Two products that keep landing in the same shortlist, because teams tend to outgrow a shared doc and a shared task list within the same quarter.
TL;DR
Asana is a project tool with a writing layer attached; Notion is a docs and database tool with a project layer attached. Asana charges $10.99 per user per month billed annually for Starter and $24.99 for Advanced, and meters AI requests at $0.50 each prepaid or $0.60 on demand. Notion charges $10 per member per month for Plus and $20 for Business, and meters AI at $10 per 1,000 credits. Buy Asana when dates, owners and dependencies are the deliverable; buy Notion when the written record is.
Asana sells structured delivery. Its pricing page runs Personal at $0 forever for one or two people with unlimited tasks and projects, Starter at $10.99 per user per month billed annually ($13.49 paid monthly), and Advanced at $24.99 per user per month billed annually ($30.49 monthly), with Enterprise and Enterprise+ quoted. The product is organised around the Work Graph: tasks, projects, goals, dependencies and people as one connected model, with AI Teammates such as Launch Coordinator, Portfolio Advisor, Compliance Manager and Project Manager running as pre-built agents that carry scoped permissions, an audit trail and cost limits. AI requests are a separate line item on every paid tier: $0.50 per request prepaid in packs, or $0.60 per request billed monthly on demand.
Notion sells one surface for writing and tracking. Its pricing page lists Free at $0 per member for individuals, Plus at $10 per member per month, Business at $20 per member per month, and Enterprise at custom pricing through sales, with yearly billing advertised at up to 20% below monthly. Docs, wikis, projects and databases are the same underlying objects, so a specification and the tasks inside it live on one page. Notion AI is metered separately from the seat: free to try, then $10 per 1,000 monthly Notion credits, with custom code extensions billed the same way while the Workers feature is in beta. Custom domains for Notion Sites cost $8 per month per domain billed annually, $10 paid monthly.
| Feature | Asana | Notion |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | Personal: free forever for 1-2 users, unlimited tasks and projects | Free: $0 per member, aimed at individuals organizing their own work |
| Entry paid plan | Starter: $10.99 per user/month billed annually, $13.49 paid monthly | Plus: $10 per member/month, with yearly billing advertised at up to 20% below monthly |
| Mid tier | Advanced: $24.99 per user/month billed annually, $30.49 paid monthly | Business: $20 per member/month, recommended tier for growing teams |
| Enterprise | Enterprise and Enterprise+ priced by quote | Enterprise: custom pricing through sales, with SSO, SCIM and audit controls |
| AI pricing | $0.50 per request prepaid, $0.60 per request billed monthly, from Starter up | Notion AI free to try, then $10 per 1,000 monthly Notion credits |
| Structure | Work Graph: tasks, projects, goals, dependencies and agents in one object model | Pages hold blocks, databases hold rows, projects and wikis are the same objects |
| Agents | AI Teammates with permissions, audit trail and spend limits | Agents, meeting notes and enterprise search across the workspace |
| Platform | Web app, desktop app, iOS and Android | Web app, desktop app, iOS and Android |
| Offline mode | Not covered on asana.com/pricing | Not covered on notion.so/pricing |
| Billing note | Annual pricing advertised with a save-up-to-18% toggle | Yearly billing advertised at up to 20% below monthly |
Pick Asana if
Campaign owners, program managers and anyone who reports on delivery dates get the sharper instrument: dependencies, portfolios and named agents sit on top of a task graph, and entry costs $10.99 per user per month billed annually. Budget for the AI requests separately if the team uses them heavily, and expect a quote once Enterprise features are in scope.
Pick Notion if
Teams whose output is prose or reference material pay $10 per member per month for Plus and keep specs, wikis and task boards on one surface, which removes the export step between planning and documenting. Tracking exists, but it is a database you configure yourself rather than a methodology the tool imposes.
We did not collect independent reviews for this pairing: every figure above comes from asana.com and notion.so pricing and product pages, and the two cards hold claims the vendors publish about themselves rather than measured user opinion.
At annual billing, ten Asana seats on Starter come to $109.90 per month against $100 for ten Notion members on Plus. Below that, Asana's Personal plan is free for one or two people while Notion's free plan is aimed at individuals, so the gap narrows for very small teams. Prices as listed on each vendor's own pricing page.
Notion covers tasks, boards, timelines and dependencies through database views, and it will hold a project plan next to the specification. What it does not supply is Asana's reporting machinery around the work: goal tracking, portfolio roll-ups and the Work Graph queries that produce cross-project status.
Asana keeps documents attached to projects and tasks, so a brief lives beside the work it describes. Notion's wiki is the product's home ground: databases, nested pages, shared tables and a knowledge base are first-class objects rather than attachments.
Asana charges per request at $0.50 prepaid or $0.60 on demand, which makes heavy agent use visible on the bill. Notion charges $10 per 1,000 monthly credits after a free trial period, which is a flatter allowance to budget. Both are billed on top of the seat price.
Neither pricing page documents offline access, so treat both as online tools and check the vendor's own documentation for current mobile offline behaviour before you rely on it in the field.
Teams that run sprints, releases and dependency chains across several projects tend to land on Asana for the structure. Teams that keep architecture notes, decision logs and light task lists together tend to land on Notion. Many engineering organisations run both: Notion for the record, Asana for the schedule.
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