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RationalPlan vs monday.com comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 5, 2025

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

monday.com
Ranking in Project Management Software
2nd
Average Rating
9.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
227
Ranking in other categories
CRM (9th), Project Portfolio Management (6th), Marketing Management (7th), Opportunity Management (5th)
RationalPlan
Ranking in Project Management Software
45th
Average Rating
10.0
Reviews Sentiment
8.4
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2025, in the Project Management Software category, the mindshare of monday.com is 5.5%, down from 7.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of RationalPlan is 0.5%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Project Management Software Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
monday.com5.5%
RationalPlan0.5%
Other94.0%
Project Management Software
 

Featured Reviews

PW
Project manager at WITS
Effective project tracking enhances decision-making but requires improved subtask hierarchy
I would like to have the ability to create more than two levels of subtasks in monday.com. It was a significant challenge as I often wanted to make a task dependent on another group, but it was difficult. It would be more efficient if it were easier to establish dependencies across different groups.
reviewer1976010 - PeerSpot reviewer
President at Jam Works LLC
Easy to understand with fair pricing and lots of unique features
We use the desktop version of RationalPlan, and It seems some desktop software has the ability to share a document as a web view. This would be a nice feature allowing us to share our plans with clients without needing additional software. This may be something that is offered in the RationalPlan cloud plan. However, it would be nice for the desktop version to have this ability to bring it one more step ahead of the competition. As a side note, RationalPlan does have a free viewer as well.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Being able to see the physical status of a single team without having to drill down to the task level is very valuable."
"I like the ability to customize so that we can create a system that works for us, and easily iterate it as things change."
"All employees can access it so everyone is in the know of what jobs are coming in and what jobs are going out."
"The most valuable tools are the search function, automated email reminders, and the ability to track changes through the activity log."
"Monday has been really beneficial in allowing us to place all of our records in one place."
"Automation is great."
"I love being able to set up alerts."
"It allows us to get everyone on the same page at their local terminal without having to sync everyone on ten different software solutions."
"Support is top-notch whenever help is needed."
 

Cons

"The constant reminders are very distracting."
"Alongside the integrations, a Mailchimp one would help to add tags directly from Monday to the Mailchimp account."
"The permission settings require workarounds for some use cases."
"They need to improve the user interface of the automation/integrations."
"The tool is beneficial for some businesses yet prohibitively expensive for others."
"I wish there were better notifications and dashboard views with analytics around the status of projects, etc."
"Maybe they could improve a bit more on how to connect with other apps - especially for CRMs like Hubspot."
"The tablet display is confusing and difficult to use."
"We use the desktop version of RationalPlan, and It seems some desktop software has the ability to share a document as a web view. This would be a nice feature allowing us to share our plans with clients without needing additional software. This may be something that is offered in the RationalPlan cloud plan."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing of monday.com was a little bit high for us, especially here in South Africa, compared to Basecamp."
"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."
"It was fairly reasonable. For everything we were using it for, it was fairly reasonable."
"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."
"I wasn't involved with the licensing, but I believe it's negotiable."
"The price is reasonable for the number of users we have."
"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."
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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Government
7%
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Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business178
Midsize Enterprise25
Large Enterprise23
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Questions from the Community

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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