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Freshsales vs monday.com comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 11, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Freshsales
Ranking in CRM
23rd
Ranking in Opportunity Management
10th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
CRM Customer Engagement Centers (9th), Sales Force Automation (11th)
monday.com
Ranking in CRM
5th
Ranking in Opportunity Management
4th
Average Rating
9.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
234
Ranking in other categories
Project Portfolio Management (3rd), Project Management Software (2nd), Marketing Management (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the CRM category, the mindshare of Freshsales is 1.0%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of monday.com is 1.2%, down from 4.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
CRM Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
monday.com1.2%
Freshsales1.0%
Other97.8%
CRM
 

Featured Reviews

Manojkumar Reddy - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Technology Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Automation has boosted sales efficiency and improves follow-ups across multiple customer segments
The automation runs whenever a certain trigger point is met. For example, if the person details captured indicate they are interested in proceeding further, then when we update the particular field, it automatically goes to the next person at a higher level, and then the status gets changed. There are many features including recently enabled AI that gives a brief description to the contact person about what that particular promotion is about. There are also features like auto email getting triggered and marketing emails. All of those features are part of Freshsales.
Shreyans Parekh - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President, Finance and Operations at Fruitist
Centralized workflows have boosted cross-team collaboration and made complex projects manageable
monday.com can continue to improve their AI capabilities. When comparing monday.com to several alternatives when I was evaluating a project and project management, product road mapping, and workflow management platform for us, I looked at competitors such as Asana, ClickUp, SmartSheet, Airtable, and Notion. In my opinion, competitors such as Airtable and SmartSheet, especially followed by Asana and ClickUp, have worked on their AI and generative AI roadmap to combine database functionality with a very user-friendly interface for knowledge management and project tracking, essentially combining both worlds. Their AI is more sophisticated than what monday.com has released thus far. They provide a cleaner task-focused workflow management platform and I think that monday.com can still improve on this core piece of their technology. I think monday.com could also seek to be more process-oriented and intuitive. Other alternatives such as Asana and SmartSheet offer that approach. There is a steeper learning curve to learn monday.com in my opinion compared to Airtable, Asana, and others because I have also used those tools and platforms at other organizations. There is a bit of a learning curve with new users on monday.com because it is not as streamlined as I have experienced with competitors such as SmartSheet or Airtable. The capability sets are great, however, you may need to be hand-held via a monday.com rep when you get started within your organization or view the library of tutorials that monday.com has available. You can also view them on YouTube and that will help you get started on monday.com.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The solution's most valuable feature is its well-organized sales cycle, which is important to us."
"Freshsales is user-friendly, scalable and stable."
"To conclude, the productivity and automation features are the most useful."
"Freshsales is user-friendly, scalable and stable."
"One of the most valuable features is the ability to divert deals based on the potential revenue or specific market to certain sales teams."
"Email integration is easy."
"Freshsales has impacted us positively; it has saved time, increased sales, and improved customer relationships."
"I like Freshsales because it's integrated with Shopify which we use to host our website."
"Automation is definitely my favorite feature as it makes our lives so much easier."
"I love the ability to communicate within the app itself by leaving comments."
"Being able to keep track of everything has never been so easy."
"It gives me an overall view of everything someone is working on. I can go to the My Work feature, click on someone's name, and see all the tasks assigned to that person; their whole workload."
"Monday.com has enabled the department to create boards that help keep the tasks for each sitting and each course in one place and on track."
"The features I found most valuable are the Kanban boards."
"It works perfectly and runs very smoothly."
"Dashboards serve as a visual command center, offering a comprehensive overview of project progress, deadlines, and key performance indicators. This visual representation enhances decision-making and facilitates a quick understanding of the project landscape."
 

Cons

"It lacks customizability for complex and larger use cases."
"The reporting for this solution across all their products could be improved. Currently, we have clients who export their data from Freshservices to third party solutions such Power BI to create more comprehensive reports."
"The reporting for this solution across all their products could be improved."
"We have a problem with the time to delivery for our customers, although this is not specific to this solution. Time to delivery can be 90 days."
"The price of this solution could be improved as well as the reporting functionality."
"We can use only one domain in the basic package."
"The licensing costs should be based on the amount of data and number of clients that one can insert into the application."
"We have a problem with the time to delivery for our customers, although this is not specific to this solution."
"What would be nice is if I had two days between deadlines and adjusted the day if it would automatically adjust the deadlines, even if I had to change one or two that might no longer work, it would save a lot of steps."
"There was one time that I had used CTRL + C to copy one of the text fields, and accidentally pasted it into all other rows/projects."
"Not a suitable solution for complex projects."
"There are no missing features that I can think of."
"It would be ideal if Monday.com had this feature within itself, for example, if an input PDF or image was within it, then with one click the person can review it within Monday.com without going to different software."
"The marketing notification emails from Monday.com are really poor and of little value to the user."
"It would be great to see additional automation rules and have varied fields per subcategory. It could have a few more features when it comes to managing projects."
"Sometimes this option doesn't work as well. It appears to have some error that deletes it immediately and doesn't allow us to change the names of the columns."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The tool is not that expensive."
"The price for this solution is good in general, but in Brazil we do pay additional taxes."
"If one is a very low price and ten is expensive, I rate the product price as a three."
"The basic price is affordable. The add ons are expensive."
"Freshsales is an economical product."
"It was fairly reasonable. For everything we were using it for, it was fairly reasonable."
"I think monday.com's paywalls are a little too high. Some basic features are locked behind the premium subscription. Some applications they offer within their subscription model are locked in an expensive package. These applications provide functionality that would benefit small teams, but it's too much money for a startup or a small business."
"I wasn't involved with the licensing, but I believe it's negotiable."
"I am using its free version."
"monday.com's pricing is fair compared to its competitors, although it is a bit more expensive than most of them. It's more expensive than Jira, Zoho, ClickUp, and Trello. But it is fairly priced when you compare the kinds of features and the capabilities that you get and the ROI."
"The pricing of monday.com was a little bit high for us, especially here in South Africa, compared to Basecamp."
"The project manager would be responsible for any licensing fees. As an end-user, we just follow suit."
"The price is reasonable for the number of users we have."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
16%
Comms Service Provider
15%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
9%
Construction Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Financial Services Firm
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise1
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business180
Midsize Enterprise27
Large Enterprise30
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Freshsales?
The licensing costs should be based on the amount of data and number of clients that one can insert into the application. The number of clients in the tool is 500, which is less in number.
What is your primary use case for Freshsales?
I use the solution in my company since we are interested in the application and all the activities that salespeople do. We track the email, then the appointment, and the feedback from the appointme...
What advice do you have for others considering Freshsales?
I can tell others that it is a good product and it is perfect for medium and large-sized companies because the setup phase is fast, and you don't need to do many customizations apart from the confi...
Do you recommend Monday.com?
Monday.com is one of the best project management softwares available on the market. It lets you create and customize the tools you need to run every aspect of your work. I particularly favor it bec...
What needs improvement with monday.com?
monday.com can be improved by continuing to support automation as we grow with technology such as artificial intelligence, as long as it continues to evolve based on the evolution of technology. To...
What is your primary use case for monday.com?
My main use case for monday.com is project management of various project deliverables. A specific example of a project I have managed with monday.com is with incident response playbooks, where the ...
 

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