Monday.com
Taiga
| Feature | Monday.com | Taiga |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free / from $9/mo | Free / from $5/mo |
| Free Plan | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Rating | 4.5 / 5 | 4.2 / 5 |
| Best For | teams, enterprise, sales-teams, marketing-teams | agile-teams, open-source-advocates, startups, scrum-teams |
| Founded | 2012 | 2014 |
| Boards | ✓ | ✗ |
| Automations | ✓ | ✗ |
| Dashboards | ✓ | ✗ |
| Integrations | ✓ | ✗ |
| Crm | ✓ | ✗ |
| Forms | ✓ | ✗ |
| Scrum Boards | ✗ | ✓ |
| Kanban | ✗ | ✓ |
| Epics | ✗ | ✓ |
| User Stories | ✗ | ✓ |
| Sprint Planning | ✗ | ✓ |
| Wiki | ✗ | ✓ |
✓ Monday.com Pros
- Visual and intuitive
- Great automations
- CRM built-in
- Beautiful dashboards
✗ Monday.com Cons
- Expensive at scale
- Free plan is very limited
- Minimum 3 seats
✓ Taiga Pros
- Fully open-source and self-hostable
- Beautiful modern interface
- Both Scrum and Kanban support
- Very affordable premium tier
✗ Taiga Cons
- Smaller community than Jira
- Fewer integrations
- Limited reporting features
The Verdict
Monday.com is built for teams and enterprise, with a focus on boards and automations. Taiga targets agile teams and open source advocates and leads with scrum-boards and kanban.
Pricing is close: Taiga starts at $5/mo versus $9/mo for Monday.com — not a deciding factor on its own.
Both offer free plans, so you can test each with your real workflow before committing to a subscription.
Bottom line: Monday.com has a slight overall edge — but if fully open-source and self-hostable matters most to you, Taiga may still be the right call.
