Asana review: where the free plan stops

Asana is free for two people and paid for everyone else. If your team is bigger than that, the review starts at the Starter price.

I haven't used it; this is from Asana's pricing page, read on Nov 1, 2026.

What free covers

The Personal plan costs nothing and lets 2 users collaborate. It has unlimited tasks and projects, list, board and calendar views, status updates, and time tracking through integrations. Storage is unlimited, with a 100 MB cap per file. The page lists 100+ free integrations.

That's a fair package for two people sharing a project. The table in the page says "up to 2 seats per project and team", and paid plans say "unlimited".

So the free plan doesn't scale; it stops at a headcount, not at a feature list. A third person means moving up to a paid plan.

Starter and what it adds

Starter is $10.99 per user a month on annual billing, or $13.49 billed monthly. It removes the seat limit and adds Timeline and Gantt views, reporting dashboards, unlimited automations, forms, custom templates and custom fields. It also includes unlimited free guests and Asana's AI tools.

Most small teams stop here. If you need a Gantt chart, this is the plan: you can't get it free.

The annual figure is the one to plan around. Pay month to month and each seat costs about 23% more, going by the two numbers on the page.

Advanced

Advanced is $24.99 per user a month on annual billing, or $30.49 monthly. It adds unlimited portfolios, goals, resource management, approvals and proofing, form branching, built-in time tracking and Salesforce, Tableau and Power BI integrations. Compared with Starter's $10.99, that's more than double per seat.

The jump buys managers a view across projects. If you're a team of five tracking one launch, you won't use most of it.

The policy to read first

Asana's page says: "We do not offer refunds." If you cancel before renewal, you keep paid access until the end of your period. The page I read mentions no free trial either, so you'd be paying before you've seen Timeline run on your own data.

If you want to try it, the monthly rate is the safer way in, since a year's commitment can't be refunded.

Who should use it

Asana is a tool for teams that want tasks, projects and nothing else. It runs on Web, iOS, Android, and Asana's page also lists macOS and Windows desktop apps. If you want docs and chat inside the same product, look elsewhere.

Two people tracking shared work: stay on free. A team of four to ten that needs Gantt charts: Starter. Anyone needing goals or approvals: Advanced, and read the refund line twice.

For the head-to-head with its closest rival, Asana against ClickUp breaks down seats and storage. Small teams should read the small-team project tools roundup, and developer teams the software-team roundup. More options sit in the project management catalog.

Prices checked November 1, 2026.