Monday.com vs Wrike Comparison
Compare Monday.com vs Wrike 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.
Wrike
6.6/10
Wrike is a work management platform where mid-sized and enterprise teams plan projects, manage tasks, track resources and automate workflows, with AI features built in.
Feature-by-Feature Comparison
| Feature | | |
|---|---|---|
| Scores | ||
| Overall Rating | 7.4/10 | 6.6/10 |
| Integration | 8/10 | 7/10 |
| Security | 8/10 | 8/10 |
| Analytics | 7/10 | 8/10 |
| Cost | 6/10 | 4/10 |
| Customization | 8/10 | 8/10 |
| Ease of Use | 8/10 | 5/10 |
| Scalability | 7/10 | 9/10 |
| Support | 7/10 | 6/10 |
| Pricing | ||
| Free plan | No | Yes |
| Cheapest paid plan | $18/user/mo Basic | $10/user/mo Team |
| Estimated cost for 10 users | $180/mo Basic | $100/mo Team |
| Features | ||
| Marketing Automation | Not listed | |
| Collaboration | Not listed | |
| Lead Management | Not listed | |
| Integrations | Not listed | |
| Sales Automation | Not listed | |
| Opportunity Management | Not listed | |
| Contact Management | Not listed | |
| Reporting & Analytics | Not listed | |
| Mobile Access | Not listed | |
| Spreadsheet interface | Not listed | |
| App integrations | Not listed | |
| Gantt charts | Not listed | |
| Task management | Not listed | |
| Workflow automation | Not listed | |
| Dashboards | Not listed | |
| Kanban boards | Not listed | |
| Collaboration tools | Not listed | |
| Whiteboards | Not listed | |
| Reporting | Not listed | |
monday CRM vs Wrike cost by team size
Wrike costs less from 5 to 10 users; monday CRM costs less from 25 users.
| Team size | monday CRM | Wrike |
|---|---|---|
| 1 user | Contact for pricing | FreeFree |
| 5 users | $90/moBasic | $50/moTeam |
| 10 users | $180/moBasic | $100/moTeam |
| 25 users | $450/moBasic | $625/moBusiness |
| 50 users | $900/moBasic | $1,250/moBusiness |
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 5/10)
- Higher Cost score (6/10 vs 4/10)
Why choose Wrike
- Has a free plan (monday CRM does not)
- Lower estimated cost for 10 users: $100/mo vs $180/mo
- Higher Scalability score (9/10 vs 7/10)
- Higher Analytics score (8/10 vs 7/10)
- Better fit for enterprise (9/10 vs 6/10)
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).
Wrike
Pros
- Interactive Gantt charts, boards and tables are all available from the 10 USD Team plan, which makes it a capable planning tool for small teams.
- Shareable custom dashboards and templatized workspaces let a single deployment serve several departments with different processes.
- AI features are included in every plan, and 2025 added Copilot and a no-code AI agent builder.
- The Business plan scales to 200 users, and the enterprise tiers add resource planning, budgeting and BI reporting.
- Wrike Whiteboard, built from the Klaxoon acquisition, adds brainstorming whose output can be turned directly into tasks.
Cons
- Reviewers often say the depth of features overwhelms newcomers and is too much for simple work.
- Prices are higher than some rivals, and reviewers point to Monday.com as cheaper.
- Paid plans are billed annually on the pricing page, and the top tiers are quote-only.
- Advanced integration tools such as Wrike Integrate and Two-Way Sync are separately priced add-ons or Apex-only, and reviewers report that integrations can be difficult.
- Reviewers find the mobile app weaker than the desktop app and note that offline access is not available.
Not sold on either?
Frequently Asked Questions
Monday CRM scores higher on our criteria: 7.4/10 against 6.6/10 for Wrike. The largest gap is in Ease of Use: 8/10 for monday CRM and 5/10 for Wrike.
Wrike costs less for 10 users: about $100/mo on its Team plan, against about $180/mo on its Basic plan for monday CRM, billed monthly.
Wrike has a free plan; monday CRM does not list one.
Wrike is the better fit for enterprise: we rate it 9/10 for them, against 6/10 for monday CRM.
