Airtable describes itself as one space for teams, workflows and agents, with no-code app building on top of the database it calls HyperDB and AI agents that act across records. Pricing follows seats. Free is aimed at individuals and very small teams. Team is $20 per user a month billed annually. Business is $45 per user a month billed annually. Enterprise Scale is custom. Charges apply to users who hold edit permissions on at least one base, while read-only collaborators, form submissions and share links stay free, and seats added mid-cycle are prorated.
TL;DR
Both products sell seats but meter different work. Airtable bills editing seats on top of a Free plan: Team is $20 per user a month billed annually, Business is $45 per user a month billed annually, and Enterprise Scale is custom, while read-only collaborators, form submissions and share links are not charged. Asana prices a work graph instead: Personal is free for up to two people, Starter is $10.99 per user a month billed annually ($13.49 billed monthly), Advanced is $24.99 ($30.49 billed monthly) and Enterprise is quoted, with Enterprise+ adding SIEM integration, data residency and audit logs. Airtable is strongest when the unit of work is a record that feeds apps, automations and agents; Asana is strongest when the unit of work is a task, a project and a deadline.
Asana describes itself as an operating system for human-agent teams, built around a Work Graph that connects people, tasks, projects, goals and dependencies. Personal is free for one or two people. Starter is $10.99 per user a month billed annually, or $13.49 billed monthly. Advanced is $24.99 per user a month billed annually, or $30.49 billed monthly. Enterprise is quoted, and Enterprise+ adds SIEM integration, data residency, audit logs and dedicated workspaces. AI is metered on top: Starter and Advanced include 5 AI requests per user a month up to 50 per account, with further requests pre-paid at $0.50 each or sold as an add-on at $5.99 per user a month billed annually ($0.60 per request billed monthly).
The seat gap is real, since Asana's Starter at $10.99 undercuts Airtable's Team at $20, but the two products replace different things. Airtable stores structured records and builds interfaces, automations and agents on them, so it can stand in for a lightweight internal app that would otherwise need a developer. Asana tracks the plan of work: who owns what, by when, and how it rolls up into goals, with agent identity, scoped permissions and an audit trail for the agents you run. Choose Airtable when the data model is the product, and Asana when the schedule is.
| Feature | Airtable | Asana |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | Free plan for individuals and very small teams | Personal plan, free for up to two people |
| Entry paid seat | Team at $20 per user a month billed annually | Starter at $10.99 per user a month billed annually ($13.49 monthly) |
| Mid tier | Business at $45 per user a month billed annually | Advanced at $24.99 per user a month billed annually ($30.49 monthly) |
| Top tier | Enterprise Scale, custom pricing | Enterprise and Enterprise+, quoted |
| Billing unit | Editing seats; read-only collaborators, form submissions and share links are free | Seats, with AI requests metered separately |
| AI pricing | AI runs inside Airtable on models from OpenAI, Gemini, Llama and Anthropic | 5 AI requests per user a month included up to 50 per account, then $0.50 per pre-paid request or $5.99 per user a month |
| Core model | No-code apps and interfaces on HyperDB records | Work Graph of tasks, projects, goals and dependencies |
| Agents | Agents that act across records inside Airtable's AWS environment | Agent identity, scoped permissions and audit trail with AI Teammates |
| Governance | Admin roles, RBAC and IDP-synced groups on Business and Enterprise Scale | Enterprise+ adds SIEM integration, data residency and audit logs |
| Best fit | Teams whose work is structured data that needs apps and automations | Teams whose work is tasks, deadlines and portfolio reporting |
Pick Airtable if
Airtable earns its $20 per user a month when what you track has structure: records with relationships, views different teams need, automations that fire on change and interfaces non-technical colleagues can use. Free is a genuine starting point, Team at $20 per user a month billed annually is the workhorse, and Business at $45 per user a month billed annually adds the admin controls and data scale departments ask for. Because read-only collaborators are free, the seat count tends to track the people who change data rather than everyone who reads it. The trade is that every editor is a $20 seat and you are buying a data platform even if all you wanted was a task list.
Pick Asana if
Asana is the cheaper paid seat and the better fit when the work is tasks, owners and dates. Starter at $10.99 per user a month billed annually undercuts Airtable's Team plan by roughly half, Advanced at $24.99 per user a month billed annually adds the reporting layer, and Enterprise+ covers compliance cases with SIEM integration, data residency and audit logs. AI is billed transparently rather than bundled: five requests per user a month are included, extra requests cost $0.50 pre-paid, or you take the $5.99 per user a month add-on. What Asana does not do is hold your data as records you can build apps on, so if the database is the deliverable, this is the wrong tool.
Neither vendor publishes third-party review data we are willing to restate as fact, and we did not run either product. Every figure here comes from the two vendors' own pricing and product pages as published when this comparison was written. The lists headed 'vendor-published claims' are the vendors' own statements, not user reviews.
Per seat, Asana is cheaper. Starter is $10.99 per user a month billed annually ($13.49 billed monthly) and Advanced is $24.99 ($30.49 monthly), while Airtable's Team plan is $20 per user a month billed annually and Business is $45. Asana also has a free Personal plan for up to two people. The picture changes if Airtable replaces a separate database or internal app in your stack.
Yes. Airtable's Free plan is aimed at individuals and very small teams, and Asana's Personal plan is free for up to two people. Airtable charges for editing seats only from the Team plan up, while read-only collaborators, form submissions and share links stay free.
Asana meters AI separately: Starter and Advanced include 5 AI requests per user a month up to 50 per account, then pre-paid requests cost $0.50 each or an add-on costs $5.99 per user a month billed annually. Airtable describes AI as part of the platform, running models from OpenAI, Gemini, Llama and Anthropic inside its own AWS environment, with AI enablement controlled by admin settings rather than a separate credit pool on the published tiers.
Airtable can. It is built around HyperDB records, and interfaces, automations and agents sit on that data. Asana is a work management system built on the Work Graph of tasks, projects and goals; it is not a schema you design and query.
On Airtable's Team plan at $20 per user a month billed annually, 25 editing seats run $500 a month. On Asana's Advanced plan at $24.99 per user a month billed annually, 25 seats run $624.75 a month, and on Starter at $10.99 they run $274.75 a month. Airtable does not charge for read-only collaborators or form submissions, which changes the count on mixed teams.
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