Abstract: The paper is devoted to the problem of exact calculation of the norms in ideal spaces for monotone operators on the cones of functions with monotonicity properties. We implement a general approach to this problem that covers many concrete variants of monotone operators in ideal spaces and different monotonicity conditions for functions. As applications, we calculate the norms of some integral operators on the cones, associate norms over some cones in Lebesgue spaces, the norms of the dilation operator and embedding operators on weighted Lorentz spaces with general weights. Under some more general conditions, we present order sharp estimates for Hardy-type operators on the cones. © 2021, Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.