Asana has three core pricing plans that can be signed up for on its website plus an additional enterprise plan which is tailored to the customer. Plans are divided based on the features the user has access to instead of usage limits.

Overall, Asana is competitively priced and has a mature product that comes with the features needed to move projects over the finish line in a timely manner.

Basic

The basic plan is free for organizations with up to 15 users and has a generous amount of features. These include unlimited tasks and projects, file storage, multiple project views, assigning projects to teammates, access to the mobile app, project briefs, and more.

Premium

The Premium plan is $10.99/month/user when billed annually or $13.49/month/user month-to-month. It builds on the Basic plan with forms for data capture, timeline view (Gantt charts), project reporting, custom fields, unlimited guest members, automation rules, private projects/teams, an admin console, and more.

Business

The largest plan, Business, comes in at $24.99/month/user when billed annually or $30.49/month/user when billed month-to-month. It adds more features to the Basic and Premium plans such as portfolios, goal tracking, workload monitoring, conditional logic for forms, approval workflows, advanced integrations, and more.

Asana was founded in 2008 by Dustin Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein but wasn’t launched as a commercial product until 2012. In the intervening years, it has grown into a robust project management platform used by small, medium, and large businesses around the world to streamline and automate processes and business initiatives.

As mentioned previously, Asana is a mature product that has almost all of the project management features you’d expect from this type of software. It has multiple views such as Gantt charts, list views, board views, and calendar views. It also gives almost anyone the ability to assign tasks to users, chatting, unlimited projects, and project briefs. In addition to these expected features, there are many advanced tools to take advantage of.

Forms

Asana provides tools to build custom forms with conditional logic that adapts to the situation. If someone answers a certain way then the questions they’ll see can change to personalize the experience. It can be used to submit work, onboard new clients, or kick off projects.

Automation

Instead of the normal busywork associated with moving a project to completion. Asana allows you to automate a large chunk of it such as assigning people to the work, approval flows, form submission and follow-up tasks, etc.

Approval workflows

Clearly define what needs to be approved and by whom within Asana. Using that workflow, send tasks and projects off to the approval queue, trigger a notification for the approver, and get them to check items in a timely manner.

Project portfolios

In many cases, projects don’t exist on their own. They are part of a larger initiative. Asana allows you to group projects together and get a bird’s eye view of all activities and the overall progress. This makes it possible to implement changes and adapt to circumstances in real-time.

Asana takes a modern approach to designing project management software. Even though there are a lot of tools available, the core functionality of creating projects and tasks is incredibly simple to accomplish. That will require little to no learning on the part of most users so they can get to work with it right away.
If, on the other hand, you’re interested in some of the more advanced features, that may require getting some used to. Even though it’s well-designed, it’s still an expansive tool with many options to customize it to your needs and the needs of your team. There’s a slight learning curve for the core features which gets steeper when you delve into the advanced functionality that makes Asana outshine the competition.

Asana allows users to work from almost anywhere by providing a desktop app, browser-based interface, and mobile applications. As long as you have an internet connection then you’ll be able to log in (compatible with all browsers), update it in real-time, and stay abreast of what’s happening in your organization.

In addition to easy accessibility, it has reporting tools that make it possible to build a relevant dashboard to see your team’s activity across projects and functions. For example, you’ll be able to see all the priority tasks still pending, the workload on individual contributors, and drill down and make changes from your dashboards. To round out Asana’s functionality, it has a large integration ecosystem with tools such as Slack, Salesforce, Zapier, Microsoft BI, and many more.