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Asana vs monday.com: which is right for a small business?

Asana suits teams that run projects with clear owners, dates and goals: a free plan for two people and Starter at $10.99 a user billed yearly, with AI metered per request. monday.com suits teams that want flexible boards for any process: Basic is $9 a seat billed yearly at 10 seats, with monthly AI credits in every paid plan.

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How do Asana and monday.com compare, side by side?

Asana: A work management platform for goals, projects and tasks, with AI Teammates (AI agents) inside it. monday.com: A no-code work platform built on boards (projects, processes, customers) with AI agents; sold as work management and as monday CRM, plus monday dev and monday service.

What mattersAsanamonday.com
Free planYes. Personal: $0 'free forever', up to 2 users, unlimited tasks and projects, list/board/calendar views, unlimited storage (100 MB max per file), 100+ free integrations.1Yes (work management): Free, $0 forever, up to 2 seats, 3 boards, 3 docs, 200+ templates, 8 column types, iOS and Android apps. monday CRM has no free plan, only a 14-day trial.2
Entry plan$10.99 per user per month, billed annually; $13.49 billed monthly3$9 per seat per month (3-seat minimum; checked at 3 and 10 seats), billed annually; $12 billed monthly4
Mid plan$24.99 per user per month, billed annually; $30.49 billed monthly5$12 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; $14 billed monthly6
ViewsTask and project management with list, board, calendar, timeline and Gantt views (timeline and Gantt from Starter).7Gantt and timeline views, calendar view, Kanban and workload views.8
AutomationsUnlimited automations and forms that turn requests into tasks, from the Starter plan.9No-code automations and integrations; action limits per month rise by plan (250, 25,000, enterprise scale).10
How AI is pricedAI is priced per request: 5 requests per user per month included (capped at 50 per account on Starter and Advanced, 250 on Enterprise); extra requests $0.50 prepaid or $0.60 pay as you go. A request is one successful unit of work by an AI Teammate or Dash; failed or canceled tasks do not count.11AI is powered by monthly AI credits per plan: 1,000 (Basic), 2,000 (Standard), 3,000 (Pro), custom (Enterprise). Features run on credits: AI agent workforce, Sidekick assistant, vibe app builder, AI columns, AI meeting notetaker, AI workflow builder.12
AI agentsAI Teammates: more than 30 prebuilt AI agents for marketing, ops and IT, plus industry Teammates for manufacturing, retail, professional services and healthcare.13Sidekick: an AI assistant that understands context across your work and performs tasks.14
GuestsUnlimited free guest seats on paid plans.15Guest access (Standard and up), private boards and docs (Pro), time tracking (Pro).16
Integrations100+ free integrations on the free plan, including Slack, Google Drive and Zoom; app directory also lists Microsoft Teams, Claude and Everhour.17200+ native integrations including Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Workspace, Jira, GitHub, Salesforce, HubSpot and Zapier, with two-way sync; GraphQL API.18
AI agents over MCPOfficial MCP server at https://mcp.asana.com/v2/mcp (OAuth, Streamable HTTP). Lets AI clients find, create and manage tasks and projects.19monday.com MCP server at https://mcp.monday.com/mcp (streamable HTTP, OAuth2) is described as the recommended integration method for AI agents, with the GraphQL API as fallback; agent skill files are published.20

Prices are in US dollars a month, before tax, as each company lists them.

Which should you choose, Asana or monday.com?

Choose Asana if

  • You run projects with owners, deadlines and dependencies, and want timelines on the first paid plan.
  • You work with many clients or freelancers, since guests are free on every paid plan.
  • You want unlimited automations without counting actions each month.
  • You want goals and portfolios to roll projects up for the owner (Advanced).

Choose monday.com if

  • You want to shape boards around any process, from hiring to stock to client onboarding.
  • You might run sales on the same platform with monday CRM.
  • You want a fixed monthly allowance of AI credits in every paid plan.
  • You want more native integrations with two-way sync.

How do Asana and monday.com differ in approach?

Asana is built around projects and the tasks inside them, while monday.com is built around boards you shape into any process. In Asana, work starts as a task with an owner and a date, sits in a project, and rolls up into portfolios and goals on the Advanced plan. In monday.com, a board is a table of items with 30+ column types, and the same board can track a project, a hiring pipeline or a stock list.

That makes Asana the more opinionated tool and monday.com the more flexible one. Asana gives a small team a ready structure for running projects. monday.com asks you to design the board first, and in return it stretches further: the same platform sells monday CRM for sales, monday dev and monday service.

How much do Asana and monday.com cost?

Both are free for two people, and monday.com's entry plan costs less. Asana Starter is $10.99 a user a month billed yearly, or $13.49 monthly, and Advanced is $24.99 billed yearly or $30.49 monthly. monday.com quotes Basic at $9 a seat billed yearly, Standard at $12 and Pro at $19, for a 10-seat team; monthly billing is $12, $14 and $24. monday.com's prices exclude tax and change with the team size you pick.

Compare like with like. Asana's Starter includes timeline and Gantt views, unlimited automations, forms and unlimited free guests. On monday.com those arrive on Standard, which has Gantt and timeline views, guest access and 250 automation actions a month. So the fair match is Asana Starter at $10.99 against monday.com Standard at $12, both billed yearly.

How is the AI priced in each?

Asana counts AI by request, and monday.com gives each plan a monthly pot of credits. In Asana, each user gets 5 AI requests a month for AI Teammates and Asana Dash, capped at 50 per account on Starter and Advanced, so a 10-person team on Starter reaches the cap. Extra requests cost $0.50 prepaid or $0.60 pay as you go, and AI Studio automations run on a separate allowance of credits per billing account.

monday.com includes 1,000 AI credits a month on Basic, 2,000 on Standard and 3,000 on Pro. Its agents, the Sidekick assistant, the vibe app builder, AI columns, the meeting notetaker and the workflow builder all draw on them, and you can add credits at any time; the page doesn't state the price of extra credits. For light use either is fine; for heavy AI use, model a month on both.

Which has better automations and integrations?

Asana is simpler to budget, and monday.com connects to more. Asana includes unlimited automations from Starter, plus AI Studio for no-code flows that classify and route requests. monday.com counts actions: 250 automation and 250 integration actions a month on Standard, 25,000 each on Pro. On integrations, Asana lists 100+ free ones even on its free plan, including Slack, Google Drive and Zoom; monday.com lists 200+ native integrations with two-way sync, including Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Workspace, Salesforce and HubSpot.

Where does Mojobase fit?

Mojobase is a third option for teams whose work arrives by email rather than in project plans, built for 1 to 25 people, and it works well for teams up to 100. Its Tasks app is a fast list (Inbox, Today, Upcoming, shared projects and assignees, dates typed in plain words), and its AI spots work in your mail: a customer asking for a revised quote by Thursday becomes a suggested task linked to that email. It has no boards, timelines, Gantt charts or portfolios, so teams running long multi-step projects are better served by Asana or monday.com. It costs $39 a month for the first person and $25 for each after, with email, calendar, documents and the AI included.

Questions people ask

Is Asana or monday.com cheaper for a small team?

monday.com's entry plan is cheaper: Basic is $9 a seat a month billed yearly, quoted for 10 seats, against $10.99 for Asana Starter. The plans that add timelines are closer: monday Standard is $12 a seat billed yearly, Asana Starter $10.99. monday's prices change with team size and billing country.

Do Asana and monday.com have free plans?

Yes, both for up to two people. Asana's Personal plan has unlimited tasks and projects, list, board and calendar views and 100+ integrations. monday.com's Free plan has up to 3 boards and 3 docs and 200+ templates, and its AI features start on the paid Basic plan.

Which one has Gantt charts?

Both, on different plans. Asana adds timeline and Gantt views on Starter, its first paid plan. monday.com adds Gantt, timeline and calendar views on Standard, its second paid plan, along with guest access and its AI meeting notetaker.

How does Asana charge for AI?

Per request. Each user gets 5 AI requests a month, capped at 50 per account on Starter and Advanced and 250 on Enterprise. Extra requests cost $0.50 each in prepaid packs or $0.60 pay as you go. Failed or canceled tasks don't count.

Can monday.com be used as a CRM?

Yes, as a separate product. monday CRM adds pipelines, lead management, quotes and invoices, and sales AI agents. It has no free plan, only a 14-day trial; quoted for 10 seats, Basic is $12 a seat a month billed yearly, and Standard, with the AI agents, is $17.

Do Asana and monday.com work with Claude or ChatGPT?

Both run their own MCP servers for AI agents. Asana's lets AI clients find, create and manage tasks and projects, and Asana also has apps for Claude and ChatGPT. monday.com calls its MCP server the recommended way for agents to connect, with its GraphQL API as a fallback.

Sources

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  2. monday.com: Free plan. monday.com/pricing, checked 7 Nov 2026.
  3. Asana: Starter. asana.com/pricing, checked 7 Nov 2026.
  4. monday.com: Work management: Basic. monday.com/pricing, checked 7 Nov 2026.
  5. Asana: Advanced. asana.com/pricing, checked 7 Nov 2026.
  6. monday.com: Work management: Standard. monday.com/pricing, checked 7 Nov 2026.
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  8. monday.com: Feature. monday.com/pricing, checked 7 Nov 2026.
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  10. monday.com: Feature. monday.com/pricing, checked 7 Nov 2026.
  11. Asana: AI. asana.com/pricing, checked 7 Nov 2026.
  12. monday.com: AI. monday.com/pricing, checked 7 Nov 2026.
  13. Asana: AI. asana.com/product/ai, checked 7 Nov 2026.
  14. monday.com: AI. monday.com/pricing, checked 7 Nov 2026.
  15. Asana: Feature. asana.com/pricing, checked 7 Nov 2026.
  16. monday.com: Feature. monday.com/pricing, checked 7 Nov 2026.
  17. Asana: Integrations. asana.com/pricing, checked 7 Nov 2026.
  18. monday.com: Integrations. monday.com/llms.txt, checked 7 Nov 2026.
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  20. monday.com: Agents and MCP. monday.com/llms.txt, checked 7 Nov 2026.
  21. monday.com: monday CRM: Standard. monday.com/pricing, checked 7 Nov 2026.
  22. monday.com: Work management: Pro. monday.com/pricing, checked 7 Nov 2026.

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