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RationalPlan vs monday.com comparison

 

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

monday.com
Ranking in Project Management Software
3rd
Average Rating
9.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
227
Ranking in other categories
CRM (4th), Project Portfolio Management (6th), Marketing Management (5th), Opportunity Management (2nd)
RationalPlan
Ranking in Project Management Software
50th
Average Rating
10.0
Reviews Sentiment
8.4
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Project Management Software category, the mindshare of monday.com is 5.7%, down from 9.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of RationalPlan is 0.3%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Project Management Software
 

Featured Reviews

Alan Chiou - PeerSpot reviewer
User-friendly interface simplifies project management but it requires stable connectivity
We primarily use monday.com for project management within our department, which includes sales, operations, and engineering monday.com makes it very easy to input any information. The style and format are user-friendly, making it practical for our needs despite some network issues. The need for…
reviewer1976010 - PeerSpot reviewer
Easy to understand with fair pricing and lots of unique features
We use the desktop version of RationalPlan, and It seems some desktop software has the ability to share a document as a web view. This would be a nice feature allowing us to share our plans with clients without needing additional software. This may be something that is offered in the RationalPlan cloud plan. However, it would be nice for the desktop version to have this ability to bring it one more step ahead of the competition. As a side note, RationalPlan does have a free viewer as well.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Being able to see your own personal specific projects makes it that much more accessible a program and is great for work productivity."
"I love the ability to communicate within the app itself by leaving comments."
"It helps us to keep track of all of the remaining tasks on a project and the remaining number of days that exist on a project."
"The handling and administration of Monday.com are manageable even for beginners."
"We love how we can create boards specifically focused on one topic and have all tasks and projects pertaining to that in one place."
"I mostly like automation and recently added custom automation so we can brainstorm and find the best fit for our particular use-case."
"It allows you to be granular, and send each step."
"We are a lot more organized, and have transparency throughout key areas of our business thanks to this solution."
"Support is top-notch whenever help is needed."
 

Cons

"BCC Outlook integrations could be better."
"It would be great to have more options on the form for external use, and an easier exporting option for client answers (rather than copying and pasting from each section)."
"There are a lot of ways that monday.com does not work, for example, when it comes to HRMS. A particular employee can't apply for leave or check the status of a leave request or check his 401(k) status. Those are things that are missing in monday.com."
"I archive the data, but I don't know where to find it or how. When I was testing, I thought I saw all the archived files sorted in no order and without knowing where they came from."
"Monday is excellent for collaboration between partners and team members, however, it would be great if there could be a way to have clients on Monday, and not just to share information."
"I'm unclear about the notifications feature in that I receive way too many emails."
"Service being down happens to often. They need to create a desktop version that stores the info locally so that when their servers are down, I can keep working and accessing my data. Then it could be uploaded when their servers are online."
"Automation is often glitchy for us. Maybe we have too many automations set up?"
"We use the desktop version of RationalPlan, and It seems some desktop software has the ability to share a document as a web view. This would be a nice feature allowing us to share our plans with clients without needing additional software. This may be something that is offered in the RationalPlan cloud plan."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"There are features that they're putting in the Enterprise plan that you have to pay for the Enterprise plan to use those features. The Enterprise plan is probably double or triple the Pro plan price, or it may be two and a half times. From a business standpoint, I don't like the fact that I have to pay two and a half times more to use a particular feature."
"The enterprise plan looks expensive because we don't understand the value as monday.com users. The pro level and other packages seem reasonable."
"The price is reasonable for the number of users we have."
"Though I am unsure about the product's pricing plan, there is a need to make monthly payments towards the licensing costs attached to the solution, and it operates on a per-user plan."
"monday.com is pretty affordable. It's cheaper than Asana. There are four tiers, including a free version. The free version is fine if you don't have any complex projects. One of the most advanced plans is around $16 per month per user."
"The pricing of monday.com is worth it."
"monday.com's pricing is fair compared to its competitors, although it is a bit more expensive than most of them. It's more expensive than Jira, Zoho, ClickUp, and Trello. But it is fairly priced when you compare the kinds of features and the capabilities that you get and the ROI."
"Fees are paid monthly per user."
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Top Industries

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Educational Organization
42%
Computer Software Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
6%
Government
6%
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Questions from the Community

Do you recommend Monday.com?
Monday.com is one of the best project management softwares available on the market. It lets you create and customize the tools you need to run every aspect of your work. I particularly favor it bec...
What do you like most about monday.com?
The product's initial setup phase was straightforward.
What needs improvement with monday.com?
If monday.com was cheaper, that would be better because it's quite expensive.
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