Asana vs Quire

Asana

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

Quire

• Teams that break work into deeply nested subtasks
• Small teams starting on a free plan with up to 10 members
• Teams that hand selected tasks to outside contractors
• People who track time or use Pomodoro alongside their task list

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.

Quire

• The Free plan stops at 10 members, 4 projects and 1,000 tasks per project, and keeps the activity log for 5 days.
• Timeline, table and calendar views, time tracking and task dependencies need Professional or higher; SSO/SAML is Enterprise only.
• External team members count toward the paid member total, and Quire does not offer refunds after cancellation.
• Quire lists a web app and iOS and Android apps; the only desktop app in its app directory is marked non-official.

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.

Quire

Nested task list

Tasks break down into subtasks with no limit on depth on every plan, and sublists give each person a focused slice of the main list.

Kanban board

The same tasks can be arranged on a board and moved through statuses. The free plan allows 5 task statuses per project and Professional 25.

Timeline and other views

Professional adds a Gantt-style timeline with task dependencies, plus table, calendar, dashboard and insight views. Premium adds a schedule view grouped by day.

Time tracking and Pomodoro

From Professional, time can be logged against tasks and summarized in time reports, with a built-in Pomodoro timer. Timesheets need Premium.

External teams and shared links

On paid plans, outside collaborators can be limited to the tasks assigned to them, and a project can be shared with clients through a public link that needs no signup.

Documents, chat and integrations

Projects hold documents and chat channels, and every plan lists Slack, Microsoft Teams, GitHub, Zapier, n8n and Google Drive integrations plus the Quire MCP and CLI.

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.

Quire

• Free$0

  Up to 10 members and 4 projects of 1,000 tasks each, with nested lists, Kanban boards, chat, integrations and the mobile apps.

• Professional$7.65

  per member / month, billed yearly ($10.95 billed monthly)

  Timeline, table, calendar and dashboard views, time tracking, task dependencies, external teams, up to 100 projects and 20 GB of storage.

• Premium$13.95

  per member / month, billed yearly ($18.95 billed monthly)

  Adds timesheets, approvals, schedule view, custom permission roles, Google Calendar two-way sync, up to 250 projects and 100 GB of storage.

• Enterprise$19.95

  per member / month, billed yearly ($24.95 billed monthly)

  Adds SSO/SAML, an IP allowlist, unlimited projects and tasks, a customer success manager and onboarding. Customized plans are quoted on request.

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.

Quire

• Annual discount

  Up to 30% off with yearly billing

  Yearly billing brings Professional from $10.95 to $7.65, Premium from $18.95 to $13.95 and Enterprise from $24.95 to $19.95 per member. The toggle says Save 30%; the FAQ says about 20% across plans.

• Nonprofit

  Nonprofit discount program

  Quire's pricing page invites nonprofit organizations to apply for a discount through a form. The size of the discount is not stated on the page.

• Education

  Student discount program

  The pricing page also links a form for students to apply for a discount. The size of the discount is not stated on the page.