SEARCH INTEREST
Trello gets 79% of Google searches between the two.
Trellomonday.com
- Trello
- -13% 3 mo
- monday.com
- -24% 3 mo
Google Trends, 12 months, searches for “Trello” and “monday.com”.
Trello vs monday.com
PickDuel generated this matchup from public website evidence · Updated 22 Sept 2026
Trello has a narrow edge.
Trello says get it free, monday makes you do credit math
COMMUNITY PICK
Community verdict is still open. The first back decides the Community Pick.
One tap, no signup. Your back moves that company up the community board; more backers make it the Community Pick. The score doesn't change.
WHICH SHOULD YOU CHOOSE?
Both are defensible: it depends on which of these you actually care about.
Choose Trello if…
- you care most about project management22 of 79 reviewers praise it
- you can't afford problems with customer support25 reviewers raise it about monday.com
- you want the costs spelled out up frontclearer on pricing clarity (90% against 70%)
Choose monday.com if…
- you can't afford problems with billing and cancellation19 reviewers raise it about Trello
Worked out from prices read on each company's own site and what reviewers repeatedly say, both linked below. We don't pick a winner: the right answer depends on which of these you care about.
AT A GLANCE
WHY TRELLO LEADS
Trello wins on the boring stuff that actually converts: one clear free-sign-up button and pricing tiers you can read in ten seconds. monday.com has a flashier pitch about AI agents but buries its per-seat cost behind credit calculations and a 'contact sales' wall.
- 1
Free sign-up versus sales-gated CTAs
EDGE TRELLOTrello's homepage leads with 'Get Trello for free' and a button telling visitors signing up costs nothing, both one click to a working account. monday.com's pricing page mixes 'Try for free' with 'Contact sales' and 'Get a quote', which signals bigger deals need a human before anyone sees a real number.
- 2
Pricing you can read versus pricing you have to calculate
EDGE TRELLOTrello's pricing page lists flat per-user monthly rates: $6 Standard, $12.50 Premium, $210/year Enterprise, with plain limits like '250 Workspace command runs.' monday.com's page instead walks visitors through a worked example that multiplies a per-seat price by ten seats, adds a credit charge, then subtracts a temporary discount to reach the total, which takes real effort to parse.
- 3
AI agent story is more specific than Trello's
EDGE MONDAY.COMmonday.com's homepage names departments and outcomes directly: 'Sales agents find leads, send follow-ups, update the pipeline, and book meetings.' Trello's equivalent language is softer, still selling boards and 'productivity awaits' rather than a distinct new mechanism.
HEAD TO HEAD
| Measure | Trello | monday.com |
|---|---|---|
| PickDuel score | 84/100 | 79/100 |
| Rating | 4.2 | 4.0 |
| Positioning | 18/25 | 20/25 |
| Product clarity | 16/20 | 18/20 |
| Trust | 16/20 | 14/20 |
| Conversion | 20/20 | 16/20 |
| Pricing clarity | 14/15 | 11/15 |
| Web popularity rank | #1,838 | #3,349 |
| Share of Google searches | 79% | 21% |
| Community backers | 0 | 0 |
Trello
GOOD AT
Trello makes the free plan and its limits obvious in one scan, and the sign-up path never asks you to talk to anyone first.
COSTING THEM
Its positioning still leans on 'ease of use' stats rather than a distinct new capability, so it reads as the safe, familiar choice rather than the exciting one.
monday.com
GOOD AT
monday.com has staked out a clear, specific angle with AI agents doing named jobs for named departments, which Trello's copy does not attempt to match.
COSTING THEM
The pricing page's credit-and-discount math and the 'contact sales' nudges add friction right when a visitor is trying to figure out what they will actually pay.
THE OVERTAKE MOVE
monday.com should put a flat, unadorned per-seat price at the top of its pricing page and save the credit math for a details toggle underneath, so the first number a visitor sees isn't already a small equation.
Fix it, then rescan in a week to see if the result flips.
QUESTIONS PEOPLE ASK
Which is better, Trello or monday.com?
Trello scores 84/100 to monday.com's 79/100 on PickDuel. Trello wins on the boring stuff that actually converts: one clear free-sign-up button and pricing tiers you can read in ten seconds. The score rates how clearly each public website explains the product, earns trust, shows pricing and asks for the next step. It is not a judgement of product quality.
What does Trello do?
Visual board and list software for organizing tasks, projects, and team workflows. (Based on trello.com.)
What does monday.com do?
AI work platform uniting human teams and AI agents to manage projects and workflows. (Based on monday.com.)
How do Trello and monday.com compare on pricing?
Trello: Details a Free plan (up to 10 boards) alongside tiers like Standard ($6/mo), Premium ($12.50/mo), and Enterprise ($210/yr), noting automation command limits. monday.com: Pricing tiers and per-seat costs starting from €9/seat or $9/seat are shown, though seat bucket constraints and credit calculations create some complexity.
Who does the community back, Trello or monday.com?
Nobody has backed either side yet. Anyone can back one side, once, with no signup. Backing never changes the PickDuel score.
How is the PickDuel score calculated?
PickDuel reads up to three public pages per website and runs one web search. A language model rates 11 specific signals from 0 to 5, and fixed code turns them into a 0-100 score: positioning 25, product clarity 20, trust 20, conversion 20, pricing clarity 15.
SOURCES
- Trello
- trello.com/
- trello.com/pricing
- trello.com/teams/product
- Analysed 22 Sept 2026
- monday.com
- monday.com/
- monday.com/pricing
- monday.com/
- Analysed 22 Sept 2026
PickDuel scores public website communication, not product quality. Backers never change the score. How scoring works
THE SHORTLIST
Almost nobody decides between two. These are the businesses the public puts next to Trello, with the reason each one comes up — checked against their own sites and their public reviews, not our opinion.
- Basecamp95
Project management and team communication software organized around fixed-price, all-in-one workspaces.
- Praised for client collaboration · 6 of 39 public reviews
- Same market · Project Management Software
- Praised for ai features · 27 of 80 public reviews
- Same market · Project Management Software
- Asana80
Work and project management platform coordinating human teams and AI agents across enterprise workflows.
- Already compared head to head
- Same market · Project Management Software
- Already compared head to head
- Same market · Work Management & Productivity Software
- Same market · Workspace & Productivity Software
Free plan, then $10 per seat / month.
- Coda80
All-in-one collaborative workspace blending docs, spreadsheets, applications, and proactive AI.
- Same market · Collaborative Workspace Software
- Same market · Issue Tracking & Product Management Software
$10 per user / month.
The same rules run in both directions: Trello is on 7 other shortlists for the same reasons. Nothing here rates anyone's product, and no business can pay to be added or removed. Something wrong? Tell us
YOUR TURN
Who beats your business?
Your score, your closest rival and the one fix that would flip it. About a minute.