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Project Management Comparison

Asana vs. monday.com

At a glance

At a glance

Asana

Best for

Best for marketing and operations teams that need structured project workflows and cross-team goals.

  • Freelancers
  • Small and mid-sized
  • Enterprise

monday.com

Best for

Best for non-technical teams that want a visual, automated way to manage work.

  • Small and mid-sized
  • Enterprise

Cataleo does not name a winner. Both statements come from the vendors themselves.

Full Comparison

Criterion Asana monday.com
Starting price Free; Starter from $10.99 / user / month Billed annually, or $13.49 per user and month billed monthly. Advanced $24.99 per user and month billed annually ($30.49 monthly), Enterprise on request. The free Personal plan covers up to 2 users. lower value Free; Basic from $9 / seat / month Billed annually; monthly billing is available without the 18% yearly discount. Standard $12 and Pro $19 per seat and month billed annually, Enterprise on request. The free plan covers up to 2 seats, paid plans start at 3 seats.
Free trial Free Personal plan for up to 2 users Free plan for up to 2 seats; 14-day free trial of Pro
Hosting Cloud on Amazon Web Services; no on-premises version Not stated
Made in USA Israel
Task planning Yes, with list, board, calendar, timeline and Gantt views Yes, boards with table, Kanban, calendar, timeline and Gantt views
Resource planning Yes, resource management within a portfolio from Advanced; organization-wide workload and capacity planning on Enterprise Yes, resource management for workload and capacity across projects, on Enterprise
Time tracking Yes, from Advanced, comparing estimated with actual time per task. Timesheets for billable and non-billable hours and project budgets are an Enterprise add-on; the free plan syncs with time tracking tools through integrations Yes, native, from the Pro plan
Reporting and controlling Yes, reporting dashboards from Starter; Goals and Portfolios from Advanced Yes, dashboards across boards; portfolio management on Enterprise
Integrations and API Yes, APIs documented in the Asana Developer Guide, 100+ free integrations and an official MCP server Yes, a public API with daily call limits per plan (1,000 on Standard, 10,000 on Pro, 25,000 on Enterprise), integrations with a monthly action allowance and an official hosted MCP server
AI features Yes Yes
MCP-ready Yes Yes
Deployment Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based
Support Email helpdesk, Community forum more entries Email helpdesk, Chat, 24/7, Community forum
Onboarding more entries Documentation and knowledge base, Video tutorials, Live online demos and webinars, Guided onboarding, Personal consulting Documentation and knowledge base, Video tutorials, Live online demos and webinars, Guided onboarding
Company size more entries Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise Small and mid-sized, Enterprise
Integrations Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Workspace, Salesforce, Zoom, Zapier Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Workspace, Salesforce, Jira, Zapier

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The short version

Key Differences

  • Starting price Asana Free; Starter from $10.99 / user / month monday.com Free; Basic from $9 / seat / month
  • Free trial Asana Free Personal plan for up to 2 users monday.com Free plan for up to 2 seats; 14-day free trial of Pro
  • Company size Asana Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise monday.com Small and mid-sized, Enterprise
  • Support Asana Email helpdesk, Community forum monday.com Email helpdesk, Chat, 24/7, Community forum
  • Made in Asana USA monday.com Israel

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The trade-offs

Strengths and Limitations

Asana

Strengths

  • Clean, structured project workflows
  • Strong goals and portfolio management
  • Unlimited free guests on paid plans for clients and contractors

Limitations

  • Time tracking starts on Advanced; timesheets and budgets are an Enterprise add-on
  • Advanced tier is pricey
  • Free plan limited to 2 users

monday.com

Strengths

  • Very visual and easy for non-technical teams
  • Strong automations
  • Flexible across use cases

Limitations

  • Costs climb with automations and seats
  • Free plan limited to 2 seats
  • Resource and portfolio management only on Enterprise

Plans

Pricing

Asana

  • Personal $0 Free forever, up to 2 users.
  • Starter $10.99 / user / month Billed annually, or $13.49 billed monthly.
  • Advanced $24.99 / user / month Billed annually, or $30.49 billed monthly.
  • Enterprise Custom On request. Enterprise+ adds advanced security and compliance.
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monday.com

  • Free $0 Up to 2 seats, 3 boards and 3 docs.
  • Basic $9 / seat / month Billed annually, minimum 3 seats. Includes 1,000 AI credits per month.
  • Standard $12 / seat / month Billed annually, minimum 3 seats. Adds timeline, Gantt and calendar views, 250 automation and 250 integration actions per month.
  • Pro $19 / seat / month Billed annually, minimum 3 seats. Adds time tracking and 25,000 automation and integration actions per month. 14-day free trial.
  • Enterprise Custom On request. Adds portfolio and resource management and 24/7 enterprise support with tailored onboarding.
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What users say

Review Scores · opens after launch

Asana

Ease of use
Not rated yet
User interface
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Onboarding
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Support and service
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Value for money
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Features
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monday.com

Ease of use
Not rated yet
User interface
Not rated yet
Onboarding
Not rated yet
Support and service
Not rated yet
Value for money
Not rated yet
Features
Not rated yet

No reviews yet. Nothing has been published here yet, and no score is shown. How a review is checked before it appears is described below.

How we check reviews

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Every review is read by a person before it appears. An email address is required and is confirmed: we send a link to it, and a review does not reach us until the author opens that link, so a review has a sender who was reachable at least once rather than being anonymous. Where what somebody writes needs backing, we ask them for evidence that they used the product, and a review that does not get it is not published. We publish positive and negative reviews alike, we pay nothing and offer nothing for a review, and we accept none that was bought or incentivised.

What we cannot do is verify a purchase. There is no shop here and no account, so whether the author really used the tool rests on their own declaration, on whatever we ask them for, and on the plausibility of what they write. We say so rather than implying a check that does not exist.

A vendor cannot buy a review, and cannot have one removed or changed because they dislike it. We remove or edit a review only if it breaks our rules or the law, for example a false statement of fact. Paid placement has no effect on which reviews appear or on any score.

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Where this comes from

Where this comes from

Asana https://asana.com · checked against the official source on 2026-09-27

monday.com https://monday.com · checked against the official source on 2026-09-27

This table lists factual criteria taken from information the vendors publish themselves. For how we put it together, see the methodology.