Asana's pricing page starts with a free Personal plan for one or two people managing their own projects, with unlimited tasks and projects and list, board and calendar views. Starter is $10.99 per user a month billed annually, or $13.49 billed monthly, and lifts the user limit, adds timeline and Gantt views and reporting dashboards, with AI features included - AI Teammates and Asana Dash with 5 requests per user a month up to 50 per account, plus 50,000 AI Studio credits per billing account per month. Advanced is $24.99 a month annually or $30.49 monthly. Enterprise and Enterprise+ are quoted, with Enterprise+ adding SIEM integration, data residency, audit logs and dedicated workspaces. View-only licences and guest invitation permissions let stakeholders see work without inflating the seat count.
TL;DR
Asana is a task and project manager with a free tier for one or two people, then paid seats at $10.99 and $24.99 a month billed annually. Smartsheet is a spreadsheet that grew into a work platform: $9 and $19 a member a month billed yearly, with unlimited free contributors and guests on the paid tiers. Choose Asana for how work feels day to day; choose Smartsheet when the data model, automations and portfolio reporting matter more than the interface.
Smartsheet is priced per member with a spreadsheet underneath. Pro is $12 per member a month billed monthly or $9 billed yearly, for 1 to 10 members with unlimited free Contributors, and includes unlimited sheets, forms and reports, Gantt, table, board and calendar views, rich formulas, conversational AI features and 250 automations a month. Business is $24 monthly or $19 yearly for 3 or more members, adding unlimited Guests and Contributors, timeline view, workload tracking, admin capabilities, unlimited automations, connections to external AI tools and 1 TB of attachment storage. Enterprise is custom for 10 or more members and brings scenario planning, portfolios, SAML-based single sign-on, an Enterprise Plan Manager and unlimited attachment storage. Advanced Work Management sits above that with Control Center, Dynamic View, Data Shuttle, Connectors and premium support, and add-ons such as Dynamic View start at $125 a month and Data Shuttle at $100 a month.
The cost arithmetic rewards different team shapes. A team of five pays Asana $54.95 a month annually on Starter or $124.95 on Advanced; the same five on Smartsheet pay $45 a month on Pro or $95 on Business, and stakeholders who only need to read can be added as free Contributors on Pro or free Guests on Business rather than as seats. What Asana offers in exchange is a purpose-built task experience - assignees, dependencies, portfolios of projects and a reporting layer designed around them - while Smartsheet offers a data model you can formula, import and export, plus the automation volume that comes with unlimited automations on Business.
| Feature | Asana | Smartsheet |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | Personal for 1-2 users, unlimited tasks and projects | No free tier; free trial available |
| Entry paid plan | Starter at $10.99 per user/month billed annually | Pro at $9 per member/month billed yearly, up to 10 members |
| Mid plan | Advanced at $24.99 per user/month annually | Business at $19 per member/month yearly, 3+ members |
| Monthly billing | Starter $13.49, Advanced $30.49 | Pro $12, Business $24 per member |
| Guests and observers | View-only licences and guest invitation controls | Unlimited free Contributors on Pro, unlimited Guests on Business |
| Automations | Included in the plan tiers | 250 a month on Pro, unlimited on Business |
| Storage | Unlimited tasks and projects on all tiers | 1 TB attachments on Business, unlimited on Enterprise |
| Security tier | Enterprise+ adds SIEM, data residency, audit logs | Enterprise adds SAML-based SSO, portfolios, scenario planning |
| Add-ons | AI Studio usage beyond included credits | Dynamic View from $125/month, Data Shuttle from $100/month |
Pick Asana if
Asana is the better choice when the people doing the work want a task-first interface with dependencies, dashboards and a portfolio view that non-technical stakeholders can read. The free Personal tier makes it easy to start, and the included AI features on Starter reduce the need to buy a separate assistant. Budget for Advanced once you need the deeper governance, and remember the free tier stops at two people.
Pick Smartsheet if
Smartsheet wins when your projects are really tables that need formulas, bulk imports, rollups and automations, and when the people who need visibility should not cost a seat. At $9 and $19 per member a month billed yearly it undercuts Asana's equivalent tiers, and unlimited automations on Business is a genuine differentiator. Just check the add-on prices before you commit: Dynamic View and Data Shuttle start at $125 and $100 a month.
No user reviews or ratings were gathered for this comparison. Every price and feature is from asana.com/pricing and smartsheet.com/pricing as the vendors publish them.
Per seat, yes on the published tiers. Smartsheet Pro is $9 per member a month billed yearly and Business is $19, against Asana Starter at $10.99 and Advanced at $24.99. Smartsheet also charges nothing for unlimited free Contributors on Pro and unlimited Guests on Business, while Asana's equivalent access comes through view-only licences and guest permissions.
Asana does: Personal is free forever for one or two people with unlimited tasks and projects. Smartsheet's pricing page lists no free tier, only a trial, so a team that needs to stay at zero cost should start in Asana.
Smartsheet puts portfolios, scenario planning and an Enterprise Plan Manager on its Enterprise tier, alongside dashboards built on grid data. Asana reports across projects with dashboards from Starter upwards, and adds portfolios and goals on the higher tiers. If your portfolio is a spreadsheet with rollups, Smartsheet is the natural fit.
Asana includes AI Teammates and Asana Dash in its paid plans, with 5 requests per user a month up to 50 per account and 50,000 AI Studio credits per billing account a month. Smartsheet includes conversational AI features in Pro and lets Business and Enterprise connect to external AI tools, with Control Center and premium support reserved for the Advanced Work Management tier.
In both directions, with caveats. Smartsheet imports and exports CSV and Excel natively, and its Data Shuttle product automates that for $100 a month or more. Asana supports CSV import of tasks and has a public API; structure such as dependencies, custom fields and formulas has to be rebuilt rather than lifted.
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