Asana pricing: Which project management package is right for you?
We explain Asana’s pricing and plans so you can pick the best tier for you
Asana is the best project management software option out there, offering a host of powerful features and a great interface. Below, we take an in-depth look at Asana’s pricing and plans to help you choose the best option for you.
As we discuss in our Asana review, it’s a powerhouse of a project management tool. At its heart is the list view, which is a centralised board that can be subdivided into groups (such as “To do”, “Working on it”, etc) and endlessly customised with a huge number of extra columns. All of this information carries across to other views, too: Asana also offers Gantt charts, kanban boards and much more, all of which convert the information entered into the list view so that your team can view their workload in a way that suits them best.
In addition to these basics, Asana also offers some amazing advanced functions, such as a workload manager that lets you track each member of a team’s tasks, advanced reporting functions, and the ability to track multiple projects both now and into the future.
Asana pricing: Everything you need to know
Like all other project management tools, Asana has spread out its features across several pricing plans. Unlike most, though, it only has three, which we like to think of as basic, intermediate and advanced. Moving up the tiers sees you add to the feature count and, correspondingly, the price. Let’s see what’s in each package.
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Asana Basic plan: Free
Asana’s basic package is its free plan for up to 15 people, and in our roundup of the best free project management software it scored first place. This is mainly because it offers everything a small team would need to keep operations going, including a board, a list, a calendar and some decent overview features. It also comes with unlimited file storage, although file size is capped at 100MB.
As free software goes, Asana’s plan is as good as it gets. Very few competitors even get close, with the biggest names probably being ClickUp; Wrike is also solid. If you’re new to project management, and you’re running a small team, Asana should be your first stop, because it offers so many resources for new users.
Onboarding is made easy thanks to a stack of tutorials, and there are numerous support articles to help you on your way.
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Asana Premium plan: £9.49 per user per month
If you hit the limits of the Basic plan, Asana’s next tier may be interesting. Called Premium, it costs £9.49 per user per month when paying annually (it’s more if you opt to pay month-to-month) and adds an overabundance of features, all of them useful for medium-sized businesses.
These include extra views such as a handy timeline, but it also lets you add your own fields to lists, offers the ability to create forms that integrate directly with tasks, as well as advanced planning functions such as milestones for setting out a long-term roadmap.
Premium also unlocks what Asana calls a Workflow Builder, which is its automation tool. This is vital for large teams, since it enables the setup of shortcuts, which take a lot of the manual work out of project management.
All that said, at just under £10 per user per month, Premium isn’t cheap. We wish there was a small step between Basic and Premium that saw the limits on the number of users lifted, without taking on all the advanced functions; ClickUp and Trello have such a tier, for example, so it wouldn’t be a novelty.
Asana Business plan: £21 per user per month
Asana’s final plan is called Business, arriving at a whopping £21 per user per month when paying annually. However, for the right company – almost certainly a large one, with over a few hundred people – it’s bound to offer good value.
Asana Business has several features that let you track multiple projects at once, including Portfolios, where you can cycle through everything going on at any one time, and the Workload Builder mentioned earlier. Also part of this tier are advanced reporting features and some long-term tracking functionality, too.
Finally, the Business plan also comes with the ability to create custom rules for users. We like the extra security this offers, since it makes sure only top-level employees can make top-level changes.
Does Asana have a free trial?
Currently, Asana offers a 30-day trial of both the Premium and Business plans. We recommend you make use of it when considering Asana, since it’s the only good way to figure out which features you’ll need.
As good as Asana is, there’s no denying it’s expensive. It doesn’t help that there are only three plans, each of which takes a massive leap in functionality and price from the one before. For example, it could be that you just need to add more users to the Basic plan, in which case paying well over £100 per year per user is simply too much.
As a result, Asana won’t be for everybody. Other solid contenders include ClickUp and Wrike, although Trello is also great for anybody who just needs a kanban board.