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The European answer to monday.com

More functionality. More control. Better project management.

monday.com Alternative | Classical & Agile | On-Premises

Allegra – the full-featured monday.com alternative

Visual task and project management like monday.com – plus first-class classical project management with Gantt charts, deeper Scrum support, and an integrated wiki. We'll walk you through Allegra and answer your questions one-on-one.

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Allegra vs. monday.com

Why an alternative?

Benefits of the alternative
  • Complete data sovereignty

    It's entirely up to you who you want to share your data with. We guarantee complete compliance with European data protection standards.

  • Fair pricing and licensing terms

    We have been operating profitably for years, and our pricing and licensing terms are fair and transparent. We aim to gain market share through the quality of our products and services rather than through expensive marketing.

  • Innovation through competition

    We listen to our customers. Our innovations are often direct responses to real customer challenges.

Where Allegra leads

Features Allegra monday.com

100% data protection via cloud or self-hosting

Full control over your data with on-premises hosting. Or get started immediately with the cloud solution.

Classical project management

Break projects down into sub-projects and tasks into sub-tasks — essential for classical project management. Interactive Gantt charts and resource planning.

limited

Agile project management

Full support for every agile workflow. Semantic support for all Scrum artifacts like epics, stories, sprints, backlogs, and burn charts with the corresponding actions.

full support
limited

Fully integrated wiki

For meeting minutes, test reports, requirements, manuals, etc.

workdocs only
   

ChatGPT on Allegra vs. monday.com:

“Allegra is significantly more powerful than monday.com when it comes to traditional project management. It offers richer tooling for work breakdown structures, Gantt charts, and the Earned Value Method, making it the better choice for projects that rely on these classical techniques. Both tools support agile workflows, but Allegra provides a deeper, semantically integrated Scrum implementation — including sprints, backlogs, and burn charts — whereas monday.com's sprint boards are configured on top of generic boards rather than native Scrum artifacts. monday.com shines as a highly visual, easy-to-adopt work-management platform for cross-functional teams, but it doesn't offer the same depth, hierarchy, or self-hosting capability as Allegra.”

Data Privacy

GDPR Compliant with Full Data Sovereignty

Run Allegra GDPR compliant – in the cloud or on your own infrastructure.

On Your Server

  • Run Allegra on your own server
  • Keep full control over your data
  • Runs on all platforms (VMs, Docker)

In the Allegra Cloud

  • Ready to use immediately
  • GDPR & ISO 27001 compliant in a German cloud
  • Switch to self-hosting at any time

Allegra vs. monday.com in detail

A direct feature comparison for teams that want to unite classical and agile project management in a single tool.

Feature Allegra monday.com
Operation
On-premises / self-hosting for full data protection
Cloud / SaaS for easy use
European data-protection compliance
Meets requirements, but may store data outside the EU
All customer data stored exclusively in the EU
Only on Enterprise tier; Standard/Pro may process data in the US
Classical project management
Work packages with unlimited depth
Gantt charts
Dependencies and critical path only on Pro+ tiers
Resource planning
Workload view only on higher tiers
Earned Value method
Agile project management
Full Scrum support
Sprint boards via templates, no native Scrum semantics
Backlogs, epics and stories
Modeled as generic items, not first-class artifacts
Sprints and releases
Only in monday dev product, not Work Management
Burn charts
Only in monday dev product, not Work Management
Kanban / task boards
Project configuration
Project templates with predefined tasks
Copy complete projects
Sub-projects with unlimited depth
Boards can be grouped in folders, but no true sub-project hierarchy
Issues and issue types
Various issue types such as tasks, tickets, actions etc.
Custom issue types
Type-specific forms and workflows
Issue hierarchies
Sub-tasks with unlimited depth
Restriction of issue types that can be used as sub-tasks
Notifications
Detailed control over the notifications the system sends to users
Per event type and channel only; no field- or workflow-level granularity
Roles and permissions
Role-based access to projects and issues
Fine-grained permissions so a user can read and edit only some fields in a form
Column-level edit OR view only; no field-level granularity
Custom roles with dedicated permissions
Only on Enterprise tier
Fields / attributes
Custom fields
Custom field type for multi-select (options)
Custom field type to select a user from a specific user group
Different default values for fields in different projects possible
Per-board, but template defaults stay linked across all boards spawned from it
Forms / input masks
Custom forms
Forms with arbitrarily many custom tabs and panels
Different forms for creating and editing an issue
Different forms can be used for the same issue type in different projects
Links / dependencies
Link issues together, e.g. to indicate dependencies
Define links that ensure an issue cannot be closed while the linked issue is still open
Create custom link types
Cockpit / Dashboard
Strong support for custom cockpits / dashboards
Every user can configure their own cockpit
Cockpit templates for a quick start
Reporting
Template-based reporting
Microsoft Power BI integration
Only via third-party marketplace connectors; no native integration
Generation of reports in PDF and Excel format
Export only, no template-driven report generation
User management
Synchronization of the user base with a directory server
SCIM provisioning on Enterprise tier only
Connection to more than one LDAP server
Single sign-on support
Two-factor authentication
Interfaces
Comprehensive REST API
GraphQL API; some endpoints rate-limited per tier
Creation and modification of projects via the REST API
Run queries via the REST API
Plug-ins for cockpit / dashboard widgets
Marketplace apps; no native widget SDK with the same depth
Plug-ins for field types
Other
Integrated wiki
Only workdocs — not a hierarchical wiki
   

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Greater Transparency for Every Decision Level

For Executive Management

  • Complete overview of all ongoing work
  • Informed decisions based on up-to-date data
  • Fewer escalations and ad-hoc meetings

For CTOs & Heads of IT

  • Reduced system landscape
  • Fewer interfaces and integration effort
  • Unified data structure and higher operational reliability

For Department Heads

  • Clear priorities and dependencies
  • Better resource planning
  • Noticeably fewer coordination loops

Designed for Simple to Complex Organizations

Electronics Industry

For project management, order management, quality management, change management, and customer service.

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Engineering/Mechanical Engineering

For project management, order management, quality management, and customer service.

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Software Development

For issue tracking, agile, classic, and hybrid project management, DevOps.

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Auditors and Controlling

For managing annual tasks related to accounting and for general task management.

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Government and Administration

For security incident management, project management, order management, approval workflows, and change management.

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Defense Industry

For project management, order management, quality management, and change management.

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Allegra works with many systems

Numerous useful interfaces make working with Allegra pleasant and effective.

Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Power BI
Microsoft Power BI
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Entra ID
Microsoft Entra ID
Slack
Slack
Microsoft Dynamics
Microsoft Dynamics
Eclipse
Eclipse
Git
Git
GitLab
GitLab
Mantis
Mantis
SonarQube
SonarQube
Subversion
Subversion

What Our Customers Say

Discover why companies across various industries trust Allegra.

"We have been using Allegra software at DUNGS Combustion Controls for several years, managing a large portion of our tasks and projects — across multiple locations and continents. It's truly impressive how the software has evolved over the past years."

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Stephan Arnold

DUNGS Combustion Controls

"We have been working with Allegra for over 3 years. We have customized the system to our requirements so that we can plan and manage our many projects effectively, with minimal effort and great reliability. An indispensable tool for our project managers and development teams."

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Aglaia Eck

Helios Ventilatoren

"We have been working with Allegra for over 2 years. The platform was customized to our specifications, allowing us to manage and archive all advertising projects. Whether creating statistics or conducting research, all information can be reliably found in Allegra. Highly recommended."

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Monika Kraft

Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG