The best Asana alternatives for a small business (2026)

Why do people look for alternatives to Asana?

• AI Teammates and Asana Dash include 5 requests per user a month, capped at 50 per account on Starter and Advanced; more cost $0.50 each prepaid or $0.60 pay as you go.
• Timeline and Gantt views start on Starter at $10.99 a user a month billed yearly; portfolios, goals and time tracking need Advanced at $24.99.
• The free Personal plan covers only two users.

What are the best Asana alternatives?

1. monday.com: best for no-code workflows that non-project people can run

monday.com turns any process into a board with automations and integrations, counted by actions a month, and Pro adds private boards, time tracking and 25,000 automation actions. Sidekick, its AI assistant, works across your boards. It suits operations, sales and marketing teams as much as project managers.

• Work management: Pro: $19 per seat per month (3-seat minimum; checked at 3 and 10 seats), billed annually; introductory offer discounts the mandatory AI credit charge in the total; $24 billed monthly¹
• Feature: No-code automations and integrations; action limits per month rise by plan (250, 25,000, enterprise scale).²
• AI: Sidekick: an AI assistant that understands context across your work and performs tasks.³

2. ClickUp: best for more views and features for the price

ClickUp's Core plan includes Gantt charts, custom fields, unlimited forms and chat for less than Asana Starter, with 1,000 automations a month. Super Agents act as AI teammates you can assign tasks to. It suits teams who want one workspace for tasks, docs and chat.

• Core: $9 per user per month, billed yearly ('Regular price $12'); $12 billed monthly⁴
• Core includes: Unlimited storage and Spaces; Custom fields and task types, unlimited forms, Gantt charts, ClickUp Chat; 1K automations per month; Guest permissions, goals; ClickUp Brain trial: 1K credits per user per month, pooled⁵
• AI: Super Agents: AI teammates that can be assigned tasks and @mentioned, working 24/7 (per ClickUp's own site index).⁶

3. Trello: best for simple boards when Asana feels like too much

Trello is boards, lists and cards, with built-in automation on every board. Premium adds calendar, timeline, table and dashboard views for teams that still want some planning. It suits small teams that used a fraction of Asana and want something anyone learns in minutes.

• Premium: $10 per user per month, billed annually; $12.5 billed monthly⁷
• Premium includes: Everything in Standard; AI features; Views: Calendar, Timeline, Table, Dashboard and Map; Unlimited Workspace command runs; Admin and security features; Workspace-level templates; Simple data export⁸
• Feature: Built-in no-code automation on every board, limited by Workspace command runs per month: 250 Free, 1,000 Standard, unlimited Premium.⁹

4. Basecamp: best for client work with a flat price and its own MCP server

Basecamp keeps each project's to-dos, messages, files and schedule together, and Reports and Everything views give an overview across all of them. Its official MCP server works with ChatGPT and Claude on every plan, including Free, so your own AI can add to-dos and post updates.

• Free (Personal) includes: 1 project; 1 GB storage; 3 users max; No per-user fees¹⁰
• Feature: Reports and Everything Views for a high-level overview.¹¹
• Agents and MCP: Official MCP server at https://mcp.basecamp.com/mcp; Basecamp is in ChatGPT's plugin directory and Claude's connector directory, and works with Grok. Included on all plans, Free included.¹²

5. Motion: best for aI that plans the team's time, not just its tasks

Motion schedules tasks onto each person's calendar around deadlines and capacity, and flags when someone is overbooked or a deadline is at risk. Business AI adds team capacity planning, Gantt charts and time tracking. It suits teams whose problem is too much work for the hours available.

• Business AI: $29 per seat per month, pay annually (page says save 33%); $49 billed monthly¹³
• Feature: Business AI adds team capacity planning, dashboards and reports, timeline and Gantt charts, time tracking, permissions and central billing.¹⁴
• Feature: Flags when you have scheduled more than your capacity and alerts you to at-risk deadlines.¹⁵

6. Todoist: best for a shared task list without project-management overhead

Todoist Business gives a team shared projects, roles and folders with Todoist's fast task entry. Its AI includes Filter Assist, which builds a view from a sentence, and its MCP server works with ChatGPT, Claude and Copilot on every plan, free included.

• Business includes: Everything in Pro for every member; Shared team workspace; Up to 500 team projects; 1,000 team members and 1,000 guests; Team roles and permissions; Team project folders; Centralized team billing; Shared templates and granular team activity logs; SOC 2 Type II¹⁶
• AI: Todoist Assist: Filter Assist (describe a filter in words), Task Assist and Email Assist (forward an email, get a task). Filter Assist is free; Task Assist and Email Assist are in Pro and Business per the plan table.¹⁷
• Agents and MCP: Official MCP server that works with Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, VS Code and other MCP-compatible clients, authorized with OAuth.¹⁸

7. Mojobase: best for tasks that start in email and meetings

Mojobase Tasks reads the email, meeting notes and team chat around it, so a promise or a request becomes a suggested task with its source linked, and the AI chases what's late. It's a plain list without timelines, Gantt charts, portfolios or goals, and every app comes in one price per person.

• Price: $39 a month for the first person and $25 for each after; the first 10 companies pay $29 and $19, for life
• AI: included, with your choice of model, or bring your own