monday AI is the set of AI features built into monday.com, the work management platform: agents, the Sidekick assistant, an AI meeting notetaker, AI columns and workflows, and monday vibe for building apps from a prompt. AI runs on credits from one shared account pool: Basic includes 1,000 a month, Standard 2,000 and Pro 3,000, and extra credits cost about a cent each. Seats cost $9 on Basic, $12 on Standard and $19 on Pro per month billed annually, with a three-seat minimum, and the free plan covers up to 2 seats without AI.
Reviewed by EdGrows·Updated Sep 29, 2026This analysis is based on documentation, public user reports, and vendor materials — not yet on our own hands-on testing. How we rate
monday.com built its business on colorful boards for tracking work: rows of items, columns for status, owners and dates, and automations that move things along. In 2026 the company presents itself as something bigger. The homepage headline reads "People and agents working as one team", and the platform is described as an AI workspace where people and agents drive business results together, with more than 60% of the Fortune 500 among its customers.
Behind the slogan sits a set of AI features woven into the boards. Agents can run tasks such as scoring leads, flagging project risks or summarizing meetings. Sidekick is an assistant that answers questions about your work, AI columns and blocks categorize, summarize, extract and translate data automatically, an AI notetaker records meetings, and monday vibe builds small apps from a description. The same platform also sells monday CRM and service products with their own AI.
The practical question for a buyer is how all this is paid for. The answer is credits, shared across the account, on top of per-seat plans.
Every paid plan includes a monthly allocation of AI credits in one pool that the whole account shares, so a marketing team and an operations team draw from the same balance. Basic includes 1,000 credits a month, Standard 2,000 and Pro 3,000, and Enterprise allocations are set by contract. According to monday.com's own guide, published in August 2026, extra credits cost about $0.01 each on yearly billing and $0.0125 on monthly billing, sold in bundles rather than one at a time.
Credits are spent on metered actions: running an AI block in a column or automation, sending a Sidekick message, executing an agent run, transcribing a meeting with the notetaker, and AI calls inside vibe apps. Simple actions such as categorizing an item cost less than multi-step agent runs, and a board with an AI automation that fires on every status change can drain credits far faster than occasional manual use.
When the pool runs low, monday.com sends alerts at 80% and 100%, and metered AI pauses until an admin buys more. A governance dashboard tracks usage by person or team and exports data for budgeting, which matters once several departments share one balance.
monday.com's pricing page as shown to us in euros on September 29, 2026, for a 10-seat team on yearly billing. Standard and Pro carried a special offer.
| Plan | US price per seat a month, billed annually | AI included | Key limits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0, up to 2 seats | None | 3 boards, 3 docs, 8 column types |
| Basic | $9 | 3 AI tools, 1,000 credits a month, limited agents | Unlimited items and free viewers |
| Standard | $12 | 5 AI tools, 2,000 credits, AI notetaker, AI columns | 250 automation and 250 integration actions a month, timeline and Gantt, guest access |
| Pro | $19 | 6 AI tools, 3,000 credits, AI workflow builder | 25,000 automation and integration actions, private boards, time tracking |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom credits, all AI tools | 250 workflows, portfolio and resource management, enterprise security |
Monthly billing costs more: about $12, $14 and $24 per seat on Basic, Standard and Pro, according to pricing trackers. monday.com says prices depend on your billing country.
Two details change the real cost. Paid plans require at least three seats, so the cheapest Pro account is $57 a month on annual billing even for two people. And seats are sold in team-size bundles rather than one at a time, so a team of 11 pays for the next bundle up. In euros, the page we saw offered Standard and Pro at €12 and €19 per seat as a special offer, down from €14 and €22, so check whether an offer is running before you commit to a year.
Not every AI feature spends credits, and the free ones are the everyday ones. monday.com lists the AI formula builder, which writes formulas from a plain-language description, AI-assisted updates and fast replies in item threads, AI templates and writing help in monday workdocs, the email generator in monday CRM, and summarize and rephrase tools as free of credits.
Connecting outside assistants is free too. monday.com's MCP server lets Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Microsoft Copilot Studio read and act on your boards on every plan, including Free, without touching the credit pool, though you pay whatever the outside assistant charges. For teams already paying for an AI assistant, that can be a cheaper route to AI over their monday data than spending platform credits.
Sidekick, the built-in assistant, is where plan differences show. Standard and Pro include Sidekick Lite, which allows up to 5 messages or actions per team member a day within one workspace. Sidekick Plus, included with Enterprise and sold as an add-on for Standard and Pro, raises that to 100 messages a day with account-wide context, and Super Sidekick to 500.
Agents are the headline feature and the least predictable cost. Ready-made agents cover jobs such as lead scoring, risk analysis, sentiment detection, vendor research, meeting summaries and ticket assignment, and a builder creates custom agents in three steps: describe the role and triggers, connect data and integrations, then test in simulation. Each run spends credits in proportion to its complexity.
monday vibe turns a description into a working app on top of your boards. Building is free; running is not, at 8 credits per AI call, such as each chatbot answer or dashboard refresh, and 2 per integration trigger. A vibe app refreshed by a whole team every morning can consume more credits than most other features combined, and monday.com suggests asking the app itself how many credits it will use.
For most teams, the choice between Standard and Pro has less to do with AI than with automation limits. Standard allows 250 automation actions and 250 integration actions a month across the account, which a busy board can use up in days. Pro raises both to 25,000 and adds private boards, time tracking and advanced columns, along with the AI workflow builder and 1,000 more credits.
A team of ten on Pro pays $190 a month on annual billing against $120 on Standard. If your boards rely on automations that fire on every status change, that difference buys the headroom; if they do not, Standard's AI essentials, including the notetaker and AI columns, cover most needs. Basic suits teams that want tidy boards and a taste of AI, but its limited agents and three AI tools make it a starting point rather than a destination.
ClickUp packs docs, chat, whiteboards and tasks into one app and sells its AI per seat, which suits teams that want predictable AI costs and a single tool. Asana is stronger for structured project planning across departments, while Notion is the better choice when documents and wikis come first and tasks second. Software teams tracking issues usually prefer Linear, which is faster and built around engineering workflows.
monday.com's strengths are adoption and breadth: non-technical teams pick it up quickly, the same platform covers CRM, service and development, and its credit pool lets several departments experiment with AI from one budget. The trade-off is cost tracking, since AI spending now depends on how a whole account uses agents, automations and apps.
Every paid plan includes a monthly pool of AI credits shared by the whole account rather than assigned per person: 1,000 on Basic, 2,000 on Standard and 3,000 on Pro, with custom amounts on Enterprise. Metered actions such as AI blocks in columns and automations, Sidekick messages, agent runs, meeting transcription and AI calls inside vibe apps deduct credits, at rates that depend on the action.
Yes. The Free plan is free forever for up to 2 seats, with up to 3 boards, 3 docs, 200+ templates, 8 column types and the mobile apps. It does not include AI features, which start on Basic. Paid plans also come with a free trial and need no credit card to start.
Paid plans require at least three seats. Billed annually, that makes Basic $27 a month for three people, Standard $36 and Pro $57, based on US prices of $9, $12 and $19 per seat. Monthly billing costs more per seat. Larger teams choose from seat bundles, and the final price depends on your billing country and taxes.
monday.com lists several free AI features: the AI formula builder, AI-assisted updates and fast replies, AI templates and writing help in monday workdocs, the email generator in monday CRM, and summarize and rephrase tools. Connecting outside assistants such as Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor through monday's MCP server is also free on every plan.
Your boards keep working, but metered AI pauses. monday.com sends alerts at 80% and 100% of the allowance, and admins can buy more credits in fixed bundles, at about $0.01 per credit on yearly billing and $0.0125 on monthly billing. A governance dashboard shows usage by person or team.
monday vibe is a no-code app builder: you describe an app in plain language, refine it in chat and run it on top of your monday data. Building and iterating is free. When a finished app uses AI, each AI call costs 8 credits, such as a chatbot answer or a dashboard refresh that reads board data, and each integration trigger costs 2 credits.
monday.com is easier to set up and adopt across non-technical teams, with a visual board model and strong automation and CRM products. ClickUp packs more features into each seat, including docs, chat and whiteboards, and bills its AI per seat instead of by credits. Teams that want polish and broad adoption lean to monday.com; teams that want everything in one tool lean to ClickUp.
Anthropic's assistant, built around long-context reasoning and code. Strong at $20; the usage limits are the unpublished part.
Google's assistant, bundled with storage and Workspace access. Plus is $4.99, Pro $19.99 with a 1 million token context, and Ultra from $99.99.
Visual automation with 3,000+ apps, billed in credits: a free plan with 1,000 a month, then $9 to $29 a month billed yearly for 10,000 credits.