monday dev review
by monday.comIssue tracking and project management
monday.com’s product for software teams: sprints, backlogs and bug tracking from $9 a seat billed annually, with unlimited free viewers.
- 14-day free trial
- No card needed
- Self-serve
- Per seat
- Public prices
What you're paying for
- Worth the price (main value)
Sprints, backlogs and bug tracking on monday’s boards, with unlimited free viewers on every plan, from $225 a month for 25 seats billed annually.
monday dev gives software teams sprint management, backlogs, bug tracking, roadmaps and a wiki on the same boards the rest of a monday.com account uses. Every plan includes unlimited free viewers, so stakeholders who only read do not need a seat. Basic costs $9 a seat billed annually, $225 a month for the 25-seat bucket; Standard adds guests, GitHub, GitLab and Jira integrations and automations. The trust center lists SOC 2 Type II and ISO/IEC 27001.
- Unlimited free viewersThe plan table lists unlimited free viewers on Basic, Standard, Pro and Enterprise; viewers have read-only access.Evidence: Pricing page (2026-10-15)
- Sprints and bug tracking on BasicBasic includes sprint management, backlog management, bug tracking, a wiki, capacity planning and an AI sprint summary.Evidence: Pricing page (2026-10-15)
- A full account exportAdmins can export every board in the account, private ones included, with uploaded files, as a zip file.Evidence: Help center (2026-10-15)
- Best for
- Software teams that already use monday.com, or that want product work visible to many read-only stakeholders.
- Good to know
- There is no free plan; guests and automations start on Standard, private boards on Pro, and SAML SSO, SCIM and the audit log on Enterprise.
How monday dev compares
Against 3 other products we reviewed in Issue tracking and project management: what you pay for with each, the five access facts, the plan limits we recorded and each review's bottom line. The note under the table says how each one was checked.
| Metric | monday dev | Jira | ClickUp | Asana |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What you're paying for | Worth the priceSprints, backlogs and bug tracking on monday’s boards, with unlimited free viewers on every plan, from $225 a month for 25 seats billed annually. | Compliance includedIssue tracking with data residency, a self-serve HIPAA BAA and site audit logs on its entry paid plan, at $204.17 a month for 25 people billed annually. | Worth the priceTasks, docs, chat and sprints in one workspace, free for unlimited members and $175 a month for 25 people on Unlimited, billed yearly. | Worth the priceUnlimited automation rules, free guests and timelines on the entry paid plan, at $274.75 a month for 25 people billed annually. |
| Overall score | 5.7 | 8.7Best | 8.2 | 7.4 |
| Free option | 14-day free trial | Free plan | Free plan | Free plan |
| Card to start | No card needed | No card needed | –Not measured | –Not measured |
| Getting access | Self-serve | Self-serve | Self-serve | Self-serve |
| Starter priceCheapest paid plan | $9/seat/mo | $9.70/user/mo | $7/user/mo | $10.99/user/mo |
| Pricing model | Per seat | Per seat | Per seat | Per seat |
| Pricing page | Public prices | Public prices | Public prices | Public prices |
| Free plan | None for monday dev; 14-day Pro trial | Up to 10 users, unlimited work items | Unlimited members and tasks, 60 MB storage | 2 users, unlimited tasks and projects |
| 25 people, billed annually | $225/mo (Basic, 25-seat bucket × $9) | $204.17/mo (Standard, $2,450 a year) | $175/mo (Unlimited, 25 × $7) | $274.75/mo (Starter, 25 × $10.99) |
| 25 people, billed monthly | $300/mo (25 × $12) | $242.50/mo (25 × $9.70) | $250/mo (25 × $10) | $337.25/mo (25 × $13.49) |
| Automation on the entry paid plan | From Standard (250 actions a month) | 400 steps per user a month | 500 active rules, 1,000 automation executions | Unlimited rules |
| Guests on the entry paid plan | From Standard (each group of 4 guests uses a seat) | Free, no paid seat | Guest seats included (5, plus 2 per paid user); read-only guests unlimited | Unlimited, free |
| SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 | Both | Both | Both | Both |
| HIPAA BAA | Enterprise | Self-serve on Standard and Premium | Enterprise (contact sales) | Enterprise+ (opt-in) |
| Data residency | US, EU or APAC region set by account location; EU-only hosting on Enterprise | Standard and up, 11 locations incl. EU | Enterprise (US, EU, Singapore or Australia), no extra charge | Enterprise add-on or Enterprise+ (Europe, Australia, Japan) |
| SAML SSO | Enterprise | Atlassian Guard Standard ($1,100 a year for 16–25 users) or Enterprise | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Audit log | Enterprise | Site changes on Standard; user activity on Enterprise | Enterprise (60 days of history) | Enterprise add-on or Enterprise+ |
| Data export | Account export of all boards with files | Site backup with attachments | Task data as CSV with attachment links | CSV and PDF; full JSON export on Enterprise+ |
| Bottom line | From its public pages, monday dev puts sprints, bug tracking and free viewers on its cheapest plan. It has no free plan, and guests, automations and security controls start on higher plans, which is what lowers its score. | From its public pages, Jira gives the most here on its entry paid plan: compliance controls, free guests and the lowest listed price for 25 people. Budget for Atlassian Guard if you need SAML SSO. | From its public pages, ClickUp lists the lowest price for 25 people here and the most open free plan, with guests on Unlimited. Security and admin controls sit on Enterprise, which keeps its team-control score lower. | From its public pages, Asana’s Starter plan includes the most for day-to-day work: unlimited rules, free guests and timelines. Security controls, data residency and HIPAA start on Enterprise or Enterprise+. |
Evidence: monday dev: facts checked 2026-10-15 from its public sign-up and pricing pages, no completed hands-on run; Jira: facts checked 2026-10-15 from its public sign-up and pricing pages, no completed hands-on run; ClickUp: facts checked 2026-10-15 from its public sign-up and pricing pages, no completed hands-on run; Asana: facts checked 2026-10-15 from its public sign-up and pricing pages, no completed hands-on run. Prices in USD as listed, excluding tax. "–" means not recorded.
Score
- Pricing clarity
- 8.0 / 10, Excellent
- scenario priced on the page; seats sold in tiers or steps; the help center says seat buckets rise in multiples of 5, while the pricing page goes from 30 to 40 seats
- Free tier
- 0.0 / 10, Fair
- no free plan
- Price for a team of 25
- 6.7 / 10, Good
- $225/mo on Basic: 25-seat bucket × $9 per seat, billed annually (pricing page total: $225 a month); assumes the team fits the 25-seat bucket; a 26th person moves the account to the 30-seat bucket ($270 a month)
- Entry paid plan
- 5.5 / 10, Fair
- guests on a higher plan, automation rules on a higher plan, private teams on a higher plan, integrations and API
- Compliance and data residency
- 8.0 / 10, Excellent
- own SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, HIPAA BAA on enterprise terms or by request, data residency on enterprise only
- Team and control
- 6.0 / 10, Good
- SAML SSO on enterprise only; SCIM on enterprise; audit log on enterprise; full backup with attachments
Review
Review from public pages
Written from monday dev's public pages (pricing, security or privacy, and docs) as read on Oct 15, 2026. We did not sign up, and no hands-on run is published yet.
What the public pages show
We read monday dev's pricing page, monday.com's trust center and help center articles on plans, guests, data residency, HIPAA, API limits and exporting on Oct 15, 2026; we did not sign up for this review. monday.com sells several products on one platform; we chose monday dev, its product for software teams, because our reference scenario is a product team. The pricing page prices a chosen team size: seats come in buckets of 3, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 and 40, and from 50 seats it asks you to contact sales. At 25 seats, Basic is $9 a seat a month billed annually ($225 a month) or $12 billed monthly. The page notes that the price depends on the billing country; it showed US dollars.
The plan table gates features by plan: guests, timelines, GitHub, GitLab and Jira integrations and 250 automation actions a month start on Standard; private boards, time tracking and 25,000 actions on Pro; SAML SSO, SCIM, the audit log, HIPAA and IP restrictions on Enterprise. SOC 2 Type II is marked on every plan. monday dev has no free plan; sign-up starts a 14-day trial of Pro without a card.
Two details from the help center: an account's data region (US, EU or APAC) is set from the location of the first user and cannot be moved later, and only Enterprise accounts in the EU region keep customer data solely in the EU. The help center also says seat buckets rise in multiples of 5, while the pricing page goes from 30 to 40 seats.
Strengths
- Unlimited free viewers on every plan
Read-only viewers do not take a seat on Basic, Standard, Pro or Enterprise.
vs Linear: Linear bills every unsuspended user in any role.
- Dev workflows on the cheapest plan
Basic includes sprints, backlogs, bug tracking, a wiki and capacity planning.
- Account export with files
Admins can export all boards, private ones included, with uploaded files.
vs Linear: Linear’s workspace CSV export leaves out attachment files.
- A long certification list
The trust center lists SOC 1 and SOC 2 Type II, SOC 3, ISO/IEC 27001, 27017, 27018, 27032 and 27701, CSA STAR and TX-RAMP.
Things to know
- No free plan
monday dev has a 14-day trial of Pro; the free plan is only on monday.com’s general work platform.
- Seats come in buckets
At 25 people the 25-seat bucket fits; a 26th person moves the account to the 30-seat bucket ($270 a month on Basic billed annually). Above 40 seats, pricing goes through sales.
- Guests, automations and private boards cost more
Guests and automations start on Standard ($300 a month for 25 seats billed annually); private boards on Pro ($500).
- Security controls on Enterprise
SAML SSO, SCIM, the audit log and HIPAA are Enterprise features, and the help center gives Enterprise a minimum term of 12 months.
Pricing reality
monday dev sells seats in buckets: 3, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 and 40, with a quote above that. Basic is $9 a seat a month billed annually or $12 monthly; Standard $12 or $14.50; Pro $20 or $25. For 25 people, Basic comes to $225 a month billed annually and $300 monthly; Standard to $300 and Pro to $500 billed annually. Viewers are free on every plan; on Standard every 4 guests use one seat, and on Pro guests are unlimited. Going over the seat count upgrades the account to the next bucket automatically. AI credits are included and more can be bought; extra API calls are sold in units of 25,000 a day.
Exit path
Admins can export the whole account as a zip file: every board, private ones included, with uploaded files (optional). Archived boards, workdocs, dashboards and the emails and activities timeline are not included, and the export can run once every 24 hours. The API is on every paid plan, with 1,000 calls a day on Basic.
Compared with
- Pick monday dev when
- Read-only stakeholders should not take a seat, and you want sprints and a wiki on the cheapest plan.
- Pick Jira when
- You need a free plan, data residency, a self-serve BAA or audit logs without an enterprise contract.
- Pick monday dev when
- You want free read-only viewers and an account export that includes files.
- Pick Linear when
- You want a free plan with unlimited members and billing per person rather than in seat buckets.
- Pick monday dev when
- You want unlimited free viewers and an export of every board with its files.
- Pick ClickUp when
- You want a free plan, guests on the cheapest paid plan and per-user billing without buckets.
Choose it if
- Many stakeholders only need to read your boards.
- Your company already runs other work on monday.com.
- Your team size matches a seat bucket, such as 25.
Look elsewhere if
- You need a free plan for your team.
- You need SAML SSO, an audit log or EU-only hosting without an enterprise contract.
Bottom line
From its public pages, monday dev puts sprints, bug tracking and free viewers on its cheapest plan. It has no free plan, and guests, automations and security controls start on higher plans, which is what lowers its score.
Plan limits at a glance
| Limit | As recorded |
|---|---|
| How seats are sold | In seat buckets (3, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 40); quote above 40 |
| Free plan | None for monday dev; 14-day Pro trial |
| 25 people, billed annually | $225/mo (Basic, 25-seat bucket × $9) |
| 25 people, billed monthly | $300/mo (25 × $12) |
| Automation on the entry paid plan | From Standard (250 actions a month) |
| Guests on the entry paid plan | From Standard (each group of 4 guests uses a seat) |
| SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 | Both |
| HIPAA BAA | Enterprise |
| Data residency | US, EU or APAC region set by account location; EU-only hosting on Enterprise |
| SAML SSO | Enterprise |
| Audit log | Enterprise |
| Data export | Account export of all boards with files |
Read from the vendor's public pages on Oct 15, 2026. No hands-on run is published yet. How we check
We have not published a sign-up run for monday dev yet. The access facts above were read from its sign-up and pricing pages on Oct 15, 2026.
We have not published API calls for monday dev yet.
monday dev lists 4 plans. The cheapest paid plan, Basic (billed annually, from 3 seats), costs $9/seat/mo.
- monday devBasic$9/seat/moBilled annually ($12 billed monthly); seat buckets from 3
- Unlimited items, boards and free viewers
- Sprints, backlogs, bug tracking, wiki
- Capacity planning, daily stand-up, AI sprint summary
- 5 GB storage, API (1,000 calls a day)
- monday devStandard$12/seat/moBilled annually ($14.50 billed monthly)
- Guest access, timeline and Gantt views
- GitHub, GitLab and Jira integrations
- 250 automation and 250 integration actions a month
- Roadmap with dependencies, 20 GB storage
- monday devPro$20/seat/moBilled annually ($25 billed monthly)
- Private boards and docs
- Time tracking, agile reporting, cross-team roadmap
- 25,000 automation and integration actions a month
- 100 GB storage, API (10,000 calls a day)
- monday devEnterpriseContact salesMinimum term of 12 months
- SAML SSO, SCIM, audit log, session management
- HIPAA compliance
- 250,000 automation and integration actions a month
- 99.9% uptime SLA, dedicated customer success manager
Prices as listed, USD, excluding tax; observed 2026-10-15.
Source: monday.com pricing page. Prices change; the observed date above is when our agent read them.