Asana vs awork

Asana

• Teams coordinating projects across several departments
• Organizations that tie project work to company goals
• Nonprofits and schools that qualify for the 50% discount

awork

• Agencies that plan client projects around team capacity
• Teams that track time against project and retainer budgets
• Companies that want a GDPR-compliant tool hosted in Germany

Asana

• The free Personal plan is limited to 2 users; timeline and Gantt views, forms and custom fields start on Starter.
• Seats are sold in fixed steps: one at a time from 2 to 5 users, then blocks of 5 up to 30 and blocks of 10 up to 100.
• Portfolios, goals, approvals and built-in time tracking need the Advanced plan at $24.99 per user / month.
• The download page lists Mac, Windows, iOS and Android apps but no Linux app.

awork

• There is no free plan: after the 14-day trial every internal team member needs a paid license.
• The workload view, absences and automations start at Standard, and private projects need Professional.
• Single sign-on and SCIM are limited to the Enterprise plans.
• awork AI is a separate subscription from $18 per user / month, and every active user in the workspace needs at least the Starter tier.

Asana

Project views

Show a project as a list, board, calendar, timeline or Gantt chart. Timeline and Gantt views start on the Starter plan.

Rules and forms

Rules automate routine steps and forms turn incoming requests into tasks. Both start on Starter; form branching needs Advanced.

Goals and portfolios

Goals link projects and tasks to company-level objectives, and portfolios track groups of related projects in one place. Both are part of the Advanced plan.

Workload and resource management

Shows how much work each person has so tasks can be rebalanced. Capacity planning across the organization is an Enterprise feature.

Reporting dashboards

Charts built from live project data to show the state of a team's work, included from the Starter plan.

AI Teammates and AI Studio

AI Studio builds AI-driven workflows from a monthly credit pool: 50K credits on Starter, 75K on Advanced and 200K on Enterprise. Extra AI requests are billed per request.

awork

Boards, lists and timelines

Project tasks can be worked on a kanban board, in a classic list or on a visual timeline that shows timings and dependencies.

Capacity planning

The planner shows free hours per person from working hours, absences, regional public holidays and synced calendars. The workload view starts at Standard.

Time tracking and reports

Time is tracked inside the project workflow and compared with budgets, including retainer budgets. Global time reports are part of Professional.

awork Connect

Projects can be shared with clients, partners and freelancers at no charge. Each outside person gets a free workspace and a role that limits what they can see and do.

Automations and templates

Recurring workflows are set up without code: 1 automation per project on Standard and unlimited on Professional. Templates rise from 1 on Basic to 6 on Standard.

awork AI

A separate add-on with an AI chat, custom agents and a choice of language models that works from project context and respects access rights.

Asana

• Personal$0

  For one or two people: unlimited tasks and projects, list, board and calendar views, and 100+ integrations.

• Starter$10.99

  per user / month, billed annually ($13.49 billed monthly)

  No seat limit. Adds timeline and Gantt views, reporting dashboards, forms, custom fields, automations and free guests.

• Advanced$24.99

  per user / month, billed annually ($30.49 billed monthly)

  Adds portfolios, goals, resource management, approvals and proofing, time tracking and form branching.

• EnterpriseCustom

  SAML authentication, SCIM provisioning, capacity planning and service accounts. An Enterprise+ tier adds further compliance controls.

awork

• Basic$6

  per user / month, billed annually ($8 billed monthly)

  Recommended for 1 to 5 users. Unlimited projects, time tracking, a personal planner, desktop and mobile apps, 1 template and 1 custom field.

• Standard$12

  per user / month, billed annually ($16 billed monthly)

  Recommended for 2 to 20 users. Adds capacity planning with a workload view, team structure, absences, 6 templates and 1 automation per project.

• Professional$22

  per user / month, billed annually ($25 billed monthly)

  Recommended for 5 to 100 users. Adds private projects, unlimited custom fields and automations, global time reports, a custom subdomain and phone support.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Recommended for 100+ users. Adds single sign-on and SCIM, premium SLAs, data migration, customer success support and payment by invoice.

• awork AI Starter (add-on)$18

  per user / month, on top of an awork plan

  1,750 AI credits per user each month for AI chat and agents. Higher tiers run up to AI Max at $140 with 16,000 credits.

Asana

• Annual discount

  Save up to 18% with annual billing

  Asana's pricing page lists Starter at $10.99 per user / month billed annually against $13.49 monthly, and Advanced at $24.99 against $30.49.

• Nonprofit

  50% off for eligible nonprofits

  Qualifying 501(c)(3) nonprofits, public libraries and international equivalents can apply for 50% off a Starter or Advanced annual plan.

• Education

  50% off for education customers

  Approved schools and universities get 50% off paid plans after an eligibility check. The page still names the older Premium and Business plans.

awork

• Annual discount

  Lower per-user price with annual billing

  Basic is $6 per user / month billed annually against $8 billed monthly, Standard $12 against $16 and Professional $22 against $25. A 2-year term is also discounted.

• Nonprofit

  Discounted or free licenses for nonprofits

  awork offers discounted or free licenses to non-profit and social projects. An application form is required, and awork decides whether a project is eligible.

• Other savings

  Volume discounts from 50 users

  The pricing FAQ says quantity discounts are available from 50 users, with the price agreed on a call with the sales team.