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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

"One of the most valuable features is the ability to divert deals based on the potential revenue or specific market to certain sales teams."
"Freshsales is very simple to use, but it's fairly limited in its functionalities, and it's very cheap."
"Freshsales has impacted us positively; it has saved time, increased sales, and improved customer relationships."
"Email integration is easy."
"Freshsales is user-friendly, scalable and stable."
"The solution is a low-cost CRM product compared to other CRM alternatives."
"Freshsales is user-friendly, scalable and stable."
"I like Freshsales because it's integrated with Shopify which we use to host our website."
"Monday.com has provided a centralized and easy-to-use area for my team to store all of our information and collaborate together."
"We can have different boards for different needs."
"In terms of being more organized, Monday has greatly improved overall productivity in the workplace."
"Monday has given us a process around how we manage sales leads, marketing, social media promotion, and event setup and implementation."
"It's nice that there's a single point of truth for all of our projects."
"Monday is totally worth it in terms of benefits vs price."
"I love being able to set up alerts."
"Our company switched to Monday four years ago and it changed our everyday lives."
 

Cons

"It lacks customizability for complex and larger use cases."
"We can use only one domain in the basic package."
"We have a problem with the time to delivery for our customers, although this is not specific to this solution."
"The price of this solution could be improved as well as the reporting functionality."
"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 licensing costs should be based on the amount of data and number of clients that one can insert into the application."
"The solution needs to improve the user experience and leads capture."
"The reporting for this solution across all their products could be improved."
"The export options are also not yet flexible and comprehensive enough."
"The ability to implement a timetabling functionality would be really useful for an education provider."
"There are infrequent periods of downtime which can have an impact on our usage."
"Adding more features would be ideal since there are limitations as far as scalability."
"Monday, the service, can be improved with even greater integration and configuration."
"There have recently been a lot of lagging and loading delays with saving."
"Now, we are using a cloud option and then we send the link on Monday to the other team members. It was too slow and with some bugs sometimes."
"I'm unable to send messages or update any projects from my tablet or cell phone which makes it hard when you are in the field all day and can't be at your desk."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"Freshsales is an economical product."
"The tool is not that expensive."
"The basic price is affordable. The add ons are expensive."
"I am using the tool's free version."
"I rate the tool's pricing a six out of ten."
"It's definitely affordable. I don't think it is necessarily the cheapest, but it's definitely not the most expensive. The price is well worth the value that we get out of it."
"monday.com is pretty affordable. It's cheaper than Asana. There are four tiers, including a free version. The free version is fine if you don't have any complex projects. One of the most advanced plans is around $16 per month per user."
"The pricing is totally fair. I don't have any issues with it."
"The solution is quite inexpensive. For example, we pay $8,500 for 75 users. It's somewhere around $100 a user, approximately."
"We tell others it's about $2200 for a ten-person plan and it can be adjusted; it's easy to scale."
"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
14%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
9%
Construction Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Outsourcing Company
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 product is up to the mark and everything we need right now.
What is your primary use case for Freshsales?
Freshsales is our CRM tool and CRM platform. Whenever we want to sell a product to a customer or when they inquire on any promotion site, we get the customer details over Freshsales, and based on t...
What advice do you have for others considering Freshsales?
Freshsales is a must-go product if you are considering a low budget and highly scalable product. I would rate this review as a nine.
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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