Asana vs Teamwork.com

Asana

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

Teamwork.com

• Agencies and consultancies that bill clients for tracked time
• Service businesses that plan team capacity and utilization
• Groups of up to 5 people who can start on the Free plan

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.

Teamwork.com

• Paid plans have seat minimums: 3 users on Basics and 5 on Accelerate.
• The Free plan stops at 5 users, 5 projects and 100 MB of file storage.
• Optimize and Enterprise have no published price, and single sign-on is limited to Enterprise or a separate add-on.
• The Windows and macOS desktop apps do not support offline use, according to Teamwork.com's support site.

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.

Teamwork.com

List, board, table and Gantt views

Projects can be worked as a task list, a kanban board, a table or a Gantt chart on every plan, including Free.

Time tracking and invoicing

Time is logged against tasks as billable or non-billable. Basics reports on billable time, and Accelerate builds client invoices from the time logged.

Workload and capacity planning

From Accelerate, managers plan team workloads and see live capacity. Optimize adds tentative projects and scheduling by role or skill.

Budgets and profitability

Accelerate handles time budgets and retainers. Optimize adds quotes, multi-currency financial budgets and revenue, cost and profitability insights.

Automations and intake forms

Automations are capped by plan: 100 on Free, 5,000 on Basics, 20,000 on Accelerate and 100,000 on Optimize. Intake forms for work requests start at Accelerate.

TeamworkAI

AI summaries, a project and task wizard and assistants such as Scout and Flo are included in paid plans for an introductory period, with usage-based AI credits to follow.

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.

Teamwork.com

• Free$0

  Up to 5 users and 5 projects, 100 MB of storage, 100 automations, time logging, and list, board, table and Gantt views.

• Basics$9.99

  per user / month, billed yearly ($13.99 billed monthly)

  Minimum 3 users. 300 projects, 100 GB of storage, unlimited project templates, and billable time tracking and reporting.

• Accelerate$24.99

  per user / month, billed yearly ($29.99 billed monthly)

  Minimum 5 users. 600 projects, intake forms, 20,000 automations, workload and capacity planning, retainers, and invoices built from logged time.

• OptimizeCustom

  Unlimited projects, quotes, 100,000 automations, resource scheduling by role or skill, financial budgets and profitability reporting.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Everything in Optimize plus single sign-on, advanced security controls, a dedicated success manager and priority support.

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.

Teamwork.com

• Annual discount

  Save about 29% with yearly billing

  The pricing page advertises a 29% saving for annual billing: Basics is $9.99 per user / month billed yearly against $13.99 billed monthly. On Accelerate the gap is $24.99 against $29.99.

• Startups

  Teamwork.com products free for one year

  Teamwork for Startups gives approved startups the Basics plan, or its equivalent, of each product free for one year. Eligibility depends on time in business, revenue and employee numbers.