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  "slug": "monday-to-openproject",
  "title": "monday.com Pro to self-hosted OpenProject",
  "summary": "monday charges per seat for boards; OpenProject gives you boards, Gantt, wikis and time tracking with no seat count anywhere in the bill.",
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    "quote": "Pro $ 19 seat / month Total of $190 $220 $19 x 10 seats = $190 ... billed annually",
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    "verified_at": "2026-10-11",
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  ],
  "tradeoffs": {
    "you_lose": [
      "monday's automations marketplace and its no-code automation builder",
      "The polish of monday's UI — OpenProject is utilitarian by comparison",
      "Native docs and whiteboard in the same workspace"
    ],
    "you_gain": [
      "Gantt charts with dependencies and baselines, which monday gates behind expensive tiers",
      "GPL-3.0 with unlimited users — no seat count in any direction of the arithmetic",
      "Time tracking and agile boards native, no add-on cost"
    ]
  },
  "caveats": [
    "monday's credit system (2,000-3,000 actions/month) makes its real bill move with usage; the $19 figure is the per-seat base, so if your endpoint automations burn credits the honest price is higher and OpenProject wins sooner.",
    "There is no monday importer. Export boards to CSV and rebuild the automations yourself or accept losing them — the 12-hour estimate covers the second choice.",
    "OpenProject needs 4 GB RAM and regular updates; more moving parts than the SaaS it replaces, which is exactly the trade the page prices."
  ],
  "category": "project-management",
  "updated_at": "2026-10-19"
}