Work management platform, used for hiring
Primary sources checkedMonday.com Recruiting
Board-based work platform where a vacancy is a board and a candidate a row, with automations, permissions and dashboards that come out of the box instead of being built.
The short answer
- Best for
- Several people running the same hiring process together
- Not ideal for
- Anyone testing the water — the free plan is two seats and three boards
- Price
- Free for 2 seats, then from EUR 9 per seat / month
- Closest alternative
- Airtable for RecruitingWhen you want to own the schema and query the data, and can live with building it yourself
At a glance
- Recruitment fitWeak
- Ease of useUnknown
- ImplementationStrong
- Price transparencyFair
- Value for moneyFair
- ScalabilityFair
Why these assessments
- Recruitment fitWeak
- A general work management platform. A vacancy is a board and a candidate a row, and nothing in it is recruitment-specific.
- Ease of useUnknown
- We have not run a hiring process in it, and we found no independent account of a hiring board in daily team use.
- ImplementationStrong
- Automations, permissions and dashboards arrive out of the box, and the templates give the board a starting shape.
- Price transparencyFair
- Seat prices per tier are published, but minimum seat counts, exact monthly prices and which plan includes SSO are not.
- Value for moneyFair
- Viewers do not cost a seat on the paid plans, but the automation quota on Standard is what pushes teams to Pro at EUR 19.
- ScalabilityFair
- Seats are sold in tiers with permissions and dashboards built in, though the automation quota decides which plan you land on.
Our reading of the evidence on this page. No score, no formula.
Where it sits
- Apply
- Screen
- Team pipeline
- Interview
- Hire
The SourcrLab bottom line
The most team-shaped of the general-purpose tools recruiters use as an ATS: it arrives with automations, guest access, permissions and dashboards rather than expecting you to build them. You pay for that in two ways. The free plan is a demo at 2 seats and 3 boards, and the useful automation volume sits on Pro, so the realistic price is EUR 19 per seat per month rather than the EUR 9 on the page. It still has no CV parsing, no job posting and no retention rules.
Best fit
A team, not a solo desk: coordinators, recruiters and hiring managers working one pipeline, where notifications, ownership and a dashboard for management matter more than owning the schema.
Think twice if
Anyone testing the water. The free plan stops at 2 seats and 3 boards, which is not a hiring process, and the automation quota on Standard is 250 actions a month, which is what pushes teams to Pro at EUR 19 per seat.
SourcrLab assessment
Everything on this page comes from the vendor's own pages, checked on the dates below. SourcrLab has not used this product in real recruitment work, so you will not find a first-hand opinion here.
Why choose Monday.com Recruiting?
It arrives as a team tool
Ownership per row, notifications, guest access and permissions are product features here, not conventions you agree on. That is the difference from a shared board once more than two people touch the same process.
Automations you configure rather than write
Move a candidate to a stage and the platform can notify the hiring manager, set a due date and assign the next step, from a rule builder rather than an integration platform. Volume is metered, but the mechanism is included.
Viewers do not cost a seat on the paid plans
Unlimited viewers start on Basic at EUR 9 per seat per month, and guest access on Standard. Hiring managers who only follow the pipeline are the majority of your audience and they do not have to be seats.
Views for people who ask different questions
Timeline, Gantt and calendar views from Standard, dashboards and advanced views from Pro. The recruiter reads a board, the hiring manager reads a calendar and the manager reads a dashboard, off one set of rows.
Templates give you a starting shape
More than 200 templates, including recruitment pipelines, mean the first board exists in minutes. It is not a hiring process, but it is a shape to argue with, which beats an empty grid.
Main trade-offs
The free plan is two seats and three boards
Free allows up to 2 seats, 3 boards and 3 docs. That is enough to look at the product and not enough to run hiring, which makes it a trial in everything but name.
The automation quota decides your plan
Standard at EUR 12 gives 250 automation actions and 250 integration actions a month. Pro at EUR 19 gives 25,000 of each. A pipeline that fires a rule on every stage change reaches 250 in a busy month, so the real entry price for an automated process is Pro.
Basic is thinner than its price suggests
At EUR 9 per seat you get unlimited items and viewers, but timeline, calendar and guest access all start on Standard. Two of those three are things a hiring process assumes.
Seats are sold in tiers, and prices are per seat
The pricing page quotes per-seat rates against a chosen seat count rather than letting you buy exactly the number you have. Price your real headcount on the page before comparing this to a per-company ATS.
Monthly billing costs more
The page advertises an 18 percent discount for annual billing, so the quoted EUR 9, 12 and 19 are the annual rates. A team that wants to leave after a quarter pays the difference.
Still not a recruitment product
No CV parsing, no job board posting, no career site, no interview scheduling, no duplicate detection and nothing that helps with GDPR retention. It is a better-organised place to keep the same manual work.
Pricing and buying reality
Free for 2 seats, then from EUR 9 per seat / month
- Free: EUR 0, up to 2 seats, 3 boards, 3 docs, 200+ templates, 8 column types, mobile apps
- Basic: EUR 9 per seat / month, unlimited items and viewers, 1,000 AI credits a month
- Standard: EUR 12 per seat / month, adds timeline, Gantt and calendar views, guest access, 250 automation and 250 integration actions a month
- Pro: EUR 19 per seat / month, adds private boards, dashboards and advanced views, time tracking, 25,000 automation and 25,000 integration actions a month
- Enterprise: quoted, 250,000 automation actions a month, multi-level permissions, portfolio and resource management, 24/7 support
- Prices shown are the annual rates; the page advertises an 18 percent discount for annual billing
What we do not know
- The minimum seat count on each paid plan
- The exact monthly prices, since the page quotes annual rates
- Which plan includes SSO and audit logs
- What happens when the monthly automation quota runs out
Checked on the vendor's pricing page, August 2026. Monday.com pricing page, work management plans, euro prices from Belgium
How it fits your stack
Works with
- Integrations metered on the same quota as automations
- Guests and viewers, so hiring managers do not need a seat
- An API, capped per day and rising with the plan
Likely replaces
- A board plus a separate agreement about who does what next
- The weekly status meeting, if the dashboard is honest
May overlap with
- The pipeline and reporting of any ATS you already pay for
- Airtable and Notion, which cost less per seat and do less out of the box
Check before buying
- How many automation actions your process fires per month
- How many people need to edit rather than view
- Whether you need timeline or guest access, which means Standard at least
- Your retention plan for candidate data on those boards
Monday.com Recruiting vs alternatives
Products a buyer would genuinely put next to this one, with the reason you would pick each instead.
Choose Airtable when you want to own the schema and query the data, and you can live with building the automations yourself.
Consider Trello when the team is one or two people and the only requirement is seeing where everything stands.
Consider Notion when the briefs, scorecards and notes matter more than notifications and dashboards.
Move to Breezy HR once you are paying Pro-level per seat anyway: at that price a real ATS with job posting, parsing and a career site is the fair comparison.
Used Monday.com Recruiting?
Tell other recruiters what worked, what did not, and who it suits. Positive, mixed or critical — all useful.
Evidence
- Plan names and per-seat prices in euro — checked against a primary source: Monday.com pricing page, work management plans, euro prices from Belgium
- Free plan: up to 2 seats, 3 boards, 3 docs — checked against a primary source: Monday.com pricing page, work management plans, euro prices from Belgium
- Automation and integration action limits per plan — checked against a primary source: Monday.com pricing page, work management plans, euro prices from Belgium
- Timeline, Gantt, calendar and guest access start on Standard — checked against a primary source: Monday.com pricing page, work management plans, euro prices from Belgium
- Dashboards, private boards and advanced views start on Pro — checked against a primary source: Monday.com pricing page, work management plans, euro prices from Belgium
- Unlimited viewers from the Basic plan — checked against a primary source: Monday.com pricing page, work management plans, euro prices from Belgium
- 18 percent discount for annual billing — vendor claim, not independently verified: Monday.com pricing page, work management plans, euro prices from Belgium
- More than 200 templates, including recruitment boards — vendor claim, not independently verified: Monday.com pricing page, work management plans, euro prices from Belgium
- Minimum seat counts per plan — not enough evidence
- Exact monthly prices — not enough evidence
- Which plan includes SSO and audit logs — not enough evidence
- Behaviour when the automation quota is exhausted — not enough evidence
Last reviewed: August 2026. How SourcrLab verifies information
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