Asana
Asana pricing, checked August 2026
One of the few vendors that prints both billing rates, and the gap is twenty-three percent.
What it costs
Asana lists Starter at $10.99 per user per month on annual billing and $13.49 on monthly, and Advanced at $24.99 annual and $30.49 monthly, checked on asana.com/pricing on 21 August 2026. Personal is free with a hard teammate cap. AI Studio credits are included per billing account by tier. Polaris charges nothing for software.
- Starter
- $10.99 annual / $13.49 monthly
- Advanced
- $24.99 annual / $30.49 monthly
- Monthly premium
- About 23%
- Checked
- 21 August 2026
Asana plans on both billing bases
Read from asana.com/pricing on 21 August 2026.
- Personal$0
- Starter$10.99 / user / month
- Advanced$24.99 / user / month
- EnterpriseContact sales
| Plan | Annual billing | Monthly billing | AI Studio credits | Seats |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Personal | $0 | $0 | n/a | Capped at a small team; the page showed 2 users when checked |
| Starter | $10.99 / user / month | $13.49 / user / month | 50K per billing account per month | Unlimited |
| Advanced | $24.99 / user / month | $30.49 / user / month | 75K per billing account per month | Unlimited |
| Enterprise | Contact sales | Contact sales | 200K per billing account per month | Unlimited |
The Starter to Advanced jump is the expensive decision
Starter to Advanced is $10.99 to $24.99 per user per month on annual billing, a 127 percent increase, and the features that force it are ordinary: portfolios, goals, workload management, and approvals with proofing. Teams do not upgrade to Advanced because they outgrew task management. They upgrade because a director wanted a portfolio view.
AI Studio credits are allocated per billing account rather than per user, which means the allowance does not grow with your headcount even though the seat bill does. Asana also sells AI Teammates as an add-on with pricing through sales, so it is not a figure this page can quote.
Twenty-five people on Asana, both bases
Straight multiplication at the listed rates, with the annual saving shown.
- Starter, annual billing$274.75
- Starter, monthly billing$337.25
- Advanced, annual billing$624.75
- Advanced, monthly billing$762.25
- Cost of paying monthly on Starter$62.50
- Polaris software$0.00
| Line | Rate | Seats | Per month | Per year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter, annual billing | $10.99 | 25 | $274.75 | $3,297.00 |
| Starter, monthly billing | $13.49 | 25 | $337.25 | $4,047.00 |
| Advanced, annual billing | $24.99 | 25 | $624.75 | $7,497.00 |
| Advanced, monthly billing | $30.49 | 25 | $762.25 | $9,147.00 |
| Cost of paying monthly on Starter | 25 | $62.50 | $750.00 | |
| Polaris software | $0 | unlimited | $0.00 | $0.00 |
Three things worth knowing before renewal
The free tier is now very small
Asana's Personal plan showed a cap of 2 users when we checked on 21 August 2026. If you remember Asana Free as a ten-person plan, re-check before you plan around it.
Credits are pooled, seats are not
AI Studio credits are stated per billing account per month, so a fifty-person Starter workspace and a five-person Starter workspace get the same 50K allowance while paying ten times the seat bill.
Paying monthly costs a fifth more
Twenty-three percent on Starter, twenty-two percent on Advanced. On a twenty-five person Starter workspace that is $750 a year for the privilege of not committing.
Asana Starter against Polaris
Asana Starter
- $10.99 per user per month annual, $13.49 monthly
- Timeline, dashboards, unlimited automations, forms
- AI credits pooled per billing account, not per person
- Docs and team chat live in other subscriptions
Polaris
- $0 software, unlimited humans, no tier to outgrow
- Tasks, docs and team chat in one product
- AI workers assigned exactly like people, from the same member list
- Roughly $2 per human-equivalent hour delivered, itemised per job
Where to go next
An Asana alternative for teams pushed off the free plan
The third person on the team is now a billing event. That is why this search exists.
Asana vs monday.com
One models work as a plan with dependencies. The other models it as a spreadsheet that can run automations.
Jira vs Asana
Most companies that argue about this end up running both. The useful question is which one owns the boundary.
Replacing Asana and Slack
Rules that fire into Slack, replies that never come back, and a portfolio view built for people who do not do the work.
Tool stack cost for a 25-person team
The size where paying monthly instead of annually costs $1,650 a year on its own.
Per-seat pricing and usage pricing charge for different things
One model prices access. The other prices output. Almost every argument about software cost is really about which of those you are buying.
Questions people ask
+How much is Asana per user per month?
Starter is $10.99 per user per month on annual billing and $13.49 on monthly. Advanced is $24.99 annual and $30.49 monthly. Both were read from asana.com/pricing on 21 August 2026, and Enterprise pricing is not published.
+Is Asana still free for small teams?
There is a free Personal plan, but its teammate cap showed as 2 users when we checked on 21 August 2026. That is much tighter than the free tier many teams remember, so verify it against the current page before planning a rollout on it.
+What does Asana's AI cost?
Each paid tier includes an AI Studio credit allowance stated per billing account per month: 50K on Starter, 75K on Advanced and 200K on Enterprise. AI Teammates is a separate add-on priced through sales, so there is no list figure to quote.
+What would the same work cost on Polaris?
The software is free at any headcount. Work delivered by an AI worker is metered at roughly two dollars per human-equivalent hour. As an illustration only, a twenty-five person team whose workers delivered 80 human-hours in a month would see about $160 for that month, against $274.75 for Asana Starter seats alone.
+How is a Polaris hour calculated?
From observable effort: a base pickup time of fifteen minutes, twelve minutes per web search, finished prose at about ninety characters a minute, eight minutes per acceptance-criteria item ticked, ten minutes per comment addressed, ten minutes per file produced and five per PDF, clamped between five minutes and eight hours per session. Every input is on the work log.
Related
An Asana alternative for teams pushed off the free plan
The third person on the team is now a billing event. That is why this search exists.
Asana vs monday.com
One models work as a plan with dependencies. The other models it as a spreadsheet that can run automations.
Trello vs Asana
For a small team on a free plan this is no longer close. For a team with dependencies it never was.
Replacing Asana and Notion
A project brief in the tracker, a project page in the doc tool, and a client who has read one of them.
monday.com pricing, checked August 2026
Seats sold in blocks, AI sold in credits, and four separate products under one brand.
Tool stack cost for a 25-person team
The size where paying monthly instead of annually costs $1,650 a year on its own.
Usage-based pricing
The bill follows consumption, which cuts both ways for buyer and vendor.
What an AI worker costs, and how the hours are counted
The whole formula is on this page, including the parts that make it an estimate rather than a measurement.