monday.com and Wrike are two of the highest ranked project management software solutions, and for good reason. They both offer excellent features, a relatively low learning curve, and good scalability through multiple pricing plans.
However, these platforms aren’t completely identical, and each one is tailored to slightly different audiences. Wrike is a good choice for teams that need a free plan for a lot of users, but its paid tiers are more expensive. On the other hand, monday.com offers more affordable paid plans and additional features like a digital whiteboard and document management.
In this review, we compare Wrike vs monday.com in several categories to help you decide which project management software is the right choice for your business.
Wrike vs monday: Comparison table
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Wrike vs monday: Pricing
Wrike and monday.com both offer five different pricing plans, including a free version, but the difference quickly becomes apparent once you start examining the overall cost. For starters, Wrike’s free plan supports unlimited users (but doesn’t offer as many features), making it a better choice for small businesses. Meanwhile, monday.com’s free plan only supports two users, which isn’t very helpful for teams, but it does offer a fair number of features.
The entry-level paid plans cost about the same at both platforms, but the pricing for Wrike quickly jumps up, costing nearly $25 per user per month, whereas both of monday.com’s mid-tier plans cost less than that. This is a major reason why Wrike only scored 3.5/5 on pricing, but monday.com scored 4.3/5. Both platforms also offer pricing plans for enterprise project management software, but the pricing is only available upon request.
Wrike pricing
- Free: $0 per user per month for unlimited users.
- Team: $9.80 per user per month billed annually.
- Business: $24.80 per user per month billed annually.
- Enterprise: Contact sales for a custom quote.
- Pinnacle: Contact sales for a custom quote.
A 14-day free trial is available for all of Wrike’s paid plans. For more information, read the full Wrike review and view this list of Wrike alternatives.
monday.com pricing
- Individual: Free forever for up to two seats.
- Basic: $9 per seat per month billed annually, or $12 per seat per month billed monthly.
- Standard: $12 per seat per month billed annually, or $14 per seat per month billed monthly.
- Pro: $19 per seat per month billed annually, or $24 per seat per month billed monthly.
- Enterprise: Pricing available upon request.
A 14-day free trial is available for all of monday.com’s paid plans, except for the Enterprise one. For more information, read the full monday.com review for more information and view this list of monday.com alternatives.
Wrike vs monday: Feature comparison
Task management
Winner: Tie
Wrike and monday.com offer very similar task management features, with Wrike scoring 5/5 and monday.com scoring 4.9/5. With Wrike, I could sort tasks by due date and/or priority or add subtasks for more complicated projects. Wrike also offers 10 project views to choose from, including popular ones such as kanban boards and Gantt charts.
monday.com also made it easy to sort tasks by due date and add subtasks. Similar to Wrike, it also offers 10 views, including both kanban boards and Gantt charts, as well as a workload view for light resource management. It also offers other features that I found helpful, such as column color coding for tracking task statuses visually.
Team collaboration
Winner: monday.com
Both Wrike and monday.com offer features that simplify team collaboration. In Wrike, I could share workflows internally and externally and tag other team members in tasks and conversations to keep projects moving forward. I also appreciated that teams can make changes to task descriptions at the same time thanks to the Live Editor feature.
monday.com also let me tag other people in comments to alert them, which is pretty standard. Multiple team members can also track time for the same tasks simultaneously, which is pretty cool. monday.com supports project time tracking on the Pro and Enterprise plans, while Wrike offers it on the Business, Enterprise, and Pinnacle plans.
I also liked the monday workdocs module, which lets teams co-edit documents in real time, embed boards into those documents, and create live action items. This makes brainstorming, taking meeting notes, and creating project plans simpler, and it eliminates the need for an extra app. Wrike doesn’t offer a similar document management or whiteboard feature.
Automations and workflow management
Winner: monday.com
Both Wrike and monday.com offer no-code automated workflows on certain paid plans. Wrike caps the number of monthly automation actions per user, while monday.com gives each account a set number for the entire workspace.
Wrike’s automation rule constructor allows you to get more granular with the automations. For instance, I had the option to create automations at either the account level or the space level. But it doesn’t offer templates for automations, which makes them a bit more difficult to create. Wrike also imposes lots of limits in terms of how many automation actions could be performed each minute and so on, which were difficult to parse.
Meanwhile, monday.com comes with a number of automation templates that I could customize, or I could create my own automation from scratch. The workflow creator was also more intuitive and easier for me to figure out than Wrike. You can’t customize monday.com’s automations to quite the same level as Wrike, but many teams will find the ease of use worth the tradeoff.
Wrike pros and cons
| Pros | Cons |
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| Enterprise-grade security on all plans. | Free plan features are quite limited. |
| Unlimited users on the free plan. | Pricing plans are more expensive than monday.com. |
| Native time tracking included in higher-paid plans. | No monthly billing option available. |
| More integrations than monday.com. | Fewer templates than monday.com. |
| Offers resource management and workload allocation features. |
monday.com pros and cons
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
| Unlimited boards for all paid subscriptions. | Free plan is limited to only two users. |
| More templates than Wrike. | Advanced security only available on the Enterprise plan. |
| 24/7 customer support for all paid plans. | Most admin and control features are limited to Enterprise plan. |
| Whiteboard collaboration feature available on all plans. | |
| Pricing plans are more affordable than Wrike. |
Should your organization use Wrike or monday.com?
Choose Wrike if . . .
- You want more integrations to choose from.
- You need a free plan for more than two users.
- You want more robust resource management capabilities.
- You need the ability to flag critical paths for projects.
Choose monday.com if . . .
- You are looking for more affordable pricing plans.
- You want more templates to choose from.
- You need an automation builder that comes pre-loaded with templates.
- You like having 24/7 access to customer support.
- Your team collaboration will benefit from the included brainstorming tools and document management capabilities.
Review methodology
To compare Wrike vs monday.com, I signed up for free trials on both software. During the writing of this review, I compared features such as project views, tasks and subtasks, documentation management, time tracking, automations, integrations, and security. I also considered other factors such as pricing, customer support, and user interface design.