{"compare":false,"blog":false,"article":false,"page":{"title":"monday.com alternatives for agencies and service teams","lead":"The main monday.com alternatives for service teams are ClickUp, Asana, Teamwork.com, Productive, Scoro, Paymo, Bonsai and PLYNTUM. monday.com’s boards adapt to most processes, but its Work Management plans do not list invoices or expenses. Productive and Scoro add finance and sales, Paymo and Bonsai suit small teams, and PLYNTUM puts time and invoicing next to tasks in one workspace.","sections":[{"heading":"Why service teams look beyond monday.com","html":"

monday.com sells itself as an AI work platform, and its Work Management product runs projects and tasks on boards you can shape to almost any process. For a team that sells its time, that is half the job. The other half is turning hours into invoices and knowing which clients pay their way.

Count its strengths before you leave: a free plan for up to 2 seats, a 14-day Pro trial, a workload view on Pro and flexible boards that hold other kinds of work too. CRM core is released, subject to plan, role and permissions. Proposal drafts, won-deal handoff and manual forecasts have plan limits; inbox and integrations require separate setup. AI and private capture remain in development. Review CRM access and limits.

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  1. Which of your columns carry money? If your boards hold only status, owner and due date, almost any tool here will do. If you built columns for hours, budgets or billing, you need time and finance, not a new board.
  2. What happens to an hour after it is logged? Follow one: who checks it, how it becomes a cost, how it reaches an invoice. Each hand-off between tools is a chance to lose it.
  3. Do you sell and deliver in one system? Productive has a pipeline and Scoro a sales CRM today; Bonsai handles proposals and contracts. PLYNTUM’s CRM core covers contacts, organizations, opportunities and a pipeline for eligible users.
  4. Should clients see their work? Asana lets clients in as unlimited free guests but has no client portal; PLYNTUM has a scoped client portal from Core.
  5. How many people will you hire this year? Per-seat prices grow with each hire, while PLYNTUM prices the workspace with members included. For your own numbers, use the stack calculator.
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All figures are the vendors’ own prices checked 25 September 2026 (ClickUp, Asana, Teamwork.com, Productive, Paymo and Bonsai on 24 October 2026), excluding tax, on annual billing unless stated. The table above prices a 10-person team. Nothing is ranked, and PLYNTUM, which we make, comes after the list.

ClickUp

ClickUp puts tasks, docs, goals and chat in one app for any kind of team, with a Free Forever plan and automations. Business is $17 per user a month billed annually: $170 for 10 users against $190 on monday.com Pro (ClickUp checked 24 October 2026, monday.com 25 September 2026).

Its limitation: invoices live in another system, so moving changes where tasks live, not how hours become money. PLYNTUM vs ClickUp · ClickUp alternatives

Who it suits: teams that want a cheaper general work app with docs and chat.

Asana

Asana’s guests are free and unlimited, and its Personal plan is free for up to 2 users. Advanced, at $24.99 per user a month billed annually, adds time tracking (checked 24 October 2026).

Approving timesheets costs extra: the Timesheets & Budgets add-on is sold per user with no published price (checked 24 October 2026), on top of $249.90 a month for 10 users on Advanced, already more than monday.com Pro. Its pricing page lists no invoicing, expenses or leave, and clients get guest access rather than a portal. PLYNTUM vs Asana

Who it suits: teams that want structured projects and bill from another tool.

Teamwork.com

Teamwork.com is built for professional services: client projects, resources and financials live in one product. You can start on the free plan for up to 5 users or a 14-day trial.

The limitation is cost per head. Accelerate is $24.99 per user a month billed annually (checked 24 October 2026): $249.90 for 10 users, $59.90 more than monday.com Pro, and the gap widens with each hire. PLYNTUM vs Teamwork.com

Who it suits: agencies that want software made for client projects.

Productive

Productive lets agencies and consultancies run resources, projects and finances together, with a sales pipeline today: deals and delivery in one system instead of monday CRM plus Work Management.

The limitation is price: Professional is $25 per user a month billed annually (checked 24 October 2026), $60 more than monday.com Pro for 10 people, with a 3-seat minimum. PLYNTUM vs Productive · Productive alternatives

Who it suits: agencies and consultancies that want to sell, deliver and bill in one system.

Scoro

Scoro is built for consultancies, agencies and engineering firms, with projects, resourcing and finances on one platform. It stands out on selling and planning: quotes, a sales CRM, resource planning, and quoted-versus-actual and work-in-progress reports.

The limitation is a price you assemble yourself. App combinations run €15–€52 per user a month with at least 5 users; the billing cycle is not labelled, and onboarding and add-ons are extra (checked 25 September 2026). PLYNTUM vs Scoro

Who it suits: firms where every job starts with a quote.

Paymo

Paymo offers work management, time tracking and invoicing to small teams and freelancers in one tool. A single user can use it free, and the trial runs 15 days.

Note that its published prices are monthly. Plus is $15.90 per user, or $159 a month for 10 users, leaving aside introductory offers (checked 24 October 2026). That is already below monday.com Pro’s annual price. PLYNTUM vs Paymo

Who it suits: small teams that want time and invoices in one small tool.

Bonsai

Bonsai is an all-in-one tool for small agencies and independents: proposals, contracts, e-signature, invoices and projects. Its strength is the paperwork before the work starts: proposals, contracts and signatures, which PLYNTUM does not cover today.

The limitation is that profit reporting needs Premium. Plans run from Basic at $9 to Elite at $49 per user a month billed annually, and Premium, at $29, puts 10 users at $290 a month (checked 24 October 2026). PLYNTUM vs Bonsai

Who it suits: independents and small agencies that live on proposals and contracts.

Also weighing an all-in-one suite? See the Bitrix24 alternatives or every list we publish.

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What it adds to a board

PLYNTUM is business management software for service companies. Tasks still sit on a board, list, calendar or timeline; what changes is what surrounds them.

Several companies each get their own workspace under one login, and the interface is in Georgian and English. More on finance, time tracking and people and capacity.

The price, worked through

For 10 people billed annually, monday.com Pro is $190 a month and PLYNTUM Core $120 ($150 paid monthly): $2,280 a year against $1,440 (checked 25 September 2026). monday.com Standard is also $120 but has no Time Tracking column, and Basic at $90 costs less than any PLYNTUM plan for 10.

Team size changes the answer. After Core comes Scale, $360 a month billed annually for up to 25 members. At $19 a seat, monday.com Pro costs less at 6 people ($114 against $120) and from 11 to 18 (15 people: $285 against $360), but more at 25 ($475). monday.com’s seat picker sets the exact seat counts, so confirm the size at checkout; see PLYNTUM pricing.

What PLYNTUM does not do

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There is no importer for monday.com data, so the move is manual.

  1. Sort your boards. Mark which hold client work; only those move.
  2. Map columns to fields. Status, owner and due date become task details, and client and project names become records. Decide whether past hours are re-entered on tasks or kept as history.
  3. Set up clients, then projects, then open tasks. Every hour in PLYNTUM belongs to a task in a project for a client.
  4. Add people’s costs and client rates. Loaded hourly cost is held per person.
  5. Bring open balances across. Enter invoices that are still unpaid, so nothing a client owes drops out.
  6. Start with one client. Take one real project from hours to invoice before moving the rest. Launch has a 7-day trial for 5 members; timesheet approval and recurring invoices start with Core.

On an annual plan, switch at renewal and keep the old boards a month for reference. If you want help with the plan, write to us.

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Every price was checked on the vendor’s own pricing page on the date shown next to it. If something has changed, tell us at info@plyntum.com and we will correct it.

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