Head-to-head review

Freshsales vs monday.com

Freshsales and monday.com both serve crm teams — Freshsales rates 4.5/5 (5,400 reviews), monday.com rates 4.7/5. Pick Freshsales for Sales-led SMBs; monday.com for Cross-functional teams.

Freshsales and monday.com both serve crm teams — Freshsales rates 4.5/5 (5,400 reviews), monday.com rates 4.7/5. Pick Freshsales for Sales-led SMBs; monday.com for Cross-functional teams.

CRM

When to pick each

Freshsales is ranked in our CRM category hub with pipeline diagnostics, TCO scenarios, and head-to-head matrices for monday.com and other stacks.

Pricing at a glance

Freshsales
CRM
monday.com
Project management
Starting price
Free
$9/mo
Free tier
✓ Yes
✓ Yes
Trial
21 days
14 days
G2 rating
4.5 (5,400)
4.7 (12,000)
Best for
Sales-led SMBs, AI-curious teams
Cross-functional teams, Agencies
Top pros
  • + Strong free tier
  • + AI features included
  • + Clean modern UI
  • + Highly visual
  • + Configurable to any workflow
  • + Great mobile apps
Top cons
  • Smaller ecosystem
  • Fewer native integrations than HubSpot
  • Limited content marketing tooling
  • Pricing scales by seat tier
  • Can become messy without governance
  • Reporting maturity varies by product

Strengths by product

Freshsales — strengths

  • Freddy AI
  • Visual pipelines
  • Built-in phone & email

monday.com — strengths

  • Boards & views
  • Automation recipes
  • Dashboards