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Project Management & Collaboration · head-to-head

monday.com vs Stackfield

monday.com

Rest of world

Panel rating

Sovereignty: not determined

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Stackfield

EU-Made

Panel rating

Sovereignty: 3 of 4 dimensions proven

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The written short answer is being updated after a re-evaluation. The scores below are current.

Read this comparison as one judge. Each weighs the same scores by what they care about.

The Bootstrapper

Pays with their own card. Optimizes for price/value at 3 seats and at 30, a usable free tier, and a price page that answers instead of qualifying. Rejects hidden seat minimums and "contact sales".

monday.com

This judge's pick

Stackfield

Criterion by criterion

Collaboration depth

monday.com

Assignments with one or more owners per task, in-task comments with mentions, shared boards and Gantt charts, plus dashboards that pull from multiple boards including workloads, are all on the page. We found no public information on guest or client access with permission controls, which is what team-level planning needs before I call it first-class across the board.

Stackfield

Real team planning is evidenced: Gantt with four dependency types, automatic planning and critical path, cross-project portfolios from the Premium plan, and guest/external roles with unlimited free externals. It sits just under the top band because we found no public information on a dedicated workload or capacity view beyond the My Week member overview.

Reporting

monday.com

Custom live dashboards compile multiple boards into progress, budget and workload views described as instantly exportable, and the GraphQL API can create, update and manage dashboards and widgets. We found no public information on scheduled report delivery or time tracking, so reporting is configurable and cross-project but not a product in itself.

Stackfield

Standard progress reporting is there — grouping by status, custom fields and rooms, task-status counts, cross-project portfolio monitoring, printable and exportable reports. But we found no public information on time tracking, budgets or utilization, and the export format is not specified, which caps it at the middle band.

Integrations

monday.com

850+ integrations and apps, a documented GraphQL API, webhooks, SDKs, an app marketplace, no-code platform coverage and MCP-based connectors for Claude, Copilot and ChatGPT is nearly ecosystem-grade. We found no public information on import paths from competing project tools, which keeps this one notch below the top.

Stackfield

There is a documented public API for reading and editing tasks plus incoming webhooks secured with JWT, an email-forwarding integration, and an Excel import that pulls task boards from other tools. The catalogue is thin: task API access needs Premium, management endpoints need Enterprise, the rate limit is one request per second, and we found no public information on native Slack, Teams or external calendar integrations.

Onboarding effort

monday.com

A free-forever plan with no credit card, up to 2 seats and 200+ templates, plus ready-made setups like Single Project, means a small team can start without talking to anyone. We found no public information on guided in-product setup, so I stop short of minutes-to-value even for non-tool-people.

Stackfield

A 14-day trial with no credit card required, self-serve signup and a genuine import path for existing task boards get a small team moving fast. I hold it below the top band because we found no public information on guided setup or templates, and the Gantt view requires activating the Timeline module before anything shows.

European sovereignty

monday.com

GDPR and a long list of privacy regimes are addressed on the trust pages, but monday.com is a Tel Aviv company publicly listed on the US NASDAQ exchange, and participation in the EU-US Data Privacy Framework is a transfer mechanism rather than EU residency. We found no public information on EU data residency or a public DPA in the captured pages.

Stackfield

A German GmbH registered in Munich, hosting in German data centers, a DPA concluded in a few clicks, and a security page claiming exclusively EU-based subcontractors beyond non-EU control. The captured pages give different figures for where data may be processed — the privacy policy allows EU-classified safe countries and, under the Data Privacy Framework, the USA, and names Giphy Inc. of New York as an in-platform integration — so it is documented exposure, not a closed question.

Support & documentation

monday.com

A help center, community forum, 24/7 support and an academy with certifications, diploma courses, community and events form a strong learning surface. We found no public information on chat support availability per plan, published SLAs or a visible changelog, and the pricing page lists Enterprise support as its own top tier, so I hold it just below the top.

Stackfield

Live chat, a support channel, email, phone and screen-sharing sessions via Stackfield, TeamViewer or Webex, backed by a detailed help center with video tutorials and how-to blog articles. It stops short of the top band because we found no public information on published response times or a visible changelog.

Pricing transparency

monday.com

Enterprise remains a custom price, the only number the page withholds, and the monthly-billing price is never printed as a figure — the 18% delta is stated instead.

Stackfield

Every tier including Enterprise carries a public per-user price — Starter € 9, Business € 14, Premium € 18, Enterprise € 28, all per user and month when paid yearly — with add-ons priced, VAT treatment stated in plain words, no minimum contract period and a trial without credit card. The single gap: every headline number is the yearly-billed figure, and no monthly price is published.

Sovereignty, side by side

Dimension monday.com Stackfield
Legal entity Not determined Incorporated in DE
Ownership Not determined Not determined
Data residency Not determined EU only
Subprocessors Not determined EU only

Facts, side by side

Only facts both products carry under the same definition — anything else would not be a fair row.

Compliance · Certifications SOC 1 Type II · SOC 2 Type II · SOC 3 · ISO/IEC 27001:2022 · ISO/IEC 27018:2019 · ISO/IEC 27017:2015 · ISO/IEC 27032:2023 · ISO/IEC 27701:2019 · CSA Star · TX RAMP1

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yes · yes2

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Legal · Entity monday.com3

captured 1 Oct 2026 · Report an error

Stackfield GmbH · Maximiliansplatz 17, 80333 München · Cristian Mudure4

captured 16 Sep 2026 · Report an error

Support · Channels contact_support · talk_to_sales · help_center3

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live chat · support channel · email · phone5

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