monday.com Pro, 15 seats → OpenProject, self-hosted
Switch. At $50 an hour, OpenProject saves you $7,132 over 3 years.
Worth doing only if your hour is worth less than
$198.59/hrBelow that rate, moving to OpenProject pays for itself inside 3 years. Above it, your time is worth more than the saving, and you should stay on monday.com Pro.
Every figure on this page updates as you move these. Most comparisons of this kind quietly assume your time is free and your team never changes size.
What you pay now
| monday.com Pro $19.00/month × 15 seats, billed annual | $285.00 |
| Every month | $285.00 |
What the escape costs
| Vultr vc2-2c-4gb 2 vCPU · 4 GB RAM · 80 GB disk · 3 TB transfer · $300 of credit for your first 30 days via our referral link | $20.00 |
| Backblaze B2 backup 30 GB at $0.00695/GB/month | $0.21 |
| Your time 1 h/month keeping it patched and backed up | $50.00 |
| Every month | $70.21 |
| Migration, once 12 hours of your time, our estimate | $600.00 |
The same box elsewhere, if you already have an account. The arithmetic above uses the cheapest.
- Vultr $20.00 vc2-2c-4gb · used above · $300 of credit for your first 30 days
- Linode $24.00 Linode 4GB
- DigitalOcean $24.00 2 vCPU · 4 GB
The difference
| Saved each month | $214.79 |
| After one year | $1,978 |
| After 3 years | $7,132 |
What you give up, and what you get
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
Read this before you decide
- 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.
Is the project alive?
opf/openproject has 16,464 stars, was last pushed 0 days ago, and last cut a release (v17.9.2) 4 days ago. Licence: GPL-3.0. We rate it active. We do not publish comparisons against software that has gone dormant, however good the arithmetic looks.
Every number above comes from one of these, on the date shown. The monday.com figure is the site's own wording: “Pro $ 19 seat / month Total of $190 $220 $19 x 10 seats = $190 ... billed annually”.
| monday.com pricing page | 11 Oct 2026 |
| Vultr plan catalogue affiliate link | 19 Oct 2026 |
| Backblaze B2 pricing | 3 Sept 2026 |
| opf/openproject activity | 19 Oct 2026 |
Hosting requirements (2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB disk), migration hours and maintenance hours are our estimates, not measurements. They are the numbers most worth arguing with, so we put them where you can see them. The cheapest plan meeting those requirements is selected automatically from Vultr, Vultr and Linode's live catalogues.