monday AI vs ClickUp Brain vs Linear AI vs Trello Automation & AI (formerly Butler)
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
monday AI
monday.com's agents, assistant and app builder, metered in AI credits
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ClickUp Brain
ClickUp's built-in AI for tasks, docs, chat and agents
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Linear AI
Agents inside Linear that triage, plan and now write code from an issu...
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Trello Automation & AI (formerly Butler)
Trello's built-in no-code automation, with AI from the Standard plan u...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.8 / 10 | 7.2 / 10 | 7.8 / 10 | 6.2 / 10 |
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| Value for money | — | — | ||
| Ease of use | — | — | ||
| ASEAN readiness | — | — | ||
| API quality | — | — | ||
| Pricing | Subscription | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | — | AI trial on every Workspace incl. Free Forever; add-ons billed on all Workspace members of a paid plan | Free plan: unlimited members, 2 teams and 250 issues, with the agent platform and Linear Agent included | Free plan: up to 10 collaborators per Workspace, 10 boards and 250 automation command runs a month; no AI features except the MCP server |
| Paid from | $9/seat/month (Basic, billed annually), with a 1,000-credit monthly AI allowance | Brain AI $9/user/mo billed yearly ($14 monthly); Everything AI $28 ($33 monthly) | $10/user/month (Basic, billed yearly); Business with Triage Intelligence and Loops $16 | $5/user/month billed annually ($6 monthly) for Standard, the first plan with AI |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | 250,000+ customers worldwide | 20M+ users, 100K+ paying customers | — | — |
| Founded | 2023 | 2017 | 2023 | 2024 |
| Maker | monday.com Ltd. | ClickUp (Mango Technologies, Inc.) | Linear Orbit, Inc. | Atlassian |
| Verdict | monday AI works on the boards a team already keeps, which is its real advantage: agents, sidekick and AI columns act on live project data rather than pasted text, and vibe builds small internal apps on top of it. The cre... |
Brain² is the most capable assistant for teams that live in ClickUp: it sees tasks, docs and chat together, searches connected apps and runs agents for multi-step work, choosing between Claude, GPT and Gemini behind the... |
Linear has turned its tracker into a place where agents do work: Linear Agent drafts issues and updates from conversations, Triage Intelligence routes incoming work, Loops run recurring agent tasks, and coding sessions t... |
Trello Automation is still the reason a simple board can run itself: rules, card and board buttons and scheduled commands, with Slack, Jira and email actions, on every plan. The free plan's 250 command runs a month is en... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.