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Jira vs Asana

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.

Compared on
Jira

Free plan · from $9.70/user/mo

Asana

Free plan · from $10.99/user/mo

What it isAtlassian's project and issue tracker with Rovo AI agents on paid plans and a free plan for 10 usersWork management with prebuilt AI Teammates, an AI chief of staff, and unlimited automations from Starter
Free planUp 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.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.
Cheapest paid plan$9.70/user/mo (Standard)Jira pricing$10.99/user/mo billed annually (Starter)Asana pricing
What it covers$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.$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.
Free trial7-day free trial of Standard or Premium; no payment information requiredNone stated
PlatformsWeb, iOS, Android, CLI, APIWeb, iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, API
Integrations (vendor's figure)3,000+ integrations in the Atlassian Marketplace100+ free integrations, including Microsoft 365, Google Workspace and Slack
Open sourceNoNo
Good for
  • Software teams planning sprints and tracking work items
  • Organisations already using Confluence and other Atlassian products
  • Coordinating dependencies across many teams on Premium
  • 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
Watch out for
  • 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
  • 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
Made byAtlassianAsana, Inc.

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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