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Asana

Work management with prebuilt AI Teammates, an AI chief of staff, and unlimited automations from Starter

Project managementFree plan · from $10.99/user/mo

What is Asana?

Asana is a work and project management tool for cross-functional teams. Work is organised into tasks and projects shown as lists, boards, calendars, timelines and Gantt charts, with rules, forms and custom fields. Every paid plan includes AI Teammates (30+ prebuilt agents), Asana Dash, which routes work and summarises meetings, email and tasks, and AI Studio for building AI automations. Pricing is per user per month, cheaper billed annually. A free Personal plan covers 2 users; Starter adds timelines, dashboards and unlimited automations, and Advanced adds goals, portfolios, resource management, approvals and time tracking.

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

Key features

  • List, board, calendar, timeline and Gantt views with task dependencies and milestones
  • Rules and a no-code workflow builder; Starter and above include unlimited automations
  • AI Teammates: more than 30 prebuilt AI agents for marketing, operations, IT and other teams
  • Asana Dash, an AI chief of staff that summarises meetings, email and tasks and routes work to AI Teammates
  • AI Studio no-code builder for AI automations that intake, classify and route requests
  • Forms, custom fields, custom templates and task types
  • Goals, portfolios, resource management, approvals and proofing on Advanced
  • AI Connectors and MCP so ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini can work with Asana data

Limitations to know about

  • 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 refunds, and the FAQ says Asana does not plan an on-premises version

Asana pricing

Asana has a free plan. Starter and Advanced cost $10.99 and $24.99 per user a month billed annually, or $13.49 and $30.49 billed monthly. Enterprise and Enterprise+ are priced on request.

PlanPriceWhat you get
Personal$0Free forever for 2 users; unlimited tasks, projects and storage (100MB per file); list, board and calendar views
Starter$10.99/user/mo billed annually, or $13.49 billed monthlyNo seat limit, timeline and Gantt views, reporting dashboards, unlimited automations, forms, custom fields, unlimited free guests, AI Teammates, Asana Dash and AI Studio (50K credits/month)
Advanced$24.99/user/mo billed annually, or $30.49 billed monthlyEverything in Starter plus unlimited portfolios, goals, resource management, approvals and proofing, form branching, time tracking, Salesforce, Tableau and Power BI integrations; 75K AI Studio credits/month
EnterpriseCustomSAML, SCIM provisioning, universal resource management, capacity planning, service accounts, view-only licences; AI requests up to 250 per account and 200K AI Studio credits/month
Enterprise+CustomAdds advanced security, compliance and governance such as SIEM integrations, data residency, audit logs and managed workspaces

Free plan limits: 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.

What a team pays: For a team of five on Starter: $54.95 a month billed annually ($659.40 a year), or $67.45 billed monthly.

Costs on top of a plan

  • AI requests, prepaid: $0.50 per AI request, billed upfront (Usage packs for Starter, Advanced, Enterprise and Enterprise+; valid for the contract term on annual plans)
  • AI requests, pay as you go: $0.60 per AI request, billed monthly (On-demand billing with an optional monthly spend cap)

Prices in US dollars as published on Asana's pricing page on 21 October 2026. Vendors change prices often; check theirs before you buy. Current prices

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Frequently asked questions

Is Asana free?

Asana has a 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. Paid plans start at $10.99/user/mo billed annually.

How much does Asana cost?

Starter and Advanced cost $10.99 and $24.99 per user a month billed annually, or $13.49 and $30.49 billed monthly. Enterprise and Enterprise+ are priced on request. There is also a free plan. On Starter: $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. Prices as published on Asana's pricing page on 21 October 2026.

How much do extra Asana AI requests cost?

Prepaid AI requests cost $0.50 each, or $0.60 each with pay-as-you-go billing, on Starter, Advanced, Enterprise and Enterprise+. Each paid plan includes 5 requests per user a month, up to 50 per account on Starter and Advanced and 250 on Enterprise.

What is Asana used for?

Asana is a work and project management tool for cross-functional teams. People use it for cross-functional teams tracking projects with timelines and dependencies, teams that want built-in AI agents to plan, triage and report on work and linking daily tasks to company goals and portfolios.

What are the alternatives to Asana?

Tools that do a similar job include monday.com, ClickUp, Wrike, Smartsheet and Notion. Each has its own page here with its plans, limits and prices.

Who makes Asana?

Asana is made by Asana, Inc., based in San Francisco, US. The company was founded in 2008.

Sources

Every fact on this page comes from the pages below, read on the dates shown: Asana, Inc.'s own pages first, and a named public reference where they are silent.

  1. asana.com/pricing (plan prices (annual and monthly), free plan limits, seat increments, AI request and AI Studio credit allowances, AI request pricing, add-ons, refund policy, platforms) read 21 October 2026
  2. asana.com/ (product description, AI Teammates, Work Graph, products) read 21 October 2026
  3. asana.com/product/ai (AI Teammates, Asana Dash, AI Studio, AI Connectors and MCP) read 21 October 2026
  4. asana.com/company (company: founders, headquarters San Francisco) read 21 October 2026
  5. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asana,_Inc. (company founding year (2008)) read 21 October 2026

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