Asana vs monday.com 2026: Pricing, Features and Verdict for a 10-Person Team

Asana wins for a team that needs timeline views and unlimited automations at the lowest price: Starter costs $10.99 per user a month billed yearly, or $1,318.80 a year for 10 people, against $1,440 for monday.com Standard, the cheapest monday tier with a Gantt view. monday.com wins one level up: Pro at $19 per seat costs $2,280 a year for 10 seats, $718.80 less than Asana Advanced at $24.99. Prices are as of 17 October 2026, read on both vendors' pricing pages.

The two products solve the same problem with different shapes. Asana is built around tasks, projects and portfolios, and its paid tiers lift limits rather than add quotas. monday.com is built around boards and columns, and its tiers meter automations, integrations and AI credits by the month. Which one costs less depends on the tier you land on, not on the brand. The table below puts both ladders side by side for the same team.

Toolradar data: Toolradar, the software directory we run, evaluates 359 project management tools in its October 2026 ranking, and only 3 of its 10 top picks come with a free plan. Both products on this page do, but both cap the free tier at two people, so a 10-person team is choosing between paid plans from day one.

Price at a glance for 10 users, billed yearly

Plan	Per user, per month (yearly)	Per user, per month (monthly)	10 users, 12 months, yearly billing	Timeline or Gantt view
Asana Personal	Free	Free	Free, limited to 2 users	No
monday.com Free	Free	Free	Free, limited to 2 seats	No
monday.com Basic	$9	$12	$1,080	No
Asana Starter	$10.99	$13.49	$1,318.80	Yes
monday.com Standard	$12	$14	$1,440	Yes
monday.com Pro	$19	$24	$2,280	Yes
Asana Advanced	$24.99	$30.49	$2,998.80	Yes
Asana Enterprise, monday.com Enterprise	Contact sales	Contact sales	Not published	Yes

Each yearly total is the per-user rate multiplied by 10 users and 12 months. Billed monthly, Asana Starter rises to $1,618.80 a year and monday.com Standard to $1,680, so the annual commitment saves $300 on Asana and $240 on monday at this team size. monday's page states the yearly discount as 18%; Asana prints both rates without a percentage.

The $1,080 monday Basic line is the cheapest paid plan in the table, and it is a trap for most project teams. Basic has unlimited items and unlimited free viewers, but its feature list has no timeline, no Gantt, no guest access and no automations. A team that wants a dated schedule is choosing between Asana Starter and monday Standard, and Asana is $121.20 cheaper a year.

How the two plan ladders differ

Asana sells four tiers: Personal (free for 1 or 2 users), Starter, Advanced and Enterprise, with an Enterprise+ option sold through Enterprise. Seats are added one at a time up to 5 users, then in blocks of 5 up to 30, blocks of 10 up to 100, blocks of 25 up to 500 and blocks of 50 beyond that. A 12-person team therefore buys 15 Starter seats, which turns the 10-user total into $1,978.20 a year, so the real price is the next seat block, not the headcount.

monday.com sells Free (up to 2 seats, 3 boards), Basic, Standard, Pro and Enterprise. Its page says paid plans start at 3 users and that teams above 40 users request a quote. The pricing page also shows a monthly "special offer" that knocks a fixed amount off the total; this page uses list prices only, because a promotion is not a price you can plan a renewal on.

The structural difference sits in what each tier meters:

• Automations. Asana Starter includes unlimited automations. monday Standard includes 250 automation actions a month and 250 integration actions a month; Pro raises both to 25,000 a month.
• External people. Asana Starter gives unlimited free guests. monday Basic and above give unlimited free viewers with read-only access, and guest access with edit rights starts at Standard.
• AI. Every Asana paid plan includes AI Teammates, Asana Dash and AI Studio, with 5 AI requests per user a month, capped at 50 requests per account on Starter and 250 on Advanced. Extra requests cost $0.50 each prepaid or $0.60 each pay as you go. monday includes 1,000 AI credits a month on Basic, 2,000 on Standard and 3,000 on Pro, and its page says a typical 3-person team uses 800 to 1,200 credits a month.
• Free trial. monday offers a 14-day free trial of Pro with no card required. Asana's pricing page lists no trial period next to its plans.

Round 1: free plans. Tie

Both free tiers stop at 2 people, which rules them out for the team in this scenario. Asana Personal gives unlimited tasks and projects, list, board and calendar views, and unlimited storage with a 100 MB limit per file. monday Free gives 3 boards, 3 docs, 8 column types and over 200 templates. A solo user who wants many projects gets more room on Asana; a solo user who wants a visual board with fewer projects gets a quicker start on monday. Neither free plan includes a timeline.

Round 2: entry paid tier. Asana wins

Asana Starter at $10.99 includes the features most teams upgrade for: timeline and Gantt views, reporting dashboards, unlimited automations, forms, custom fields and custom templates, with no seat limit. monday's $9 Basic tier leaves out the timeline, so the real entry point for a scheduled project is Standard at $12, and that plan caps automations at 250 actions a month. Asana costs $1.01 less per user a month at that comparison and has no automation meter to watch.

The monday counterargument is real: Standard bundles 2,000 AI credits and the board-and-column model that many operations teams prefer for intake, approvals and CRM-style tracking. If your "project" is a pipeline of requests rather than a dated plan, monday Standard may do more for the money.

Round 3: mid tier. monday.com wins on price

monday Pro at $19 per seat adds private boards and docs, time tracking, advanced board views, 20 workflows and 25,000 automation actions a month, plus 3,000 AI credits. Asana Advanced at $24.99 adds unlimited portfolios, goals, resource management, approvals, proofing, time tracking, forms with branching and Salesforce, Tableau and Power BI integrations. The feature sets overlap on time tracking and part ways after that: Asana's mid tier is about portfolio and capacity management, monday's is about automation volume and privacy controls.

For 10 users the gap is $718.80 a year in monday's favour. A team that needs goals and portfolios pays Asana's premium for features monday Pro does not list; a team that needs volume automation and private boards pays less on monday. That is the honest split, and it is why a single winner for the whole comparison would be misleading.

Round 4: automations and integrations. Asana wins

Unlimited automations from Asana's first paid tier beats a 250-action monthly cap. A rule that moves a task when a status changes can fire hundreds of times a month on a 10-person board. On monday Standard that eats the allowance; on monday Pro the 25,000 cap is comfortable but costs the Pro rate. Asana also includes over 100 integrations on the free plan. monday Standard's 250 integration actions a month and 1,000 API calls a day are the numbers to check before wiring in Slack or a CRM.

Round 5: AI included. monday.com wins on volume, Asana on predictability

monday's credit model gives Standard 2,000 credits a month for the whole account, enough for its own stated 3-person usage of 800 to 1,200 credits, but a 10-person team that uses the meeting notetaker and AI agents daily will buy more. Asana's model is stricter: 5 requests per user a month, with an account ceiling of 50 on Starter, and a fixed $0.50 or $0.60 per extra request. Neither vendor's page says what one credit or one request buys in your workflow, so run a month before you budget on either. For a view of what AI in a project tool is good for, see our guide to AI for project management, and keep the chat layer in mind too: our best team chat apps roundup covers the tools these notetakers plug into.

Round 6: external collaborators. Asana wins

Unlimited free guests on Asana Starter means clients and contractors can edit tasks without a seat. monday's unlimited free viewers are read-only, and guests with edit rights arrive at Standard. Agencies that run client projects should weigh this before anything else; our best project management software for agencies ranking covers the same point across more tools.

Who should pick which

Pick Asana if your team plans dated work with dependencies, runs many automations, works with outside guests, or will grow into portfolios and goals. Starter is the cheaper timeline tier for 10 users, and the move to Advanced buys capacity planning that monday Pro does not list. Budget for the seat blocks: 12 users means 15 seats. If goals are the reason you are upgrading, our best OKR software roundup compares Asana Advanced against tools built for that alone.

Pick monday.com if your work looks like boards, intake forms and pipelines, if you want AI credits bundled from the first paid tier, or if you need private boards and time tracking at Pro's price rather than Advanced's. Pro at $2,280 a year for 10 seats is the better mid-tier deal. Watch the 250-action automation cap on Standard, the 3-user minimum, and the quote line above 40 users.

Pick neither if the team wants a free plan for more than 2 people. ClickUp and Trello both fit 10 users on a free tier, and our project management software pricing compared page prices seven tools for the same 10-user scenario. Teams that keep documentation next to tasks should also read our Notion review, and the wider field is ranked in best project management software.

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Strengths and weaknesses

Asana strengths: unlimited automations from the first paid tier; unlimited free guests on Starter; no seat limit on paid plans; AI on every paid tier with a fixed per-request overage price.

Asana weaknesses: seats sold in blocks of 5 from 6 users, so a 12-person team pays for 15; Advanced carries the highest per-user price on this page; 50 AI requests per account a month on Starter is a low ceiling for 10 people.

monday.com strengths: Basic at $9 is the cheapest paid plan here; 1,000 to 3,000 AI credits bundled; 14-day Pro trial with no card; Pro undercuts Asana Advanced by $5.99 per user.

monday.com weaknesses: no timeline below Standard; 250 automation and 250 integration actions a month on Standard; a 3-user minimum on paid plans; quotes only above 40 users.

How we checked

Asana prices and plan contents come from Asana's pricing page, including its seat-increment and AI-request FAQ, read on 17 October 2026. monday.com prices and plan contents come from monday.com's pricing page, including its FAQ on minimum users, the yearly discount and AI credits, read the same day. Toolradar's tool records for Asana and monday.com hold the category context.

Every yearly total multiplies the list rate by 10 users and 12 months. The totals are list prices, not quotes, and they ignore monday's monthly promotion and both vendors' nonprofit or enterprise discounts. Both pricing pages change, so re-read them before you sign.

Cite this: Techpresso, "Asana vs monday.com 2026: Pricing, Features and Verdict for a 10-Person Team", October 2026.

FAQ

Is Asana or monday.com cheaper for 10 users?

For a team that needs a timeline view, Asana Starter is cheaper at $1,318.80 a year billed yearly, against $1,440 for monday.com Standard. At the next tier the order flips: monday Pro costs $2,280 a year for 10 seats and Asana Advanced costs $2,998.80.

How much does Asana cost per user in 2026?

Asana Starter costs $10.99 per user a month billed yearly or $13.49 billed monthly. Advanced costs $24.99 billed yearly or $30.49 monthly. Enterprise has no published price. Seats are added one at a time up to 5 users, then in blocks of 5, 10, 25 and 50 as the team grows.

How much does monday.com cost per seat in 2026?

monday.com Basic costs $9 per seat a month billed yearly ($12 monthly), Standard $12 ($14 monthly) and Pro $19 ($24 monthly). Paid plans start at 3 users, yearly billing saves 18%, and teams above 40 users request a quote.

Does monday.com Basic include a timeline view?

No. Timeline and Gantt views appear on monday.com's feature list from Standard, the next tier up. Basic covers unlimited items, unlimited free viewers and 1,000 AI credits a month, but not scheduling views or automations.

Which has the better free plan, Asana or monday.com?

Both free plans stop at 2 people. Asana Personal allows unlimited tasks and projects with a 100 MB limit per file. monday.com Free allows 3 boards and 3 docs. Neither includes a timeline view, so a team larger than two is comparing paid plans.

Does Asana or monday.com include AI?

Both do, on paid plans, and they meter it differently. Asana includes AI Teammates, Asana Dash and AI Studio on every paid tier, with 5 requests per user a month capped at 50 per account on Starter and 250 on Advanced; extra requests cost $0.50 prepaid or $0.60 pay as you go. monday.com bundles 1,000 AI credits a month on Basic, 2,000 on Standard and 3,000 on Pro.

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