Gript vs. monday.com

Everything monday gates. Without the per-seat squeeze.

Time tracking, invoicing, approvals, notebooks, SLA, and a workspace automation hub. Included in your seat. No three-seat minimum, no bucket pricing, no Pro-tier paywall.

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The seat minimum problem

6 people. You still pay for 10.

monday Standard: minimum 10 seats

monday Standard at $12$1,440/yr
What you actually pay$1,440/yr

Gript: pay for 6 seats

Gript Business at $8$576/yr
What you actually pay$576/yr
monday.com cost$1,44010-seat minimum at $12/seat
Gript cost$5766 seats at $8/seat
Savings67%60% less for the same team

monday.com's 3-seat minimum has risen to 10 for the cheapest plans. Seat buckets round up in increments of 5. A team of 6 lands in the 10-seat bucket. You pay for 4 empty chairs.

Everything monday charges Enterprise for

Included in your seat.

The features monday locks behind Pro or Enterprise, the ones their sales team brings up on the renewal call, the ones that turn a $12 quote into a $19 quote. All of these ship in Gript Business.

Pro tier on monday Time Tracking
Pro tier on monday Resource & Workload
Pro tier on monday Gantt with baselines
Pro tier on monday Dependencies
Enterprise on monday Approval Workflows
Not on monday SLA Tracking
Not on monday Native Invoicing
Not on monday Workspace Automation Hub
The five reasons monday.com teams switch

What happens when you need more.

Ranked by what real monday.com users hit the wall on. Each one ships in Gript on the Business plan.

01 / Time tracking that bills itself

Native timer, billable categories, retainers. Not an upsell.

Start a timer from any item. Mark hours billable or non-billable. Tag by client, by category, by retainer. Roll up to timesheets, P&L, and portfolio financials in the same tool.

On monday.com: Time Tracking is a Pro-tier column. To get billable hours, timesheets, and retainer logic that ties to invoices, you bolt on a separate tool. Two seats, two bills, two sources of truth.
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Gript timesheet view showing billable hours per task with client and category tags
02 / From task to invoice in one tool

Real invoicing. Not a bolted-on column.

Log time, mark it billable, filter by client and date, then issue a PDF invoice. P&L per client and portfolio-wide financials roll up automatically. The pipeline lives in one place.

On monday.com: a Time Tracking column exists. Invoicing does not. You export hours and rebuild the bill in a separate system, then reconcile by hand.
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Gript invoicing modal sitting over a timesheet, with a live invoice preview on the right
03 / Approval workflows, not button chains

Multi-stage approvals with an audit trail.

Define who approves what, in what order, and what happens on reject. Parallel and sequential stages. Every decision is logged with who, when, and why. Reusable across boards.

On monday.com: no native approval engine. You chain button automations or wire up Power Automate. Each button triggers one recipe per click. Audit trail is whatever you remember to add.
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Gript approval workflow panel showing sequential stages with approver assignment and status
04 / Notebooks, not Workdocs

A real notes environment. Diagrams, embeds, live boards.

Hierarchical notebooks with rich text, embedded diagrams, page view, and live task and board embeds that update when the work updates. Cross-notebook moves, sharing, and search.

On monday.com: Workdocs are one flat document per board. No notebook hierarchy, no embedded diagrams, no live board embeds. Search ends at the doc.
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Gript notebook view showing hierarchical sections with embedded task board and diagram
05 / Automations that don't ration themselves

No 250-action ceiling. Retry, dead-letter, idempotency.

Automations run when they should and retry when they shouldn't. If something fails permanently, it lands in a dead-letter queue you can inspect, not a silent void. No monthly action cap pushing you to upgrade.

On monday.com: Standard tier caps at 250 automation actions per account, per month. Hit the ceiling, your automations stop. The upgrade quote arrives within the hour.
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Gript automation wizard showing trigger and action step with trigger type dropdown
The public record

What monday.com customers write when nobody is selling them anything

2.2/5 3,427 reviews on Trustpilot

We did not write a single one of these. The same three complaints come up again and again in their reviews. Here is what Gript does instead.

Their customer, on Trustpilot

Basic features are locked behind paywall, for example teams for guests are in enterprise plan.
★☆☆☆☆ Jan Aether, 1 August 2026 · Trustpilot

How Gript works

Two plans, both complete. $5 and $8 per user. There is no Enterprise tier sitting above them holding your features hostage, because there is no Enterprise tier.

Their customer, on Trustpilot

There is no way in our account or online with them to mark the subscription to non-renew nor to cancel outright.
★★☆☆☆ Brenda, 29 July 2026 · Trustpilot

How Gript works

Cancel any time. Your workspace goes read only and you keep a full 30 days to export every board to CSV, Excel, PDF or Word before anything is deleted.

Their customer, on Trustpilot

Since they decided to push Ai, the app is getting worse with every update.
★☆☆☆☆ D. Jones, 12 August 2026 · Trustpilot

How Gript works

AI runs on your own key, or not at all. No key, no AI, no surcharge. You pay Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Mistral or xAI directly and we take no markup.

Score and quotes read from the public Trustpilot page for monday.com on 3 September 2026. We quote and link, we never screenshot. Read the reviews yourself

And the rest

Features that look small until you need them.

Each one answers a complaint that shows up over and over in monday.com reviews.

Update Requests

Send a secure link to a client or freelancer. They update the items you choose, no login, no seat on your plan. You see the changes live.

monday: guest seats or email back-and-forth.

Public Board Share, live

Share a real-time, themed board with a client. They see updates the second you make them. Mirrored columns, files, and updates included.

monday: read-only snapshot, strips embeds and updates.

Inbound Email to item

Forward any email to a board address. The email becomes an item with the body, attachments, and sender preserved. Works on My Work too.

monday: board-only, no My Work intake.

Recurring tasks that work

M/W/F, business days only, monthly on the 3rd Tuesday. Items arrive with the correct status, the correct due date, and no copy of last month's progress.

monday: recurring tasks arrive pre-marked Done.

Dashboards without a 20-board cap

Roll up every board you own into a single view. Drill down to any cell. Date filters, goal tracking, twenty widget types. No board-count ceiling.

monday: Standard caps at 5, Pro caps at 20.

Bulk Date Shift

Project slipped two weeks. Select all items, shift by N days, skip weekends, exclude completed. Preview every change before applying. Undo if it was wrong.

monday: open each item or write an automation.

Workspace Automation Hub

Every automation across every board on one screen. Filter by trigger, action, status, creator. See per-automation success counts and failure rates. Bulk-disable broken ones.

monday: per-board only. Click into each one to audit.

Sticky Notes you can push

A floating canvas of grouped sticky notes with reminders. Push a note to a teammate's screen in silent mode, or interrupt mode if it really matters. Link notes to items.

monday: comments on items. That is the extent of it.

Pin to Top

Pin the items, groups, or boards that matter so they stay above whatever you scroll to. Per-user. Survives filters, sorts, and view changes.

monday: not a thing.
Switching is the easy part

We move you in. Free.

Your boards are coming with you.

You pick how.

Do it yourself

Two minutes and a coffee

  1. 1Connect monday, Asana, ClickUp or Trello. Or drop in an Excel file.
  2. 2Pick your boards.
  3. 3Items, sub-items, statuses and people come across.
Bring my boards over

The coffee is optional.

We do it for you

Hand us the boxes

  1. 1Book 15 minutes with us.
  2. 2Send us your export file.
  3. 3We set it all up and email you a ready account.

100% free

Have Gript move me in

Moving day is not your job.

Nothing to lose. Not even your old tool.

  • Your old tool keeps running while you try.
  • The import copies your data. The original is never touched.
  • Export your boards to Excel or CSV anytime.
  • Two weeks free, because trying should cost you nothing.
Side by side

What you get at $8 vs. $12.

Gript Business at $8 per seat compared to monday Standard at $12 per seat. The plans most teams actually use.

FeatureGript Businessmonday Standard
Pricing terms
Minimum seats13
Seat-bucket pricing (5-seat increments)NoYes
Price per seat per month, annual$8$12
Core work
Boards, items, sub-items✓✓
Gantt view, baselines, dependencies✓Pro tier
Workload and resource view✓Pro tier
Bulk Date Shift, skip-weekend, preview✓—
Pin to Top✓—
External collaboration
Update Requests, public update portal✓—
Public board share, live and themed✓Snapshot only
Forms with signature, consent, calculated fields✓Basic forms
Notes and communication
Notebook environment, hierarchical✓Flat docs
Live board and task embeds in notes✓—
Diagrams inside notes✓—
Sticky Notes with push-to-user✓—
Time, money, capacity
Native time tracking✓Pro tier
Native invoicing, P&L, retainers✓—
SLA tracking with breach alerts✓—
Approval workflows, multi-stage, audited✓Enterprise
Platform
AutomationsNo action cap250/month
Workspace automation hub✓—
Dashboards, board count per dashboardNo cap5 boards
Public REST API and webhooks✓Pro tier
Migration
One-click import from monday.com✓n/a

monday.com Standard starts at 10 seats. Pro tier is $19/seat and required for Gantt, time tracking, and workload. Prices sourced from monday.com's pricing page, May 2026.

Pricing

One flat seat price. 14 days to try it.

Annual billing shown. Monthly is $7 and $10. Two-year is $4 and $6.40.

Private
$5
per account, billed annually

For one person who runs a lot of work.

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  • Unlimited boards, items, notes
  • 20 GB storage
  • All views, all column types
  • Time tracking, recurring, reminders
Business
$8
per seat, billed annually

For teams that bill clients, hit deadlines, and need approvals.

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  • Everything in Private
  • 100 GB storage
  • Update Requests, Public board share
  • SLA tracking, Native invoicing
  • Approvals, Workload, Resources
  • Automation Hub, Public API

No credit card to start. Keep your data on export if you leave.

Everything monday.com charges Pro for. At $8.

Import your boards in the trial. Open the Gantt. Send your first invoice. Decide on day 14.

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