the pricing page.
What Monday.com gets right
Monday sells energy better than anyone, and its dashboards and board customization are genuinely good. For teams that want work to feel visual and bright, it lands.
The honest take
The packaging is where it costs you. There's a 3-seat minimum and seats are sold at the fixed rungs of their own selector — 3, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 40, 50 — so a six-person team buys the ten-seat rung and pays for four people it doesn't have. The automation cliff is the sharp one: Standard allows 250 automation actions and 250 integration actions a month — teams routinely exhaust that in days — while Pro allows 25,000. That's a 100× jump priced at about +58% per seat. SSO is Enterprise-only with no published price, and AI runs on its own credit layer.
The bill, in plain words
Monday.com pricing in 2026, decoded
Free (2 seats) → Basic $9 → Standard $12 → Pro $19 per seat on annual billing, then Enterprise by quote. Minimum 3 seats, sold at fixed rungs rather than per head.
The free plan is 2 seats and 3 boards.
Basic $9, Standard $12 and Pro $19 per seat are annual-billing rates.
There's a 3-seat minimum, and their team-size selector sells seats at fixed rungs — 3, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 40, 50, 100 — so a team of six buys the ten-seat rung.
Above 50 the self-serve rungs jump straight to 100, so a 61-person team buying online overshoots by 39 seats. Their FAQ also says teams over 40 users can request a quote, so we price 61 people at 61 seats — a floor, not their self-serve number.
Standard allows 250 automation actions and 250 integration actions a month; Pro allows 25,000. A 100× jump for roughly 58% more per seat.
SSO is Enterprise-only, and Monday publishes no Enterprise price — it's a sales call.
AI runs on a separate credit layer, budgeted apart from seats.
Competitor prices checked July 2026 and quoted at each vendor's best published rate — annual where a vendor offers one, and their cheapest number, not ours. Every figure links to the page it came from. Spot something out of date? Tell us and we'll fix it.
Run the numbers
What Monday.com costs as your team grows
5 people
$20/mo
$5 a person, first maker free
≥ $95/mo on Monday.com Pro. That’s 4.8×+ our bill.
15 people
$70/mo
$5 a person, first maker free
≥ $285/mo on Monday.com Pro. That’s 4.1×+ our bill.
65 people
$320/mo
$5 a person, first maker free
≥ $1,235/mo on Monday.com Pro. That’s 3.9×+ our bill.
Sahnga's arithmetic never changes: $5 a month for every maker after the first — the same rate at 10 people, at 200, at 1,000, with no tier to climb and no Enterprise number to negotiate. Monday.com bills per seat the whole way up too — the difference is what the seat includes, and who never counts. Viewers, commenters, guests and clients are free on our side at any size.
The switch
Why teams switch from Monday.com to Sahnga
$5 a person with no minimum and no rungs to round up to — six people pay for six people.
No security tax and no Enterprise call to log in properly — not now, not ever.
Seats settle at renewal, never mid-cycle. Nothing is ever deleted or kicked out: everyone keeps reading and searching all the work, editing and team chat follow your paid seats, and one click restores anyone.
Moving your work off Monday.com
Monday exports boards to Excel from the board menu, and Sahnga imports CSV — items become tasks, groups become statuses, and people, dates and text columns map straight across. Move a board at a time; nothing about the export is locked.
Receipts: docs/research/competitive-landscape.md — Monday profile (automation-cliff reports, fixed-rung seat packaging) · docs/research/feature-gating-map.md — Standard vs Pro automation gates
Questions
Sahnga vs Monday.com FAQ
Is there a flat-priced Monday.com alternative?+
Sahnga is flat where it counts — the seat, not the total: $5 for each person who creates or edits, one maker free, and that rate never climbs a tier at 10 people or 1,000. The total isn't one fixed number; it's your maker count times $5 and nothing else — no minimums, no rungs, no add-ons, and viewers, commenters, guests and clients never count. There are no tiers to climb: unmetered automations, timeline and dependencies, time tracking, full history, the API and one-click export are in every plan, including Free.
How much does Monday.com cost for a team of 10?+
Ten people on Sahnga is $45 a month — $5 each with the first maker free, and unlimited viewers, guests and clients on top at no charge. Matching that feature-for-feature on Monday.com means Pro, which comes to about $190 a month for ten at their best published rate. And it's a floor, not a quote: SSO is only sold through a sales call, so the real number is higher.
Does Sahnga import from Monday.com?+
Monday exports boards to Excel from the board menu, and Sahnga imports CSV — items become tasks, groups become statuses, and people, dates and text columns map straight across. Move a board at a time; nothing about the export is locked.
Does Monday.com charge extra for SSO?+
SSO sits on Enterprise, and Monday publishes no Enterprise price — you book a call and negotiate. That's true of seven of the thirteen tools we track. When SAML and SSO land, they're on every plan — Free included — at no extra cost. We will never charge you for logging in securely.
Does Monday.com have a seat minimum?+
Yes — a 3-seat minimum, and seats are sold at the fixed rungs of their team-size selector rather than per head, so a team of six buys the ten-seat rung and pays for four people it doesn't have. Sahnga has no minimum and no rungs: you pay for the people who actually create and edit, and viewers, guests and clients are free.
What is the Monday.com automation limit?+
Standard allows 250 automation actions plus 250 integration actions a month, which busy boards can exhaust in days; Pro raises that to 25,000 — a hundredfold increase for roughly 58% more per seat. Sahnga doesn't meter automations at all, on any plan.
Bring your team over in an afternoon.
$5 a person, every feature on every plan, and a full export whenever you want it. Monday.com stays exportable too — you lose nothing by trying.