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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 Data Protection Officer

Reads the DPA before the feature list. Optimizes for GDPR posture: EU hosting, subprocessor exposure, deletion guarantees. Rejects anything that cannot answer where the data lives.

monday.com

Stackfield

This judge's pick

Criterion by criterion

Collaboration depth

monday.com

Shared boards, Gantt charts, assignment of one or more owners per task, in-task comments with @mentions and a single shared workspace are all evidenced, and dashboards are documented to compile one or more boards into progress, budget and workload overviews, with a portfolio template spanning multiple teams. Capacity surfaces only as an input to AI task assignment, and we found no public information on guest or client access, permission depth or explicit dependency handling, so team-level planning is real but its edges are asserted rather than shown.

Stackfield

Tasks carry assignments, comments, subtasks and dependencies in four types with critical path and automatic planning, and Project Portfolios from Premium aggregate across projects; Guest and External roles, with unlimited free externals from Premium, give client access alongside permission notes like local links not extending access. What tempers it is capacity: the member perspective shows per-person task counts, and we found no public information on workload or capacity planning.

Reporting

monday.com

Cross-board reporting is genuinely evidenced: dashboards compile data from one or more boards into progress, budget and workload views, are advertised as live and customizable with resource utilization and instantly exportable output, and the API documents creating, updating and deleting dashboards and widgets. We found no public information on time tracking, scheduled delivery or export formats, which is what separates this from a top-band reporting product.

Stackfield

Reports can be grouped by status, custom fields and rooms, exported and printed, with cross-project monitoring via portfolios and login reporting on the security side. We found no public information on time tracking, budgets or utilization reporting, so this stays in the middle of the scale.

Integrations

monday.com

A catalogue of 850+ integrations and apps, a documented GraphQL API with webhooks and tiered daily call limits, two-way sync, no-code connections to thousands of other tools, and MCP surfaces to Claude, Copilot and ChatGPT alongside an app marketplace with SDKs make the connective tissue broad and the platform itself extensible. The captured pages show Excel import and export of templates only, and we found no public information on migration paths from competing tools or on complete export out via the API.

Stackfield

A documented API with JWT-secured incoming webhooks, an email integration, and an Excel import path exist, and Zapier/IFTTT automation is covered webhook-style in a blog guide. But task reading and updating sit behind Premium and organization/user management behind Enterprise, the API handles one request per second, and we found no public information on native Slack or Teams integrations.

Onboarding effort

monday.com

Self-serve starts free forever on up to two seats with no credit card, the free plan carries 200+ templates, the template center covers every industry, and Excel import moves existing work in — most of the signup-to-working-project-within-an-hour story is in place. We found no public information on guided setup or sensible default workflows for a newcomer, which is what the top band asks to see.

Stackfield

Self-serve is genuine: a 14-day trial without credit card, no minimum contract period, and an Excel import that pulls task boards from other tools in. We found no public information on templates or guided in-product setup, so I cannot verify the first hour of work.

European sovereignty

monday.com

monday.com Ltd. sits in Tel Aviv under a NASDAQ listing, so ownership sits outside Europe before the hosting question is even asked. The captured pages give no answer on where the data lives — no hosting region, no data processing agreement text, no subprocessor list, no deletion guarantee — and the trust center advertises EU-US Data Privacy Framework participation, a mechanism that only matters if data moves into US jurisdiction.

Stackfield

Stackfield GmbH is registered in Munich, states it is subject exclusively to German and EU jurisdiction with the US Cloud and Patriot Acts not enforceable, stores data in German data centers, and lets you conclude the GDPR agreement in a few clicks. The captured pages give different figures for where processing occurs — the security page says exclusively EU, the privacy policy says EU plus countries classified as safe by the EU and Data Privacy Framework-certified US services — and Giphy Inc. of New York is documented as an administrator-activated integration, which is identifiable and disclosed but keeps this short of EU-only.

Support & documentation

monday.com

A help center, community forum, a 24/7 support claim and a genuine academy — lessons, badges, certifications, a diploma and events — plus a deep developer API reference make the learning surface substantial. We found no public information on published response-time SLAs, on which support channels ship with which plan, or on a visible changelog, and the pricing page reserves top tier support for Enterprise, suggesting quality rises with spend.

Stackfield

Live chat, email, phone and screen-sharing sessions via Stackfield, TeamViewer or Webex sit alongside a deep help center with video tutorials. The only service level agreement evidenced covers platform availability, and we found no public information on support response times, per-plan gating, or a changelog.

Pricing transparency

monday.com

Every self-serve tier carries a number on the page — Free at "€ 0 free forever" up to 2 seats, Basic "€ 9 seat / month" with a stated "Total of €90 / month, billed annually", Standard "€ 12 seat / month" and Pro "€ 19 seat / month" with promotional amounts shown against list prices — and taxes are explicitly excluded with billing-country treatment stated. The monthly-billing figures are not among the captured prices, the billing-period difference appears only as "Yearly SAVE 18%", and Enterprise is a custom price, so a month-to-month buyer still cannot price their team end to end.

Stackfield

Every tier including Enterprise carries a public price — Starter at € 9, Business at € 14, Premium at € 18 and Enterprise at € 28 per User and Month when paid yearly — with both add-ons priced, a stated 17 % yearly saving, and the page saying all prices are quoted net and exclusive of VAT. The only gap is that the captured pages show yearly figures only, with no monthly-billing price quoted.

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

captured 16 Sep 2026 · Report an error

yes · yes2

captured 1 Oct 2026 · Report an error

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

captured 1 Oct 2026 · Report an error

live chat · support channel · email · phone5

captured 1 Oct 2026 · Report an error