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Asana vs Trello

Pick up to 4 tools and see their free plans, entry prices, platforms and limits in one table. Every fact comes from each vendor's own pages, checked 21 October 2026.

Written head to head: Trello vs Asana, with when to choose each side.

Compared on
Asana

Free plan · from $10.99/user/mo

Trello

Free plan · from $5/user/mo

What it isWork management with prebuilt AI Teammates, an AI chief of staff, and unlimited automations from StarterKanban boards with built-in automation and an Inbox for to-dos from email and chat, free for 10 collaborators
Free planPersonal 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 collaborators per Workspace, up to 10 boards per Workspace, unlimited cards, unlimited Power-Ups per board, unlimited storage (10MB per file), 250 Workspace command runs per month, Inbox, iOS and Android apps
Cheapest paid plan$10.99/user/mo billed annually (Starter)Asana pricing$5/user/mo billed annually (Standard)Trello 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.$5 per user a month billed annually, $6 billed monthly. Unlimited boards, AI features, 1,000 Workspace command runs a month, 250MB per file. Every Workspace member is billable, and multi-board guests are billed at the member rate.
Free trialNone statedFree trial of Trello Premium for any Workspace (length not stated on the pricing page)
PlatformsWeb, iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, APIWeb, iOS, Android, macOS, Windows
Integrations (vendor's figure)100+ free integrations, including Microsoft 365, Google Workspace and Slack200+ apps through Power-Ups, including Slack, Google Drive and Salesforce
Open sourceNoNo
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
  • Individuals and small teams organising work on simple Kanban boards
  • Capturing to-dos from email and chat and scheduling them on a calendar
  • Teams that want light automation without a complex setup
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 collaborators and 10 boards per Workspace, 250 command runs a month and 10MB per file, with no AI features listed
  • Timeline, Table, Calendar, Dashboard and Map views need Premium
  • SAML SSO needs Atlassian Guard, a separate subscription from $4 per user a month, unless on Enterprise
Made byAsana, 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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