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RationalPlan vs monday.com comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 11, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

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
7.3
Number of Reviews
227
Ranking in other categories
CRM (9th), Project Portfolio Management (6th), Marketing Management (6th), Opportunity Management (5th)
RationalPlan
Ranking in Project Management Software
49th
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 January 2026, in the Project Management Software category, the mindshare of monday.com is 4.3%, down from 6.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of RationalPlan is 0.6%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Project Management Software Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
monday.com4.3%
RationalPlan0.6%
Other95.1%
Project Management Software
 

Featured Reviews

PW
Project manager at WITS
Effective project tracking enhances decision-making but requires improved subtask hierarchy
I would like to have the ability to create more than two levels of subtasks in monday.com. It was a significant challenge as I often wanted to make a task dependent on another group, but it was difficult. It would be more efficient if it were easier to establish dependencies across different groups.
reviewer1976010 - PeerSpot reviewer
President at Jam Works LLC
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

"Using the deadline feature to manage priorities has been the most valuable."
"We can remove, add, and modify a project or task charter easily."
"Since Monday is so flexible, it allows us to maintain projects in our own way."
"The handling and administration of Monday.com are manageable even for beginners."
"Our team uses the platform for many different functions, and the ability to have multiple Kanban boards that are integrated into various other platforms our team uses has helped us become more efficient in our content creation strategies."
"The stability is good."
"I love that Monday.com has boards that can change with a click from a list, to a calendar, to a form that you can send and collect data, etc."
"I have found the automation very useful for reminders."
"Support is top-notch whenever help is needed."
 

Cons

"The product can be improved by allowing for some sort of autonomous deadline creation."
"It could have a few more features when it comes to managing projects."
"Better integration with Outlook would be awesome."
"It spams my inbox with many unwanted emails."
"Constant updates mean the service is down sometimes, which isn't ideal."
"They could offer more packages. There seems to be a gap in price between package offers. One has as much as a $30 difference."
"We'd love the ability to be able to build and export reports based on multiple boards."
"For others who have more varied assignments, some of which require collaboration with other team members, they might find Monday insufficient."
"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

"I am using its free version."
"I think monday.com's paywalls are a little too high. Some basic features are locked behind the premium subscription. Some applications they offer within their subscription model are locked in an expensive package. These applications provide functionality that would benefit small teams, but it's too much money for a startup or a small business."
"The product is not expensive."
"The solution is quite inexpensive. For example, we pay $8,500 for 75 users. It's somewhere around $100 a user, approximately."
"Fees are paid monthly per user."
"It's quite expensive when it goes to the enterprise license. Other tools like Jira cost 5 a month, and then their enterprise license is 38 a month, which is quite expensive for what we can do. It's £500 for a tool on a large enterprise. I'd have hoped that enterprise costs go down, not up. The pro license is £14, and then everything else is much more expensive, which is another barrier for us to adopt because other comparable tools are much more affordable when you have such a high multiplier as well."
"I wasn't involved with the licensing, but I believe it's negotiable."
"I rate the tool's pricing a six out of ten."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Government
7%
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Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business178
Midsize Enterprise25
Large Enterprise23
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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 needs improvement with monday.com?
If monday.com was cheaper, that would be better because it's quite expensive.
What is your primary use case for monday.com?
We use monday.com on a daily basis for our to-do lists and to stay in touch with our team to see how projects are progressing. We have everything on monday.com for each project step, allowing us to...
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