Asana vs monday.com

Two fact sheets from our own research, side by side — pricing, platforms, API access and status re-checked by us rather than quoted from the vendors.

The short answer

Entry price: Asana from $10.99/mo, monday.com from $9/seat/mo — different billing units, so no direct winner
Free plan: Both have one
Public API: Both have one
Best fit: Asana: Cross-functional teams coordinating work across many projects and owners · monday.com: Non-technical teams who need visual boards and no-code automations
Platforms: Asana: Web, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, Slack app · monday.com: Web, iOS, Android

From our own records as of each tool's last check. Anything we have not confirmed is left out rather than guessed. How we verify

AsanaWork management for tasks, projects and portfolios with credit-metered AI agents

monday.comWork platform of boards, automations and dashboards, with AI agents metered by a separate credit pool.

Side by side

Fact	Asana	monday.com
Category	Task & Project Management	Task & Project Management
Pricing model	Freemium	Freemium
Starts at	$10.99/mo	$9/seat/mo
Public API	Yes	Yes
Trust score	92 / 100	94 / 100
Platforms	Web, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, API, Slack app	Web, iOS, Android, API
Company	Asana, Inc.	monday.com Ltd.
Launched	2008	2012
Last verified	Oct 16, 2026	Oct 16, 2026

What our research says

Asana

Asana is a mature work-management system whose AI story is unusually concrete: agents are built from the same rules engine teams already use, and billed from an account-level credit pool instead of a per-seat AI surcharge. The catch is that the free tier is now effectively a two-person demo, so any real team lands on a paid plan immediately.

Pros

AI credits pool across the account rather than being sold per seat
No seat cap on paid plans, so adding collaborators does not force a tier jump
Well-documented public API plus native desktop, mobile and Slack clients
Portfolios, goals and reporting cover the layer above day-to-day tasks

Cons

Free plan is limited to two collaborating users
Portfolios, goals and advanced reporting sit behind the $24.99 tier
AI credit consumption per automation is not published, so budgeting is guesswork

monday.com

The most visual of the big work platforms, and the easiest to get a non-technical team onto. The AI layer is broad — agents, notetaker, triage, workflow builder — but metered by credits, which makes it hard to predict what heavy use costs. Splitting CRM, service and dev into separately priced products means the real bill is usually higher than the headline seat price.

Pros

Boards, automations, forms, docs and dashboards without writing code
Four product lines share one platform: work management, CRM, service, dev
AI notetaker, ticket triage, workflow builder and agent workforce built in
Public company with a long track record, founded 2012 and listed

Cons

Free plan is capped at two seats, effectively a trial
AI features consume a separate credit pool on top of seat cost
CRM and Service lines are priced well above the work-management tiers
Pricing is billing-country dependent, so quoted currency and figures shift by region

Which one fits

Choose Asana if you need

Cross-functional teams coordinating work across many projects and owners
Ops people who want automations and intake agents without writing code
Organisations that need portfolios, goals and reporting above project level

Choose monday.com if you need

Non-technical teams who need visual boards and no-code automations
Organisations that want CRM, service desk and project work on one underlying platform
Teams willing to trade per-seat cost for fast adoption