Asana vs monday.com (2026): Pricing, Features, and Which to Pick

Asana vs monday.com: the short answer

For most small and budget-conscious teams, monday.com is the easier choice. It has a free plan, published per-seat prices starting at $9 per seat per month, and a 14-day trial on its Standard plan. Asana is the stronger fit for larger organizations that need goals, portfolios, capacity planning, and enterprise admin controls such as SCIM provisioning and audit logs. The tradeoff is that Asana's plans in this comparison are priced through sales, not on a public price list.

Every fact below comes from each vendor's published pricing and product pages. Nothing here is based on first-hand use. Where a detail isn't published, such as Asana's trial length, this guide says so instead of guessing.

Quick verdict table

	monday.com	Asana
Best for	Small and budget-conscious teams that want to start free	Larger organizations that need planning depth and enterprise admin
Free plan	Yes	Not listed in the pricing data reviewed
Starting price	Basic at $9/seat/month; Standard at $12/seat/month	Enterprise and Enterprise+ are contact-sales only
Trial	14 days on Standard	Trial length not published in the pricing data reviewed
AI	AI agents, Sidekick, AI columns, AI workflow builder, meeting notetaker, Vibe app builder	AI Teammates, AI Studio, Asana Dash, AI Meetings, with AI usage billed separately
Security	Enterprise-grade security; HIPAA compliance listed	SAML, SCIM, MFA, 256-bit encryption, SOC 2 Type II, audit logs
Standout strength	Transparent entry pricing plus connectors to major AI assistants	Goals, portfolios, capacity planning, and time tracking in one stack

The pattern is clear. monday.com makes it easy to start and budget. Asana is built for organizations that will negotiate a contract anyway and care more about governance and planning depth than a price tag on a web page.

Pricing side by side at 10 seats

A 10-person team is a useful benchmark because it is large enough to need real collaboration features and small enough to be price-sensitive. Here is what the vendors' published pricing supports.

monday.com, based on the vendor's published pricing:

• Free: no cost. Check the pricing page for current limits before committing a whole team.
• Basic: $9 per seat per month. A 10-seat team pays ten times that rate each month.
• Standard: $12 per seat per month, with a 14-day free trial. A 10-seat team pays ten times that rate each month.
• Enterprise: contact sales for a quote.

Because Basic and Standard are self-serve, a 10-person team can work out its monthly cost from the per-seat rate before speaking to anyone. That is a real advantage when you need finance sign-off quickly.

Asana, based on the vendor's published pricing:

• Enterprise: per seat, contact sales.
• Enterprise+: per seat, contact sales.
• AI Usage, Prepaid Pack: $0.50, billed one time.
• AI Usage, Pay as you go: $0.60 per month.

The pricing data reviewed lists no self-serve seat price for Asana, so a 10-seat total can't be calculated. You will need a quote. AI usage is a separate line item from seats, which is worth flagging to whoever owns the budget.

monday.com add-on products. monday.com sells separate suites for specific departments, each priced per seat per month:

• monday CRM: Standard from $28, Pro at $41. CRM Standard includes a 14-day trial.
• monday Service: Standard from $31, Pro at $45.
• monday Dev: Basic from $12, with a 14-day trial.

These are distinct products, not upgrades to the core work management plans. If your sales, support, or engineering teams would need them, add them to your cost model early.

Features compared

Both tools cover the core of project management. According to each product's documentation, both offer timeline, Gantt, and calendar views, workflow automations, portfolio management, and resource management. For a team that mainly needs to plan work, assign it, and see it on a timeline, either tool can do the job.

The differences show up beyond that core.

Where Asana goes deeper:

• Goals: connect day-to-day projects to company objectives.
• Capacity planning: see whether people are overloaded before you assign more work.
• Time tracking: built in, according to Asana's feature list.
• Approvals and proofing: useful for creative and marketing review cycles.
• Forms with branching logic: intake requests that adapt based on earlier answers.
• Tables, custom fields, templates, and reporting dashboards round out the planning stack.

Where monday.com stands out:

• Docs: built into the workspace.
• Multi-level permissions: finer control over who sees and edits what.
• API access: for teams that want custom integrations.
• Mobile apps: listed among its features.
• Advanced analytics: for reporting beyond basic dashboards.

AI features. Both vendors invest heavily in AI, with different approaches.

• Asana lists AI Teammates, AI Studio, Asana Dash, and AI Meetings. Usage is metered and billed separately through the prepaid pack or pay-as-you-go options above.
• monday.com lists AI agents, the Sidekick AI assistant, AI columns, an AI workflow builder, an AI meeting notetaker, and the Vibe app builder.

If your team plans to use AI heavily, ask Asana how usage maps to cost. For monday.com, confirm which AI features your chosen plan includes before you commit.

Integrations

The two tools take different integration paths, and this is the gap most comparisons skip.

Asana leans toward business intelligence and CRM. Its documentation lists integrations with Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Slack, Salesforce, Tableau, Power BI, and Jira Cloud. It also states that 100 integrations are free. If leadership reports live in Tableau or Power BI, or your sales team runs on Salesforce, Asana fits into that stack directly.

monday.com leans toward AI assistants. Its published connections include Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, and MCP-connected tools. If your team already works through an AI assistant, monday.com is set up to let that assistant interact with your boards.

The practical takeaway: list the five tools your team uses most, then check which vendor connects to them natively. A BI-heavy operations team and an AI-first startup will reach different answers.

Security and admin

Asana publishes a detailed security and admin feature set:

• SAML authentication
• User provisioning via SCIM
• Multi-factor authentication
• 256-bit encryption
• SOC 2 Type II compliance
• Audit logs
• Service accounts
• View-only licenses

Service accounts help with automated integrations that shouldn't depend on one employee's login. View-only licenses suit stakeholders who need visibility but not editing rights.

monday.com lists enterprise-grade security and HIPAA compliance. For healthcare teams or anyone handling protected health information, HIPAA is a meaningful signal. Confirm with monday.com which plan includes HIPAA coverage before storing sensitive data, because the evidence reviewed doesn't specify the tier.

If your IT team needs specific controls such as SCIM or audit logs, Asana's published list is easier to check against requirements. If HIPAA is your top concern, monday.com explicitly lists it.

Pros

monday.com

• A free plan lets teams start at no cost.
• Transparent entry pricing: Basic at $9 and Standard at $12 per seat per month.
• A 14-day trial on Standard for testing team-wide workflows.
• Broad AI tooling, including agents, Sidekick, AI columns, and the Vibe app builder.
• Connectors to Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, and MCP-connected tools.

Asana

• A deep planning stack covering goals, portfolios, capacity planning, and time tracking.
• Strong enterprise identity and compliance controls: SAML, SCIM, MFA, SOC 2 Type II, and audit logs.
• Integrations with Salesforce, Tableau, Power BI, and Jira Cloud, plus 100 free integrations.
• Service accounts and view-only licenses for cleaner admin.

Cons

Asana

• No self-serve seat pricing in the data reviewed, so budgeting requires a sales call.
• AI usage is billed separately from seats, which adds a variable cost.
• Trial length isn't published in the pricing data reviewed.

monday.com

• Enterprise pricing is quote-only.
• CRM, Service, and Dev are separate paid products, so multi-department rollouts cost more.
• Native capacity planning and time tracking aren't in its listed features, unlike Asana's.
• The tier that includes HIPAA coverage isn't specified in the evidence reviewed.

Who it is for (and who should skip it)

Pick monday.com if you're a small or budget-conscious team that wants to start free or begin a 14-day trial today. It's also a good fit if your team works through AI assistants like Claude or ChatGPT, or if HIPAA compliance is on your checklist.

Pick Asana if you're an enterprise that needs SCIM provisioning, audit logs, portfolios, and goals, and your reporting runs through Salesforce, Tableau, or Power BI.

Skip Asana if you need a published price before talking to sales, or if a variable AI usage bill would be hard to approve.

Skip monday.com if capacity planning and native time tracking are must-haves, or if you'd need CRM, Service, and Dev all at once and want everything under one price.

Final verdict

Most small and mid-size teams should start with monday.com. The free plan, clear per-seat pricing, and 14-day Standard trial let you test it with real work and know your costs upfront.

Large, governance-heavy organizations should shortlist Asana and request an Enterprise quote. Its planning depth and enterprise admin controls justify the sales conversation. Ask how AI usage will be billed at your scale.

If you're between the two, decide on three questions: do you need a price today, do you need capacity planning and time tracking, and do your key integrations lean toward BI and CRM or toward AI assistants?

Data last checked: 2026-11-05