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Four answers, 18 mounts

Monitor Mount Finder

Screen count, diagonal, weight per panel and how it should attach to the desk. Those four answers are what actually decide whether a mount holds your screens, and they narrow this range of 18 to the ones that do.

Answer four questions

Four answers narrow 18 mounts to the ones that will actually hold your screens. Panel weight is the figure without the factory stand.

Why those four questions

Screen count comes first because it is the one thing that cannot be worked around: a single arm will not carry a second panel, and a triple gantry with one monitor on it looks and behaves oddly. In this range 6 mounts take one screen, 9 take two and 3 take three.

Diagonal is the number most people check and the one that misleads most often. The ceiling across this range is 49 inches, but the figure that actually rules a mount out is weight: the heaviest per-arm rating here is 37.4 pounds, and plenty of large screens are heavier than the arm that nominally accepts their size. Weigh the panel without its factory stand, or read the figure out of the manual, and use that.

The fixing question is about your desk rather than your screen. A clamp needs a clear underside and a top of workable thickness, a grommet needs a hole you already have or are willing to drill, and a free-standing base needs neither but takes up desk space. The finder treats a clamp-or-grommet mount as satisfying both of the first two answers, because it ships with the hardware for each.

All 18 mounts side by side

MountScreensDiagonalPer armVESAFixingPrice
Single Monitor Mount, 13 to 32 in13 to 32 in17.6 lb75x75 / 100x100Clamp or grommet$19.98
Single Monitor Arm, Tool-Free VESA13 to 34 in19.8 lb75x75 / 100x100Clamp or grommet$19.99
Single Monitor Arm, 13 to 36 in13 to 36 in22 lb75x75 / 100x100Clamp or grommet$21.99
Freestanding Dual Monitor Stand, up to 32 in13 to 32 in17.6 lb75x75 / 100x100Free-standing$25.99
Single Monitor Arm with Integrated C-Clamp13 to 34 in19.8 lb75x75 / 100x100Clamp only$29.99
Heavy-Duty Dual Monitor Stand, up to 32 in13 to 32 in17.6 lb75x75 / 100x100Clamp or grommet$29.99
Tiered Dual Monitor Stand, 17 to 32 in17 to 32 in22 lb75x75 / 100x100Clamp only$29.99
Heavy-Duty Monitor Arm for Ultrawide Screens, up to 49 in13 to 49 in37.4 lb75x75 / 100x100Clamp or grommet$31.99
Dual Monitor Arm, Tool-Free VESA13 to 32 in19.8 lb100x100Clamp or grommet$34.99
Dual Monitor Stand, up to 32 in - White13 to 32 in17.6 lb100x100Clamp or grommet$37.99
Stacked Dual Monitor Mount, 13 to 33 in13 to 33 in19.8 lb75x75Clamp only$39.99
Dual Monitor Arm with C-Clamp and Grommet Base13 to 34 in26.5 lb75x75 / 100x100Clamp or grommet$39.99
Freestanding Dual Monitor Stand with Tempered Glass Base17 to 32 in22 lb75x75 / 100x100Free-standing$39.99
Steel Dual Monitor Mount, up to 33 in17 to 33 in22 lb75x75 / 100x100Clamp or grommet$59.99
Triple Monitor Mount, 13 to 30 in13 to 30 in17.6 lb75x75 / 100x100Clamp only$59.99
Aluminium Ultrawide Monitor Arm, 17 to 49 in17 to 49 in26.5 lb75x75 / 100x100Clamp or grommet$64.97
Triple Monitor Mount with USB Ports13 to 27 in17.6 lb75x75 / 100x100Clamp only$69.99
Triple Monitor Mount, up to 32 in17 to 32 in17.6 lb75x75Clamp only$89.99

Load is per arm, not per mount. VESA patterns are the ones the bracket is drilled for; a screen with a different pattern needs an adapter plate.

Questions about mounting screens

What is VESA and where do I find mine?
VESA is the square of four threaded holes on the back of a monitor, measured in millimetres between centres. Almost everything in the 13 to 32 inch bracket is 75 by 75 or 100 by 100 mm, and the pattern is printed in the monitor manual or visible once the factory stand is unclipped. A screen with no holes at all needs an adapter plate and is outside the scope of these mounts.
Do I use the weight on the box or the weight of the screen alone?
The weight of the screen alone, without the factory stand and without the packaging. That is often two to four pounds less than the shipping weight quoted in a listing, and it is the figure the arm is rated against, so using the box weight will rule out mounts that would in fact have worked.
Clamp or grommet, and does it matter?
A clamp grips the back edge of the desk and needs a clear underside and a top between roughly 0.4 and 3.5 inches thick. A grommet fixing bolts through an existing hole and is steadier on a thin or overhanging top. Most mounts here offer both in the same box, two are free-standing and need neither, and only a few are clamp-only.
Can I put two different sized monitors on a dual arm?
Yes, as long as each screen is inside the diagonal range and under the per-arm weight limit on its own. The arms move independently, so mismatched sizes are a levelling problem rather than a compatibility one: set the top edges level with each other, not the bottom edges, and the eye keeps its line.