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monday.com vs Asana: what each plan costs per seat, and which one to keep
monday.com Basic, Standard and Pro set against Asana Starter and Advanced on verified US month-to-month prices, with what each tier unlocks and how much a 10-person team saves by keeping one.
Typical savings: a 10-person team paying for monday.com Standard ($14 per seat/month) and Asana Starter ($13.49 per user/month) spends $274.90 a month on two work-management tools. Keeping only monday.com Standard saves $134.90/month ($1,618.80 a year). Keeping only Asana Starter saves $140/month ($1,680 a year). At the upper tier, monday.com Pro ($24 per seat/month) and Asana Advanced ($30.49 per user/month) together cost $544.90 a month for 10 people. Keeping only Pro saves $304.90/month ($3,658.80 a year), and keeping only Advanced saves $240/month ($2,880 a year).
Teams usually end up paying for both when one department picked monday.com and another picked Asana, and nobody consolidated. Both organise work into projects and tasks with timeline views, automations and dashboards, and both are priced per person, so the overlap is large. The useful question is which tool your team's real projects, automations and reports already live in.
The plans side by side
| monday.com plan | Price per seat | Asana plan | Price per user |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 (up to 2 seats, 3 boards) | Personal | $0 (up to 2 users) |
| Basic | $12/month | — | — |
| Standard | $14/month | Starter | $13.49/month |
| Pro | $24/month | Advanced | $30.49/month |
| Enterprise | Contact sales | Enterprise / Enterprise+ | Contact sales |
All prices are US month-to-month. They come from our monday.com page (monday.com/pricing, US, checked on 2026-10-28) and our Asana page (asana.com/pricing, US, checked on 2026-10-15 and re-read on 2026-10-30). The rows pair plans by what they unlock, not by price alone: monday.com Standard and Asana Starter are the first tiers with timeline and Gantt views and automations, and monday.com Pro and Asana Advanced are the next step up. monday.com Basic has no Asana equivalent, because Asana's first paid tier already includes timelines.
monday.com sells seats in bundles, and its paid plans start at 3 seats. The prices here were read at the 10-seat bundle its US pricing page shows by default ($140/month for Standard, $240/month for Pro). If your team is a different size, check the bundle you'd actually be billed for. Asana bills per user.
Both vendors also show lower prices for yearly billing. We compare month-to-month only. On 2026-10-28, monday.com's yearly Standard and Pro totals waived the AI-credit charge as a special offer with no expiry shown, so our catalog records only their month-to-month prices. Neither vendor publishes an Enterprise price, so we don't show one.
What each tier unlocks
| monday.com | Asana | |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Up to 2 seats and 3 boards | Personal: up to 2 users, unlimited tasks and projects |
| Entry paid | Basic: unlimited items and free viewers | Starter (below) |
| Main plan | Standard: Timeline and Gantt views, automations and integrations (250 actions a month) | Starter: timeline and Gantt views, dashboards, forms, automations, unlimited free guests |
| Upper tier | Pro: private boards and docs, time tracking, 25,000 automation actions a month | Advanced: portfolios, goals, resource management, approvals and proofing, time tracking |
Features are from the same catalog pages and the vendors' US pricing pages. monday.com caps automation actions per month by plan (250 on Standard, 25,000 on Pro), so check how many your boards use today before you move Asana's rules onto it.
Keep monday.com when
- Your team works mostly in boards that look like spreadsheets, and the dashboards built on them are what managers read.
- Most people only need to view work. monday.com lists unlimited free viewers from the Basic plan.
- Cost per person at the upper tier matters most. monday.com Pro is $6.49 per seat/month less than Asana Advanced.
Keep Asana when
- Work runs as projects with timelines, intake forms and dashboards, and the project history and rules have built up over time.
- You use portfolios, goals or resource management on Advanced to see work across teams.
- Clients or contractors work with you as guests. Asana's pricing page lists unlimited free guests from Starter.
Before you cancel either one
- monday.com: export each board to Excel. Write down every automation, integration and dashboard before you cancel, because exports don't carry them over.
- Asana: projects and tasks export to CSV or JSON, but rules, portfolios and integrations have to be rebuilt elsewhere. Downgrading removes timelines, dashboards, automations and forms from existing projects.
- Count the people who hold a seat in both tools. That number, not the whole team, is what you're paying for twice.
If you're only trying to cut cost inside monday.com, read reduce monday seats before renewal first. If your projects are simple, compare Asana, Trello or Sheets for simple project tracking.
Test before you cancel
Run the free workflow readiness check on our project tracking consolidation workflow. Tick the tools you have and confirm which plan each is on, then record a test on one real project before you cancel anything. You don't need an account, your progress stays in your browser, and you can download the checklist as Markdown.
Check your own numbers
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