monday.com MCP Server

The monday.com MCP Server is the official Model Context Protocol implementation from work-OS provider monday.com. It connects MCP-capable AI clients such as Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, or Microsoft Copilot Studio to the monday.com API, letting users query and edit boards, items, workspaces, docs, dashboards, and automations directly through natural language. The project is maintained by the monday.com AI team in the public mondaycom/mcp repository (MIT license), which contains both the npm package server @mondaydotcomorg/monday-api-mcp and a separate agent toolkit for building custom OpenAI or MCP integrations.

Two operating modes: hosted or local

According to its documentation, monday.com offers the server in two variants. The hosted service at https://mcp.monday.com/mcp is described by the provider as the recommended path: no local installation, automatic updates, and an OAuth login handled directly in the browser. Alternatively, the server can be run locally via npx @mondaydotcomorg/monday-api-mcp@latest with a personal API token, for example for offline development, custom source-code modifications, or integration through the agent toolkit. Both paths talk to the same monday.com API; according to the README, the feature set doesn't fundamentally differ, but the operational overhead does.

Two separate MCP servers: Platform MCP and Apps MCP

Under the name monday MCP, monday.com's own developer documentation actually describes two distinct servers aimed at different audiences. The Platform MCP Server covered in this entry targets all monday.com users and, according to the provider, exposes more than 60 tools across roughly a dozen categories: boards, groups, columns, and items; workspaces and folder structures; WorkDocs; dashboards and widgets; filtered board views; WorkForms; user and team management; comments and notifications; search and file access; workspace-level workflows and board-level automation rules; AI agent management; and meeting notes plus sprint boards for monday dev. This is distinct from the separate monday apps MCP, aimed exclusively at developers building custom monday.com apps (app creation, board views, widgets, custom columns, deployment), activated via its own --mode parameter. This catalog entry covers the general Platform MCP Server for workspace automation, not the app-development variant.

Who benefits from the monday MCP Server

Teams that already organize their work in monday.com can use the server to handle recurring queries and maintenance tasks in natural language: generating status overviews of ongoing projects, creating new items on specific boards, analyzing dashboards, or searching WorkForms and their submissions. For developer teams building custom AI agents or automations, the agent toolkit additionally provides a foundation for OpenAI-compatible or fully custom MCP implementations, without having to wire up the monday.com GraphQL API from scratch. Compared to more general project-management MCP servers such as the Asana MCP Server already listed in this catalog, monday.com stands out mainly through the added CRM, docs, and dashboard depth of its work-OS approach.

Authentication and access

For the hosted service, monday.com's own security documentation describes OAuth 2.0 authorization code grant using the same mechanism as other third-party integrations of the platform API; according to the provider, access tokens are neither stored nor logged by the MCP server itself. The local variant instead uses a personal API token from the account's developer area, passed via the MONDAY_TOKEN environment variable. In both cases, according to the provider, all operations run strictly within the authenticated user's context: there is no privileged service account that bypasses existing permissions, and mutations follow the same rules as manual use of the monday.com interface.

Pricing model and plan limits

A monday.com account is required to use the MCP server; according to the provider, a free entry-level plan with a limited number of boards and seats exists, but it does not include API access. The API access the MCP server technically relies on is tiered by plan according to monday.com, with higher daily query limits at higher plan tiers up to Enterprise. Specific quotas and plan names change regularly; current details are available only on monday.com's official pricing page.

FAQ

Is the monday MCP Server free? The server itself is open source (MIT) and the hosted service carries no separate license fee, but it requires a monday.com account with sufficient API quota; according to the provider, the free entry-level plan does not include API access. Current plans and quotas are available at monday.com/pricing.

Hosted or local — what's the difference? The hosted endpoint at https://mcp.monday.com/mcp requires no local installation and uses OAuth; the local variant runs via npx @mondaydotcomorg/monday-api-mcp@latest with a personal API token and is suited for offline use or custom modifications to the open-source server.

What's the difference from the monday apps MCP? The apps MCP is a separate server aimed at developers building monday.com's own apps (board views, widgets, deployment). This entry describes the general Platform MCP Server for boards, items, docs, and dashboards in day-to-day operations.

How are permissions handled? According to the provider, an authorized MCP client receives full access to all tools; in practice, access remains limited to data the authenticated user already has permission to see in monday.com. According to the provider, a self-service export function for detailed audit logs is not currently available.

A monday.com account with sufficient API quota. The local variant additionally requires Node.js v20+ and a personal API token.

Hosted (recommended): add the server at https://mcp.monday.com/mcp via HTTP transport in the MCP client and complete the OAuth login in the browser. Local: configure npx @mondaydotcomorg/monday-api-mcp@latest with the MONDAY_TOKEN environment variable (personal API token from the developer area).

npx @mondaydotcomorg/monday-api-mcp@latest

Hosted: OAuth 2.0 authorization code grant via monday.com login. Local: personal API token via the MONDAY_TOKEN environment variable.

Full access to all MCP tools after authorization; content-wise limited to data the authenticated user has permission to access in monday.com. No separate scope model.

The server transforms tool calls into authenticated monday.com API calls and returns structured results; the connected MCP client decides which data is forwarded to the AI model. According to the provider, OAuth tokens are not stored or logged.

Since all tools become accessible after authorization and there is no additional confirmation layer for write actions, the MCP client should only be used in trusted environments, ideally with an account that has restricted board/workspace permissions.