One price list sells a place to run the whole company; the other sells a pipeline.
TL;DR
ClickUp sells a general work platform — free forever plan, Unlimited at $7 per user per month billed yearly ($10 monthly), Business at $12 yearly ($19 monthly), Enterprise on quote — and sales runs as views, docs and automations inside it, with Brain AI at $9 and Everything AI at $28 per user as add-ons. Monday CRM sells the CRM itself: Basic $12 per seat billed yearly ($18 monthly) with 1,000 active contacts, Standard $17 ($25) with 10,000, Pro $28 ($41) with 100,000, and Ultimate on quote — trial, not free plan. Choose ClickUp if sales is one department among several; choose Monday CRM if the pipeline is the whole job.
ClickUp's pricing page is the work-management one: a free forever plan, then Unlimited at $7 per user per month billed yearly ($10 monthly) with unlimited spaces, folders, forms, Gantt charts and integrations like Slack, HubSpot and Google Drive. Business doubles to $12 yearly ($19 monthly) and adds unlimited dashboards, message history and activity views plus 5,000 automations a month (a stated $100 value). Enterprise is a custom quote with SAML SSO, SCIM provisioning, audit logs, data residency, HIPAA availability and 250,000 automations a month. AI is sold separately: Brain AI at $9 per user per month, Everything AI at $28.
Monday CRM leads with the pitch 'The AI-First CRM your team will love' and prices four tiers per seat: Basic at $12 billed yearly ($18 monthly) with one workspace, one dashboard, 1,000 active contacts and deals, five columns per board and 20 quotes a month; Standard at $17 yearly ($25 monthly) with three workspaces, 10,000 contacts, 250 automations a month, a central communications hub, mobile apps and a set of AI agents (outreach caller, lead sourcer, meeting prep, AI meeting notetaker); Pro at $28 yearly ($41 monthly) with 15 workspaces, 100,000 contacts, 25,000 automations, mass email and sequences; Ultimate on quote with unlimited everything and 25,000 API calls a day. A free trial starts without a credit card — there is no free plan.
| Feature | ClickUp | Monday CRM |
|---|---|---|
| Product focus | General work platform; CRM built as views, docs and automations | Dedicated CRM product sold as 'The AI-First CRM' |
| Free tier | Free forever plan | No free plan — free trial without a credit card |
| Entry paid price | Unlimited $7/user/month billed yearly ($10 monthly) | Basic $12/seat/month billed yearly ($18 monthly) |
| Mid tier | Business $12/user/month yearly ($19 monthly) | Standard $17/seat/month yearly ($25 monthly) |
| Top self-serve tier | Enterprise: custom quote (SAML SSO, SCIM, audit log) | Pro $28/seat/month yearly ($41 monthly); Ultimate on quote |
| Capacity limits | No contact caps published; every paid tier is per-user | 1,000 / 10,000 / 100,000 / unlimited active contacts by tier |
| Automations | 5,000 a month on Business; 250,000 on Enterprise | 250 a month on Standard; 25,000 on Pro |
| AI pricing | Add-ons: Brain AI $9, Everything AI $28 per user/month | AI agents included from Standard upward |
Pick ClickUp if
The free plan alone makes ClickUp the low-risk start, and $7 per user monthly on annual billing covers pipeline tracking next to projects, docs and dashboards. Adding sales seats does not force a second subscription — though AI sits on top at $9 or $28 per user when you want it.
Pick Monday CRM if
Contact limits, quotes, sequences and AI sales agents are designed around selling rather than adapted from task management, and Standard at $17 per seat yearly brings the outreach and lead-sourcer agents in. For a sales-only team, a dedicated CRM saves the configuration work ClickUp expects you to do yourself.
We collected no independent reviews, ratings or user quotations for ClickUp or Monday CRM in this run. Prices come from clickup.com/pricing and monday.com's CRM pricing page (US dollars, with Monday's team-size selector on its default 10-seat yearly view), both fetched October 2, 2026.
ClickUp supports CRM workflows — pipelines, deal views, contact records and automations — inside its general workspace, and you pay from its work-management price list (Unlimited at $7 per user yearly). Monday CRM is sold as a standalone CRM with its own contact limits, quotes and sales agents.
ClickUp Unlimited: $7 times 5 times 12 equals $420 a year. Monday CRM Basic: $12 times 5 times 12 equals $720 a year. On annual billing, ClickUp's Business tier at $12 per user costs exactly what Monday charges for its entry CRM.
ClickUp has a free forever plan; Monday CRM does not — it offers a free trial that starts without a credit card. For a no-spend start, only ClickUp qualifies.
ClickUp sells Brain AI at $9 per user per month and Everything AI at $28 per user per month on top of the seat price. Monday CRM bundles its AI agents — outreach caller, lead sourcer, meeting prep and AI meeting notetaker — into Standard and above.
Monday CRM caps active contacts and deals at 1,000 on Basic, 10,000 on Standard, 100,000 on Pro and unlimited on Ultimate. ClickUp's pricing page publishes no contact cap; capacity shows up as storage, automations and seats instead.
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