Depentra vs monday.com
monday.com is a flexible work platform of boards, views and automations used across many teams. Depentra is a planner built around dependencies: what links to what, what a delay moves, and what to do about it.
Last verified 1 October 2026 against monday.com's public documentation.
Choose monday.com if you want one flexible platform for many kinds of team work, with boards, automations and integrations, and scheduling depth is secondary.
Choose Depentra if scheduling is the job: you need float on every task, dependencies across projects below an enterprise tier, and a way to test a delay before it happens.
This compares monday work management boards with the Dependency column and Gantt view.
Dependencies and scheduling, side by side
| Capability | Depentra | monday.com |
|---|---|---|
| Dependency types | All four: FS, SS, FF and SF, on every plan, including Free | All four: FS, SS, FF and SF[1] |
| Lag and lead | Yes, on every plan, including Free | Yes, lead and lag with strict dependencies[1] |
| Total float on every task | Yes, on every plan, including Free | Not described in the documentation we reviewed |
| Critical path | Yes, on the Standard plan and up | Yes, in the Gantt view (Pro and Enterprise tiers)[2] |
| Baselines | Yes, on the Professional plan and up | Yes, Gantt baselines (Pro and Enterprise tiers)[3] |
| Dependencies between projects | Yes, in Programs, on the Standard plan and up | Yes, across project boards (Enterprise tier)[4] |
| Simulate a delay without changing the plan | Yes, the What-If Delay Simulator, on the Professional plan and up | Not described in the documentation we reviewed |
"Not described in the documentation we reviewed" means we could not find it in monday.com's help pages, not that it is impossible. If something here has changed, tell us and we will correct it.
Where monday.com is the better fit
- Very flexible boards and views that suit marketing, operations, sales and project teams alike.
- A large library of automations and integrations.
- Portfolios that roll up many projects, in its Enterprise tier.
What Depentra does differently
- Every dependency type with lead and lag, and total float on every task, on every plan, including Free.
- The What-If Delay Simulator: delay any task and see what moves, the new finish date and the float used, without touching the live plan, on the Professional plan and up.
- Dependency analysis that shows how a delay travelled, task by task, and what sits downstream of any task, on the Standard plan and up.
- Programs that roll projects up and link tasks across them, so a dependency between two teams sits in one place, on the Standard plan and up.
- Pentra, Depentra's AI assistant, answers questions about your plan in plain language.
Depentra does not do automatic resource levelling or time tracking, and has no public API.
Moving a plan to Depentra
Export the board to Excel, then import it into Depentra; import from Excel or CSV is on every plan.
To see your own plan's dependencies first, paste its rows into the free delay simulator: no account needed.
Sources
- monday.com Support: Dependencies on monday.com
- monday.com Support: Critical Path for the Gantt Chart
- monday.com Support: The Gantt Baseline
- monday.com Support: Cross-Project Dependencies
monday.com is a trademark of its owner. Depentra is not affiliated with or endorsed by monday.com's owner.