Colony vs Monday.com: Which is better for teams that want CRM and projects in one place?

Colony includes CRM, KPI dashboards, and a shared calendar in the same workspace as your projects. Monday.com's boards are genuinely good, but its CRM — monday CRM — is a separate product with its own subscription. Most teams that want both end up running and paying for two connected monday products instead of one.

Colony vs Monday.com: feature comparison

A comparison of Colony and Monday.com features
FeaturesColonyMonday.com
All-in-one workspace (Projects, KPIs, CRM, Calendar)
Partial
Built-in CRM
Partial
KPI & performance dashboards
Unified team calendar
Partial
Task & project management
No copy-pasting between tools
Free plan
Starting price (per user / month)
$12
$9
Learning curve
Easy
Moderate
Best for
Unified operations
Visual, board-based workflows

See what makes Colony a better way to get work done

From turning ideas into plans to keeping your team aligned, Colony brings everything together so you can spend less time managing work and more time moving it forward.

Napkin, working across the whole workspace

Napkin can touch projects, CRM records, and the calendar in the same request, because they all live in Colony's core plan. Monday's AI credits operate inside monday Work Management boards — reaching client data means crossing into the separate monday CRM subscription.

Napkin, working across the whole workspace

Built-in CRM, not a second product

Colony's CRM ships as part of the same plan as its projects. On Monday, CRM is monday CRM: a distinct product, sold and administered separately from monday Work Management, even though the two are built to connect.

Built-in CRM, not a second product

KPI dashboards without the tier climb

Colony's dashboards are there from the start, on the base plan. Monday's dashboard widgets are gated to Standard and Pro, and pulling data across several boards into one view gets more expensive as the workspace grows.

KPI dashboards without the tier climb

One calendar, not one per board

Colony's calendar already spans every project and client date. Monday's calendar view is scoped to a single board, so a company-wide view means combining boards into a calendar first — an extra setup step every time a new board gets added.

One calendar, not one per board

Colony vs Monday.com pricing

Monday's Basic plan starts around $9 per user a month, under Colony's $12 — but that price doesn't include CRM. Add monday CRM, which most client-facing teams eventually do, and the real cost of running Monday's full stack climbs past what Colony charges for the same coverage in one plan. For a small team pricing this out, colony vs monday.com pricing looks a lot closer once both subscriptions are on the table.

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