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Freshsales vs monday.com comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

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
26th
Ranking in Opportunity Management
8th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
CRM Customer Engagement Centers (10th), Sales Force Automation (11th)
monday.com
Ranking in CRM
5th
Ranking in Opportunity Management
3rd
Average Rating
9.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
227
Ranking in other categories
Project Portfolio Management (6th), Project Management Software (2nd), Marketing Management (5th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the CRM category, the mindshare of Freshsales is 1.0%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of monday.com is 4.0%, down from 4.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
CRM
 

Featured Reviews

Cristina Neri - PeerSpot reviewer
Cheaply-priced and does not require much customizations
It is a scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten. At the moment, the tool functions quite well for our needs. Around five people use the tool. In the future, my company might plan to increase the use of the solution. Currently, all the sales people in our company use the product.
Alan Chiou - PeerSpot reviewer
User-friendly interface simplifies project management but it requires stable connectivity
We primarily use monday.com for project management within our department, which includes sales, operations, and engineering monday.com makes it very easy to input any information. The style and format are user-friendly, making it practical for our needs despite some network issues. The need for…

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 user-friendly, scalable and stable."
"The solution is a low-cost CRM product compared to other CRM alternatives."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its well-organized sales cycle, which is important to us."
"I like Freshsales because it's integrated with Shopify which we use to host our website."
"Freshsales is very simple to use, but it's fairly limited in its functionalities, and it's very cheap."
"Email integration is easy."
"The automation feature saves us hours of time reviewing activities, sending reminders, and sending emails."
"The templates were always the best part as not starting from scratch made the process so much easier."
"Integrations such as the one for Slack have helped us receive updates on tasks immediately as they occur by other team members."
"The automation is great."
"The free version provides all the utilities that I need."
"The number one feature is the ability to automate pretty much everything."
"We have project overviews to keep track of each client and project and I can also see what the other managers are doing."
"I really enjoy all the additional columns you can add to your Monday pulses to cater to what information you need."
 

Cons

"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."
"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."
"We can use only one domain in the basic package."
"The price of this solution could be improved as well as the reporting functionality."
"The solution needs to improve the user experience and leads capture."
"There should be on-screen PC/Mac notifications when the website/service is not open on the screen."
"If we could add a new feature to draw the plan as a chart and note priority via color, that would be great."
"Adding more features would be ideal since there are limitations as far as scalability."
"Currently, we run our accounting on Quickbooks Online and we are forced to use their reporting tools to bring out the data we want to see. I would much rather have Quickbooks integration that allows us to more seamlessly pull transactions into Monday in real-time and allow us to manipulate that data on the Monday interface."
"In recent months, Monday.com has been down about once a week."
"Sometimes the limit of parts on a board (500 units) can inhibit growth."
"The mobile app is not as user-friendly and as adaptable as I'd like it to be."
"We'd really like to have the ability to have different types of boards within a board."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The tool is not that expensive."
"Freshsales is an economical product."
"The basic price is affordable. The add ons are 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."
"I am using the tool's free version."
"It was fairly reasonable. For everything we were using it for, it was fairly reasonable."
"The price is reasonable for the number of users we have."
"The enterprise plan looks expensive because we don't understand the value as monday.com users. The pro level and other packages seem reasonable."
"I am using its free version."
"The licensing cost is not that high for monday.com. However, if you need an implementer, the cost is high because there aren't so many monday.com professionals."
"The project manager would be responsible for any licensing fees. As an end-user, we just follow suit."
"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."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
18%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Government
8%
Educational Organization
48%
Computer Software Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
6%
Government
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Freshsales?
Freshsales is very simple to use, but it's fairly limited in its functionalities, and it's very cheap.
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...
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 do you like most about monday.com?
The product's initial setup phase was straightforward.
What needs improvement with monday.com?
If monday.com was cheaper, that would be better because it's quite expensive.
 

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