Comparison
Boardfeed compared with Data Importer
Data Importer is the best-known importer on the monday.com marketplace, so it is the one worth comparing against. This page does that on published facts only — with the page each figure came from and the date it was read.
How to read this table. Every Data Importer figure carries the public page it was read from, checked on 2026-09-11. Where a public page does not state something, the row says no public statement found — that is a statement about the pages we read, not a claim that the feature is missing. Features marked “planned” on the Boardfeed side are on the roadmap and not available yet.
| What | Boardfeed | Data Importer |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Free forever: manual CSV and Excel imports, up to 5,000 rows a month, unlimited boards, 7 days of run history. | A free tier that imports into one board. Their home page states plainly that there is "no time limited trial". checked on 2026-09-11: dataimporter.co |
| Entry paid plan | Solo at $19 per month: unlimited rows, every source, schedules, 90 days of history. A 14-day Solo trial starts on install. | Pro at $16 per month: 100 imports a month, 1 user, 10 scheduled imports, unlimited boards. checked on 2026-09-11: dataimporter.co/pricing |
| Second paid plan | Team at $49 per month: everything in Solo, plus seats for 3 or more people. | Team at $39 per month: 500 imports a month, 3 users, 30 scheduled imports. checked on 2026-09-11: dataimporter.co/pricing |
| Top published plan | Solo and Team are the only paid plans. Both are flat-rate; there is no upper tier to move to. | Business at $79 per month: 1,000 imports a month, 5 users, 50 scheduled imports. Enterprise is priced as "custom" and covers custom integrations and additional security requirements. checked on 2026-09-11: dataimporter.co/pricing |
| Import quotas | No per-import quota. Paid plans are unlimited rows; the free plan is capped at 5,000 rows a month. | Each published plan carries a monthly import count — 100, 500 and 1,000 imports — and the trial covers the "first 3 imports". checked on 2026-09-11: dataimporter.co/pricing |
| Scheduling | Manual, hourly, daily at a chosen time and timezone, weekly, or a cron expression, plus run-now and overlap protection. Scheduling is on the paid plans. | "Import data on a custom schedule, even when you are offline." Scheduled imports are counted per plan: 10, 30 and 50 on Pro, Team and Business. checked on 2026-09-11: dataimporter.codataimporter.co/pricing |
| Sources | CSV and Excel upload, Google Sheets, any REST/JSON endpoint, and API-key connectors for Mailchimp, Stripe, Airtable, HubSpot, Notion and Klaviyo. Ad platforms that need OAuth app review (Facebook and Instagram Ads, Google Ads, LinkedIn Ads) and Shopify are planned, not available. | "Multiple sources from one app" through pre-built integrations, plus "connect to any API without code" for a REST API. The marketplace listing describes the app as importing "from any app (e.g. Facebook, Instagram, Google)". checked on 2026-09-11: dataimporter.comonday.com/marketplace/listing/10000557/data-importer |
| Boards | Unlimited boards on every plan, including Free. | "Unlimited boards" is listed on the paid plans. The free tier is described as importing into one board. checked on 2026-09-11: dataimporter.co/pricingdataimporter.co |
| Upsert by key | Match incoming rows to existing items on a key column, update the matches and create the rest. Update-only runs and de-duplication inside the file are part of the same step. | Not stated publicly. no public statement found — pages checked on 2026-09-11: |
| Row-level error preview | The preview lists every row that cannot be mapped, with the reason, before anything is written. After a run, the failed rows download as a CSV to fix and re-import. | Not stated publicly. no public statement found — pages checked on 2026-09-11: |
| Trial | A 14-day Solo trial begins when the app is installed; no card is needed to start on Free. | No time-limited trial. The free tier is unlimited in time and imports into one board. checked on 2026-09-11: dataimporter.co |
Sources used for this comparison
- https://dataimporter.co/ — home page, including its published FAQ, read on 2026-09-11.
- https://dataimporter.co/pricing — plan table with prices, import counts, users and scheduled-import counts, read on 2026-09-11.
- https://monday.com/marketplace/listing/10000557/data-importer — the monday.com marketplace listing, read on 2026-09-11.
What this comparison deliberately leaves out
- Installs, ratings and review counts
- The marketplace listing renders them in the browser, so the public HTML of the listing page does not contain them and we will not quote a figure we could not read.
- Whether a feature is missing from the competitor
- A row that says "not stated publicly" means we could not find it documented on the public pages we read on 2026-09-11. It is not a claim that the feature does not exist.
- Revenue, customer counts and funding
- Not published on the pages checked, and not relevant to choosing an importer.
If a figure here is out of date, tell us and it gets corrected — the point of citing the source is that anyone can check it. Write to support@boardfeed.co.