Asana
A shared work management system for teams and AI agents, covering projects, goals, automation, and enterprise controls.
About Asana
Asana gives teams a shared place to plan and run work that has outgrown a personal task list. Tasks, projects, owners, deadlines, dependencies, goals, and portfolios stay connected, so contributors and managers can work from the same picture. AI Teammates, AI Studio, Asana Dash, MCP, and AI connectors add automation without separating it from project context. Teams can route incoming requests, handle routine updates, and automate recurring steps without writing code. For larger organizations, Asana adds universal workload, capacity planning, SAML authentication, SCIM provisioning, service accounts, guest controls, and delegated project administration. It works best when several teams need consistent processes and visibility across projects. There is a practical cost: reports are only as useful as the assignments, dates, dependencies, and status data people maintain. Enterprise pricing also requires a conversation with sales.
Best for
Best use cases
A campaign intake process routes requests, creates tasks, and sends updates through a no-code automation.
A product program connects scope, owners, dependencies, and goals while delivery plans change.
A resource review uses universal workload and capacity planning to rebalance assignments before deadlines slip.
Compare before choosing
Asana suits teams that want projects, goals, workload, and automation in a shared work management system.
The freemium entry point lowers initial cost, while enterprise administration and security require a sales conversation.
Its AI tools work inside shared workflows, which favors coordinated team execution over isolated personal task lists.
Features
Coordinate project delivery
Connect tasks, owners, deadlines, dependencies, projects, and goals so teams can track delivery as plans change.
Automate repeatable workflows
Use AI Studio to automate intake, routing, updates, and other recurring work without building code.
Manage work across departments
Use portfolios, universal workload, and capacity planning to coordinate complex work and balance resources across teams.
Pros
- The freemium model lets a team test shared project workflows before committing to paid administration.
- Projects, goals, dependencies, portfolios, and workload views keep related delivery context in one system.
- SAML, SCIM, service accounts, and permission controls support centralized enterprise governance.
Cons
- Enterprise pricing requires contacting sales, which makes direct cost comparison and budgeting less immediate.
- Reliable workload and portfolio reporting depends on teams keeping owners, dates, dependencies, and status fields current.
- The breadth of workflows, automation, and governance controls can require more setup than a simple personal task list.
Pricing Plans
Enterprise
- Everything in Advanced
- AI Studio Basic with 200K credits per billing account each month
- SAML authentication
- User provisioning with SCIM
- Universal workload and capacity planning
- Service accounts and view-only licenses
- Guest invite permissions and project admin controls
- Admin announcements and workflow bundles
* Pricing information is for reference only. Please refer to the latest announcement on Asana's official website.