Should I self-host monday.com?
Same per-seat math and same replacement as Asana: OpenProject (or Leantime for something lighter). The invoice scales with your team; the self-hosted ops cost doesn't. The migration and retraining are the honest price.
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* Percent of the subscription price. Your time is priced at the slider's rate — $0/h ("my homelab time is free and I love it") is a legitimate position. Every number is derived from the record, never hand-written. Price source, checked 2026-08-07.
Runs comfortably on a real VPS (2 GB+).
# OpenProject — heavyweight PM; all-in-one image (slow first boot, seeds its DB)
services:
openproject:
image: openproject/openproject:16
container_name: openproject
restart: unless-stopped
environment:
OPENPROJECT_HOST__NAME: localhost:8110
OPENPROJECT_HTTPS: "false"
OPENPROJECT_SECRET_KEY_BASE: 0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef
ports:
- "8110:80"
volumes:
- openproject-data:/var/openproject/assets
- openproject-db:/var/openproject/pgdata
healthcheck:
test: ["CMD-SHELL", "curl -sf http://localhost:80/health_check >/dev/null || exit 1"]
interval: 15s
timeout: 15s
retries: 60
start_period: 180s
volumes:
openproject-data:
openproject-db:
Want a guided install instead? caniselfhostit.com/monday-com has AI-agent prompts that assume a bare machine — that's their half of the stool, and it's good.
FULL TIMED LOG
# monday.com — verdict log - **Date:** 2026-08-10 - **Verdict:** KINDA — worth it if… - **Protocol:** v1 (2GB reference env, Docker preinstalled, AI assistant: claude-code) ## Setup evidence (shared) - This verdict rides on the same replacement verified for `asana-openproject` — see `compose/asana-openproject.yml` and its log. ## The call Same per-seat math and same replacement as Asana: OpenProject (or Leantime for something lighter). The invoice scales with your team; the self-hosted ops cost doesn't. The migration and retraining are the honest price.