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Blackbaud CRM vs monday.com comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

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

Blackbaud CRM
Ranking in CRM
31st
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
monday.com
Ranking in CRM
4th
Average Rating
9.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
235
Ranking in other categories
Project Portfolio Management (3rd), Project Management Software (2nd), Marketing Management (3rd), Opportunity Management (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the CRM category, the mindshare of Blackbaud CRM is 0.7%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of monday.com is 1.1%, down from 4.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
CRM Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
monday.com1.1%
Blackbaud CRM0.7%
Other98.2%
CRM
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2596560 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Specialist at a educational organization with 1-10 employees
Integrated profiles increase centralization and streamline donor management
We were using it for managing our donor database The solution provided an integrated profile, which was helpful for having everything together available in one place. One area of improvement is the UI and UX, which could be more upgraded. It looks a little dated compared to modern UI and UX, and…
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

"It was stable."
"The ability to export to Excel has been huge for us."
"Now all our processes are in one tool."
"The automation process is one of the best."
"Before signing on with Monday, we had no idea what the total value of our book of business was, and keeping track of renewing policies was very difficult."
"Monday has helped us track our open projects, and complete projects more efficiently for our marketing and sales teams, it also provides visibility into the work we are doing and the cycle time from when a project is opened to when it is marked as completed."
"Since Monday is so flexible, it allows us to maintain projects in our own way."
"The solution has helped us keep track of our work, by helping us keep organized in an environment that is friendly and easy to navigate."
"We are a small business so it really helps us stay organized."
 

Cons

"One area of improvement is the UI and UX, which could be more upgraded."
"It would be great to have better email integration so that you could have all of your inboxes consolidated there."
"The only issue we have now is that Monday sometimes crashes and does not recognize a change we make."
"I have to use a ton of filters to get the exact data I want on an overview board."
"The service could improve in its ability to automatically update."
"Sometimes automation is delayed, which can lead to duplicate items being created."
"While great, the shareable boards lack some features that normal boards possess and that’s a big burden for us."
"Monday can get expensive if you want to add a lot of members to it."
"There are a lot of ways that monday.com does not work, for example, when it comes to HRMS. A particular employee can't apply for leave or check the status of a leave request or check his 401(k) status. Those are things that are missing in monday.com."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"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."
"I wasn't involved with the licensing, but I believe it's negotiable."
"The product is not expensive."
"We tell others it's about $2200 for a ten-person plan and it can be adjusted; it's easy to scale."
"The enterprise plan looks expensive because we don't understand the value as monday.com users. The pro level and other packages seem reasonable."
"It was fairly reasonable. For everything we were using it for, it was fairly reasonable."
"I am using its free version."
"I rate the tool's pricing a six out of ten."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
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Construction Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business180
Midsize Enterprise27
Large Enterprise30
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Blackbaud CRM?
One area of improvement is the UI and UX, which could be more upgraded. It looks a little dated compared to modern UI and UX, and there's potential for it to be more intuitive. Also, the ability to...
What is your primary use case for Blackbaud CRM?
We were using it for managing our donor database.
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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