Monday CRM is a project-and-work platform reshaped into a CRM, which is why it can feel like managing boards instead of relationships. Orbit is built the other way around: an all-in-one relationship CRM first, with one AI assistant, Hiro, that drafts follow-ups and reminders. Nothing sends until you approve it. Free to start, no credit card.
Monday started as a flexible work operating system: colorful boards, columns, and automations you can shape into almost anything, including a CRM. That flexibility is its strength. You can build the exact board you imagine.
It is also the catch. A CRM built on a board platform asks you to design and maintain the structure, and it tends to think in tasks and columns rather than people and pipelines. A contact is a row, not a relationship with a timeline. Pricing is per seat for teams, and useful pieces sit in higher tiers. For a solo operator, you are building and paying for a platform when you wanted a CRM.
People look for an alternative when they are tired of maintaining a board and want a tool that already thinks in contacts, deals, and follow-up.
Orbit is relationship-shaped out of the box, and it puts one AI assistant, Hiro, to work on the relationships. Hiro hands you drafts to approve, edit, or dismiss.
Monday is excellent at being a flexible work platform. If your team runs projects, content calendars, operations, and the CRM all on one board system, and you value that single flexible surface, Monday's breadth is a real advantage Orbit does not try to match.
Stay on Monday if you want one configurable platform for many kinds of work. Choose Orbit when the work is relationships and tracking deals without spreadsheets or boards, and you would rather have an assistant drafting the follow-up than columns to maintain.
Orbit is a CRM first. It is built around contacts, timelines, deal pipelines, and follow-up, with one AI assistant, Hiro, doing the busywork. Monday is a flexible work platform reshaped into a CRM, so it is more configurable but asks you to build and maintain the structure.
Yes. Export your CRM board items and contacts from Monday as CSV files, then import the contacts into Orbit and map your columns to fields and tags. Rebuilding the pipeline from your status column takes a few minutes.
Orbit has a free plan with no credit card that includes 250 contacts, one pipeline, unlimited tasks, a calendar, and a built-in email inbox with 100 sends a month. Pro is $14 a month or $112 a year. Monday CRM is priced per seat. AI is included with free monthly credits.
Stay on Monday if your team runs projects, operations, content, and the CRM all on one flexible board platform and values that single surface. Orbit is for relationship-led work where you want a CRM that already thinks in people and deals.
Orbit is free to start, no credit card. Import your Monday contacts and let Hiro draft your first follow-ups today.
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