monday CRM vs Tryton Comparison
Compare monday CRM vs Tryton features, pricing, and more.
Last updated: November 2026
monday CRM
7.4/10
Sales CRM built on the monday.com work platform, with pipeline, lead and contact boards, email tracking, sequences and AI sales agents, for small and mid-sized sales teams.
Tryton
6.2/10
Tryton is a free, open-source modular business platform with a Sale Opportunity module that tracks leads and opportunities through to converted sales, aimed at companies that self-host.
Feature-by-Feature Comparison
| Feature | | |
|---|---|---|
| Scores | ||
| Overall Rating | 7.4/10 | 6.2/10 |
| Integration | 8/10 | 5/10 |
| Security | 8/10 | 6/10 |
| Analytics | 7/10 | 4/10 |
| Cost | 6/10 | 9/10 |
| Customization | 8/10 | 9/10 |
| Ease of Use | 8/10 | 4/10 |
| Scalability | 7/10 | 6/10 |
| Support | 7/10 | 4/10 |
| Pricing | ||
| Free plan | No | Yes |
| Cheapest paid plan | $18/user/mo Basic | Contact for pricing |
| Estimated cost for 10 users | $180/mo Basic | Free Open source (self-hosted) |
| Features | ||
| Marketing Automation | ||
| Contact Management | ||
| Integrations | ||
| Lead Management | ||
| Opportunity Management | ||
| Reporting & Analytics | ||
| Collaboration | Not listed | |
| Customer Support Management | Not listed | |
| Mobile Access | Not listed | |
| Sales Automation | Not listed | |
monday CRM vs Tryton cost by team size
Tryton costs less from 5 users.
| Team size | monday CRM | Tryton |
|---|---|---|
| 1 user | Contact for pricing | FreeOpen source (self-hosted) |
| 5 users | $90/moBasic | FreeOpen source (self-hosted) |
| 10 users | $180/moBasic | FreeOpen source (self-hosted) |
| 25 users | $450/moBasic | FreeOpen source (self-hosted) |
| 50 users | $900/moBasic | FreeOpen source (self-hosted) |
The plan that fits each team size, billed monthly, before add-ons and usage charges. Each cost opens that tool's pricing calculator for the team size.
Which One Should You Choose?
Why choose monday CRM
- Higher Ease of Use score (8/10 vs 4/10)
- Higher Integration score (8/10 vs 5/10)
- Better fit for sales teams (8/10 vs 3/10)
- Better fit for mid-market (8/10 vs 6/10)
- Includes Marketing Automation, which Tryton lacks
Why choose Tryton
- Has a free plan (monday CRM does not)
- Lower estimated cost for 10 users: Free vs $180/mo
- Higher Cost score (9/10 vs 6/10)
- Higher Customization score (9/10 vs 8/10)
Pros & Cons
monday CRM
Pros
- Uses the same flexible board model as monday work management, so teams already on monday.com can link sales pipelines to project delivery.
- Built-in AI agents score and enrich leads, flag stalled deals and summarize calls without a separate tool.
- Gmail and Outlook sync fills CRM fields from emails automatically, which cuts manual data entry for reps.
- Strong review scores of about 4.6 on G2 and 4.7 on Capterra, according to third-party summaries.
Cons
- Three-seat minimum and bucketed seats mean small teams pay for seats they do not use, and there is no free plan.
- Basic is very restricted, with one dashboard, 1,000 contacts and five columns per board, which pushes most teams to Standard or Pro.
- G2 reviewers often say it lacks features found in dedicated sales CRMs, especially native calling, texting and template automation.
- Email sequences and mass emails are reserved for Pro, and monthly billing costs much more than annual billing (41 versus 28 USD per seat on Pro).
Tryton
Pros
- Free under the GPL with no feature-gated enterprise edition, so the license itself costs nothing.
- Opportunities convert straight into sale orders inside the same system that handles stock and accounting.
- Explicit module dependencies and five-year support for each major release series make long-term upgrades predictable.
- Open RPC APIs and Python modules let developers add custom integrations, for example Asterisk call logging.
Cons
- CRM features are basic, and community members describe CRM coverage as incomplete.
- There is no marketing automation and no built-in calling.
- The sao web client looks less polished than Odoo's, and there is no native mobile app.
- The developer and partner ecosystem is small, so implementers are harder to hire.
- Review-site coverage is thin, and one G2 user reported slowness and crashes.
Not sold on either?
Frequently Asked Questions
Monday CRM scores higher on our CRM criteria: 7.4/10 against 6.2/10 for Tryton. The largest gap is in Ease of Use: 8/10 for monday CRM and 4/10 for Tryton.
Tryton costs less for 10 users: free on its Open source (self-hosted) plan, against about $180/mo on its Basic plan for monday CRM, billed monthly.
Tryton has a free plan; monday CRM does not list one.
Monday CRM is the better fit for sales teams: we rate it 8/10 for them, against 3/10 for Tryton.
Monday CRM has Marketing Automation, which Tryton lacks.
