How to Cancel Monday.com in 2026 — The $36/Seat/Month Project Management Tax
Last updated: February 2026 • Difficulty: Medium
⚠️ Monday's pricing trap: The "starts at $8/seat/month" marketing hides reality. Basic plan is useless (no automations, no timeline, no dashboard). Standard ($10) is minimal. Pro ($16) is where it gets useful. Enterprise requires a sales call. And the minimum is 3 seats, so you're paying $48-108/month minimum even for a 1-2 person team.
Monday.com Real Pricing
- Free: Up to 2 users, 3 boards — extremely limited
- Basic ($8/seat/month): Unlimited boards but no automations, no timeline, no integrations
- Standard ($10/seat/month): Timeline, Gantt, guest access — minimum viable for teams
- Pro ($16/seat/month): Automations, time tracking, chart view — what most teams need
- Enterprise ($36/seat/month): Advanced security, multi-level permissions — custom pricing
- 3-seat minimum: Even solo users pay for 3 seats = $24-108/month baseline
- Annual billing required for best prices — monthly is 20-30% more
How to Cancel
- Click your avatar → Administration → Billing
- Click Downgrade or Cancel Plan
- For annual plans: cancellation takes effect at end of the annual period (no prorated refunds)
- For Enterprise: contact your account manager — review contract for notice requirements
- Export your data before downgrading (free tier is extremely limited)
⚠️ Annual contracts: If you paid annually, there's typically no refund for remaining months. You keep access until the annual period ends. Cancel right before renewal to avoid another year of charges.
Export Your Boards
- Board export: Open board → Three dots menu → Export to Excel/CSV
- Each board exports separately — no bulk export feature
- Files/attachments: Download manually — they don't export with board data
- Automations: Document your automation recipes — they can't be exported
- Dashboard views: Screenshot or rebuild in your new tool
Free and Cheaper Alternatives
- Trello (free): Unlimited boards, 10 team boards, automations — covers 80% of Monday's use cases
- ClickUp (free): Unlimited tasks, 100MB storage — the most feature-complete free PM tool
- Linear (free for small teams): Beautiful, fast issue tracker — best for engineering teams
- Notion: Free personal, $8/user teams — project management + docs + wiki in one
- GitHub Projects (free): Built into GitHub — perfect for dev teams already on GitHub
- Basecamp ($15/user/month flat): No per-feature upsells, simple flat pricing
The Math
10-person team on Monday.com Pro: 10 × $16 = $160/month = $1,920/year. ClickUp for the same team (free tier): $0. Notion Team: $960/year. Linear: $0-960/year. Even Basecamp at $15/user flat: $1,800/year — and you get unlimited features with no upsell tiers. Monday's tier-based pricing means you're always paying for the next plan up.
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