Bonsai vs. monday.com

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Bonsai
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
Bonsai is a complete project management tool designed for agencies, consultancies, and professional service providers. It enhances project, client, and financial management with features like task management, team collaboration, and revenue tracking.
$25
per month 1 user (+$10 for each additional user)
monday.com
Score 8.6 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
monday.com Work OS is an open platform designed so that anyone can create the tools they need to run all aspects of their work. It includes ready-made templates or the ability to customize any work solution ranging from sales pipelines to marketing campaigns, CRMs, and project tracking.
$12
per month per user
Pricing
Bonsaimonday.com
Editions & Modules
Starter
$25
per month 1 user (+$10 for each additional user)
Professional
$39
per month 1 user (+$10 for each additional user)
Business
$79
per month 1 user (+$10 for each additional user)
Scale
Custom pricing
per month
Basic
$12
per month per user
Standard
$14
per month per user
Pro
$24
per month per user
Enterprise
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Bonsaimonday.com
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual pricing.Yearly plan: Save 18% Monthly plan also available
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Features
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Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Bonsai
10.0
Ratings
27% above category average
monday.com
8.9
Ratings
15% above category average
Task Management10.00 Ratings9.50 Ratings
Resource Management10.00 Ratings9.30 Ratings
Gantt Charts10.00 Ratings8.40 Ratings
Scheduling10.00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Workflow Automation10.00 Ratings9.60 Ratings
Team Collaboration10.00 Ratings9.40 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology10.00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology10.00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Document Management10.00 Ratings8.40 Ratings
Email integration10.00 Ratings9.30 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking10.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Budget and Expense Management10.00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Mobile Access00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Change request and Case Management00 Ratings9.60 Ratings
Professional Services Automation
Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Product A and Product B
Bonsai
10.0
Ratings
28% above category average
monday.com
9.8
Ratings
26% above category average
Quotes/estimates10.00 Ratings9.80 Ratings
Invoicing10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Project & financial reporting10.00 Ratings9.80 Ratings
Integration with accounting software10.00 Ratings9.70 Ratings
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User Ratings
Bonsaimonday.com
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
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9.0
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
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9.0
(0 ratings)
Usability
10.0
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8.7
(0 ratings)
Availability
-
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8.2
(0 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.6
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.4
(0 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
6.9
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Bonsaimonday.com
Likelihood to Recommend
Great for agency workflows. Maybe not suitable for larger companies with over 200 employees
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Here, I will suggest that it is best to create employees, clients, or project reports. Easy to track with the dashboards. I did many integrations and developments. I can not list each of them here. I will say the best tool for management. I couldn't see criteria of unsuitable. But yes It will depend on the client's requirements. I will suggest it as very user-friendly tool for CEOs, CTOs, Managers, and company owners also for team.
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Pros
  • Business reporting
  • Client management
  • Automated billing
  • Team time tracking
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  • Set stages for each task and assign people to those stages to move projects along
  • Set up automated tasks to get assigned to people and to send out notifications to Slack as well as emails to contractors to work on a project
  • Create multiple boards for projects and the ability to review tasks by date to make sure no project slips through the cracks
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Cons
  • Client portal - could have more customization
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  • Ensuring I have set up a Private board vs public board is not clear - it would be useful to have an additional alert when creating a board as I work with sensitive information. It will eventually be used in a team based environment but while I test the boards, they needs to be private.
  • Time tracking is clumsy, could be easier to record
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Likelihood to Renew
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Teams involved in content creation, such as marketing or editorial teams, could use monday.com to manage the entire content lifecycle. Boards might track content ideas, assignments, drafts, reviews, approvals, and publication schedules, helping teams collaborate and keep content production on track.
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Usability
It's very easy to use even for non tech savvy people and their interface is very intuitive
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It's straightforward to use and simple to understand. They have tutorials on different elements of the system that you can learn. The workflow there is very intuitive, drag and drop, which doesn't require a learning curve for most people. Templates that also make things more accessible can be found.
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Reliability and Availability
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There have only been 2 instances in the past year where monday.com was down.
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Performance
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Everything performs fairly well. Every now and then there are user errors where an employee will not click "ok" on a note they've created and simply exit out (I do wish that something was in place to prevent this, such as a pop "are you finished?")
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Support Rating
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monday.com only really care about accounts that have 20 seats or more. While this is great for monday.com, it pushes smaller organisations to evaluate alternatives. We rate monday.com highly in our organisation because key staff have already got good experience with the application and we know we will get to 20+ seats one day. But, till then the billing model and lack of permanent enterprise features is a dread.
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Online Training
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To have someone walk you thru the features and capabilities of Monday.com is priceless. Someone also coming along later in the contract to see if you are maximizing the program to suit your company needs is beyond helpful. The staff that have provided this training are fun, creative and very patient.
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Implementation Rating
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We signed up for the accounts. Created the accounts. Ran the trial version and tested it live while we were running multiple projects and found that it was fitting our needs perfectly. When the trial ended and we were asked to purchase the full version, we did. We have found other ways to use it and it's a breeze.
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Alternatives Considered
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We decided to go with monday.com because they offered a free tier for nonprofits and because they are easier to use and offered additional features that we could not find on the other choices. Hands down, there was no better choice for us than monday.com.
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Scalability
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For it to work across multiple departments and sites, I would like to see improvements made with integrations and automation. For this question, I am acknowledging not only the addition of internal triggers/automation, but also an expansion on external ones.
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Return on Investment
  • It made our daily operations way more efficient and simplified the overall project management process and working with clients.
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  • By using monday.com as an enablement tool for templated onboarding plans, we have been able to begin calculating the number of manager hours saved through our work (not defined yet).
  • monday.com's reporting tools also allow us to more easily report on the productivity and output of our team since we keep up with all projects and subitems in monday.com.
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ScreenShots

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Screenshot of Work OSScreenshot of Ready-Made TemplatesScreenshot of MobileScreenshot of Visual BoardsScreenshot of Real-time NotificationsScreenshot of Automations