monday.com and Asana often end up on the same shortlist when teams look for a project management tool. Both organise tasks and projects, and both have timelines, automations and AI features. The differences lie in their focus: Asana specialises in structured project and portfolio management, while monday.com is a broader platform that also runs sales and service alongside projects. This comparison shows you what the two cost in 2026 and when each tool is the better fit.

The core difference

monday.com works with boards structured like tables: groups, columns and items. You decide which columns a board has and can display the same data as a table, Kanban, Gantt chart, calendar or dashboard. Since May 2026, the platform has officially been called the AI Work Platform.

Asana is built around tasks and projects. Tasks have owners, due dates and dependencies, and projects can be displayed as a list, board, timeline or calendar. On the higher plans, portfolios, goals (OKRs) and workload views are added.

monday.com and Asana at a glance

Prices are per seat or user per month with annual billing, as of September 2026.

‍

‍

Pricing in 2026

For the AI Work Platform, monday.com costs 9 USD on the Basic plan, 12 USD on Standard and 19 USD on Pro, per seat per month. Paid plans start at 3 seats, and for new customers since May 2026 a bundle of AI credits is included. You'll find the details in our monday.com product and pricing overview 2026.

Asana costs 10.99 USD on the Starter plan and 24.99 USD on the Advanced plan per user per month, or 13.49 and 30.49 USD with monthly billing. Enterprise and Enterprise+ are quoted individually. The free Personal plan is limited to 2 users for accounts created since 12 November 2025. From 6 users, Asana sells seats in increments of 5. Portfolios, goals and workload views are only available on the Advanced plan, which more than doubles the price per person.

Features compared

Projects, views and overview

Both tools offer list, Kanban, timeline and calendar views. Asana is stronger on classic project features such as dependencies, milestones and portfolios that bring several projects together. monday.com is more flexible in how you set things up: you decide what information a board contains and can build dashboards with widgets across several boards. This also works for processes that aren't classic projects, such as client work at an accounting firm or a recruitment process.

Review and approval processes

Asana has dedicated approval tasks and proofing features for files, used mainly by creative and marketing teams. In monday.com, an approval process can be set up with status columns, automations and notifications, for example: as soon as a draft is set to "For review", the responsible person is notified, and once approved, the item automatically moves to the next stage.

Automations and integrations

Asana automates with rules and the Workflow Builder, for example for assigning incoming requests. monday.com uses automations following the pattern "When X happens, do Y", with 250 actions per month from the Standard plan and 25,000 on Pro. Both connect with common tools such as Slack, Microsoft Teams or Google Drive. For connections to systems without a native integration, Make is often used with both.

AI features

Asana bundles its AI features in AI Studio, a no-code builder for workflows with AI steps, and offers AI Teammates, agents that work alongside the team. AI credits apply per billing account, not per person. monday.com offers Sidekick, an assistant that knows the content of your account, agents that handle recurring tasks on their own, and Vibe, a builder for your own apps. Find out more in our overview of monday AI.

When Asana fits and when monday.com does

Asana is the better choice if you mainly manage classic projects with dependencies, milestones and portfolios and want to link goals (OKRs) directly to the work. This often applies to larger marketing or product teams with the budget for the Advanced plan.

monday.com is the better fit if your processes don't just consist of projects but also of requests, deals or recurring workflows, and you want to manage them all in one system. monday CRM, monday dev and monday service are dedicated products for this on the same platform. And if you want to adapt the tool heavily to your own processes, monday.com gives you more room.

Switching from Asana to monday.com

Asana projects usually become boards in monday.com, sections become groups, tasks become items and subtasks become subitems. Asana exports projects as CSV files that you can import into monday.com. With many projects, or if both tools need to run in parallel for a while, it's better to transfer and sync the data via Make. We show how a rollout works step by step in our article Implementing monday.com.

Rolling out monday.com with Blinno

Blinno is a monday.com Platinum Partner. We help you decide between Asana and monday.com, set up the structure in monday.com, migrate existing projects and train your team. We explain why a partner makes the rollout easier in our article Why do I need a monday.com partner?

Choosing between Asana and monday.com? Book a free first call with us.

Frequently asked questions