AsanaProject Management
Oleh KemAsana Pricing and Plans in August 2026: Personal, Starter, Advanced and Enterprise Costs
Asana costs $13.49 per user a month on Starter and $30.49 on Advanced, or $10.99 and $24.99 on annual billing as of . Personal is free for two people and Enterprise is quoted. Above five people seats sell in blocks, so a team of seven pays for ten.
Two of the four tiers carry no number at all. Enterprise is quoted, a tier called Enterprise+ sits above it with nothing published, and three of the four companion products are sold the same way. The published prices cover half this product.
This page prices what is published, at your own headcount: the block boundaries that decide what you can actually buy, the six charges that sit outside the seat rate, and where the annual rate lands against the $10 median across eighteen tools we price the same way. Both the schedule and the block table were read from Asana in .
This page prices Asana the work management platform from Asana Inc., not the yoga posture the company took its name from.
filled dot = rate the vendor publishes · hollow dot = quote only
filled dot = rate the vendor publishes · hollow dot = quote only
Two of the four tiers carry a number. The other two are a conversation, and one of them has a second tier stacked above it.
Month to month, cancel any time. The free tier and Enterprise do not move with the cycle.
Billed up front for twelve months and not refundable. Only the two paid tiers change.
Billed per seat on top of the licence, annually, on Starter and above.
Seat blocks, the shared credit pool, six charges outside the rate and a table by team size all sit below.
Asana pricing plans and calculator: $0 to $30.49, sold in seat blocks
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Annual billing takes 19 percent off both paid tiers. Seats are sold in blocks, so the line you pay is your headcount rounded up to the next block.
Vendor pricing pageWhat each Asana upgrade costs: $167.88 a year a seat for goals and portfolios
The one step that matters here costs $167.88 a year per person and raises the rate by 127 percent. What it buys is goals and portfolios, and nothing else on Advanced is worth that alone.
Asana sets the annual rate itself, discount included; nothing here converts a monthly price. Seats round up to the next block before any of it reaches an invoice.
What an Asana subscription really costs: seven people bill as ten seats
What your line costs on the published rates
You entered 7 people on Starter, billed monthly. The published rate is $13.49 per user, per month, and the line comes to $135 a month, $1,619 a year.
Asana does not sell 7 people. Seats move in blocks, so the invoice is written for 10 people: 3 people nobody sits in, $486 a year. Spread across the people you actually have, the real rate is $19.27 a head rather than the $13.49 the plan advertises.
asana.com carried that figure on August 8, 2026, and it stood on June 24, July 8, July 16 and August 2 before that. That makes five dated reads and one number.
Where the bill sits above the advertised rate
The cycle is doing all of it. Move the same line to annual and it drops $300 a year at the 19 percent discount. Your tier is the right one.
One caveat. $10.99 and $24.99 are prepay prices for twelve months. Cancel in month three and the other nine stay spent.
What is in your bill that the advertised rate does not price
Seats are sold in blocks that grow with the team: one at a time up to five, then in fives to thirty, tens to a hundred, twenty-fives to five hundred. Your headcount rounds up to 10 people, which is 3 people paid for and unused, $486 a year. This is the single most expensive thing on this page that never appears in the published prices.
AI Studio allowances are stated per billing account, not per member: 50,000 a month for the whole billing account. A pool does not grow when the team does, so the tenth person costs the same as the first and gets a smaller share. There is no published overage rate and no published price for AI Studio Plus or Pro, which are the paid steps above the allowance.
The rates are quoted before VAT or sales tax, which is applied per local law on the invoice. Cancelling keeps access to the end of the period you paid for and returns nothing, so a twelve-month prepay is twelve months spent whatever happens in month two.
Where your rate sits against the category
Your rate is $13.49 a seat a month. Among the eighteen project management tools we price the same way, that lands above the $10 median, in a field running $5 to $24.
Entry sits just above the median and the top tier sits near the ceiling of the range, so this product is not competing on rate at either end. The block rule pushes the effective rate higher again at any headcount that is not a block boundary, which is the part a rate comparison misses.
The configuration we would sign off
Starter on annual billing for 7 people: $110 a month, $1,319 across the year.
That returns $25 a month against the line you entered, $300 over the year. You pay the year in front, and cancelling gets none of it back.
One thing we will not paper over. At this headcount the invoice is written for 10 people, so $486 a year of it buys nothing. If you are within a seat or two of a block boundary, hiring across it costs nothing extra, and staying just above one costs a full step.
Verified August 8, 2026. If the vendor page disagrees when you get there, the vendor page is right and this one is stale.
Open asana.com pricingWhich Asana plan to pick: Starter until goals and portfolios force Advanced
| Your case | Plan | Why this one |
|---|---|---|
| Two people, and it is going to stay twoA founder and a first hireOne person tracking their own work | Personal Free | The free tier is capped at two users, not two paid seats. Everything else on it is generous: unlimited tasks, unlimited projects, list, board and calendar views, a hundred integrations. The cap is the whole restriction, and the day a third person needs access the tier is over. |
| A team that has to show the work to someone elseA weekly delivery reportA launch plan with dates on it | Starter $10.99 a user a month on annual billing | Timeline and Gantt views, reporting dashboards and unlimited automations all start here, and so do unlimited free guests. Five people run $659.40 a year. The guest allowance is the part buyers miss: external collaborators do not need paid seats on this tier, which is the one place Asana is cheaper than its rate suggests. |
| Several departments answering to the same objectivesQuarterly goals rolled up from projectsA portfolio view a head of department reads | Advanced $24.99 a user a month on annual billing | Goals and unlimited portfolios are the reason this tier exists. Ten seats run $2,998.80 a year against $1,318.80 on Starter, so the reporting layer costs $1,680 a year at that size. Approvals, proofing, time tracking and formulas ride along, but nobody buys a 127 percent rate increase for proofing. If the objectives live in a spreadsheet today and nobody minds, Starter still holds. |
| A team of six or sevenA squad that grew past fiveA department mid-hire | Starter, billed as ten $1,318.80 a year | Above five people, seats are sold in fives. Seven people is an invoice for ten, which is $396 a year for three seats nobody sits in and an effective rate of $15.70 a head rather than $10.99. Hiring to ten costs nothing extra. Sitting at six is the most expensive headcount Asana sells. |
| A company that provisions from its identity systemSAML sign-on for everyoneAccounts opened and closed by HR, not by hand | Enterprise quote only | SAML, SCIM, capacity planning, service accounts and view-only licences are all here and nowhere below. No rate and no seat floor are published, so there is no figure to check a quote against. Anchor it yourself: Advanced at fifty seats is $14,994 a year, and a quote that cannot say what it adds for the difference has answered the question. |
Asana cost by team size: $659 a year for five seats, $14,994 for fifty
License costs only, at the seat count Asana will sell. Implementation and training are not priced publicly.
Asana Enterprise pricing: quote only, and Enterprise+ sits above it unpriced
Enterprise is where Asana stops publishing. There is no rate and no seat floor either, which is unusual: most vendors that hide the price at least tell you how small a team they will sell it to. Above it sits Enterprise+, a second unpriced tier whose only public description is that it exists.
- SAML sign-on and SCIM provisioning, so accounts open and close from the identity system rather than by hand
- Universal Workload and capacity planning, which is the reporting layer Advanced only does one portfolio at a time
- Service accounts and view-only licences, the two things that stop read-only people occupying paid seats
- Guest invitation controls and admin announcements, which is governance rather than function
- The Enterprise rate, and the Enterprise+ rate above it. Neither is published, and no seat floor is published either.
- AI Studio Plus and Pro. The Basic allowance is stated per tier; the paid steps above it are not on the pricing page at all.
- Three of the four companion products: AI Teammates, compliance management and permissions management are all sold by conversation.
- The nonprofit and education rates. The programmes are named, the discounts are not.
Advanced at your headcount is the last real number this page can hand you, and an Enterprise quote has to answer it. Two of the four companions are sold by conversation as well. Get compliance and permissions priced on their own before anyone offers a discount on seats.
Request a quote from asana.comAsana hidden costs: six charges outside the seat rate, three of them unpriced
Every dated read of Asana's published prices
Each read is dated and kept. 5 so far, and the plan set has not moved between any two of them.
One thing the window does not cover: the monthly rates were confirmed by capture, not re-read on the last pass, so they carry the earlier date rather than the latest one. We say that here rather than let a single verification date stand for two different reads.
Where this rate sits in the category
eighteen project management tools sit in our library, priced by one method. Entry rates run $5 to $24 a month and the middle of that field is $10.
Trello$6 · $5 annual
ClickUp$10 · $7 annual
Monday$10.98 · $9 annual
Notion Business$24 · $20 annualEvery marker read August 2026 the same way. Jira is the odd one: Atlassian quotes its year as a lump sum for a band of users, so the monthly rate is what sits on this ruler.
Six costs that sit outside the seat rate
Ranked by what each one adds once the seat count rounds up.Seats are sold in blocks
One at a time up to five, then in fives to thirty, tens to a hundred, twenty-fives to five hundred. A team of seven buys ten, a team of thirty-one buys forty, a team of a hundred and one buys a hundred and twenty-five. Nothing on the pricing page shows this arithmetic, and at most headcounts it costs more than the annual discount saves.
The AI allowance is a pool, not a budget per person
AI Studio Basic is stated per billing account: 50,000 credits a month on Starter, 75,000 on Advanced, 200,000 on Enterprise. The pool does not grow when the team does, so the twentieth person gets a twentieth of it. AI Studio Plus and Pro are the paid steps above the allowance and neither appears on the pricing page at all.
Your line: 50,000 a month for the whole billing account, whatever the headcount.Timesheets and Budgets is per seat, on top
$5.99 per user a month, billed annually, sold on Starter and above. It rides the same block rounding as the licence, so a team of seven pays for ten of those too. On a ten-seat line that is $718 a year for a feature most buyers assume is inside a plan called Advanced.
Your line: $300 a year for paying by the month rather than a year in front.Three of the four companions have no price
AI Teammates, compliance management and permissions management are all sold by conversation. Two are Enterprise-only, so an enterprise buyer prices four unknowns at once: the tier, both add-ons, and Enterprise+ above them. Asking for each line separately before discussing a discount is the only way to see what moved.
Tax on top, and nothing comes back
Rates are quoted before VAT or sales tax, which is applied per local law on the invoice. Cancelling keeps access to the end of the period already paid for and refunds nothing, so an annual prepay is twelve months spent whatever happens in month two.
Two discount programmes, zero published rates
Nonprofit and education programmes exist for Starter and Advanced on annual billing, through a separate application rather than a checkout toggle. We record the programme because the vendor states it. We do not record a rate, because the vendor does not.
What Asana does not put a number on
An absence is recorded the same way a rate is. Half of what this vendor sells has no published number, and that is the finding rather than a hole in our notes.
- 01The Enterprise rate, and the Enterprise+ rate above it. Neither is published, and no seat floor is published either.
- 02AI Studio Plus and Pro. The Basic allowance is stated per tier; the paid steps above it are not on the pricing page at all.
- 03Three of the four companion products: AI Teammates, compliance management and permissions management are all sold by conversation.
- 04The nonprofit and education rates. The programmes are named, the discounts are not.
What users say
“we had to buy 10 licenses for 7 people because of how they sell seats”
Reddit · user statement“the jump from Starter to Advanced is where it stops being cheap”
Reddit · user statementBoth lines above are user reports, not vendor documents. We quote them with a source and we count them nowhere. They earn the space by naming the two things buyers hit first: the rounding, and the step into Advanced.
Asana billing and commitment terms
| Seat block | The step by which seats are sold. One up to five people, five up to thirty, ten up to a hundred, twenty-five up to five hundred, fifty above that. |
| Billing account | The unit the AI Studio allowance is measured against. One pool for the whole account, not a budget per member. |
| Guest | Someone outside your organisation invited into a project. Unlimited and free on Starter and above. |
| Portfolio | A grouping of projects reported on together. Unlimited on Advanced, absent below it. |
| Goal | An objective that projects roll up into. The feature that separates Advanced from Starter. |
| Enterprise+ | A tier above Enterprise. Its existence is published; nothing else about it is. |
Asana pricing vs Trello, ClickUp and Notion: $10.99 on a $10 median
Priced for 7 people
Four jobs a buyer actually pays for, each priced at the seat count you set. Rates are per user, per month on annual billing. Jira publishes only a monthly one, so that is the figure on its row.
| The job | Asana | The rival | Our verdict on this job |
|---|---|---|---|
| Company goals tied to the work under themObjectives that roll up from projects instead of living in a slide | Advanced $24.99/user/mo= $249.90 a month for youGoals and unlimited portfolios. | Monday Pro $19/user/mo= $133 a month for youSame seat model, $23 on monthly. | AsanaGoals are the reason Advanced exists. Nothing cheaper on this table carries them. |
| A kanban board for a small teamCards and lists, no reporting layer | Starter $10.99/user/mo= $109.90 a month for youStarter is the floor once you pass two people. | Trello Standard $5/user/mo= $35 a month for youCards and lists, sold one seat at a time. $6 on monthly. | TrelloLess than half the rate for the job itself. Asana's reporting is overhead here. |
| Engineering tickets with sprint metricsVelocity and burndown a delivery lead reads on Monday | No rate to quoteNo velocity and no burndown, at any price on this card. | Jira $7.91/user/mo= $55.37 a month for youBoth metrics on file. Atlassian quotes the year as a band, not a seat rate. | JiraAsana loses this on the record, not on price. No tier adds the metrics. |
| One workspace for docs, tasks and a wikiThe notes and the work living in the same place | Starter $10.99/user/mo= $109.90 a month for youTasks first. Documents are attachments, not the medium. | Notion Plus $10/user/mo= $70 a month for youDocuments first, $12 on monthly. | NotionCheaper and built for the job. Asana bills more to do the part it does badly. |
Cost of switching to Asana from Trello, ClickUp or Notion: $6 over Trello
Deltas at 7 people
Every move is priced at your own headcount before anyone argues about features, because a feature argument is not something a buyer can check.
Trello
Trello bills $35 a month for this team. Asana bills $110, and it counts seats Trello would never charge you for.Trello sells seats one at a time and Asana sells them in blocks, so the gap is wider than the two rates suggest at any headcount that is not a round number.
- Count the people who need to edit. Trello's free tier may already hold the readers.
- Rebuild your two busiest boards as Asana projects before you commit to a year.
- Check the block boundary above your headcount. Crossing it costs a step, not a seat.
ClickUp
ClickUp asks $49 a month here against $110 on Starter. Close enough that the rounding decides it.The rates are close enough that the decision is not price. What differs is that ClickUp's AI is a separately priced seat and Asana's is a shared pool, so heavy AI use moves the two bills in opposite directions.
- List the custom fields and automations you actually use. Both tiers cap them differently.
- Price the AI use separately in each. That is where the two products stop being comparable.
- Run one team on each for a sprint before moving the rest.
Notion
Notion runs $70 a month for this team, Asana $110. Under a dollar a seat between them.This is rarely a replacement. Notion holds the documents, Asana holds the work, and most teams that switch end up paying for both for a while.
- Decide which one owns the source of truth for tasks. Two owners is the expensive outcome.
- Move the recurring work first. Documents can stay where they are.
- Keep the Notion seats you still need in the count when you compare totals.
Our verdict on Asana pricing: worth $10.99 for goals, awkward at seven seats
Updated
Two user statements sit at R-9 with attribution. Both describe the same thing from different angles: what the seat rules do to a team that is not a round number. Neither is counted anywhere in the arithmetic.
4.5 of 5
The seat count you are allowed to buy decides this bill, not the published rate. Above five people Asana sells seats in fives, so a team of seven is invoiced for ten. That is $396 a year for three seats nobody sits in, and an effective $15.70 a head against a published $10.99. The rate itself is unremarkable: a little over the $10 median of the eighteen project management tools we price. The rounding is not.
What the money buys at the top is goals and portfolios, and that step is steep: $10.99 to $24.99 is a 127 percent increase for a reporting layer. Buy it when objectives genuinely roll up from the work, because Advanced is the only tier that does that. Buy Starter and mean it otherwise, since guests are free there and most teams never open a portfolio.
The block logic also inverts once, and it is worth knowing where. Sitting at six or seven is the worst position on this card. Hiring from seven to ten costs nothing, because the seats are already on the invoice. A team that knows it is growing buys the block early and grows into it. A team that is staying small is the one actually paying the rounding.
At 7 people on annual billing: Starter $923 for the year, Advanced $2,099, a $1,176 gap.
- You run sprints and read velocityneither velocity nor burndown is on the Asana feature list at any tier, and buying up will not add them.
- Your team is six or seven and staying thereyou pay for ten seats indefinitely, which puts the real rate above every rival on this page.
- Documents and tasks belong in one placeNotion Plus does that at $10 a seat, and Asana treats a document as an attachment.
- You are pricing Enterprise against a fixed budgetfour unpriced items in one contract is a negotiating position, and no seat floor is published to anchor it.
Asana pricing FAQ: why the invoice beats the headcount you asked for
11.1How much does Asana cost per user?
11.2Is Asana free?
11.3Why is my Asana bill higher than the seat count I asked for?
11.4What is the difference between Asana Starter and Advanced?
11.5Is Asana expensive?
11.6How much does Asana Enterprise cost?
11.7Does Asana charge for guests?
11.8How much does Asana cost for a team of 10?
11.9How much do you save on Asana annual billing?
11.10Is there an Asana discount for nonprofits or education?
11.11What does Asana AI cost?
11.12Can I use Asana for free forever?
Asana pricing sources: five documents, each one read and dated
Every rate on this page was read from the vendor and dated. The vendor's own pages are linked so you can check each number at the source, and our open pricing data is linked so you can check ours.
- asana.com/pricingEvery published rate, both billing cycles, the free tier's two-person cap and the seat increment rules
- asana.comPlan features, the four companion products and the AI Studio allowance stated per billing account
- ComparEdge open pricing dataRival rates read by the same method: Trello, ClickUp, monday.com and Notion. The $10 median and the entry range across 18 tools in the category
- ComparEdge revision ledgerEvery dated price check on this product, five so far
- Public review platformsSatisfaction figures only. They appear in the verdict and in nothing this page computes
Last verified August 8, 2026. Rates change without notice, so confirm at asana.com/pricing before you commit.
ComparEdge is an independent platform and is not affiliated with Asana. We take no payment for placement and no payment from the vendors we check. Rates change without notice, which is exactly why we date every read and keep the ones that came before.
More on Asana pricing and alternatives
Want the feature list rather than the rates? The Asana guide walks through what each tier includes. Weighing a rival before you commit? The alternatives page prices Asana beside the tools in the same category. Renewal coming up? The cost guide has the levers that move a quote. Checking how this rate sits in the market? The Project Management rankings rank every tool we track by what they disclose.