monday.com
A genuinely rebuilt agent platform bolted onto a mature work-management core — strong governance and MCP support, but the AI still runs on borrowed frontier models and monday's own Q1 2026 earnings call described real agent/MCP usage as 'still not very significant numbers.'
PRICING
| Free | Free | up to 2 seats |
| Basic | $9/seat/mo | billed annually, 1,000 AI credits/mo |
| Standard | $12/seat/mo | billed annually, 2,000 AI credits/mo |
| Pro | $19/seat/mo | billed annually, 3,000 AI credits/mo |
| Enterprise | Custom | custom AI credits, contact sales |
Official pricing page shows USD only; EUR figures are approximate conversions. AI credits are bundled per tier and consumed by AI Blocks, Sidekick, Vibe, agents and the Notetaker; additional credits purchasable separately at roughly $0.01/credit.
checked 2026-08-09 · vendor pricing page
Element scores
Strengths
monday rebuilt itself in 2026 around agents rather than bolting AI on top: a no-code agent builder, a pre-built agent library, an open-source agent-toolkit SDK, and a hosted MCP server available on every plan at no extra cost. AI Governance gives admins real control — a master toggle, per-user/per-feature credit limits, and full agent audit trails.
Honest dings
Embeddings and vector search are internal-only (self-hosted Sentence Transformers) with no customer-facing API; no fine-tuning, small-model tier, or interpretability surface. On the Q1 2026 earnings call, monday's own leadership described MCP and agent adoption as 'still not very significant numbers.' AI credits meter on top of seat pricing, so real cost scales with usage, not just headcount.
Sources (10) — every claim traceable
Every audit lists the research it rests on — transparency and traceability are the product. Tools evolve: each audit is a snapshot of its audit date, and re-audits supersede older versions (kept below for reference).
- developer.monday.com/api-reference/docs/monday-mcp-… — Official MCP security architecture, multi-tenant isolation, OAuth 2.0 (accessed 2026-08-09)
- support.monday.com/hc/en-us/articles/23227256685842… — Official list of AI model providers (Claude, GPT, Gemini, Sentence Transformers) powering monday AI (accessed 2026-08-09)
- ir.monday.com/news-and-events/news-releases/news-de… — Q1 2026 official results: customer counts, ARR mix, AI Work Platform launch (accessed 2026-08-09)
- monday.com/pricing — Official pricing page, all tiers and AI credit allocations (accessed 2026-08-09)
- support.monday.com/hc/en-us/articles/35277848309394… — Official AI credit pricing model and usage-limit mechanics (accessed 2026-08-09)
- providentcrm.com/2026/07/28/ai-governance-in-monday… — Detailed third-party breakdown of the AI Governance admin section (accessed 2026-08-09)
- monday.com/w/sidekick — Official Sidekick product page: context sources, connected apps (accessed 2026-08-09)
- github.com/mondaycom/mcp — Official open-source MCP server + agent-toolkit repository (accessed 2026-08-09)
- youtube.com/watch?v=b0SC12Lp_Yc — Q1 2026 earnings call: exec commentary that MCP/agent adoption is 'still small numbers' (accessed 2026-08-09)
- finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/monday-co… — Official company boilerplate (BusinessWire): 250,000+ customers worldwide (accessed 2026-08-09)