Head to head
Trello vs Asana
Both products assessed against the same checklist, with ratings drawn from 450 verified reviews.
- Rating gap
- 0.1
- Reviews behind this
- 450
- Monthly price gap
- Free
- 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 | Atlassian Corporation | Higher rated overall |
|---|---|---|
| What reviewers say | ||
| Overall rating | 4.2 | 4.3, higher |
| Ease of use | 4.1 | 4.2, higher |
| Value for money | 4.4 | 4.4 |
| Customer service | 3.9 | 4.0, higher |
| Functionality | 4.1 | 4.3, higher |
| Verified reviews | 209 | 241 |
| What it costs | ||
| Starting price | Freefree plan available | Freefree plan available |
| VAT basis | Excl VAT | Excl VAT |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Published plans | 3 | 3 |
| Vendor and support | ||
| Vendor | Atlassian Corporation | Asana Inc. |
| Founded | 2011 | 2008 |
| Support channels | Email, Knowledge base, Community forum | Email, Knowledge base, Academy, Community forum |
| Integrations listed | 8 | 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.
Trello
- GDPR tooling that maps onto POPIA
- Role based permissions on paid tiers
- Data hosted outside South Africa
Asana
- 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%.
Trello
Listed excluding VAT
- Free
Free
Unlimited collaborators
- US$6/mo
StandardPopular
Per user
- US$12,50/mo
Premium
Per user
Billed in US dollars per user per month. The free tier is genuinely usable and many small teams never leave it.
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.
Capability
The full feature matrix
Every feature either product offers, and whether the other one has it.
| Compared on | Atlassian Corporation | Higher rated overall |
|---|---|---|
| 18 features across both products | ||
| Approvals | Not included | Included |
| Butler automation | Included | Not included |
| Calendar, timeline and table views on Premium | Included | Not included |
| Cards with checklists, due dates and attachments | Included | Not included |
| Custom fields | Not included | Included |
| Dashboards and reporting | Not included | Included |
| Dependencies | Not included | Included |
| Forms and intake management | Not included | Included |
| Guest access | Included | Included |
| Kanban boards | Included | Not included |
| Labels and filters | Included | Not included |
| List, board, calendar and timeline views | Not included | Included |
| Mobile app for iOS and Android | Included | Included |
| Open API | Included | Included |
| Portfolios and goals | Not included | Included |
| Power-Up integrations | Included | Not included |
| Rules automation | Not included | Included |
| Workload management | Not 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.
Trello is the simplest thing that could possibly work and for a lot of teams that is enough. Learnable in two minutes, a free tier that small teams genuinely stay on for years, and the lowest paid tier price in the category.
You have outgrown it when three things become true: work has dependencies that matter, more than one team needs a shared view, and somebody senior is asking questions the board cannot answer. At that point Asana is the natural step, and the migration is straightforward because the underlying model is compatible.
The mistake to avoid is bolting five Power-Ups onto Trello to make it behave like Asana. That produces something more fragile and frequently more expensive than just buying Asana.
If your projects have fewer than fifty active items and no cross team dependencies, stay on Trello and spend the money elsewhere.
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