Asana vs Monday.com
On paper they cover the same ground. The decision comes down to price, feel and the trade-off each asks you to accept.
Asana
$10.99/seatCross-functional work management that non-engineers will actually adopt.
Strongest argument
Marketing, ops and design teams onboard without training
Biggest objection
Weak fit for engineering — Git integration is shallow compared with Jira or Linear
Per-seat cost is high once everyone in the company needs a licence.
Monday.com
$12/seatA visual, spreadsheet-shaped work platform you assemble per department.
Strongest argument
Boards are easy enough that each department builds its own
Biggest objection
Minimum seat tiers make small teams overpay
Seats are sold in tiers — you often pay for five when you need three.
Cost
What each costs at 50 people
List price only. It ignores add-ons, seat minimums and the cost of the move itself — all of which routinely dwarf the difference below.
Prices are unverified estimates — useful for comparing orders of magnitude, not for budgeting. Confirm the current figure with the vendor before you commit to anything.
Common ground
What both of them do
These will not help you choose — which is exactly why they are worth knowing about before a vendor pitches one as a differentiator.
- Planning methodsKanban, Gantt / waterfall
- Git and CI integrationBasic
- Portfolio reportingYes
- No-code automationYes
- Custom workflowsYes
- Usable by non-engineersYes
- SAML single sign-onYes
- SOC 2Yes
- EU data residencyYes
- Self-hostableNo
- Open sourceNo
- Public APIYes
- Native mobile appsYes
In full
Every pro and con, both sides
Asana
- Marketing, ops and design teams onboard without training
- Portfolios and goals give leadership a view without a spreadsheet
- Solid rules engine for routine handoffs and approvals
- Weak fit for engineering — Git integration is shallow compared with Jira or Linear
- Price scales badly across a whole organisation
- Nested projects and tasks get unwieldy past a few hundred active items
Monday.com
- Boards are easy enough that each department builds its own
- Strong automations and dashboards without any code
- One platform stretches to CRM, HR and ops use cases
- Minimum seat tiers make small teams overpay
- Very large boards slow down noticeably
- Flexibility drifts into inconsistency across departments over time
Questions
Asana vs Monday.com, answered
Asana or Monday.com — which is better?
Neither, in the abstract. Asana suits you if marketing, ops and design teams onboard without training matters most; Monday.com if boards are easy enough that each department builds its own does. The honest trade-offs are: Asana — Per-seat cost is high once everyone in the company needs a licence. Monday.com — Seats are sold in tiers — you often pay for five when you need three.
Is Asana cheaper than Monday.com?
Asana is cheaper at 50 people — $10.99/seat/mo against $12/seat/mo, roughly $6,594 against $7,200 a year. That gap of about $606 is rarely the whole story though — add-ons, seat minimums and the cost of migrating routinely outweigh it.
Can we migrate from Asana to Monday.com?
Usually yes, and the difficulty depends on history, integrations and headcount far more than on the two products. Data export quality is the thing to check first: ask both vendors what you can take with you before you commit to either. Our questionnaire produces a scoped estimate for the move.
What else should we consider besides Asana and Monday.com?
In project management the other credible options are ClickUp, Jira, Linear. Narrowing to two before you have written down your requirements is the most common way to end up with the wrong one.
Do not stop at two