Asana vs Jira

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Compared on	Asana Free plan · from $10.99/user/mo Visit Remove	Jira Free plan · from $9.70/user/mo Visit Remove
What it is	Work management with prebuilt AI Teammates, an AI chief of staff, and unlimited automations from Starter	Atlassian's project and issue tracker with Rovo AI agents on paid plans and a free plan for 10 users
Free plan	Personal plan: free forever for 2 users, unlimited tasks and projects, list, board and calendar views, unlimited storage (100MB per file), status updates and 100+ free integrations. No AI features.	Up to 10 users, unlimited goals, projects, tasks and forms, backlog, list, board, timeline, calendar and summary views, 150 automation steps per subscription per month, 2 GB storage, 100 email notifications a day, community support. No Rovo AI.
Cheapest paid plan	$10.99/user/mo billed annually (Starter)Asana pricing	$9.70/user/mo (Standard)Jira pricing
What it covers	$10.99 per user a month billed annually, or $13.49 billed monthly. No seat limit. Seats are added in increments: 1 at a time from 2 to 5 users, 5 at a time up to 30, 10 up to 100, 25 up to 500 and 50 above 500. Includes AI Teammates and Asana Dash (5 AI requests per user a month, up to 50 per account) and 50K AI Studio credits a month.	$9.70 per user a month on monthly billing for users 1 to 100; lower graduated rates above 100 users (the page shows an average of $8.48 at its default of 300 users). Annual billing is priced by user tier instead, for example $2,450 a year for 16 to 25 users. Includes 25 Rovo credits and 400 automation steps per user a month, 250 GB storage.
Free trial	None stated	7-day free trial of Standard or Premium; no payment information required
Platforms	Web, iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, API	Web, iOS, Android, CLI, API
Integrations (vendor's figure)	100+ free integrations, including Microsoft 365, Google Workspace and Slack	3,000+ integrations in the Atlassian Marketplace
Open source	No	No
Good for	Cross-functional teams tracking projects with timelines and dependencies Teams that want built-in AI agents to plan, triage and report on work Linking daily tasks to company goals and portfolios	Software teams planning sprints and tracking work items Organisations already using Confluence and other Atlassian products Coordinating dependencies across many teams on Premium
Watch out for	The free Personal plan allows 2 users and has no timeline, Gantt, dashboards or AI features AI Teammates and Dash include 5 requests per user a month, capped at 50 per account on Starter and Advanced; more costs $0.50 to $0.60 per request Goals, portfolios, approvals and time tracking need Advanced; SAML and SCIM need Enterprise	Free plan: 10 users, 2 GB storage, 150 automation steps a month for the whole subscription and no Rovo AI Annual billing is sold in user tiers, and Enterprise is annual only and priced from 801 users Cross-project dependencies, approvals and the 99.9% uptime SLA need Premium
Made by	Asana, Inc.	Atlassian

Entry prices are the cheapest paid plan, as each vendor publishes it; “What it covers” says what that price is per (a user, a channel, a brand, a number of contacts). The sources are listed on each tool's page.

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