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monday.com vs Quila

Two fact sheets from our own research, side by side — pricing, platforms, API access and status re-checked by us rather than quoted from the vendors. monday.com starts at $9, Quila at $7. Both have a free tier. Only monday.com ships a public API.

monday.comWork platform of boards, automations and dashboards, with AI agents metered by a separate credit pool.QuilaAI-assisted project management with Kanban boards, task tracking, and templates for recurring team workflows.

Side by side

Factmonday.comQuila
CategoryTask & Project ManagementTask & Project Management
Pricing modelFreemiumFreemium
Starts at$9 seat_month$7 month
Public APIYesNo
PlatformsWeb, iOS, Android, APIWeb
Companymonday.com Ltd.Remodeled AI, LLC
Launched2012—
Last verifiedSep 6, 2026Sep 1, 2026

What our research says

monday.com

The most visual of the big work platforms, and the easiest to get a non-technical team onto. The AI layer is broad — agents, notetaker, triage, workflow builder — but metered by credits, which makes it hard to predict what heavy use costs. Splitting CRM, service and dev into separately priced products means the real bill is usually higher than the headline seat price.

Pros

  • Boards, automations, forms, docs and dashboards without writing code
  • Four product lines share one platform: work management, CRM, service, dev
  • AI notetaker, ticket triage, workflow builder and agent workforce built in
  • Public company with a long track record, founded 2012 and listed

Cons

  • Free plan is capped at two seats, effectively a trial
  • AI features consume a separate credit pool on top of seat cost
  • CRM and Service lines are priced well above the work-management tiers
  • Pricing is billing-country dependent, so quoted currency and figures shift by region

Quila

Quila is a straightforward Kanban-and-tasks tool with an AI assistant layered on top, priced low enough ($7-19/month) to compete with free tiers of larger project managers rather than enterprise suites. It's one of several small AI apps from the same operator, which is a fine sign of a working shipping process but not evidence of long-term backing. The Free plan's one-project, one-member limit makes it mostly a trial rather than something a real team could run on.

Pros

  • AI assistant helps draft project plans and boards from a prompt
  • Starter and Pro tiers are priced well under most competing project tools
  • template library for recurring workflows
  • annual billing discount equivalent to four free months

Cons

  • Free plan's single-project, single-member limit is too small for real team use
  • no enterprise-grade features like SSO or audit trails mentioned
  • operated alongside several unrelated single-purpose AI apps by the same small company, which raises questions about long-term focus

Which one fits

Choose monday.com if you need

  • Non-technical teams who need visual boards and no-code automations
  • Organisations that want CRM, service desk and project work on one underlying platform
  • Teams willing to trade per-seat cost for fast adoption

Choose Quila if you need

  • small teams and solo users wanting light AI help drafting project plans
  • students and freelancers organizing personal projects

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