monday.com vs Asana vs Smartsheet

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

Compared on	monday.com Free plan · from $9/seat/mo VisitRemove	Asana Free plan · from $10.99/user/mo VisitRemove	Smartsheet Free trial · from $9/member/mo VisitRemove
What it is	Board-based work management with AI agents and credits on every paid plan, sold in seat buckets from 3 seats	Work management with prebuilt AI Teammates, an AI chief of staff, and unlimited automations from Starter	Spreadsheet-style work management for projects, programs and processes
Free plan	Up to 2 seats, up to 3 boards, up to 3 Docs, 200+ templates, 8 column types, iOS and Android apps; the help centre adds a 200-item limit and 500 MB storage. No AI features.	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.	No
Cheapest paid plan	$9/seat/mo billed annually (Basic)monday.com pricing	$10.99/user/mo billed annually (Starter)Asana pricing	$9/member/mo billed annually (Pro)Smartsheet pricing
What it covers	$9 per seat a month billed yearly, $12 billed monthly. Sold in seat buckets (3, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 40, 50, 100, 200+) with a 3-seat minimum, so the lowest Basic bill is $27 a month billed yearly or $36 monthly. Includes 1,000 AI credits a month, unlimited items and free viewers; no automation or integration actions.	$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.	1 to 10 members with unlimited free contributors; 250 automations per month.
Free trial	14-day free trial of the Pro plan; trials cannot be extended	None stated	30-day free trial
Platforms	Web, iOS, Android, API	Web, iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, API	Web
Integrations (vendor's figure)	850+ integrations and apps	100+ free integrations, including Microsoft 365, Google Workspace and Slack	Not stated
Open source	No	No	No
Good for	Teams that want to build their own boards and workflows without code Running projects with AI agents and an AI assistant on the same boards Departments such as marketing, operations or a PMO standardising work across teams	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	Planning a project on a Gantt timeline shared with clients as contributors Collecting requests through forms into a tracked sheet Reporting on several projects in dashboards
Watch out for	Seats are sold in buckets (3, 5, 10, 15, 20 and up) with a 3-seat minimum, so a team of 4 pays for 5 The free plan allows 2 seats, 3 boards and 3 docs, with no AI features Basic includes no automation or integration actions, and Standard is capped at 250 of each a month	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	No free plan; a 30-day free trial only Pro is limited to 10 members and 250 automations per month SAML SSO, portfolios and scenario planning require Enterprise
Made by	monday.com	Asana, Inc.	Smartsheet 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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