Asana vs monday.com: Project Management Head-to-Head

While Asana and monday.com are both highly capable, easy-to-use project management software tools, our pick of the bunch is monday.com. The platform is super easy to use and feature-rich, with some excellent tools for managing tasks and collaborating across teams.

Both providers offer 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. monday.com, however, is a little more visually oriented, while Asana offers a slightly cleaner interface.

The two providers also include straightforward automation builders and a wide range of task management features, providing more than five project views each. Read on to find out more about them, or check out the table below if you don’t have time.

In this guide:

• Asana vs monday.com: Head to Head
• Does monday.com Have Better Features Than Asana?
• Is monday.com Easier to Use Than Asana?
• Is monday.com Better Value Than Asana?
• 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: Head-to-Head

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, support 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. Source: Tech.co testing

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 with Asana’s pricey plans.

While monday.com’s first paid plan ($12 per user, per month) is $1.01 more expensive per month than Asana’s first paid plan ($10.99 per user, per month), its Pro plan ($19 per seat, per month) is almost $6 cheaper per month than Asana’s Advanced plan ($24.99 per user, per month).

You’ll find a quick at-a-glance of these two providers in the table below.

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 Standard plans.

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 with 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

Does monday.com Have Better Features Than Asana?

Yes, monday.com has better features than Asana. Both platforms offer a healthy range of tools to keep a team operating at peak efficiency, but monday.com comes out on top due to its rich feature set, offering multiple available project views and templates.

• Best for Task Management: monday.com
• Best for Project & Workflow Creation: Asana
• Best for Data Visualization: monday.com
• Best for Collaboration: monday.com
• Best for Integrations: Asana
• Best for Security: monday.com 

Best for Task Management: monday.com

Out of the two platforms, monday.com has the superior task management features. Both 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 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. Source: Tech.co testing

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. You can simply switch between the views using the top menu bar. Neither provider includes their Gantt chart on their free plan,

Managing tasks

I found the whole process of managing tasks very intuitive when using monday.com and Asana — you can make most changes with a click of a button and minimal menu diving.

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. Source: Tech.co testing

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 use Asana. 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. Source: Tech.co testing 

There are a number of subtle differences that give monday.com the edge over Asana. For example, both providers offer time tracking and the ability to add estimated and actual time fields to templates and sub-tasks, but monday.com will let you assign billing amounts to employees’ time. Asana doesn’t offer this.

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 on monday.com.

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

Both platforms offer very similar functionality in this regard, but monday.com falls down in this area due to its plan limitations.

For example, Standard plan ($12 per user, per month) users can make up to 250 automations per month, which may become an issue for larger teams. By contrast, users of Asana’s Starter plan ($10.99 per user, per month) can make unlimited automations.

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’ 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. Source: Tech.co testing

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. Source: Tech.co testing

However, much of the same can be said for monday.com’s automation builder, which was just as straightforward. 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. Source: Tech.co testing

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 and 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 it 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. Source: Tech.co testing

Best for Data Visualization: monday.com

Both providers are excellent when it comes to data visualization, but monday.com takes the crown — it has everything you could need in this area, with a wide variety of different charts and graphs at the user’s disposal.

To its credit, Asana offers list, board, and calendar views on its free plan, which puts it among our list of the best free project management software solutions (although monday.com wins that particular battle, too!).

Building dashboards

If it was Asana versus 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 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 six 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. Source: Tech.co testing

On the whole, monday.com’s custom chart builder is a lot more functional than Asana’s. monday.com lets you “stack” 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. Last year, for instance, monday.com introduced widget docking, which removes clutter around vital pieces of data stored and displayed on dashboards.

Best for Collaboration: monday.com

Neither of these providers actually excel in this area, but again, monday.com comes out on top due to its 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. Source: Tech.co testing

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, this is a real strong point for Asana — it has a huge library of over 200 apps, programs, and tools, and even permits integrations on its free plan.

Finance, HR, and reporting integrations

Asana integrates with 19 financial apps, including TriNet, KosmoTime, Timely, Lumos, and Time Doctor, as well as 78 reporting apps, including Tableau and Looker.

monday.com, meanwhile, integrates with 24 finance apps (including QuickBooks), and up to over 130 data reporting platforms, including a Google and Microsoft forms embedder, giving the platform the upper hand in this subcategory.

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, Canva, Freshdesk, email provider Mailchimp, and Intercom. 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, so it’s no surprise that Asana and monday.com both integrate 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 still only available to US users after its launch 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 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.

Is monday.com Easier to Use Than Asana?

Both services are relatively easy to use, although I found monday.com slightly more usable than Asana. In 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 testing

“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 most recent ease-of-use tests.

She continued: “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.

Is monday.com Better Value Than Asana?

monday.com offers better value for money than Asana does. While both plans offer three paid plans and a free plan, monday.com edges it due to the cheaper cost of its second paid plan ($19 per user, per month) when compared with the Asana equivalent ($24.99 per user, pre month).

In fairness, Asana’s free plan is superior to monday.com’s, with up to 10 users on offer compared with monday.com’s 2. However, the pricing of monday.com’s paid tiers, and what you get for those outlays, means that monday.com edges this one.

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 and an Enterprise+ plan with a few extra features.

As you would expect from a free plan, Asana’s (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, it has a custom field limit of 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. Notably, this is the first Asana plan with custom automation via Asana’s intuitive automation builder.

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 three paid plans — Standard ($12 per seat, per month), Pro ($19 per seat, per month), and Enterprise (custom pricing).

The Standard tier ($12 per user, per month) includes Gantt charts and timeline views, which are both omitted from the free plan, 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 integrations.

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 versus monday.com, monday.com is 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 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’ 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 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?

Asana recently unveiled its Fall 2025 Release, a suite of new features and updates to bolster its core functionality. This includes a series of new AI enhancements under the “Asana AI” umbrella, such as the ability to collaborate with “AI teammates” (currently in beta). These agents will adapt to your team’s workflows to enable you to tackle complex tasks with minimal effort.

Additionally, Asana is also rolling out a new “multilingual semantic AI search.” In other words, a search tool that understands intent and context across languages, meaning that users can perform deeper and more accurate search across a range of tasks, teams, and countries.

AI risk reports are another tool that are coming to Asana soon. With these, users can identify potential project risks before they become actual blockers. This will enable you to plan and execute projects in a timely and effective way.

What’s New in monday.com?

monday.com regularly rolls out new updates and tweaks to keep its offering fresh and fix any bugs that might arise.

In November 2025, for instance, the provider introduced a new “Autopilot Hub” to give users a centralized overview of all of their different automations, integrations, and workflows. With this information at their fingertips, users can enjoy increased visibility and productivity.

Prior to that, the provider unveiled a new “Capacity Manager” in August, which consolidates multiple resource planners into a single dashboard so you can see how your staff are being deployed across multiple projects, and who might have the capacity to take on more work (or who needs a helping hand).

It’s a great way of keeping your projects on track and boosting team morale.

Also in August, monday.com released a “Resource Planner”. With this, users can create high-level resource plans and make informed assignments for each project. They can also map out resource needs before they start work on their project.

This will cut out the risk of running into blockers later down the line, which can bring your project to a standstill.

How Do Asana and monday.com Compare With 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 is one of the better project management tools on the market, and you can get started for just $7 per user, per month.

If data security and customer support are among your top priorities, then we’d recommend Smartsheet. 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:

About Our Research

Here at Tech.co, we perform our own research on all the tools, software, and services we write articles about. We create research frameworks that take into account the key pain points experienced by businesses, perform extensive user testing on all the products we review, and then discuss our findings together before publishing them in articles like this one. 

We’re open about the fact we have commercial partnerships with some of the software and service providers we talk about. However, this never affects our editorial independence or opinions on products, which are solely driven by conclusions drawn from our product-led research.

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 as task management, and workflow creation features.