Asana's ladder has four visible rungs. Personal is free for one or two people with unlimited tasks and projects, list, board and calendar views, and storage with a 100 MB per-file cap. Starter is $10.99 per user a month billed annually, or $13.49 billed monthly, adds timeline and Gantt views, reporting dashboards, no seat limit on users, unlimited free guests, and Asana AI with 5 requests per user a month up to 50 per account plus 50,000 AI Studio credits per billing account. Advanced is $24.99 annually or $30.49 monthly and adds unlimited portfolios, goals, organisation-wide workload and capacity planning, with 75,000 AI Studio credits. Enterprise and Enterprise+ are quoted, with Enterprise+ adding SIEM integration, data residency, audit logs and dedicated workspaces.
TL;DR
Asana runs Personal free for up to 2 users, Starter at $10.99 and Advanced at $24.99 per user a month billed annually, with monthly billing at $13.49 and $30.49. monday.com runs Free up to 2 seats, Basic at $9, Standard at $12 and Pro at $19 per seat a month billed annually. Asana puts portfolios, goals and capacity planning in its $24.99 middle-upper tier; monday.com reaches $19 before Enterprise and bundles AI credits instead of metering it.
AI beyond the allowance is charged per request: prepaid packs at $0.50 a request valid for the billing cycle, or on-demand at $0.60 a request billed monthly, available on Starter and above. That is a different shape from monday.com, where AI arrives as a monthly credit allowance attached to the plan rather than a separate meter.
monday.com work management is free for up to 2 seats with up to 3 boards, then Basic at $9 per seat a month billed annually for unlimited items and unlimited free viewers, Standard at $12, and Pro at $19 with 3,000 AI credits a month and 1,000 API calls a day. Enterprise is quoted, carrying a 99.9% uptime SLA, portfolio management and up to 250,000 automation and integration actions a month. Annual billing saves 18% over monthly, and extra credits cost $10 per 1,000. The ladder is shorter and the middle is cheaper: $12 buys Standard where Asana asks $24.99 for Advanced.
| Feature | Asana | Monday.com |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | $0: up to 2 users, unlimited tasks and projects, 100 MB per file | $0: up to 2 seats, up to 3 boards, up to 3 docs |
| First paid tier | Starter, $10.99 per user a month billed annually, $13.49 monthly | Basic, $9 per seat a month billed annually |
| Middle tier | Advanced, $24.99 per user a month billed annually, $30.49 monthly | Standard, $12 per seat a month billed annually |
| Upper tier | Enterprise, price by quote | Pro, $19 per seat a month billed annually |
| Top plan | Enterprise+, price by quote, with SIEM, data residency and audit logs | Enterprise, price by quote, 99.9% uptime SLA |
| AI pricing | 5 requests per user a month in Starter and Advanced, then $0.50 prepaid or $0.60 on demand per request | 1,000 to 3,000 credits a month bundled by plan, extra at $10 per 1,000 |
| Planning features | Timeline and Gantt in Starter; portfolios, goals, workload and capacity planning in Advanced | Boards, dashboards and automations on paid plans; portfolios on Enterprise |
| Guests and viewers | Unlimited free guest seats from Starter | Unlimited free viewers on paid plans |
| Integrations | 100+ free integrations listed, including Slack, Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 | Integrations and API access scale by plan, 1,000 API calls a day on Pro |
Pick Asana if
Asana is built around the chain from goal to project to task, and its Advanced tier is where that chain completes: unlimited portfolios, goals, organisation-wide workload and capacity planning for $24.99 per user a month billed annually. It is the right pick for an operations or PMO team that reports upward, especially if you can use the included AI allowance rather than buying seats elsewhere. Budget $10.99 to start and expect to land on $24.99 if capacity planning matters.
Pick Monday.com if
monday.com gives you a shorter ladder with lower rungs: Basic at $9, Standard at $12 and Pro at $19 per seat a month billed annually, all with bundled AI credits and free viewer seats. For a team that mainly needs boards, automations and dashboards, that is cheaper than Asana at every comparable point, and the pricing page shows one list instead of a monthly-annual split. Capacity planning and portfolios wait for the quoted Enterprise tier.
No independent reviews, ratings or user quotes were collected for this pair. The cards above repeat what each vendor claims about itself on its own pricing page.
monday.com at every comparable rung: Basic $9 against Asana's Starter at $10.99, Standard $12 against Advanced at $24.99, both per person a month billed annually. Asana's monthly rates of $13.49 and $30.49 are higher again, and monday.com's annual prices are 18% below its monthly ones.
In the Advanced tier at $24.99 per user a month billed annually, which adds unlimited portfolios, goals, organisation-wide workload and capacity planning on top of Starter. The free and Starter tiers carry tasks, projects, timeline and Gantt views but not the portfolio layer.
Asana includes an allowance in Starter and Advanced, 5 requests per user a month up to 50 per account with 50,000 or 75,000 AI Studio credits per billing account, and meters the rest at $0.50 per prepaid request or $0.60 on demand. monday.com includes credits with each plan, 1,000, 2,000 or 3,000 a month, and sells extras at $10 per 1,000.
Both allow it. Asana lists unlimited free guest seats from Starter upward, so clients and contractors can collaborate without increasing the licence count. monday.com lists unlimited free viewers on paid plans, read-only access to account data. Edit rights, not visibility, are what triggers a seat.
Asana's Personal plan is free for one or two people with unlimited tasks and projects, list, board and calendar views, and 100 MB per file. monday.com's free plan allows up to 2 seats, up to 3 boards and up to 3 docs. Both end when a third person needs to edit.
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