monday.com is a Work OS for boards, workflows, automations, and dashboards, priced per seat. Native time tracking is listed on its Pro plan, but monday.com Work Management does not raise client invoices from those hours. Keito starts from the billable time instead: AI-drafted entries each person confirms, approved by a reviewer, priced at their billing rate, and turned into invoices and client-ready reports at a flat workspace price.
monday.com is a strong choice for planning and coordinating work across boards, workflows, and dashboards. If the real problem is getting billable hours reviewed and invoiced, monday.com stops at the Time Tracking column: hours are logged on items, then exported or rebuilt elsewhere when it is time to invoice. Keito is the alternative for that job, and on Keito Business it can run alongside monday.com with board and item mapping plus linked references on time entries.
Illustrative billing review
Illustrative billing period
Hours approved
Entries confirmed
204
Client projects
13
Team members
11
Hours tied to client projects
Client, project, task, and billable status on every entry
Approved at the member’s rate
A reviewer approves hours priced at per-member billing rates
Invoice from approved time
Approved hours become invoice lines, a client report, and a Stripe payment link
monday.com teams usually add a Time Tracking column on Pro boards, start timers on items, and export or rebuild that time at month end. Someone then turns the export into an invoice in another tool, chases missing hours, and checks rates by hand. monday.com handles the board and workflow side well; the gap is the step between logged time and a client invoice. Keito closes that gap in one workspace.
On Keito Business, an admin maps monday.com boards or supported items to Keito projects and tasks, then invites the people who will confirm hours. Teams on Solo or Pro can recreate the same client and project list by hand from a board export.
Keito drafts time entries from the work a person did for them to confirm. On Business, members can attach a verified monday.com item reference while recording time. An admin can separately enable recorded-hour totals in dedicated Numbers columns; native Time Tracking sessions remain unchanged.
A reviewer approves billable status before the period closes. Approved hours become Keito estimates, invoices, recurring invoices, and client-ready reports, with Stripe invoice payments.
Work OS or billable-hours tool
monday.com’s Work Management pricing page (checked 2026-10-13) lists Free for up to two seats, then Basic at $9 USD, Standard at $12 USD, and Pro at $19 USD per seat per month when billed annually, with Enterprise on custom pricing. Time tracking is listed on Pro. monday.com Work Management does not create client invoices from tracked hours, so agencies still export or rebuild time in another tool before billing. Keito is not a Work OS, board builder, or portfolio planner, so it is not a like-for-like replacement for monday.com. Its case is that billable time, its approval, and the invoice built from it belong in one reviewed record at a published flat price.
Choose monday.com when the core need is work management: boards, workflows, automations, dashboards, and cross-team delivery planning
Choose Keito when the problem is billable hours: capturing time by client and project, approving it at each person’s rate, and invoicing from approved time
Prove it in one billing period: run Keito alongside monday.com and compare invoices built from approved hours with your current export-and-rebuild process
Workflow fit
Keito keeps monday.com alternative connected to client, project, billable status, approval, and invoice context before the work reaches finance.
Choose monday.com when the core need is work management: boards, workflows, automations, dashboards, and cross-team delivery planning
Choose Keito when the problem is billable hours: capturing time by client and project, approving it at each person’s rate, and invoicing from approved time
Prove it in one billing period: run Keito alongside monday.com and compare invoices built from approved hours with your current export-and-rebuild process
monday.com logs time against board items with a Time Tracking column on Pro. Keito drafts a time entry from the work actually done; the person confirms and corrects it against the right client, project, and task, and marks what is billable.
monday.com prices Work Management per seat, and time tracking sits on Pro. Keito Pro, at $49 USD/month per workspace with no per-user fees, includes per-member billing rates, timesheet and expense approvals, and project-scoped approval workflows.
Keito builds estimates, invoices, recurring invoices, and client-ready reports from approved hours, with Stripe invoice payments, and copies invoices to QuickBooks Online or Xero on Business so the books stay in your accounting tool.
The difference is not just recording time. It is whether the record can support billing, project decisions, and client conversations.
Product shape
A workspace for time and expense tracking, reviewed billable hours, estimates, invoices, and client reporting.
monday.com publishes a Work OS: boards, workflows, automations, dashboards, docs, and AI features across work management products.
How time is captured
AI drafts an entry from the work done; the person confirms it against a client, project, and task, and a reviewer approves it.
Time Tracking column on Work Management Pro for timers and manual entries on board items.
Rates and approvals
Per-member billing rates, approvals, and project budgets on Pro and Business.
Item-level time on boards; client invoice generation from hours is not part of Work Management.
Invoicing
Estimates, invoices, and recurring invoices built from approved hours on every paid plan, with Stripe payments.
No native client invoicing from Work Management time; hours are exported or rebuilt in another tool to bill.
Pricing
Published flat pricing: Solo $19 USD/month for one licensed user; Pro $49 USD/month and Business $199 USD/month per workspace, with no per-user fees.
Free for up to two seats, then per-seat Basic $9 USD, Standard $12 USD, and Pro $19 USD per month billed annually, with Enterprise custom (checked 2026-10-13).
Working together
On Business, map monday.com boards or items to Keito projects and tasks, and link verified monday.com items on time entries. Optional time copying writes recorded-hour totals to dedicated Numbers columns.
Keeps boards, assignments, and delivery planning; Keito leaves native Time Tracking sessions and statuses unchanged.
It is software a team uses instead of, or alongside, monday.com, the Work OS for boards, workflows, and dashboards. Some teams move to another project tool such as Asana, ClickUp, or Wrike. Agencies and consultancies that bill by the hour often need a better home for billable time instead. Keito is that alternative: AI-drafted time each person confirms, approved by a reviewer, then turned into invoices and client reports.
monday.com Work Management lists native time tracking on its Pro plan through a Time Tracking column on boards. It does not create client invoices from those hours, so teams export or rebuild time in an invoicing or accounting tool. Keito covers that step: approved hours at each person’s rate become estimates, invoices, recurring invoices, and client reports.
monday.com’s Work Management pricing page (checked 2026-10-13) lists Free for up to two seats, Basic at $9 USD, Standard at $12 USD, and Pro at $19 USD per seat per month when billed annually, with Enterprise on custom pricing. Keito publishes flat workspace pricing: Solo at $19 USD/month for one licensed user, Pro at $49 USD/month with approvals and billing rates, and Business at $199 USD/month, with no per-user fees.
Keep monday.com when the main need is planning and coordinating work: boards, workflows, automations, dashboards, and cross-team delivery. Keito is not a Work OS or board builder, so it is the wrong choice for replacing those. Many teams keep both: monday.com for delivery boards, and Keito for capturing billable hours, approving them at each person’s rate, and invoicing from approved time.
Each approved entry in Keito carries the client, project, task, person, duration, description, billable status, rate, reviewer, and approval state. Keito builds estimates, invoices, and recurring invoices from those approved hours, accepts Stripe invoice payments, and produces client-ready reports by project and task. On Business, invoices can be copied to QuickBooks Online or Xero for the books.
Yes. On Keito Business, an admin can map monday.com boards or supported items to Keito projects and tasks, and each member can link a verified monday.com item while recording time. Optional time copying sends recorded-hour totals to dedicated Numbers columns; native Time Tracking sessions and statuses stay unchanged. Teams on Solo or Pro can set up clients and projects in Keito by hand and run one billing period alongside monday.com.
Solo includes 1 licensed user, unlimited AI agents, Mac, Windows, and iOS apps, Stripe payments, and standard CSV and Excel exports. Pro adds your team. Business adds integrations, planning, advanced reporting, and stronger controls.
1 licensed user
For independent consultants, freelancers, and small studios running work with AI agents.
Flat workspace price for 1 licensed user
Team collaboration
For teams that need shared workspaces, approvals, and team-level project visibility.
Flat workspace price with no per-user fees
Advanced operations
For organizations that need integrations, planning, advanced reporting, and stronger controls.
Flat workspace price with no per-user fees
Optional Business add-on: Microsoft Entra SSO.
View add-on and pricingAI agents do not require licenses on any plan.
Solo, Pro, and Business can use API keys for agent workflows.
Solo, Pro, and Business include standard CSV and Excel data export.
Start with Solo, add people on Pro when you need reviewers or collaborators, and see how Keito turns tracked effort into clearer reports.
