monday.com's pricing page works in worked examples rather than bare per-seat numbers. It shows Basic at $9 per seat per month with a 1,000-credit AI allowance, Standard at $12 with 2,000 credits and Pro at $19 with 3,000 credits, each calculated against a stated number of seats and reduced by a special monthly discount, with the yearly view saving 18% against monthly. The Free plan covers up to two seats. Enterprise is quoted. The page also carries a separate CRM ladder: Basic at $12 per seat per month annual against $18 monthly, Standard at $17 against $25, and Pro at $28 against $41, for teams whose work is leads, contacts and deals rather than boards.
TL;DR
Airtable publishes two paid steps, Team at $20 per user per month and Business at $45 per user per month billed annually, plus Enterprise Scale at custom pricing, and bills every user who can edit a base. monday.com publishes three paid steps on an 18% annual discount: Basic at $9 per seat per month, Standard at $12 and Pro at $19, with Enterprise quoted, and it bundles AI credits into the plan rather than charging per seat for them, showing 1,000 credits on Basic, 2,000 on Standard and 3,000 on Pro in its own worked examples. On entry price monday.com is less than half Airtable's Team tier; on the middle tier it is roughly a quarter of Airtable Business.
Airtable's page stays short. Free is available at no cost, Team is $20 per user per month billed annually for more capacity, Business is $45 per user per month billed annually for customisation, data scale, flexibility and administrative features, and Enterprise Scale is quoted. Airtable states that on Team and Business you are charged for all users who have edit permissions on at least one base. Its product framing is agents, teams and workflows in one space, and the examples it publishes are structured records: a software and vendor request tracker with requester, priority and status, an objectives plan with linked key results and epics, and campaign moodboards.
Read side by side, monday.com is cheaper on every published step and prices AI as bundled credits while Airtable folds agents into the platform without itemising an allowance. Airtable's advantage is the data model: typed fields, linked records and rollups as the native unit, which suits inventories, request queues and pipelines. monday.com's advantage is the price ladder and the breadth of its own stack, with a separate CRM line that Airtable does not publish. The decision usually comes down to whether the fields are the product or the boards are, and whether a cheap middle tier matters more than a flexible schema.
| Feature | Airtable | Monday.com |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Available at no cost, with all users free | Free, covering up to two seats |
| Entry paid plan | Team, $20 per user per month billed annually | Basic, $9 per seat per month billed annually |
| Middle plan | Business, $45 per user per month billed annually | Standard, $12 per seat per month billed annually |
| Next step | Enterprise Scale, quoted | Pro, $19 per seat per month billed annually |
| Top plan | Enterprise Scale, quoted | Enterprise, quoted |
| Annual discount | Both published prices are annual-billing figures | Yearly view states an 18% saving against monthly |
| AI pricing | Agents presented as part of the platform, with no per-plan allowance itemised | Credits bundled per plan: 1,000 on Basic, 2,000 on Standard, 3,000 on Pro |
| Separate CRM ladder | No separate CRM price list on the pricing page | Basic $12 annual or $18 monthly, Standard $17 or $25, Pro $28 or $41 per seat per month |
| Billing unit | Per user with edit permissions on at least one base | Per seat per month |
| Monthly versus annual | Annual-billing figures only for the published paid steps | Monthly percentages and the 18% annual saving both stated |
| Data model | Typed fields, linked records, rollups and multiple views | Boards, items, columns and dashboards, with AI credits on top |
| Best fit | Inventories, request queues and pipelines where the fields drive the view | Work management across teams, with a separate CRM option on the same page |
Pick Airtable if
Airtable is the better fit when the work needs a schema rather than a board: a vendor request tracker with requester, priority and status fields, an inventory, an objectives plan whose key results link to epics and tasks. Free costs nothing, Team at $20 per user per month adds capacity, Business at $45 per user per month adds customisation, data scale and administrative features, and Enterprise Scale is quoted. The trade is squarely about price and transparency: entry is more than double monday.com Basic and Business is well above monday.com Pro, both figures are annual-billing only, billing follows everyone with edit permissions, and the pricing page does not state an AI or automation allowance per plan the way monday.com does.
Pick Monday.com if
monday.com is cheaper at every published step and more explicit about what each tier includes. Basic is $9 per seat per month billed annually with 1,000 AI credits, Standard is $12 with 2,000 credits, Pro is $19 with 3,000 credits, and Enterprise is quoted, with the yearly view stating an 18% saving against monthly billing. It also publishes a second ladder for CRM work, with annual and monthly rates side by side: Basic $12 or $18, Standard $17 or $25, Pro $28 or $41 per seat per month. The caveats are that credits are finite and buying more is routine at scale, and that Enterprise has no public number. If your work lives naturally in boards and items and you want the cheapest published seat with AI included rather than billed on top, this is the stronger buy.
Neither Airtable nor monday.com publishes third-party review data we are willing to restate as fact, and we did not run either product. Every figure here comes from the two vendors' own pricing pages as published when this comparison was written. The lists headed 'vendor-published claims' are the vendors' own statements, not user reviews.
On published prices, yes at every step. monday.com Basic is $9 per seat per month billed annually against Airtable Team at $20 per user per month, monday.com Standard is $12 and Pro is $19, while Airtable's second published tier is Business at $45. Airtable's entry is more than double monday.com's.
monday.com bundles credits into the plan and states the allowance: 1,000 on Basic, 2,000 on Standard and 3,000 on Pro in its worked examples. Airtable presents agents as part of the platform rather than a separate product, and its pricing page does not itemise an AI allowance per plan.
Yes. Its page carries a CRM ladder with annual and monthly rates: Basic $12 per seat per month annual or $18 monthly, Standard $17 or $25, and Pro $28 or $41. Airtable has no equivalent CRM price list on its pricing page.
monday.com prices per seat per month with a Free plan covering up to two seats. Airtable states that on Team and Business it charges for all users who have edit permissions on at least one base, while all users are free on its Free plan.
monday.com shows a yearly view with an 18% saving and publishes monthly rates for its CRM tiers. Airtable shows $20 and $45 per user per month as annual-billing figures, with no monthly equivalent published beside them.
If the team works in boards and items and cost per seat is the deciding factor, monday.com's ladder is cheaper at every step and includes AI credits. If the team needs typed fields, linked records and rollups as the foundation, Airtable's model is the closer fit, and the premium is the price of that schema plus the administrative features on Business.
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