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Asana and monday.com are both highly capable, easy-to-use project management software tools with free and paid plans geared toward different-sized organizations. You’ll find their interfaces quite similar, offering a central dashboard with multi-use rows that are easily customized using drag-and-drop editing functionality.
You’ll have access to greater customization and useful enterprise-level security capabilities if you opt for higher-priced plans for both Asana and monday.com. The two providers include straightforward automation builders and a wide range of task management features, providing 5+ project views each. Read on to find out more about the two providers in this Asana vs monday comparison, or check out the table below if you don’t have time:
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| A great task management system due to strong customizability and support team, with a generous free trial. | A simple task-list-based project management platform with an acceptable free tier. |
- Asana vs monday.com: Head to Head
- Asana vs monday.com: Features
- Asana vs monday.com: Ease of Use Tests
- monday.com vs Asana Value Comparison
- Asana Costs vs monday.com Costs
- Switching Between Asana and monday.com
- What’s New in Asana and monday.com?
- Asana and monday.com Competitors
- About Our Research
- Verdict: monday.com is Better Than Asana
- Asana vs monday.com FAQs
Asana vs monday.com: Head-to-Head in 2024
Most businesses will find monday.com to be the better choice – it’s easier to use, quicker to set up, and has better task management, data, and collaboration tools than Asana. You’re also less likely to be stuck waiting if you have an issue because monday.com has 24/7 live support for Enterprise users. When I used it during testing, it was provided quickly and helped me solve my issue.
However, Asana has better integrations and workflow creation options on offer, and still scored commendably on our ease-of-use tests, and the analytics dashboard features were the only ones I thought came close to monday.com’s.
Viewing a project with monday.com’s Kanban board. GIF: Tech.co’s testing process.
If you’re concerned about the cost implications of a new software tool and you don’t have much budget spare, monday.com’s lower prices will look appealing compared to Asana’s pricey plans. monday.com’s first paid plan is almost $2 cheaper per month than Asana’s first paid plan, and the provider’s Pro plan is almost $6 cheaper per month than Asana’s $24.99 per user, per month Advanced plan.
Test Summary (2024): Why I Prefer monday.com
Although Asana and monday.com are both among the top five project management tools I’ve tested, monday.com’s user experience is just a little bit smoother, which makes it easier to master. Setting up with monday.com is a bit quicker too – importing your project data is a lot more of an intuitive process than it is with Asana.
monday.com’s interface isn’t quite as cramped or cluttered, there are more views available for you to view your project with, and it’s a little easier to resize things like charts and graphs. monday.com really feels like it’s designed with newbies in mind. My customer support experience with monday.com was a lot quicker and easier too.
The other big difference is the price. Asana’s Advanced plan is almost $6 more expensive per user, per month than monday.com’s Pro projects plan, and if you’ve got a team of any more than 10, that monthly cost is going to start to eat into your bottom line in a much bigger way than monday.com will. I just can’t justify paying the high price for Asana when the likes of monday.com – which offers more features on cheaper plans – are available.
Who is monday.com best for?
monday.com will suit first-time project management software users who want an easy-to-use tool to get started with. It’s by far the friendliest tool for project management we’ve tested, and you don’t need to be tech-savvy at all to master monday.com.
We’d also recommend monday.com over Asana to any business on a tight budget, as monday.com has much cheaper plans. monday.com is also better for project teams that need constant lines of communication. We’d also probably opt for monday.com if your project is really data-intensive, as monday.com edges Asana when it comes to data visualization tools.
monday.com pros
- monday is the friendliest project management tool that we’ve tested, boasting a simple interface and quick setup time
- Cheaper than other options on the market, with plans starting at $9 per user, per month
- Excellent range of data visualization tools
monday.com cons
- 24/7 live support is only available on Enterprise plans
- Large boards with multiple stakeholders can cause performance to lag
- Customization options can be overwhelming, especially for new users
Who is Asana best for?
We’d recommend Asana over monday.com if your core decision-making factor for project management software is how it’ll integrate into the existing stack of software you currently use at work. While monday.com has a number of useful integrations, Asana will seamlessly connect with 53 different data and reporting apps and has 84 communication integrations. What’s more, monday.com doesn’t allow integrations on its free and Starter plan.
Asana is also a better choice if you have absolutely no software budget at all, simply because monday.com’s free plan has a user limit of 2, while Asana’s can support a small team or business of up to 10 people before you have to pay anything. Granted, the plan is limited compared to its paid counterparts, but it’s a pretty good deal considering you aren’t spending a cent.
Asana pros
- Massive library of integrations, featuring over 200 apps across finance, HR, data, marketing, and more
- Excellent security measures, with information backed up and secured by firewall
- Generous free plan, with availability for 10 team members
Asana cons
- Tasks can only be assigned to one team member, which can present issues if the assigned person is unavailable
- Some of the top integrations are only available at higher tiers
- Asana is pretty pricey, with plans starting at $10.99 per user, per month
Asana vs monday.com: Functions & Features Comparison
Both Asana and monday.com offer a healthy range of features needed to keep a team operating at peak efficiency. Overall, Asana scores 4.2/5 for functionality – an overall score awarded based on the range and quality of the features on offer.
This is better than the likes of Zoho Projects, Smartsheet, Jira, and Basecamp. However, monday.com scores 4.4/5, second only to ClickUp (4.6/5), our top-rated provider for this assessment area and our top pick if you’re looking for a Work OS. This is because monday.com offers a rich feature set, with multiple available project views and templates.
Best for task management: monday.com
For task management, both Asana and monday.com score a high 4.3/5 and 4.5/5 respectively, but naturally, this makes monday.com the better option for pure task management. Both platforms offer multiple layouts and task management functionality, but monday.com just shades this one as its layout is less cluttered.
Layout and project views
When it comes to their layout and the different views on offer, monday.com and Asana are pretty similar. Asana lets users track projects in real-time, with a portfolio feature that groups ongoing projects by category, completion level, or priority, with any overdue tasks clearly visible. Each project gets a status indicator, with ranks including “on track”, “at risk”, or “off track”.
monday.com – which now markets itself as more of a “work management” platform – naturally starts off with a “workspace” view, within which you can create different folders, sub-folders, and boards. This means it’s a great option for teams who don’t just need a space to manage projects but also, all their other workplace operations.
When testing monday.com’s plans, I found the layout to be even less cluttered than Asana, which itself has quite a tidy interface. Starting a project on monday.com is incredibly simple – you can create a board, and then add tasks to it. You’ll then be able to split your tasks into different groups. The minimalistic interface meant I didn’t feel overwhelmed with the settings and features during setup – Asana felt slightly cramped in comparison.
The Main Table view in monday.com, with visible subtasks. Image: Tech.co testing process.
Both monday.com and Asana provide various views you can use to visualize your tasks/task progress – including a table view, a Kanban board, a Gantt chart/timeline view, a list view, and a spreadsheet-style view. Neither provider includes their Gantt chart on their free plan, and you can simply switch between the views using the top menu bar.
Managing tasks
I found the whole process of managing tasks very intuitive when using monday.com and Asana – most changes are able to be made with a click of a button with minimal menu diving. Overall, monday.com scored 4.5/5 for this assessment area to Asana’s 4.3/5.
Both providers offer features on their paid plans that are suitable for granular task management, such as sub-tasks, task comments, milestones, and task dependencies, while limiting these features on their free plans. Whichever provider you end up choosing, rest assured you’ll be able to manage tasks that demand multiple editors and contributors.
Commenting on tasks in monday.com. Existing comments are visible in a thread format for visibility. Image: Tech.co’s testing process
In Asana, these finer task management tools ensure the critical path of your projects is respected. “You can make tasks dependent on other tasks being completed, so you’ll be unable to tick them off before the first one is complete,” explains Katie, an SEO Campaigns Executive whose team started using Asana recently. She also commented on how easy it is to assign tasks, and how useful the Timeline view was for tracking project progress.
One thing several members of our group highlighted during testing is that Asana will often make automated suggestions on which tasks should link to each other. Although monday.com doesn’t offer this, it does have an AI tool that is currently in beta but can perform automated task generation based on basic inputs relating to your project goals. So, once again, it’s quite hard to split them when it comes to advanced features.
Editing tasks in Asana. Tasks are arranged into helpful groups. Image: Tech.co’s testing process
However, there are a number of subtle differences that give monday.com the edge. For example, Asana now joins monday.com in offering time tracking – and since March of last year, users have been able to add estimated and actual time fields to templates and sub-tasks! However, monday.com will let you assign billing amounts to employees’ time, which Asana won’t let you do at present. Another is the spreadsheet view – monday.com offers a conditional formatting function, whereas Asana doesn’t, and this makes it easier to find tasks and data.
While testing monday.com, I often found the feature I needed was just “there” – such as marking tasks as complete. This sounds like something that would be easy to find in most competitors too, but few software programs are built in quite the same way. monday.com packages in the same sort of features for less money than Asana, while remaining tidier and more welcoming.
Head over to our monday.com review for more about the provider’s task management features.
Best for project and workflow creation: Asana
monday.com scores 3.8/5 for workflow creation, while Asana scores 4.1/5, putting them towards the top of the pack. Only Teamwork and ClickUp scored higher in this assessment area last time than Asana and monday.com. Both platforms offer very similar functionality in this regard, but monday.com falls down in this area due to its plan limitations. Subscribers to its Standard plan can only make up to 250 automations per month, which may become an issue for larger teams.
Project templates
Asana has always offered preset and custom project templates on all plans including its free plan, whereas monday.com never used to offer this on its no-fee package. However, even on monday.com’s free plan, you can now customize project templates to suit your business’s needs.
On all of monday.com’s plans, you’ll get access to project templates based on nine different organizational departments, as well as four different business types – freelancer, real estate, non-profit, and startup.
monday.com’s template center has a huge range of preset options so you can get started quickly. Image: Tech.co
With Asana, on the other hand, you’ll get access to templates geared toward seven organizational departments including HR, design, sales, and marketing. All in all, monday.com will be the better option if you want to get up and running quickly with a preset template designed for teams like yours – but Asana is certainly no slouch in this regard.
Automation builders
Asana has one of the best automation builders among the 10 project management tools our testing group reviewed. It was extremely simple to use and very self-explanatory, meaning it didn’t take much time at all to streamline repetitive administrative tasks like notifying team members when tasks were completed.
Adding an automation in Asana, with optional columns on display. GIF: Tech.co’s testing process
However, much of the same can be said for monday.com’s automation builder, which was just as straightforward and helped monday.com to a 4.5/5 ease of use score. They’re both pretty similar tools in terms of functionality and what they actually let you do, but monday.com’s is text-based and marginally easier to get to grips with.
Adding automations in monday.com, highly useful for streamlining workflows. Image: Tech.co’s testing process
Another reason to choose monday.com is the fact the provider will let you build custom automations from the Standard plan ($12 per user, per month) upwards, whereas Asana only offers custom automations on its Advanced ($24.99 per user, per month) and Enterprise plans.
However, if you’re a large business or team, the fact Asana puts no limit on the number of automations you can build might be a decisive factor – monday.com’s Standard plan limits the number of automations you can make to 250 per month. The Pro plan has a 25,000 automation limit, however, and is cheaper than Asana’s Advanced plan.
Workflow designers & form builders
Another big difference between Asana and monday.com is that Asana has a workflow designer on all of its plans, bar its free plan, whereas monday.com doesn’t offer this at all. This is a key reason Asana edges when it comes to scoring this assessment area.
A workflow designer is a dedicated tool for mapping out repetitive processes and tasks, such as workflows. This tool is used for designing and visualizing them, rather than actually carrying them out, which is what the automation builder is for. It’s a handy feature to have if you’re intent on really freeing up time for your staff to focus on valuable work, and you feel like administrative tasks are slowing you down.
Both providers offer form builders, another key tool you’ll need if you want to compile post-project feedback. However, Asana’s (pictured below) is a bit easier to use because it opts for the classic drag-and-drop interface that you’ll find in things like email template builders or online graphic design sites.
Utilizing the simple form builder in Asana, with a selection of available questions. Image: Tech.co’s testing process
Best for Data Visualization: monday.com
monday.com was the only provider to achieve 5/5 for data visualization on our last round of tests – and it really has everything you could need in this regard, with a wide variety of different charts and graphs at the user’s disposal. Asana scores an impressive 4.8/5 for data visualization, the second-best score for this assessment area.
However, the features that help Asana achieve that score are available on the free plan, which works in its favor. In fact, there are several better free project management software solutions available, such as ClickUp, which includes 6 preset charts and 5 widget options on its free plan.
Building dashboards
If it was Asana vs pretty much any other project management tool, we’d be singing the praises of their data dashboard, which is incredibly clear, easy to edit, and genuinely useful when it comes to gaining insights about your project from performance data. It’s much easier to use than the likes of Wrike, ClickUp, and Jira’s dashboards.
An example of Asana’s dashboard-building capabilities. The clear layout and signposting add up to an easy experience. Source: Asana
However, monday.com’s dashboards are just a little bit more customizable and powerful. On its first paid plan, you’ll be able to create a dashboard with data from one board, while the Standard projects plan ($12 per user, per month) will let you build one with data extracted from up to five boards. By the time you get to the Enterprise plan, you’ll be able to build dashboards that pull in data from all the projects being completed by monday.com across your business.
Asana doesn’t offer this kind of business-level dashboard feature, restricting the function to the project level. It’s not quite as capable in this way, so unless you’re going to be combining data across multiple projects, you may find monday.com’s data tools a little overkill.
Data display options
There are six widget options available on all of monday.com’s paid plans, but it’s monday.com’s Pro plan that you’ll really appreciate if you want detailed data relating to how your project is progressing. There are 6 preset chart types available and you’ll be able to make custom charts by pulling through data from custom fields.
Creating a chart in monday.com in simplified view. Advanced filters are optional. Image: Tech.co’s testing process.
On the whole, monday.com’s custom chart builder is a lot more functional than Asana’s. monday.com lets you “stacked” charts with three tracking parameters, and export the data directly from them if you need it elsewhere.
Like Asana, monday.com’s data visualization tools are also limited on the free plan, but they’re super-easy to use and the provider is updating them all the time. Since March of this year, monday.com users have been able to dock widgets, which removes clutter around vital pieces of data stored and displayed on dashboards. This makes it much easier to focus on specific information in isolation.
Best for Collaboration: monday.com
Of the two, monday.com only just came out on top for collaboration with a score of 3.3/5. By contrast, Asana scores 3/5. monday.com offers a project message board, task commenting (pictured below), and document editing, as well as an online whiteboard.
Importantly, on monday.com’s project message board, you can send files, which you can’t do on Asana’s. You can also create documents from scratch, which means you’ll have even less of a reason to leave the app.
Commenting on tasks in monday.com. Image: Tech.co testing process
Instead, Asana provides a project message board, which can serve as a kind of hub for project-related discussions – something I found very useful for collating need-to-know information when I tested the product. However, beyond this, there really isn’t that much offered by Asana when it comes to collaboration, and if your team is big on communication, we’d definitely recommend monday.com.
Best for Integrations: Asana
While monday.com has a solid range of integrations and scores a respectable 4/5 for its range of connected apps, this is a real strong point for Asana – it scores 4.7/5 for integrations thanks to a huge library of over 200 apps, programs, and tools.
Although monday.com includes more integrations than Asana now, it won’t allow users to integrate with other programs if they’re using the free or Starter plan, which means it didn’t score as well in this category.
Finance, HR, and reporting Integrations
Asana has more than 17 financial app integrations, including Zenefits, KosmoTime, Timely, Lumos, and Time Doctor, as well as 53 reporting apps that it connects to including Tableau and Looker.
This is a lot more than monday.com makes available for these two integration categories. monday.com only integrates with 15 finance apps (including Quickbooks), but does connect up to over 130 data reporting platforms, including a Google and Microsoft forms embedder.
Marketing, Email, and CRM integrations
monday.com offers seamless connections to a variety of marketing apps, such as Canva and Miro integrations. Of course, monday.com also offers its own, dedicated CRM platform which you can download and use alongside monday.com’s work management platform.
Asana, on the other hand, integrates with Adobe Creative Cloud, Wistia, and Canva. In March of 2023, Asana also added Freshdesk, email provider Mailchimp, and Intercom integrations. Both providers integrate with widely-used email programs like Gmail and Outlook.
Communications integrations
Almost all businesses use software that connects them to remote members of their team in 2024, so it’s no surprise that Asana and monday.com both integrated with a range of popular communications platforms, most notably Slack and Microsoft Teams.
Both providers also offer a Zoom integration, but monday.com’s is only available to US users at the moment as it was only launched in September 2023. However, if you are based in the US, you’ll be able to use it to sync meeting information with items in your monday.com boards. Asana’s performs pretty much the same function.
Best for Security: monday.com
Account-level security options
Asana and monday.com both offer two-factor authentication on all of their plans – which not all project management software tools I’ve tested do. For example, Smartsheet and Wrike both only offer this feature on their Enterprise plans – but in an ideal world you should be implementing this wherever you can regardless of whether you’re a large enterprise or a small business.
Security options for enterprises
monday.com’s Enterprise plan includes IP restriction capabilities, something that Asana’s Enterprise plan doesn’t offer – and this can be a useful feature for IT teams wanting total control over the devices accessing monday.com’s software.
Both monday.com and Asana offer Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) for single sign-on, plus user provisioning/de-provisioning, which lets an operation’s IT team dictate when and how users gain access to the service. Also included: A 99.9% uptime promise, although monday.com also provides this in its Service-Level Agreement.
Best for Ease of Use: monday.com
Both services are relatively easy to use, although I found monday.com slightly more usable (4.5/5) than Asana (4.2/5). On our usability tests, I found both Asana and monday.com among the easiest providers to use, but monday.com, in particular, seemed like it would suit teams that don’t necessarily have a high level of technical ability.
Both services offer a dashboard that lets users access each tool they’ll need within a few clicks, which I found pretty simple to navigate around when I used them both during testing. However, as we’ve mentioned already in this article, monday.com takes a minimalistic approach that’s somewhat unique in the project management space – it just feels a lot less noisy than the other competitors the Tech.co team regularly reviews.
A mock dashboard I made with monday.com, featuring a variety of data visualizations. Source: Tech.co’s testing process.
“monday.com felt more like it had been tested and troubleshooted more times than other software,” said Alice Martin, a business software writer who participated in our recent ease-of-use tests. “Everything was placed very intuitively. It felt kind of like an Apple product in the sense that you just instinctively knew how to work it, which was good.”
Asana, while simple enough, can be quite difficult to use when there’s not a dedicated feature available to perform some specific tasks, whereas there are slightly more workarounds in monday.com to deal with this circumstance. Its interface, especially when you try to edit a task, can also feel a bit cramped. But it’s far, far easier to use than Jira, Zoho Projects, and Smartsheet.
Overall, however, both Asana and monday.com are very easy for newcomers and veterans alike because they both avoid unnecessary submenus and make more complex project details into a customizable option, rather than a necessity. They both make efforts to improve their apps too, with monday.com releasing a suite of updates in July and August of 2024. Among these, users can now choose to exclude or include weekends in their project management scheduling, save their progress while completing forms, and export canvases to external stakeholders as print-ready PDFs.
Best value: monday.com
monday.com successfully beats out Asana on value in multiple ways, scoring 3.9/5 for pricing to Asana’s 3.7/5. monday.com offers more plans than Asana does, with four paid plans to Asana’s three. This makes it just a little easier for businesses to pick the plan that works for their needs, without paying for features they don’t want.
Plus, when you break down the comparable plans, monday.com is slightly less expensive. Both services charge a set price per user, per month, with monday.com’s $9 per user, per month plans undercutting the comparable $10.99 per user, per month Asana plan. If you want a plan with more advanced features, monday.com is still priced better, with its $19 per user, per month Pro tier plan comparable to Asana’s $24.99 per user, per month Advanced plan.
Asana pricing plans
Asana’s three paid plans are the Starter plan ($10.99 per user, per month), the Advanced plan ($24.99 per user, per month), and the Enterprise plan (custom pricing). There’s also a free plan available, but it’s quite limited, and an Enterprise+ plan with a few extra features.
| Price (annually) The amount you'll pay per month, when billed annually | Users | Projects/Boards | Number of automations | Gantt Chart | Resource management | Time Tracking | ||
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As I just mentioned, Asana’s free plan (Asana Personal) is nowhere near as useful as its paid tiers.
Asana Starter ($10.99 per user, per month) adds features including a timeline, task dependencies, milestones, custom fields, custom templates, advanced search, and training materials. Plus, Asana increased their custom field limit in June 2023 from 30 to 100, so you’ll be able to customize even more aspects of your project.
Asana Business ($24.99 per user, per month) comes with everything in the Starter plan, plus team project portfolios and a Workload view to see each user’s tasks at a glance, among other features. This is the first Asana plan with custom automation via Asana’s intuitive automation builder, which helped the provider achieve a commendable 4.1/5 score for workflow creation.
See our complete guide to Asana pricing for more details, or just read on for an overview of each plan.
monday.com pricing plans
monday.com has a free plan, plus four paid plans. It’s the Basic Projects plan that really sticks out as a good value package, with an excellent range of features and a cheaper price tag ($9 per user, per month) than Asana’s comparable Starter plan ($10.99 per user, per month).
| Price (annually) The amount you'll pay per month, when billed annually | Users | Projects/Boards | Number of automations | Gantt Chart | Resource management | Time Tracking | ||
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| 2 | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | ||||
| 3 | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | ||||
| None | None | 250 actions/month | 25,000 actions/month | 25,000 actions/month | ||||
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monday.coms Basic tier is an upgrade on the Individual plan and has no user limit as well as 5GB of storage, but for $9 per user, per month, it’s pretty good value. There’s no automation, milestone function, or even a Gantt chart, but its still a lot easier to use than most of the competitor’s plans in this range.
The Standard tier ($12 per user, per month) includes the Gantt chart omitted from the Basic Projects plan is included, plus automations (250 per month), a calendar view, and guest access. Storage is increased to 20GB too.
The Pro tier costs $19 per user, per month, and includes a formula column, private boards, time tracking, and a chart view, as well as more automations and integrations (25,000 per month for each, up from 250). The custom-priced Enterprise tier adds a higher API rate limit, higher-level support, audit logs, and a whopping 250,000 actions per month for both automations and integration
Check out our full guide to monday.com pricing plans for more detail.
Is it Easy to Switch Between Asana and monday.com?
If you’re already using Asana or monday.com and thinking of switching over to the other one, of course, there’s quite a lot to consider.
The first is your bottom line – will swapping providers actually make things cheaper? In the case of Asana vs monday.com, monday.com is far better value for money, with Asana’s Advanced plan ($24.99 per user, per month) costing more than almost all other competing plans on the market. For small teams, a plan like monday.com’s Standard projects plan ($12 per user, per month) will be more than enough – and the savings will make the downtime worth it.
That being said, migrating large amounts of project data takes time, and planning this around your business’s inevitably hectic schedule to avoid as much downtime as possible isn’t the easiest thing in the world to navigate.
Switching from Asana over to monday.com is much easier than the other way around, as monday.com has a native Asana integration that allows you to consolidate all of your projects and tasks in monday.com. You can still go on using Asana if you’d like to – which some teams do if their department is simply using monday.com as a central hub to coordinate a variety of different teams – but both apps achieve similar purposes.
If you’d like to migrate your data from monday.com to Asana, on the other hand, you’ll have to use a third-party integration tool like Zapier. This takes a little bit longer, but it’s still a relatively simple process.
What’s New in Asana?
Off the back of rolling out a number of updates at the start of the year, Asana has once again unveiled a suite of new features, as part of its “Summer 2024 Release.” Notably, AI features extensively. For instance, users can now optimize project management with AI-generated rules and projects.
What’s more, Asana continues to make small tweaks that make its users’ lives easier. Among these, you can now copy charts from project dashboards and paste them into external apps, making it easier than ever to present your information however you see fit.
Asana has also made it easier for project owners to manage permissions, with a new feature allowing admins to limit who can create and share content within a team. For users that are juggling multiple stakeholders, this is a nifty way to make sure that task management doesn’t get out of hand.
What’s New in monday.com?
monday has also revealed a number of new updates. For example, as of September 2024, users can now send mass emails to multiple recipients simultaneously. It’s a great way to get your email marketing campaigns off the ground, or to follow up with several clients at once.
At the same time, monday has unveiled WorkCanvas, a new online whiteboard tool enabling users to collaborate in real-time from any location. It’s a great solution for users looking to run ideation sessions or workshops.
monday has introduced several AI automations in recent months. Its AI writing assistant, for instance, gives you the tools to generate text from a prompt and beat that writer’s block. Users can even specify the tone and length that they’re looking for. It’s a clever way of making it easier to get projects off the ground, where getting started is often the hardest part.
How Do Asana and monday.com Compare to Other Providers?
Asana and monday.com aren’t the only project management tools worth checking out before you part ways with your money.
If pricing is your priority, we’d recommend ClickUp. Owing to its extensive project view options and collaboration features – including an online whiteboard and native team chat function – ClickUp scored higher for functionality (4.6/5) than both monday.com (4.2/5) and Asana (4.1/5).
Impressively, ClickUp is also a couple of dollars cheaper than Asana and monday.com. ClickUp’s first paid plan (the Unlimited Plan) is available for just $7 per user, per month, and has more features than similar plans offered by Asana and monday.com. It’s a bit more of an all-in-one, Work OS in that sense.
If data security and customer support are among your top priorities, then we’d recommend Smartsheet (4.2/5). It’s got a wide range of options if you get stuck, and security features that large businesses managing sensitive data will appreciate, like customizable password rules.
We particularly appreciated how Smartsheet handled the user onboarding process, with an extensive selection of materials at your disposal. It now offers a free plan to compete with the likes of Asana and monday.com, but the Smartsheet Pro plan costs just $9 per user, per month, meaning that it’s the same price as monday.com’s first paid plan and cheaper than Asana’s.
Check out the table below for a rundown of monday.com and Asana’s closest competitors:
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| 4.4 | 4.7 | 4.6 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 4.1 | 4.0 | 2.9 |
| Integrations | Overall & Easiest to Use | Building automation | Task Management & Collaboration | Displaying Project Data | Customer Support | Great Security & Customer Support Options | Value for Money | Cheapest first paid plan and great security features | Simple Task Tracking & To-do Lists |
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When testing the top 14 project management software solutions on the market, we focused on Ease of Use, Pricing, Integrations, Functionality, Customer Support, and Security. Sub-categories of “Functionality” assessed include data visualization tools, collaborative functions, as well task management, and workflow creation features.
Asana vs monday.com Verdict: monday.com Is Better (but It's Close).
While both monday.com and Asana are solid choices, monday.com offers a better service for businesses of all sizes. monday.com has a clearer interface than Asana, which likely helped it achieve a better ease of use score (4.5/5) than Asana (4.2/5). monday.com is also better for displaying data and has collaborative features like an online whiteboard and document editing tools which Asana doesn’t offer, as well as a live chat feature.
Still, Asana offers a similarly great range of features, templates, and one of the best automation builders on the market. However, Asana’s plans are more expensive, with the $24.99 per, user per month Advanced plan offering similar features to monday.com’s $19 per user, per month Pro plan.
If it sounds like the right provider for you, check out monday.com’s free trial right now, or compare other project management solutions!
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