The Best monday.com Alternative for Teams Done With Seat Bands
One flat monthly price for everyone, so a team of 11 does not pay for 15. Gantt, sprints, time, cost, and invoicing are included, and there is a self-hosted edition if you need one.
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The short answer
monday.com is a capable platform and its visual side is genuinely strong. Teams leave it for three reasons. Seats are sold in bands, so growth costs more than the headline rate suggests. The pieces a delivery team needs, timeline and dependencies, workload, and time tracking, sit across higher plans or a separate product. And there is no on-premise edition, which rules it out for anyone whose data has to stay in house. Orangescrum is one flat price with unlimited users, keeps delivery, time, cost, and invoicing in the same product, and ships a self-hosted edition. If seats, plan tiers, and hosting are not what is bothering you, stay on monday.com.
When monday.com is the better choice
We would rather you find this out here than three weeks into a trial.
- You want one platform for departments outside deliverymonday.com sells products for sales, service, and development on the same platform. We do not have a CRM and are not planning one, so if you want sales and projects in one tool, that is a real advantage.
- Visual customisation is what your team responds toColour coded boards, widgets, and dashboard building are stronger in monday.com than in our product. If the look of the board is what keeps people updating it, that counts.
- You build no-code workflows, forms, and small internal appsAutomation recipes, forms, and the apps marketplace let non-technical people assemble processes without help. We are a project management product, not a no-code app builder.
- You are two people on the free planmonday.com's free plan covers up to 2 seats with up to 3 boards. Our free cloud plan is one project and one user, so for a pair, theirs gives you more to work with.
Why teams move from monday.com
No seat bands, no rounding up
Seats bought in bands mean a team of 11 usually pays for 15. Our price is flat, so you are never buying capacity you do not have people for.
Everyone can be in the tool
Unlimited users on every plan. Clients, contractors, and stakeholders are inside the workflow rather than being emailed a screenshot of the board.
Gantt and dependencies without a plan upgrade
Gantt view, timeline, and dependencies need the Standard plan or above on monday.com. Ours are part of the product, with critical path included.
Time, cost, and invoicing included
Timesheets, budgets, billable rates, and invoices run off the same task data, so what you bill matches what was logged.
Self-hosted is an option
monday.com is a hosted cloud service with no on-premise edition. Our Self-Hosted edition runs on your own servers, private cloud, or an air gapped network.
Migration is done for you
Our team maps boards, groups, items, subitems, columns, and users into Orangescrum, and validates the result with you before cutover. There is no charge for it.
Orangescrum compared with monday.com
| Orangescrum | monday.com | |
|---|---|---|
| Price for a team of 25monday.com Standard at its published monthly rate | $69 per month, flat | $350 per month at list |
| How seats are sold | Flat price, no seat count | In bands, so a team of 11 usually pays for 15 |
| Users included | Unlimited on every plan | Charged per seat |
| Free plan | 1 project, 1 user | Up to 2 seats |
| Self-hosted editionmonday.com is sold as a hosted cloud service | Yes | No |
| Free and open source edition | Yes | No |
| Kanban boards and calendar | Yes | Yes |
| Gantt, timeline, and dependencies | Included, with critical path | Standard plan or above |
| Sprint backlogs, story points, burndown, velocity | Yes | In monday dev, a separate product |
| Time tracking and timesheets | Yes | On higher plans |
| Budget, cost, and invoicing | Yes | No |
| Resource and workload management | Yes | Workload view on higher plans |
What it costs as the team grows
monday.com Standard at $14 per user per month on monthly billing, against Orangescrum Pro Unlimited at $69 per month for the whole team.
| Team size | monday.com | Orangescrum | Difference per year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 people | $140/mo | $69/mo | $852 less |
| 25 people | $350/mo | $69/mo | $3,372 less |
| 50 people | $700/mo | $69/mo | $7,572 less |
| 100 people | $1,400/mo | $69/mo | $15,972 less |
Figures use monday.com's published monthly billing rate for its Standard plan and assume every person needs a seat. Annual billing is cheaper on most tools, including theirs. This compares list prices, not negotiated ones.
Moving off monday.com
Boards do not map one to one onto projects, so we do the mapping with you rather than hand you a CSV importer. There is no charge for it.
- Tell us what you haveHow many boards, roughly how many items, which columns carry real meaning, and whether files and updates need to come across.
- We map itBoards, groups, items, subitems, status columns, and people columns are mapped to Orangescrum projects, tasks, and custom fields, and you see the mapping first.
- Trial runWe import into a sandbox so your team can check the structure holds up before anyone depends on it.
- CutoverThe real import runs, we validate it with you, and your team starts working. Keep monday.com read-only for as long as you want.
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