Head to head
Asana vs monday.com
Both products assessed against the same checklist, with ratings drawn from 517 verified reviews.
- Rating gap
- 0.1
- Reviews behind this
- 517
- Monthly price gap
- US$9
- Features they share
- 3
Side by side
How they compare
Ratings computed from published reviews, and the specifications that change what a product costs to run. The washed column is the higher rated of the two.
| Compared on | Higher rated overall | monday.com Ltd. |
|---|---|---|
| What reviewers say | ||
| Overall rating | 4.3, higher | 4.2 |
| Ease of use | 4.2, higher | 4.1 |
| Value for money | 4.4, higher | 4.1 |
| Customer service | 4.0, higher | 3.9 |
| Functionality | 4.3, higher | 4.2 |
| Verified reviews | 241 | 276 |
| What it costs | ||
| Starting price | Freefree plan available | US$9per month, from |
| VAT basis | Excl VAT | Excl VAT |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Published plans | 3 | 4 |
| Vendor and support | ||
| Vendor | Asana Inc. | monday.com Ltd. |
| Founded | 2008 | 2012 |
| Support channels | Email, Knowledge base, Academy, Community forum | Email, Knowledge base, Webinars, Community |
| Integrations listed | 9 | 9 |
| Local bank feeds | 0 | 0 |
The local yardstick
South African compliance
Amber marks a gap rather than a feature. This is usually where the decision is actually made.
Asana
- GDPR tooling that maps onto POPIA
- Role based permissions
- Data hosted outside South Africa
- Audit log on enterprise tiers
monday.com
- GDPR tooling that maps onto POPIA
- Role based permissions
- Data hosted outside South Africa
- Audit log on enterprise tiers
What they cost
Pricing, compared properly
Check the VAT basis on each. Vendors are not consistent, and the difference is 15%.
Asana
Listed excluding VAT
- Free
Personal
10 collaborators
- US$11/mo
StarterPopular
Per seat
- US$26/mo
Advanced
Per seat
Billed in US dollars per seat per month, discounted annually. There is no native time tracking, so agencies should budget for an add on.
monday.com
Listed excluding VAT
- Free
Free
2 seats
- US$9/mo
Basic
Minimum 3 seats, sold in bands
- US$12/mo
StandardPopular
Minimum 3 seats, sold in bands
- US$19/mo
Pro
Minimum 3 seats, sold in bands
Billed in US dollars per seat per month, sold in fixed seat bands. A team of eleven pays for fifteen seats, so calculate the band cost rather than the per seat figure.
Capability
The full feature matrix
Every feature either product offers, and whether the other one has it.
| Compared on | Higher rated overall | monday.com Ltd. |
|---|---|---|
| 21 features across both products | ||
| Approvals | Included | Not included |
| Board, table, kanban and timeline views | Not included | Included |
| Calendar view | Not included | Included |
| Cross board dashboards | Not included | Included |
| Custom fields | Included | Not included |
| Dashboards and reporting | Included | Not included |
| Dependencies | Included | Not included |
| Document collaboration | Not included | Included |
| Forms | Not included | Included |
| Forms and intake management | Included | Not included |
| Gantt charts and dependencies | Not included | Included |
| Guest access | Included | Not included |
| Guest and viewer access | Not included | Included |
| List, board, calendar and timeline views | Included | Not included |
| Mobile app for iOS and Android | Included | Included |
| No code automation | Not included | Included |
| Open API | Included | Included |
| Portfolios and goals | Included | Not included |
| Rules automation | Included | Not included |
| Time tracking | Not included | Included |
| Workload management | Included | Included |
Our verdict
Which one you should buy
We name a winner. Listing differences and leaving the decision to the reader is not a verdict.
monday.com is easier to adopt and Asana is easier to trust. That is the whole comparison.
A non technical manager builds a working process in monday.com in an afternoon, and teams pick it up without training. The cost of that flexibility is governance: six months of unrestricted board creation produces a mess, and cleaning it up is a project.
Asana is opinionated. One owner per task, projects rolling into portfolios rolling into goals. Organisations that adopt the opinion get real clarity, and the portfolio view gives a director an honest picture of what is in flight without a status meeting.
Pricing is the practical tiebreaker. monday.com sells in fixed seat bands, so a team of eleven pays for fifteen. Asana charges per seat linearly. If your headcount sits just above a band boundary, Asana is meaningfully cheaper for the same team.
Neither has native time tracking. Agencies billing hours should look at ClickUp instead.
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