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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
228
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

"The automations absolutely were the most valuable because they helped us create a system within Monday.com for all of our data."
"Monday.com has provided a centralized and easy-to-use area for my team to store all of our information and collaborate together."
"We can have different boards for different needs."
"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."
"Since the tool is so easy to use, our team members can all learn it quickly and create new boards, projects, tasks, and views easily."
"The board function allows you to create a digitized to-do list."
"It has kept us very organized."
"The automation feature saves us hours of time reviewing activities, sending reminders, and sending emails."
"Support is top-notch whenever help is needed."
 

Cons

"More customizations for automation would be useful."
"Coordination with different social media platforms would be a convenient feature."
"It would be beneficial to consider incorporating features that enhance the platform's customization capabilities in the next release."
"The web page can be a bit buggy at times, especially after I switch to a different tab and then come back to the Monday site after leaving it idle for a few minutes."
"I would like to see an app version similar to Teams, or even have them integrate with Teams."
"It would be good to have a countdown timer to a deadline date so you could see 'days remaining' to work on a project to help schedule time, as currently it only shows the end date."
"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."
"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

"The pricing of monday.com was a little bit high for us, especially here in South Africa, compared to Basecamp."
"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 am using the tool's free version."
"I rate the tool's pricing a six out of ten."
"The enterprise plan looks expensive because we don't understand the value as monday.com users. The pro level and other packages seem reasonable."
"I wasn't involved with the licensing, but I believe it's negotiable."
"We tell others it's about $2200 for a ten-person plan and it can be adjusted; it's easy to scale."
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Top Industries

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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 Enterprise26
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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