A monday.com alternative, hosted in Europe
monday.com: A board-based work platform: items in groups, columns, automations and dashboards, for business teams tracking projects and processes. Artavolo is where your team and your AI agents work on the same tables, with no record limit, in our cloud in Germany or on your own server. Here is how they compare, with sources, and where monday.com is ahead.
| Artavolo | monday.com | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $8 a person a month (Standard), VAT included, the same on your own server | $9: Basic, per seat a month billed yearly; Standard $12, Pro $19. At least 3 seats, then in blocks of 5. |
| A team of 10, a year | $720 (Standard billed yearly, VAT included) | $1,440 a year (Standard, 10 seats), before tax |
| Records | No limit, on every plan, the free one included | 10,000 items per board on every plan but Enterprise (100,000) |
| Seats | Per person, any number: 6 people pay for 6 | Bought from 3, then in blocks of 5: 6 people pay for 10 |
| Where your data lives | OVHcloud in Germany, or your own server | US, EU (Germany) or APAC, chosen at sign-up; on Standard and Pro EU accounts may also be processed in the US |
| Run it yourself | Yes, with the same plans and prices; the Community edition is free | No |
| Getting your data out | Any table as Airtable-format CSV or JSON, the API, and full backups | Each board to Excel; the whole account as a zip of boards and files, by an admin |
| API | REST, plus Airtable’s API at the same paths, on every plan | GraphQL, 1,000 calls a day on Basic and Standard |
| AI agents | Each with its own access; their changes can wait for a person to accept them, and everything one did can be undone | See monday.com’s own AI features |
| Where monday.com is ahead | Dashboards that combine up to 50 boards, and Gantt with a critical path. | |
| Separate CRM, development and service products on the same platform. | ||
| Native phone apps and 24/7 support on paid plans. |
monday.com’s figures as published on its own pages in November 2026: monday.com pricing, Board limits, Seats and plans, Export a board to Excel, Data hosting. Prices change: check theirs for today’s. Artavolo’s prices are on the pricing page.
What people moving from monday.com tell us about
- Seats are sold in blocks of 5 after the first 3, so a team of 6 pays for 10.
- Standard includes 250 automation actions a month; Basic none.
- AI is priced in credits for new customers since May 2026.
Tables for people and AI agents
- No record limit on any plan, and the same price in our cloud in Germany or on your own server.
- Grid, kanban, calendar, gallery, timeline, forms and dashboards, and interfaces for people who should see one page and nothing else.
- AI chat that changes records as the person asking, and AI agents whose changes wait for review.
- An append-only audit log of every change, a 30-day trash, and an export of any table at any time.
- Airtable’s API at the same paths, Zapier, Make and n8n apps, and webhooks.
From monday.com in an afternoon
Export from monday.com (Excel (.xlsx), one file per board), and bring the files in: what comes over is shown before anything is made, and a report says what came over and what to rebuild.
- Every item of every board you bring, a table per board
- Each group as a choice of a Group field
- Status, priority and other labels as single selects
- Dates, numbers, people's names and long text