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What does Asana actually keep track of, and when do you start paying?

Verified 28 September 2026 · SaaS COMPASS

Summary

Asana is a work management tool that records work as tasks, each carrying an owner, a due date, files, and the conversation about it. The free Personal plan stops at two users, so a team of three is already on a paid plan. Starter costs $10.99 per user per month billed annually, or $13.49 billed monthly, and it is the plan that adds Gantt charts, forms, and unlimited automations. Goals and portfolios wait until Advanced at $24.99.

What a single request looks like inside Asana

Suppose sales emails your design team asking for a trade show flyer. In Asana that request becomes a task. It gets an owner and a due date, the draft copy is attached, and the back-and-forth about revisions happens in the task's comments. Anyone who wants to know where the flyer stands opens that one task instead of searching three inboxes.

Tasks live inside projects. A project called "Fall trade show" can hold the flyer, the booth booking, and the giveaway order side by side. Asana lets you look at the same project as a list, a Kanban board, a calendar, a timeline, or a Gantt chart, and the underlying tasks stay the same whichever view you pick.

Where the free plan ends

Personal is free forever, but it is described as a plan for one or two people, and the limit is two seats per project and team. Every paid plan removes the user cap. The paid tiers, in US dollars before tax:

  • Starter, $10.99 per user per month billed annually or $13.49 monthly. This is where timeline and Gantt views, forms, reporting dashboards, and unlimited automations appear.
  • Advanced, $24.99 annually or $30.49 monthly. Adds Goals, portfolios, approvals and proofing, and the Salesforce, Tableau, and Power BI integrations.
  • Enterprise, priced by quote. Adds SAML single sign-on and SCIM user provisioning.

For a five-person team, Starter on annual billing comes to $659.40 a year. Paying month to month for the same five people costs $809.40, which is $150 more. A separate guide on free plan limits works through the same math for HubSpot and monday.com.

The other products carrying the Asana name

Asana now sells the product described above under the name Agentic Work Management, bundled with AI Teammates, AI Studio, and its other agent features. It also offers Asana Service Management for IT, HR, facilities, and legal request desks, Asana Client Management for agency-style client work, Command by Asana for developer teams, and StackAI by Asana for building agent workflows that connect to other apps. This guide, and the other Asana guides on this site, cover the first one.

If you are deciding between Asana and monday.com, our side-by-side prices both tools for a 20-person team and checks which cheapest plan still gives you automations and a timeline.

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