Asana vs Microsoft Project Pricing (2026)
How do these two stack up on price? Here's what each one costs, what you get, and where the value sits.
| Asana | Microsoft Project | |
|---|---|---|
| Starts at | $13/mo | $10/mo |
| Number of plans | 4 | 3 |
| Free plan | ||
| Free trial | — | |
| Pricing model | per-seat | per-seat |
Personal
- 2 users
- Unlimited tasks and projects
- List, board, and calendar views
- Unlimited storage, 100MB max per file
- Status updates
- Time tracking with integrations
- 100+ free integrations
Starter
Popular- AI Studio Basic w/50K credits per billing account per month
- No user seat limits
- Timeline and Gantt views
- Reporting dashboards
- Unlimited automations
- Forms
- Custom templates
- Custom fields
- Unlimited free guests
Advanced
- AI Studio Basic w/75K credits per billing account per month
- Unlimited portfolios
- Goals
- Workload
- Approvals and proofing
- Salesforce, Tableau, Power BI support
- Forms branching & customization
- Time tracking
- Scaled security
- Formulas
Enterprise
- AI Studio Basic w/200K credits per billing account per month
- SAML authentication
- User provisioning (SCIM)
- Universal workload
- Capacity planning
- Service accounts
- View-only licenses
- Guest invite permissions
- Project admin controls
- Admin announcements
- Workflow bundles
- Enterprise+ plan available for increased security and compliance
Planner in Microsoft 365
- Creation and management of content-rich tasks
- My Day, My Tasks, and Assigned to Me views
- Basic plan templates
- Microsoft Teams integration
- Grid, Board, Schedule, and Charts views
Planner Plan 1
- Task dependencies
- Premium plan templates
- Reports
- Timeline (Gantt) view
- Backlogs and sprints
- People management
- Project goals
Planner and Project Plan 3
- Advanced dependencies with lead and lag
- Resource request capabilities
- Task history
- Program management and demand management
- Project Online and Project Online desktop client
Asana vs Microsoft Project FAQ
- Which one is cheaper?
- Microsoft Project is the cheaper option, starting at $10/mo vs $13/mo for Asana.
- Can I use either one for free?
- Both offer free plans, so you can try each without paying. Start with whichever fits your workflow better and upgrade when you hit the limits.
- How do they charge?
- Both use a per-seat model, so the comparison is straightforward — it comes down to features and limits at each price point.
- Which one is a better deal?
- Depends on what you need. Asana: Asana sits in the mid-to-premium range of the project management category — more expensive than ClickUp or Notion at comparable tiers, but undercutting Monday.com at the entry level. They're clearly targeting mid-market teams and ops-heavy orgs that need structure, not scrappy startups hunting for the cheapest tool. Microsoft Project: They're playing the bundling game more than the price game — $10 undercuts standalone tools like Asana or Monday at comparable tiers, but the real pitch is 'you're already paying for M365, why leave the ecosystem.' They're going after mid-market teams already Microsoft-heavy, not trying to win greenfield buyers.
Keep tabs on both.
We'll monitor pricing changes for Asana and Microsoft Project and let you know when something moves.