monday.com API
monday.com GraphQL API — programmatic access to boards, items, columns, and automations in the visual work management platform, enabling agents to create items, update statuses, and query project data across team workspaces.
Score Breakdown
⚙ Agent Friendliness
🔒 Security
SOC2 Type II, ISO 27001, HIPAA BAA available. GDPR compliant. OAuth 2.0 with scopes for third-party apps. US and EU data residency options. Enterprise audit logs available. Strong enterprise security posture.
⚡ Reliability
Best When
Your team already uses monday.com and you need agents to automate item creation, status updates, and cross-platform data sync.
Avoid When
You need a free project management API or code-first workflow tools — Linear or GitHub Projects are more developer-friendly.
Use Cases
- • Agents creating monday.com items from external triggers (Slack messages, emails, form submissions) for task tracking
- • Status automation — agents updating item statuses based on external system events (deployment complete, ticket resolved)
- • Board querying — agents reading project data to generate progress reports or identify overdue items for notifications
- • Cross-platform sync — agents keeping monday.com boards in sync with Jira, GitHub Issues, or Salesforce records
- • Bulk data operations — agents importing large datasets as board items for project initialization or data migration
Not For
- • Developer-centric task tracking — Linear or GitHub Issues are better for software teams who prefer code-adjacent tools
- • Complex software project management — Jira has better sprint/epic/story support for agile software development
- • Free-tier projects — monday.com requires paid plan for API access; use Trello for free alternatives
Interface
Authentication
Personal API token from monday.com settings. OAuth 2.0 for multi-user apps. Scopes control access to boards, users, updates. API token tied to a specific user's board permissions.
Pricing
API access requires paid plan (Basic+). Free plan does not include API. 14-day trial available. API rate limits vary by plan tier.
Agent Metadata
Known Gotchas
- ⚠ GraphQL-only API — agents must construct GraphQL queries rather than simple REST calls
- ⚠ Column value format varies by column type — status, date, text, people columns have different JSON structures
- ⚠ Board structure must be understood before writing — column IDs required to set values (not column names)
- ⚠ Complexity limits on GraphQL queries — large nested queries can exceed complexity budget and return errors
- ⚠ monday.com API version is required in requests — always specify API-Version header to avoid breaking changes
Alternatives
Full Evaluation Report
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Scores are editorial opinions as of 2026-03-06.