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NoaBox vs monday.com
For Software Teams

For software teams, monday.com sells monday dev: highly configurable, with a huge app ecosystem. NoaBox is narrower and simpler: a backlog, sprints, docs and Noa in one place, at a flat price per workspace.

Choose NoaBox if

  • You want a free plan to start; monday dev offers a 14-day trial instead
  • You'd rather pay one flat price than buy seats in buckets
  • You want sprints on every plan and GitHub from the first paid plan
  • You want an AI assistant included on every plan, with credits pooled per workspace

mChoose monday.com if

  • You want to build highly customized boards, dashboards and automations
  • You need timeline and Gantt views, agile reporting or cross-team roadmaps
  • You rely on a large integration catalog (monday lists 850+)
  • You need SAML SSO, SCIM, HIPAA or a choice of US, EU or Australian data regions
At a glance

NoaBox And monday.com
Side By Side

NoaBox compared with monday.com, checked October 9, 2026
FeatureNoaBoxmonday.com
Product for software teamsNoaBoxmonday dev
Pricing modelFlat monthly price per workspace: Free up to 10 members, $19 up to 20, $49 up to 50Per seat, sold in buckets (3, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 40, 50…), minimum 3 seats
Free planUp to 10 members, 1 project, 10 AI credits a month, 1 GBNone for monday dev (14-day trial)
SprintsBuilt in on every plan: a backlog and sprints with a goal and dates (labelled groups in the app)From Standard: $14.50 per seat a month, or $12 billed yearly
GitHubCommits that mention a work-item key link themselves (Starter and up); no pull-request trackingFrom Standard, with 250 integration actions a month (25K on Pro)
AINoa on every plan: drafts tickets from a spec for you to confirm, answers questions about your workmonday AI, metered in credits at $0.01 each; monday dev includes a one-time trial allowance
Timeline and GanttNot availableFrom Standard
AutomationsNot available250 actions a month on Standard, 25K on Pro
Projects1 on Free, 5 on Starter, 10 on Pro, unlimited on EnterpriseUnlimited items from Basic
Price at 50 seats$49 a month, publishedContact sales

monday.com details checked on October 9, 2026 from their own site. See the sources below, and their current pricing.

Cost

What Your Team Would Pay
Each Month

monday dev Standard is the cheapest monday dev plan with sprints and GitHub. Prices are monday's monthly billing at the 10- and 30-seat buckets, excluding tax; monday notes prices depend on the billing country.

10 people

NoaBox$19

Starter (or Free, with one project)

monday.com$145

$120 billed yearly

30 people

NoaBox$49

Pro

monday.com$435

$360 billed yearly

50 people

NoaBox$49

Pro

monday.comQuote only

monday shows “Contact sales” at 50 seats

Honestly

Where Each One
Is Stronger

Where monday.com is stronger

  • Configurability

    Boards, dashboards, automations and workflows can be shaped to almost any process. NoaBox is deliberately opinionated.

  • Integrations

    monday lists 850+ integrations, and monday dev adds GitLab, Bitbucket, Figma and Azure DevOps. NoaBox connects to GitHub and Slack.

  • Planning and reporting

    Timeline and Gantt from Standard; agile reporting, time tracking and cross-team roadmaps on Pro.

  • Data regions and compliance

    US, EU and Australian data regions, plus SAML, SCIM and a HIPAA program on Enterprise.

  • Free viewers

    Unlimited read-only viewers on every paid plan.

Where NoaBox is stronger

  • A free plan

    NoaBox is free for up to 10 members. monday dev has a trial, not a free plan.

  • No seat buckets

    30 people cost $49 a month on NoaBox, against $435 on monday dev Standard billed monthly. And past 40 seats you don't need a sales call to see a price.

  • Sprints on every plan

    Backlog and sprints are on NoaBox Free; on monday dev they start at Standard.

  • AI on every plan

    Every NoaBox plan, Free included, comes with a monthly pool of AI credits for Noa, with per-member caps.

  • Docs beside the work

    Pages and a file drive in every project, with password-protected pages encrypted in the browser.

Switching

Moving From monday.com
Without Losing The Backlog

  1. 1

    Export your board

    Export the monday board you're moving to a spreadsheet.

  2. 2

    Let Noa propose the work items

    Attach the spreadsheet in Ask Noa. It proposes the work items and you confirm each one, so this suits up to a few hundred items (500 rows per sheet). There's no one-click importer yet.

  3. 3

    Connect and invite

    Connect GitHub and Slack, then invite the team. Inside your plan's member limit, nobody costs extra.

FAQ

NoaBox vs monday.com

  • If you want a backlog, sprints, docs and an AI assistant without building them from configurable boards, yes. If you want deep customization, Gantt charts, automations or a large app ecosystem, monday dev does more.

  • No. monday dev offers a 14-day trial; the free plan exists only on monday work management and is limited to 2 seats and 3 boards. NoaBox's Free plan covers up to 10 members.

  • monday dev Standard for 30 seats is $435 a month billed monthly ($360 billed yearly). NoaBox Pro covers up to 50 members for a flat $49 a month.

  • There's no one-click importer yet. Export the board to a spreadsheet and attach it in Ask Noa: Noa proposes the work items, and you review them before anything is created.